New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-17

md erpandisg ii in corresponding
o. t,,a tariff of 1916 had become the
~. ,.ud-thus proving that under Br't'sS
-" 90 large quantities and high prices
~. !, Company with each other. lhefo
e. things that appear to 10 more to
.hls than the universal proclivity OF 'n'
.... If BritisA free trade to tho pup
s...;op Of false figures; and the simple 'oa.on
e. ,h;. il that if their readers were pef'"'','
-. the true ones, the reign OF British monopo'
- =, ~ an end. Gen. jackson, good demo-
IA that VIC had been too long subject 10 the
'-..ol Of British merchants, and yet editors VINO
-. to fol,ow in his footsteps, are daily seen 10
rr,-:...a statements with view to the perpetua'
-, of tho control by British merchants and brt-
- manufacturers of the movementsof the pian'-
and farmers of this country. Should our CO.
temporary feel disposed to deny that sucn - u'
Aouse pursued by him, we should hold o"fs''',s
obliged by an explanation OF the mos.r e'Ho'A
Act that the total export OF lead 70 al q'a''e IS
The Union. during the existence Oh .''o '"''.
1870 vas 90 much less than the quantity iooei'''
~ !. No. ORLEANS alone When he shall nave eA-
,.;..a that extraordinary fact, we should DC giad
H.. voun 90 one step farther and explain how IL
a..,o,s that so soor as he enters upon the DOMAIN
r1sa6 every thing changes, and the export largely
exceeds the receipt at that port.
Admitting. however, that the export OF last year
50. been 500 900 pigs, is there not here an adms-
81 decline in the trade to the extent of forty
.snt-tbe amount having fallen almost to that
a the receipt at New-Orleans ten years SINCE
I'm the top Of this we have the fact that the re-
;ut at that port for the half of the current year
that bas elapsed, has fallen twenty per cent
.h. rendering Il certain that all the lead supplied
., Tho C;uIf and Atlantic ports cannot exceed
oaOOO pigs. or ONE THIRD of the quantity sup
,ed IN the closing year of the tariff of 1912. Such
t;, the case ia il not clear that the trade IS In
amid decline and must soon entirely cease whereas,
had the tariff of 1912 been maintained it must be-
fore this time have reached a million and half or
two millions of pigsl The fact is precisely as
"a have stated it. Mr.. Walker sacrificed the
mining interests of the West in The vain hope of
obtaining market for food among the starving
millions of continental Europe, to the extent of
hundreds of millions of dollars, and the result of
the fourth year of his experiment has been, that
their whole consumption of our food grown north
sgyESTEEN THOUSAND AND NINETY-FoUR DOL
LARS! Such was the market obtained among the
starving millions of France, Spain, and the nations
al the continent, in return for surrendering to
them the power to supply the Atlantic States, in
the single year just clos ed with lead to the ex-
teut of forty-three millions of pounds, or about
10000 pigs. We beg our contemporary to ex-
plain to his readers how much Illinois food is con-
tanned in pig of Spanish lead-and then to con-
trast it with the market for that food afforded by
pig of Galena lead.
But" says our excited friend, we obtain
higher prices for our lead-we have four dollars,
when before we had but three" Quite true; and
this is what the advocates of Protection to Amer-
0n Industry have always said-that the way to
raise the price of lead, hemp, iron and cloth was
10 reduce the duties, and thus destroy domestic
competition. As yet the production of cloth and
Of iron among ourselves has not quite nearly
approached humiliation as has done that of lead,
and therefore prices continue low; but each and
every week brings with it the stoppage of mill or
a furnace and diminutiOn of domestic competi-
ton with the monopolists Of Britain and our CO.
temporary may rest quite satisfied that the de-
stuction of competition in regard to cloth and
Iron will be attended with the same beautiful eff
6cts that he describes as having occurred with
gard to lead-thc duties being low and the prices
being high and the foreign producer enriching him
sell at our expense, while our people are compelled
to diminish by one-half their consumption of both
cloth and iron. To what extent the gain on a
little lead will be likely to compensate his readers
for the loss ON great deal of iron and of CLOTH
We leave it to him to explain.
The question to b. settled is, however, as to
DIE effect of this state of things upon the value of
mineral lands, and upon those of the farmers, who
the good old times of the tariff of 1912, supplied
with food the producers Of lead Mr.. Walker, as
agent of the Central Railroad Company, has pub
6shed to the world that the former must increase
IN value, but in order that it may be so it would
seem to be indispensable that there should be
sompetitioa for the purchase Of ii, which certainly
csnnot be the case while the trade in lead shall
continue to decline. Six years ago there
m'nes worked to an extent that supplied 100000
pigs, but now the supply is but 10000; and of
course many of the places formerly worked must
be now for sale, and competition for the sale of an
article aways diminishes prices. In proof that
such Is the case with regard to the mineral region
90 the West We now have before us an article
nom one OF the lead counties of Wisconsin, stating
ehat property there has fallen in value fifty per
ssaf. Our contemporary Of The Je6srsoniaa as
.e''s the contrary, but until he shall explain how
hwas that the total exports of lead under the
sAsai OF 1872 were so much below the quantity ,e-
~ at New-Oslcans alone, he mast hold NJ ex.
snpd tes pcserring the authority Of his Wisconsin
NCpbos particularly when The C6ic,go Denso-
snaarps US that land has fallen, ani another Of
9eeighbors states that weil-stecksa iarmsn ara
oeNle " IN all Quarters ct great sacrifcesn Tint