The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-07
Tariffs mud Trade.


The able letter, hich recently appeared in our
columns over the signature of Munster" addressed
to the peopleof Ireland, urging them to- the adoption
Of domestic manufactures to the exclusion of every
thing British, ha3 been made text By the Ne,e
York F,bune 10 urea sermon in favor of terri
bic tariffs and high protection. This shows iha
the cause Ct specnaio mus be in very de,pe
rate condition, when its organs are compelled to re
SOFT 10 such = gument in favor of absurd
theories. 1t ia Ike drowning en- grasping a. stravs
in the water.
The cases OF ireland and the United States in
reference to manufactures, are totally different In
the first place, Ire and has redundant population
for agricultural purposes; ste has scarcely any ma
| nuiac.ure' at all, ihough the country is so we'll
adapted to them, owing to the chsapness Of labor
and the abundance of water power. The manufac
turing nteres, is, thcref re, cny in its infancy il
Ireland il it be sui 10 bavean existence at all:
whereas ia the Uni ed st Lies manufactures abound
and are in high state Of prosperity, increasing by
geomet cal ratio evsJy year. An infant needs
assistance and support till its strsns th DEVELOPED
and it can go alone. Tho full grown man require.
nobody to help him to walk. Bat Ireland could
not have a tariff if she would, becaus, England
makes her laws, and would not, Of courss pass an
enactment to injure her n manufactures. There
is, therefore, parale between her case ard that
Of the United STATES The Iemcdy proposed for
the elevation Of the condition the Irish people
is not the passage Of any law, but voluntary sicri
fec for the present, in order to attain great end
last. The love Of liberty, and the hope of its ul.
innate achievement appealed to in order to in.
duce them to f1ego temporary advantages and COM
forts by wearing, Of home made manufacture, worse
fabric than the ig ish one at the same price, or
one of equal quality at higher price, in order to
tame the pride Of John ", and to gradually es
tabish manufactures in Ireland, which, in the case
Of that country, would be a. important element
Of prosperity and Independence. But these coni-
tons DO not apply TO the United States She
has already tanned the pride Of England, and our
manufactures are already iIos. erous in despite #
British competition, rather, perhaps, by the
stimulus it has given.
Protective tariffs, high OF low are useless for the
purpose Of encouraging ,ative manufactures To
be Of essential service, they must be prohibitory
and the foreign article must be wholly shut out
But the question is, would sucl prohibition be de-
sirable in great country like this, with an mex
baustible virgin soil, whose products are the main
source o. national wealth Would it be desirable to
excessive manufacture o. goods, and especially such
goods as from he chea ess of labor can be manu-.
Pictured at lower rate in cther countries Would
not the effect be to enhance the prices of the neces-
saries Of life Matters are far better for us
as they ore; it is far more advantageous to
give our surplus products ia exchange for ar
ticles Of this description manufactured in other
countries. According to the croakers who would
saddle the country at large with tax for the adyan
tage Of few, the capitalists are ruined for want Of
protection but instead of that, we find them pro-
pering al over the country, wherever their estab-
lishments are properly managed. In the exchanges
Of the world, mani fLctures and all other commodi
ties find their eyel by the operation of the principles
of free trads an the jgoorant cry for protection
is only going back, like baby to its mothers apron
string, insead Of going forward and manfully COM
peting, as We are Q to GO, al Other couu-
tries in such articles is interes. to manufac-
ture. So soon as we have a sUrplus population, and
the CT soil are exhausted, then it will
be time enough to talk of protection; and even then
the example Of England would put us to shame il we
attempted to go back to the bcggaly elements ofpro-
toction-the swa d irg cot rs hic sh- has long
since outgrown. In this country we have no redun.
dart ropulatiou--no man who Is able and willing to
work need be idle. There Is abundant empoymentfor
all and therefore the lus.ration used By an cleo
tioresIing dcmagogue, few days ago, Of two neigh
bors having each plantation Of tic same extent,
AID both having ono hundred slaves, but one Of
them leeIing employed his whole hundred mon,
Wilde ho othe only m loyed sixty, and had to feed
tho remaining forty, hough idle, 10 not to the
2oin.--'t is wholly irapplicJbo. The pcopls Of
Inc Unltod States do no. feed psople who are
ois, except that u the loafor genus, and some
g the politicians, contfve 70 live without working,
~. 5ecAd'e 'hcy have no worl. to do, but bccaus,
tLty arc Cusillirs 20 10 It.
y, tneFa!v :, ono hall be az cultural popula-
ton we're iadGcel 70 tula items IN TO manu.ic-