New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-19
THE PROTECTIVE POLICY.

Our Democratic contemporaries, who have rejoiced
the hearts of their readers with the that Tie
Tribune has given up the cause of Protection, have
probably done that cause in this country service with
cut intending it, For those readers, so Unexpectedly
electrified will naturally wish to in columns
the change of sentiment ascrbed to us-Wl seek TO
study our new positions and master the arguments
whereby they are maintained They win read art
Giles on international aud Industrial Policy with more at
tenton and less prejudice and will be led to regard our
views with favor since they longer intended
to euure 10 the benefit of the Wing party
For while We have not, by any means given up the
doctrine Of Protection hare surrendered the hope
Of ever securing the benefcent application of that
doctrine through the triumph of the late Wing party
The conooeters Of the pro Slavery and aut.KOssuth
slsnks Of The last Platform constructed at Bal. more
have done up their work and gone to bed and not
likely rise again till late hour of some indefinitely
future morning. If any party, whether called Wuig
or something else, shall succeed in recsabshing
the Protective Policy in this country i, will certainly
be Offered and led by somebody else than the fbrca
tors Of that famous Platform
But We have little hope of any benefcent consistent
action on the Tariff question at the hands of any
PARTY While streDususly resisted by the other What
Re seek is to get behDd Party TO ignore it, override
il. and TO have the whole matter passed upon if We
msy. by The upprejudiced common sense and upper
yerted instincts OF the whole American People
We mean TO free the policy We advocate from the
bichting influence of two three great falsehOods
which its antagonists have pertinaeOusy circulated and
caused Millions TO believe. One of them imports that
We desire an enormously high Tarf-one that will yield
an exorbitant Revenue to be quandered by Office hold
ers and speculstors If We permitted 10 adjust
the Tariff TO our own ideas of National Policy il might
and il might not be little higher in the average than it
now is but it would not yield nearly much revenue in
any year as the present Tariff will in the year 1853;
while. on the other hand il would never yield GtLe
revenue as this Tariff will the year after England stops
trusting us on Railroad Bonds &C. al the rate Of Millions
per month and brings us up al standing by demand
that we henceforth pay go. Nor should We impose
so high rate Of duty in behalf Of any existing Msnuc
ture as the present Tariff imposes in behalf OF the Home
product Of Whskey NewRun and Beer with the extra
poisonous Gin, Brandy, Champagne, Madeira, &c, of
which ten gallons are fabricated in this country to every
one on which duty is paid.
Nor was it ever desire to aid in the establishment
of great Manufacturing Monopoly in this country,
has been million times falsely asserted We seek TO
break down not merely the practical monOPoes Of
own and other markets for certain fabrics nov enjoyed
by British French and German capitalists but TO destroy
any such monopoly which may exist on this side the At
lantic How could this be done but BY calling into exist
ence new manufactures and stimulating invention and
enterprise among peopel We would have our great
manufactures no longer confined to New England but
dused al over our country and thus would seek to