New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-06

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He knew, as we say, these things OF ne
did not know them. If he did, his OBJECT
was that of deceiving his readers. Ii ne
did not he was himself one Of the deceived,
and when the blind undertake to lead the
blind both usually fall into the ditch.
Our author gives this excess of forty
millions. due to the famine and its conse.
ouepces, as evidence of the correctness of
the principles attempted to be established by
Mr.. Walker, when he should have known
that in accordance with the doctrines Of the
ex. Secretary's Report. there was bound to
be an increase in each and every year, and
that increase in ratio very far greater
than that of the population; and that if no
such increase was exhibited the system
was A FAILURE-and he was bound to know
that instead of increasing, the export was
steadily diminishing. If he did know these
things, the object in view in the preparation
of his article was that Of deceiying his
readers. If he did not, then is it time
that he should exert himself to pass out OF
the ranks Of the deceived.
He suppresses the fact that under the
tariff of lS4s the addition to the product of
labor in the building of mills and furnaces,
and in the production Of cloth, linen, lead,
&c., was so great that it amounted in the
wear 1916 to at least one hundred millions
more than it had done in 1912, the major
part of which went directly to the purchase
of food, and all of it ultimately to the owaers
and occupants of land-the fact that the
increased demand thus made in single
year for these fruits of the earth was more
than twice as great as that made in the
| three gears OF the tariff of 1916, to which he
has referred and the further great fact,
that We should compare 1916 with l65O-5l,
which he has so carefully omitted, the &C
count would stand thus
Tariff oflsic,
| INCREASE in ls46 over 1912 in domestic de-
maLd, consequent upon the growth Of
the manufacture of cloth and iron- $780, 900 900
Tariff oflsi6.
DECREASE in lS50-5l, as compared with
| 1876, in domestic demand, consequent
upon the dimlnut,on in the production
| OF cloth anu SoU,OOO,OOD
| In foreign demand ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 100000
If he did know these things, he desired to
deceive his readers. If he did not, he should
| study the facts Of the case, and cease to per-
nit himself to be deceived by others.
He advocates the tariff of 1916 as tend
ing to enable the laborer to obtain more
cloth and more iron for his labor, and yet
he should know that under the tariff of
lS42 the consumption of both increased far
more rapidly than the population, while un-
der the existing system, although the popu-
lation increases rapidly, there is steady
diminution in the quantity consumed Of
wooden and cotton cloth and of iron, PROV
ing steady diminution 10 the facility Of
obtaining these necessaries. conveniences
and comforts Of life If he does know these
things, he does not desire that his readers
should know them, and therefore would de.
ceive them. If he does not know them, it is
time that he should study them, and qualify
himself for the post of teacher--not to be
filled by one of the deceived
The whole system of these advocates Of
British power is one of deception, precisely
as was the case under the Compromise
They then secuted the idea of danger, and
derided the "croakers" precisely as they
do now. We have no desire to excite in
the minds Of our readers any unnecessary
apprehension, but when we see that our
markets are being flooded with foreign mer-
ehandise of every description, even to the
extent Of eighteen millions Of dollars in a
month-that slight excess in the expert of
cotton, produced By the closing of our own
n'ills and the diminutlOn of our home con-
sumption, has driven down the price from
fifty to thirty dollars bale, with loss
to the planters of fifty millions of dol
lars that the foreign market for food has
so failed that Great Britain now exports
wheat to Southern Germany-that the gold
goes out as fast as II comes in, and takes
with il, weekly, vast quantities of certificates
of debt-that the interest payable abroad
is increasing at the rate of millions per an
num--we should hold ourselves wanting in
our duty to our readers and to the country
at large, did we not utter cry of warning,
even although we should be charged with