New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-17

| Salisbury Iron Of Connecticut asks no proteCIioh
for itself il only wants Protection for the Manu-
| featuring Industry generally Of our County, ~
that 1t may find market in the new II Us ma
chiueTy boilers axes, &c, &c, for which u Is re-
oujred The Iron made by Cooper & Hewitt near
Easton, Pa from peculiar and rch ore would
sell in England to-day for nearly or qu'e as h'sh
price as il commands here. The Iron 81 Lake
Superior needs bu; cheap access to coal-5eds
and markets 10 reduce is cost to an extent far
heyond any advantage It derives from Protec-
ton We have scarcely begun to make Iron yet
in this country We DO not know where half our
ore.beds ARE, what qualities Of Iron they will
make, how they Will combine to the best adj
vantage, &c in fact, we haven't roads through
the woods to nearly all the promising beds
that we know to exist. The prices which now
prevail here prove nothing as to the cost Of
making Iron in this country, when we shall
! have got ready to make it to advantage. As
vet, we are cutting the timber of our ore-beds
and making roads thence to the coal.
4. Mr.. Bid thinks the fact that Lowmoor
and one or two other superior brands Of British
Iron cost SEQ to $50 per tun ought TO enable
US to rival them in our own markets without
duty Yes, and so it would if the value Of our
superior brands were as widely and well known.
Iowmoor' is designation known and appre-
ciated throughout the commercial world; not So
'Salisbury,' or Carp River That established
reputation which brings orders for 'Lowmoor
from all parts Of the world, and enables It's
makers to operate on the grandest scale, IS a
part Of the unequal rivalry against which
American Iron-making must contend. GIVE an
American company order for as much snnu-
allJ as is sold of Lowmoor, and it will make II
a, like price-not, perhaps, OF precisely that
| quality, but one Of equal value.
5. 1T takes a large capital, with large and
patient manufacturing, to establish reputa-
'ton and to adapt works to make peculiar but
necessary article" of Iron, says our friend.
Precisely so. All these the British lfon-masters
have all these We mean their American rivals
shell have We know that the British makers
attained them under Protection which they
then thought good thing now that they have
attained q secure position and are able to under
sell most rivals they would fam persuade the
rest of the world to dispense with Protection
| in other words, to shut up their own works and
buy British Iron. We do not consider this ad-
vice dsinterested; we believe obedience to It
would be unwise and injurious. We know by
experience that large capital is tempted into
new investments by prospect Of liberal and
sure returns and these We will do our best 10
guarantee to whOmsOover viii invest such cap
ital in the manufacture of American Iron Thus
will we secure long and patient manuiac-
turing" and enable our producers to " establish
a reputation" This, we are confident, IS the
road to good and cheap Iron. With us, the
price this year is Of less moment than the price
through long series of future years; and hav-
ing the Iron made by American worhmen, who
are paid American rates OF wages, consume
American products, and send their children to
American common schools, Is of more account
than a few dollars per tun on tile money val
uatiOn.
G. 1t did not need Mr. Birds demonstration to
assure Us that a large and steady demand for any
manufacture is one of the essential conditions OF
a low price. The Newspaper strongly exempli-
| fes this truth. Newspapers are cheaper IN this
| Country than elsewhere, though the manual labor
| Of producing them is rarely so well paid, because
they are largely and steadily in demand while,
can hardly make itself felt. If the surplus or
unsold sheets falling from the European Press
could here supplant and crowd out the Ameri-
| can journals Just as piece OF French Calico or
a tun of British Iron supplants its American
counterpart, we know that our country would not
be supplied with Newspapers 50 cheaply as It
now is-that is to say, either the price mHst be
increased or the quality must be deterlorated
| We now spend several hundred dollars IN get
ting up a number OF our paper which we sell
for two cents, being enabled 70 DO SO by the
| fact that we have certain demand for many
thousands Of copies. But II the steamship
which arrives from England in the morning
| brought cargo Of papers, the sale Of which
would leave ours unsod on oar hands we could
not continue making SO costly paper without
increasing It's price. Aud thus Great Britain,
with steady demand for oyer Two Millions OF
tuns OF Iron per auuum, can make 1t cheaper
per tun than any nation which has demand
tut for smaller quantity. We do not forget
that the cheapness Is enc cause of the large
demand We know that the rule works both
WAYS; but Newspapers, Clocks, Cut Nails,
Stoves, and nearly every thing else tina. we have
ioryears wholly manufactured for ourselves, are
quite cheap IN this country as compared with
their prices elsewhere while such Is not the
fact with regard to articles which We largely
import Whoever VIII make the needtul inveSti
CATION viii find that the whole mass Of the
articles We fabricate almost entirely Tor our
selves have been cheapenod mich faster than
those we mainly obtain from abroad.
:. Ii Mr.. Bird supposes that any "act OF Par
Lament" or OF Congress, could secure TO Iron
makers in this Country $40 per tun iortheir pro
duct, he runs into very gross error. If the
duty on Iron fixed by our Tariff were $50 per