New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-24

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witness to this.
3. Because the injury thus done to GER
tain branches of industry extends gradual
", though slowly and not always palpab'y'
to all. The Mason, Carpenter and Plaster
or found ready employment and good wages
all over the land, in erecting the new fac
tories and workshops required by the crea-
ton or rapid expansion of manufacturing
pursuits afie 40. Labor in every existing
EMPLOYMENT found relief and benefit from
the constant drawing off of workmen to the
newly-opened vacations as opportunity was
afforded and better prospects invited; now
the tendency is exactly reversed. Wen
are being driven back from the successfully
crippled pursuits into those still active tor
which they are less fitted. The effect on
employment and wages is very obvious.
4. Because the present Tariff discrlml-
mates in some instances against American
and in favor of Foreign Labor. For IN
stance: it charges thirty per cent. on i'm
ported Wool of all kinds, but admits that
same Wool when fabricated into Blankets,
at twenty per cent. and in other manufac-
lures at t,eenty per cent. 1t charges thirty
per cent. on the Hemp of Russia, but adj
nits that same Hemp, when manufactured
by British labor into Gables and Cordage, at
twenty- fire per cent. So with several other
descriptions of staples and manufactures.
And for this discrimination against Amerl-
can Industry we cannot induce the friends
of this Tariff even to assign reason. We
tried it in Congress, in the shape of per-
fectly respectful call on the Secretary of
the Treasury (Walker) for information,
and were voted down-on one trial by a
tie vote. The friends of the Secretary and
his Tariff vauntedthei ability and readiness
to meet the inquiry out of the House; but
we have veryet been able to induce them
to do so, though we have repeatedly tried.
Is it not time that so extraordinary tea-
ture of public policy, which its friends dare
not even attempt to justify, should be aban-
doned or overborne !
5. Because the tendency of our present
policy is toward Capitalization of wealth,
activity and power upon the eastern shore
of the Atlantic. Londonis becoming more
and more the actual metropolis of this
country; and its commercial barometer
regulates and determines the value OF Pro-
perty and Labor in America. The United
States are returning, by gradual approaches,
to an essentially Colonial position. Were
ceive our fashions and our gew-gaws from
Paris our more substantial fabrics are woven
in British looms and we steal ourideas main
" from British authors through the denial
of International Copyright. The manu-
facturer in the center of the commercial
world-which Western Europe, but pre-
eminently England, now is-enjoys an adj
vantage over any outsider which can scarce
ly be withstood. We may be able to man
ufacture even cheaper than our British RI
walls, but the clues are in their hands, and
while our producer is trying to make his
goods known, his British rival has sold
thousands of pieces, reimbursed the cost of
getting up, and is now able to sell to flu
ture customers at reduction. Our In
ventors are more capable, original and In
genious than any rivals but Invention Is
mainly stimulated by the presence of an
obvious necessity or advantage, and no
carpet-looms, no printing-press Is likely to
be invented where Printing and Carpet
weaving are unknown. If an American
now invents anything of decided value, he
rushes to England to secure the due reward
of his ingenuity. And thus, with force
akin to gravitation, every new improve
ment or discovery tends to increase the
centralizing tendency and render the de-
pendence of America on Europe more en-
tire and pervading.
6. Because this Capitalization is adverse
to the interest of Labor throughout the
world. The artisan in England and the
farmer in Iowa must each receive smaller
return for his products so long as they ex-
change with so wide a space between them
than he would receive if the artisan were
located and his fabric produced within a
days ride of the farm from which his sub
sistence is drawn. The barrel of flour for
which the wheat-grower in Iowa receives.
but two to three dollars has cost six By the
time it is dealt out to the artisans of Shelf