New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-05


like the old woman with the golden esged Aen
hss kiA.d it, own market in Turkey, and reduces
the peopA' to such poverty, weakness, and slavery
that their en- s.om is comparatively worthless. o.
the other ham, Russia with DOLLY thirty years o
protection. has \ OF only rendered her owa manu-
features sufficient icr her own wants. but has be
come wealthy enough to be much larger pur
chaser Of foreign products than her older neigh
Dor with three hundred 70 ars Of Free trade. Ca'
sny upprejuoiced mind deA'and further evidence
of the comparative merits of MS two systems'
But cur contemporary makes sail smother point
at which we confess our astonishmfut, not thai
such sentiments should be held by Free sder,
for they are only logical conclusion Of the Free
trade theory. but that the responsible conductors
Of Tie Indtpesdest should allow them to appear
in its columns. Wehsd stated that the establish
ment of Protection 10 Turkey would iniuce
skilled workmen to resort thither with men Of
enterprise AMI capital at their head, to establish
industry, revive the country, and educate is peo-
ple To this our clerical economist thus re-
tponds:
IL 10 De regeLeratd, tnen, Dy Oelug ueua-
toualized. Foreign speculstors and hordes OF emit
grants from England, France, and Germany, are to
be lured 10 her soil 10 possess her mines 20 monopo
lie her Industrial resources to control her commerce,
and thus to regeDerate her people Already We ses
IA tts country The er Affects Of 0urng tres IN labor
10 ooupste EiiA American industry at our orn doors;
driving out the daughters of NswEagland farmers
and mech aLos from the factories Of Lowell aud an
chester BY The cheaper labor OF English and lrish ope
rntiyss We are strong enough, perhaps, 10 besrny
hut only elect IN Turkey
be 70 make the ruks hewers OF WOOD ana drawers Oh
water TO foreign capitalists manufacturers anu Ia
borers.'
This Ia worthy of the most silly and bigoted
Know Nothing whose lucubratioes ever graced
the editorial columns of The Express, or any other
publication of that CALDER. 1t is worthy Of any
Mslthusisp ee-trader, who ever taush. the
doctrine of over population, and that, for the sur
plus par. of the race, war, pestiler,e, famine aud
suicide were needful and Providenial insitl
tions. 1t is worthy of any slave driver who ever
resisted the admission Of alien-born freemen into
Kantas, because they would exclude the sons and
daughters of virginia's slsve-sreedius saambles.
But Of The hadtpendent-spsrt from the ignorance
II displays concerning the varied nstionalisies
that now compose Turkey-it is totally unworthy,
whether in regard to its spirit or its logic.
There are now in this country some two mil
lions of foreigners, of various nations and pur-
quits, and, instead of regrettDg their presence
as runous with The Iadtpendent, the Know
Nothlngs and the Legrees Of the South, We may
well regard it as a special bebefac.on Of ProgI-
dence They have brought hero the lesrning,
the capital, the arts, the industrial skill, and the
brswny labor, of the old world. They have dug
our canals and bull. our railroads they mine oar
coal, iron and copper they establish new and
useful branches of manufacture in our villages,
and they lend the treasures Of moro substantial
and ency ciopedic eruditi0n to our institutions Of
learning. They open our great avenues Of inter-
communication, wrench from the earth her min
eral stores, and in every way increase The wealth
and power of the country, at the same time that
they raise our culture to level with the fore
most civilization of Europe Instead of depress-
ing our native industry, they render is more pro-
ductive by enlargiDg its home market. If they
take the places of our New England girls In the
factories of Lowell and Manchester, it does not
reduce these Yankee girls to poverty-thougd it
American tariff has prevented the general growth
Of manufacturing industry which would other wise
have REQUIRED four times the hands low nplOyed.
But even with the uDfavoratle influence of
that tariff, and Of its discrimination against
American labor, there is 10 ruin, nor anything
like it, from the present numbers or ele nents Of
our population. Instead Of having too many in
dustrious people in the country, we have not half
er oush, nor are likely to have at any near epoch.
II, fer instance, proper duty on manufactures Of
silk were to bring here from Francois hssbeen
done in Russia body Of weavers Of rich satns,
brocades, aud other stuffs of that sort, 50
that hencefor.h our women could be dressed in
robes Of our own making, i! would be great ben
eft TO the country and not an injury, as Tae Iads-
pendent would have US believe. These silk
weayer,, would consume the meat, grain and
vegetables of our farmers, the cloth OF our cot
ton AMI wooden mills, the shoes and boots Of our
shoemsksrs, and 90 on. Then, instead Of send
ing abroad millions every year TO procure silks,
we should buy them Of our own workmen, and
the money would be kept at home to animate all
branches Of industry, and give activity aud pro-
eress to society. And the same holds good in
every department of labor. Know othings may
very consistently object 10 Prote ,tion, because
it's natural effect ia to induce emigrants from other
countries to come here for the employment aud
chances Of independence they cannot find in
Europe. They msy object to it, because, in rails.
ing this country to property and power, i. also
tends inevitably to bring here considerable NUN.
bers of the oppressed and caste ridden popula-
tons Of the old world at the same time that it
Indirectly elevatea ore lef. behind Rnk thia La