New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-16


nty, and that the public voice as well as the n,s-
toric psee should render justice to the gifted.
the gentle the noble, the generous, and the NOR
Ally courageous even though his heart fail amid
the soar and revolving carnage Of the battle held
MORALITY OF BRITISH FREE-rRADERs.
Il DO not mind telling lie, says = parsonage
well known 10 all lovers Of the drams' but Il
goes ssainst my conscience to be found out.
Such. as il sppesrs TO Us isthe precise extent OF
the morality Of th. British free,rade press Of
this city and country. It's managers do not
mind publishing tables based on figures that
are perhaps true. but which, as tending TO show
the movement of the country under our various
systems of policy-protectOn, and what they call
free trsde-they themselves know to be utterly
false; but it goes against their col'ciences to
be found out" Still more seriously would those
conscences be affected we're they, by any &C
cident, to permit correction TO find its pla,e in
their columns.
Protection has invariably left the country pros
porous, and this tn; Journal of Commerce we'll
knogs-snd itfl,ui.hes evidence of its knowledge
by always appropriating to British free.trade as
much IS possible of the closing years Of the pro-
tective system commencing the period Of the
Tariffs of 1888 and l5i6 long before those acts
kad any operative existence British free-trade
has Invariably produced the effects we are now
witnessing. and has as invariably left the country
poor and embarrassed, fact as well known TO
The Journal as to ourselves-and il furnishes evil
dence Of its knowledge in always turning over
20 protection as much as possible Of the closing
years Of it's own system, and thus making it an
swerabs for the decay OF trade and the poverty Of
the people, that ii would have prevented, and that
tits called upon to remedy. Having in this m,nner
manufactured tables that is knows to be fsl.e, il
calls upon its readers to admire the bene6cent
results of British free. trade and to contrast them
with the widely different ones yielded oy pro!ec-
tion-slways, Of course, closing carefully It's
columns against any sinel word that nigh. tend
to enable those readers to understand the frsuiu-
lent process by means Of which those results had
been obtained THIS ia the morality of British
free. trade, and it prevails almost universally
among -sO-cslled-free.tfade journals Of the
country.
Recently The Journal undertook to correct our
statements, and when we furnished replies so
completely garbled and misrepresented them as
to induce Us to make it condition precedent to
any further answer that it would enable it's read
ers to see in our own words, what we bad 10
say; and as full and complete compensation for
i!s so doing offered to give 10 It's free trade argu-
ments the benefit our immensely greater cifcu-
lation. Had Tn, Journal honestly believed in the
truth of what it had published, the offer would
have proved so tempting tia. it could not have
been resisted, for we were giving IL PROBABLY
tu,.ty readers where it was giving us one aud
vet il did not dare to accept it. Way 1t did not
was, that we show ed that protection had always
in Isis. in 1884 and in l5l7 left the country an
importer of specie, and with full treasury and
prosperous people; whereas British free trade
had a. invariably left it, as it Is no. about to do
an exporter of specie, with an Impoverished If
not even bankrupt treasury, and ruined people
and had challenged their contradiction OF this
statement Of the results of half a century, expe
rience.
The position nor occupied by The Journal is
humi!iatipg one, snc IFS managers must feel
that such is the case. For years they have man
ufsctured table. designed 20 prove that to be
true which they know to be false; AMI now, when
cha leDged either to admit or deny tae truth of
statements in proof that the result. have been
directly tie reverse of Ehatthey have desired to
estsblish as tde fact, they seek refuge in-mVst
expressive silence. They cannot deny the facts
70 be as We have stated them, bu. they dare not
admit them 10 be true. Manchester and BIZ
rliDghsm pay largely, but they mus! have devoted
servants. England al large, too, pays better, as
10 shown in the fact Just given 70 the world by
Nj Wikof tia. lie was for time in the pay Of
Lord Pamcrston, for the purpose Of giving sound
-tha. ID & Brltish-tendency TO the public opn-
ION Of ttis country. John Bull is generalIys
liberal payma,oer and those whose son'ciences
ne mas been accustomed TO purchase are no.
likely to be pressed pack in their course By any
.ficuty that may De experienced In making
TIE worse appear the better reason 20 nor By
any exposure that may attend the effort. brief
silence will, az they suppose, cause the contrsdic-
ton 70 he forgotten and then the old tables will
be reproduced and appear quite az g'Od IS new.
But recently We had occasion to expose the
frsudulen. manner in which the tables Of Nj
Gouge, endorsed by The Post, had been construct
ed. aud the fraudulent beet had in view in their
construction. To tia, exposure no reply has
even been attempted, our neighbors OF The Post
having ever since maintained the most guarded
silence IN reference 20 II. Nevertheless, on the
next occasion when il shall seem eIpedient, Mr..