New-York daily tribune., 1854-08-28

sun,c rs,;it, In fe absence Of any Protection very
81, Of backing their theory. They practically treat
boss .,ehes a. ven good for Others 10 go into and
Tor themselves to keep out Of They ma! 'OulHen'
willow gro wing to Others as profitable but 'hey ''A
to the rearing of Pigs.
A., .hoso o., are wise ia their generation.
Tbo,a ,Iwavs are unforeseen drawbacks to be en-
couutered in establishing or nsturalizng new IN
du,tra pursuit and he who embarks IN II must uaae
large allowance for casualties and leeway. Jan'as
Smith undertook to naturaze the Tea Culture IN the
highlands of South Carolins; he demonstrated 10
theory The perfect feasibility and great pecunary P'ou'
of his enterprise; be led people to hope that we
should very soon grow our own Tea; but janus Is
dead. and we hear more of his Tea; we lear tni'
is desd too Probably One Hundred Thousand Dol
lars. wisely expended, ronh naurabze the lea plant
in this country; and such naturalization would add
Millions TO our National wealth; but who Is to pay
the money! We should very gladly pay our share OF
il; bu, it would be decidedly inconyenent just now
to foot the entire bill
Now. though we have said nothing hitherto OF du'
ties on OseIs we certainly do not wish to conceai
our conviction that the imposition OF an adequate duty
on rival products imported is the farest surest least
Objectionable mode of introducing and establishing
new branch of industry We do not believe hity per
cent duty on imported Osiers would beue6t that Ken
tucky planter one cent-on the contrary by melting
many others to willow growing itwoul pretty certain
ly soon reduce his $500 per acre to more moderate
feure-but it ropM give al immediate impulse to will
ow.growing throughout the country. Those who
now import would be tempted to look about them
and see whether their wants might not be supplied
.n.a
information on tie subject of Osergrowlug, buy
few plants and set them, and prepare fer producing
crop of Osiers two or three years hence. Meantime
the duty the imported willow would 60 into the
Treasury where there will soon be ample need oft;
and if II at Kentucky Yankee should sell his baskets
little higher for year or two, he would have to sell
the SO much cheaper aerSard as to carry balance
of gain over to the side of his customers. Not that we
grudge him one penny of his present gains-on the
contrary, we only wish some eight or ten thousand
others were doing be s and realizing such profit
OF course it is easy to say that new branch of In
dustiy will grow up we'll without Protection as with
it, since il easy say anything All that lsrequste
to this is to defy an unbroken series Of facts and out
rage the dictates Of common sense. That some new
branches will grow up in the absence of Protection is
as certain as that valuable plants will spring up
without seeding and grow without cultivation So
there are pursuit, which strngency Of Protection
would naturaze being radically unsuted to our eli
mate and natural resources. Butthat Protection ex-
erts a powerful and benefcent influence is proved
positively by the present condition of our Cotton
manufacture and negatively by the prOstraton of our
Linen business. Sixty years ago, Linen was extern
sively produced in this country from native Flax,
for the growth OF which have every natural facil-
ity From 1Sl6 to lsl0-l, and from 1912 to 1917,
the Cotton manufacture protected by our success
siye tariffs, under which it grew up from infancy 20
vigorous maturity. Meantime, our Linen manufac-
ture though it had many years the start and not one
natural impediment to encounter, was broken down
and dtmoshed-not having been cared for in the
various tariffs meantime enacted, until Flax came to
be only grown for seed and spun merely for thread;
the great bulk of our lint being thrown away That
the same range of duties which fostered and estab
lisLed the American manufacture of Cotton fabrics
would have been equally effective AID equally bene6
cent in the case of Linens, we can no more doubt
than we can the durnal revolution of the EARTH