New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-15

cy. slways abusing England and taking of
British influence, and yet always resdy TO aid
her in carrying out her policy, and equally
ready 70 back out" whenever it has taken
ground in opposition to her. Need we wonder
that The Times rejOiees at Democratic vicso-
| ries
| Canada has that greatest Of al blessings,
! British {. ee trade. She has nobody at home 70
buy her vheat, her -four or her lumber; and 50
perfect il her freedom Of trade that, pauper
! Ike. abe is on her knees soliciting from her
neiehbors the permission to sell Reproduce IN
I their markets, having none Of her own Now,
If British free trade is really blessing, why is
( il that Canada. in the full enjoyment OF 1t, Is
40 poor' VIII Governor Seymour be good
enough to favor US with an answer to this cues
ton Or, viii The London Times do II We
would put the question nearer home, to our
peigbbors Of The Journal Of Commerce, or
The Post, but that We know that it is their rule
never to answer troublesome questions. New
ertheless, We do think it is one that should be
answered by somebody before making another
step toward British free trade. 1t is now more
than six years since the farmers were promised
that If they would only unite in destroying the
domestic market they should have a foreign
one so large that by this time it would take Of
our produce to the amount of hundreds of mil
lions of dollars, and they, good easy souls, be-
Eeved that such would be the case and now
they find the foreign market TO have largely
decreased, while the domestic one is smaller
than it was at the moment the pledge was
given Under such circumstances our Demo-
cratic friends might acknowledge that they had
been very verdant in having placed any reliance
I in the promises held out in the books OF Man
chester political economy, and if they would
do so they might be forgiven, but instead of
| this they say to the farmers" Let US 60 one
step further II is true that We promised
you large foreign market and have
/ given YOU a smaller one than you had be-
| fore. 1t is true that we told you wheat
and cotton would be high, and that both
are lower IT is true We told YOU that iron
would be very cheap, and il is now very dear.
1t is true We told you that consumption would
largely increase and it has diminished. 1t is
true we told you that lead, which sold at SO %,
was three dollars higher than il would be if the
duties we're abolished and it now sells at
50 IS. II is true we told YOU that cotton and
wheat would be higher and cloth low and that,
on the contrary cotton and wheat are cheap.
while cloth rises from day TO day. It is true
we told you when mills and furnaces were
building ia every part of the Union. that pro-
lection made monopoly in favor Of the rich,
and that the result Of cur system has been TO
kill Off all the smaller domestic manufactur.
ers and thus TO create monopoly in favor Of
the rich ones. IL is true that by aid of our
democratic tariff the rich are rapidly becoming
richer, while poverty, wretchedness and crime
increase among us from day to-day. All these
things are quite true, but let us 90 still one
step further You have yet some domestic
market left, and British Free Trade has left
our Canadian neighbors none. Divide with
them. The effect of this will without doubt,
be that Of enabling the rich manufacturers,
whom our measures have spared, TO get better
prices for theircloth while buying food cheaper
than at present can be done while you desire
higher prices for your food and lower ones for
cloth, but Like good Christians, divide with
them. Remember that YOU are on the road Of
! British Free Trade; and that, as Gen. Pierce
and The Tunes are now 10 regulate our affairs
il is probable that YOU viii become as poor as
the Canadians now are and will have YOUR
selves, TO beg for market as they do now
lie charitable, then, as you hope for charity in
future. Give! Give is the unceasing cry Of
our British friends, and they must be satisfied,
let the consequences prove what they may"
The sham Democracy being founded on the
ignorance and debasement of the people, We
| can perfectly well understand why The Time,
and The Ntrs of London the sham Democrat
ic Governor of New-York, and The Post and
the Journal of this City should be assiduously
engaged in the endeavor 10 carry out this pet
measure of the British Government, anxious
| TO extend it's power by the aid Of the former
policy that has ruined and to some extent ex- Z
tcAmHiatco INC PcVpic VI LItlhud ana OF lndd; .
but We confess ourselves at loss 60 under
stand what is the object Of the present Wing
Administration in cooperating with them To
il We are already indebted for Report on the
the Commerce Of British America so one sided .
so evidently arranged with view 10 make
the worse appear the better reason, as to have
brought upon its author a charge of being in
the pay Of the Canadian Government, though
We do not believe such to be the case. Another
report of the same description and from the
same source is now, as We understand. in the
press st Washington, portion OF the msrter
of which has, according TO report, been sup
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