New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-09-23

The ,pr,t Of Enterprise, aud they will 20 ahead, r.
Tespecive Of either Ms0rs Pierce OF Scout And hare
Is sno,her crazy party according - some OF the pr'
pbets
nTts I,r,. Msnssbis fr-p Works at -kfri "a.
lrg sixty seventy hsndI were put lto oPesa' AS
veesr
Brave work ,his and We hopes unsy prove erc9ur'g-
lre ~ ally an1ous ot lady Ohio mas Re vaag The re-
suit {. me presiceris eiectic befrs she ventures
upon The pTecarioss szPerma - OF sei'ioS Up an aP
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COMMENT.
We understand The Sun 30 ind salts
faction in the circumstance that some OF
our neglected ore beds and deserted fur
nsces are now coming into use. And
vet this partial revival Of the Iron bust
ne, grow, directly ont Of tie recent al
vance IN the price # Iron. Great Britain
Is now selling us an immense amount OF
Iron-ne,cr more than 10 the last month
at prices thirty to fifty per cent. higher
than We paid her year ago. This ena'
ble- few Of our Iron masters, LONG idle,
10 20 timidly' add dOubtully to woik
again. They thus draw around them and
set to work a number of Iron mixers, coal
miners, ore-diggsrs, charcoal-burners'
teamsters, &c. who have either been idle
for months or employed at lower wages in
Agriculture. These men, lately competi-
tors with our farmers and farm lOborers,
are now becoming Only consumers of Ag-
ricultural products, and so customers to
orr firm ers. All this we understand The
Sun to rejoice inland so do we-though
Iron (which we buy and do not scll) be in
creased In price. We can better afford TO
pay $50 per lun for Iron with our furnaces
all active and Labor in active demand, than
to buy It at So when it is procured 10
England by the sale OF Bonds, TO be paid
by our children, while our artisans stand
idle or yainly roam in search of work.
Wei, then if the re0pening of a few Of
cur Iron works be a just subject of con-
graduation, why should not the reOPening
Of all of them be subject Of still more
f,ryent copgratulaton And if we may
rejoice that the British Iron masters have
so raised their prices as TO enable our
Iron works to starl again, why should we
not rejoice il our Cor greis were 10 secure
the same result by an incrt asa Of the duty
on Iron J
True, there is a difference between tho
two cases, but IL is al on one side. Had
these Iron works been started by virtue of
a change in the Tariff, the enhanced price
of Iron would have mainly gone into the
pockets of American LaboIers now the
greater part Of it is pocketed Ivy British
capitalists. THIN we should have paid for
oui own Iron as we bought it; noV we ara
buy ing 1t with State, County aud Compa
ny Railroad Bond', payable twenty years
hence with premium and interest. Aud
Men cur wtrkmen might have felt secure
that their work would hold out; no'o il
will last until The British Iron masters see
fit to put down The price again.
The Sun is surely Inconsistent. Be-
lieying in Free Trade, it ought to lament
the Use in lion, which has restored some
of our furnaces to activity; for we were re-
Gently buy ing our Iron much cheape that
il. for fewer dollars-than we now can
and, according to Free Trade, it matters
not whether our Iron is made In Europe OF
at home. And, rs 10 Labor, it matters no
thing whether that j, employed in Iron
making or not; since if not it must be
employed in producing something else
wherewith to buy the Iron. Tie Suns
common.sense instinct, are clearly at war
with it, economic theory.