New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-05

the Wings by the engineers of the victorious
host, has been the chief instrument Of their
triumph. An apprehension that the Wings
would prohibit or greatly restrict Naturaliza-
ton if they had the power, has thrown against
US Three Hundred Thousand Votes of Adopted
Citizens, of whom two-thirds would have voted
with us but for this. They did not intention
ally vote against anything We proposed, but
only against that which We were falsely accused
of meditating If the question could be fairly
presented Shall the making of Iron and
Fabrics for American use be done mainly in
America or in Europe !'-three-fourths of
them would have voted on the side of Home
Industry, upheld, so far as necessary, BY Pro-
lection. Yet the result is just as decisive and
almost as irreversible as if it had been in
tended.
There are thousands who have voted so as
ment, who will be vainly seeking and grumbling
at the want of it before they are many months
older. Let us all try to find work for them to
the extent of our ability.
There are thousands who have voted against
impediments to the graduation of the price Of
Labor in America by the miserable pttance
usually paid to Labor in the Old World Let
us strive, so far as possible to shield them
from the consequences of this unattended
error.
The prospect of any change in the Tariff
favorable to American Manufactures is now
very remote and dubious. In its absence, we
must pay more attention TO the facilitating and
fastening of Industrial Progress by means of
Invention or Mechanical Improvement. This
being the only line of advance left open to us.
we must seize it with energy and follow it with
untiring zeal. Every invention that dimin-
shes the quantum of Labor required to pro-
duce desired result, unless it at the same
time greatly increases the requirement Of
Capital, brings us nearer the desired cOnsum-
nation. European artisans work far cheaper,
but ours have more natural capacity. II
process should be discovered whereby each
hundred days work would produce hundred
tuns of Iron, taking the ore from its native bed
and Transforming il into good merchantablc
bars, we should be brought thereby many years
nearer to essential Independence even though
all the world should adopt and profit BY the
invention. And this truth covers nearly the
entire domain of Industrial Progress. True,
We cannot thus profit by arts we do not cher
ish, and the march of Invention in Western
Europe has been only curse and blight to
Turkey, India and other Eastern Countries
whose ruder Manufactures have thereby been
crushed; but We have the germs of eminence
and perfection in Art deeply imbcdded in our
present Industrial state in our National intel
ligonce and enterprise, aud must somehow
warm them into full vitality 1t will be a far
slower more difficult, more arduOus labor, to
establish and perfect the Useful Arts in this
country without Protection than with tit
may require generations to accomplish what
might and should be done in years-but We
shall stubbOrnly believe that where there is
will there must be way, aud still hope and
labor for the time when American hands shall
fashion American Cotton Wool Flax and silk.
into oil (Or nearly ally the textile fabrics re-
quired by our People, and when all the Iron
and smelted in our own furnaces. This hope
may be disappointed, as so many hopes have
been; but since its frution may be achieved
in spite OF Congresses and majorties, we shall
not lightly surrender it,
We hope nothing now from legislation, aud
shall be rather agreeably disappointed If the
pressure on Congress Of the vast pecuniary IN
terests engaged in Railroad building donOt sue
coed in breaking down the present duty on
Iron at least so far as Rails are affected by il.
OF the majority we can ash nothing; but we
do entreat the Wing minority not to be vince
died, nor bullicd, nor bribed, into giving any
support TO this exemption. We are now pay
ing far moro for Railroad Iron than We need or
should pay if our duties on Iron Lad been ell
cicntly Protective for the last twenty years:
We are quite likely TO pay still more in the ab-
sence of any effective Home competition in
producing Rails; We shall certainly pay more
if the duty be taken or If the duty on Iron
could be raised at once to So per tun, with
positive guarantee that it should stay there for
ten years, and Iron were not cheapened there
by 10 our consumers within two years. we
would jOyfnlly agree 10 be thrown into fur.
mace in full blast. But it is too late 10 talk OF
this now. All we ask is, that Wing Members
Of Congress be not partakers in the new sa ri.
fee to British ascendancy which is now visbly
preparing.
And what more of the Future
We shall, if possible, more earnestly and
actively then hitherto commend the principle
and policy OF the HONEsrE,D BILL TO popular
and SnooIr. al l.