New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-24
Light On the Iron Question.


In your paper of to-day find an article
headed Iron and the Tariff in which your cor.
respondent, d., relates a conversation with a
hsylander, who attempts with all the assurance
OF one who ought to know to explain 10 hin the
reason why railroad iron has not been made in
tnat State TO profit, notwithstanding Nature
has done so much in bestowing unbounded MIN.
neral wealth beneath its soil. The tani, SAYS tn
teacher, has nothing to do with the question. but
inasmuch as you have applied the ar Ra.sntuua al
h0mtneD9 so happily IN your remarks appended To
the same. ! wIl not trespass on that branch Of
the Argument De- precep,or Is % Dc held re.eon
sbls for his style Of teaching he hnseif tsug
such apt illustrations BY Mr.. Walker and ell his oraI jrs
on the subject OF ish free trade. Who 40 the
bricks Is privileged to knock shem dow The sdop,b
siOn tnst Engls iron pays freigas insurance, IN
missions difference Ia exchange AID mercantile
while American iron Gays nooe OF taese, IS sapre nsy
ridiculous, II not e knavsh except upon tas ground
OF Ignorance.
II this Maryland wisescre had been s.ockholier Ia
the Mount Savage Iron Company he mglt have snIoyed
feehngy the knowledge taI railroad bars pad sO~4
hikS IN the way Of freight from Cunse raLd 70 B.u
more and when they rescued Baltimore that they pAi
something before they arrived az Fall River Tor
the Fall River Railroad COnPaoy ADD tha aInbsr Of
other hue peases route suounrng pec:aole
mckie had TO os paid, making up psrtec coGavrpar
ana mercantile charg-s But bear 10 miod : friend
doctor of tbs Sangrsdo species Ia the az, OF making
ron, while only profess 20 be plain manufactured,
whose knowledge In his business was got by feeling
rather than through the sglue sight OF theory
This Marylat dOctO, In iron knows ss much about
the difference between English and ne'.can LABOR Ia
the iron business he does ab ut Tie dlt-r ne be-
tween Sterling snd Federal currency, In which fan
cles thai the American manufacturer has protection
of 10 per cent wnen Se'ng Exchange Is a; h., Gu)Ja
ton Let US turn faces aside ,hs, our smi- may
not offend his dignity. LABOR dear Decor is ming
that Is Tangible Its nnt speculative idea, unie-s
should De knave enough not pay Ia poor 5orer toe
worth OF MIA hire.
You ssy thst the difference 10 favor Of for.ga labor 10
only 10 per cent in iron m2kog Tns assertion Is
enough 20 prove tha, you have never heau ia ths
business, and therefore never had the difference -
pay. have had the experience of fstire almost Ia
the matter aid declare thar 70 my certain knowledge,
the difference Of wsges paid for labor In the DE-
scrptoD work varies from 30 - IS per in Ia
of the Eoglbh manufacturer. and the aggregate
producing tun Of railroad iron ia ibis cOGatry, is
between 200 and 300 per cent more tnsa upon tua %
Ed eish rails. The American manufacturer pays for
one ITEM VIZ pucding 80 per tun. more, watch Is
more than the entire smlCn. Of labor pa,t By the
English on tun Of rails, from the pig 70 the mo-
shei article.
Pudding 10 the first process In thei MIL for making
bars and Is liue more than onethiTd OF the endr-
amount Of labor paid In the process Of rad mt<log
Any man experienced in the art knows that VIVA,
stae IL true. How then should Doctor 10 free trade
ID. irierd care u assert All ASSURANCE
expert, tha. the difference In favor of foreign labor
in iron making only 10 per cent wnen il known 70
exceed 90 per cent
The truth is. ina. the American Manufacturer pays
heavy inland freight TO the shipping port Sneu-e MS
market rsdistes be pays heavy freig1t from A
antc port 10 another while ,hs ocu, OF Brldsa oOarS
ons Is either Newport Liverpool 70 every port In
the world. The American manufacturer, % resch TIA
port Of his country follows the rsestne srd tae
co zine while lis competitor takes the radius direct
II there were aSisadoo lsss for tbs protscuon
Of American shipping merchants, nine ,en,hs OF whom
are tree u.ders Dutch, English and other foreign yes
sells might call AZ Phi .telpha B>linore for our scon
aud carry ito Mobile tor ballast, as small freight
instead Of our paying 81 per ,un as now. If free
traders consistent they would ask 10 have toe
navigation laws abolished but opise whenever TIA
question seriously s'es they will all becoms good pro-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS dOce-
D's lamen,a,iun the unfortunate legislation
which has destroyed The value of the bouufle.. mice
ais underlying the soil of bis native State, is just T.
much be regretted tina, while Nature mas done -
much for u.s. should for the want OF proper Tariff
be unable 10 avail ourselves of her gifts"
PHILADELPHIA, Aux. 20, 1852. FERRUM