New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-12

and are being congratulated By our Free.
trade friends upon the fact that "by the late adj
e vices there is a remote probability OF France
= removing the prohibition At an early date, or go
.'m9dif ing it as to permit resumption Of ship
"ments under certain restrictions
This, however, a. theJ tell us, ia quite uncertain
as the great scarcity and high price in all parts
:" Of the North Of Europe virtually close the
:" German ports, AID should the French ports also
REMAIN closed for any length of time, our receipts
"msy be expected to continue to fall OIL, and IN
'this view, holders generally eVitce considerable
"frmpess, and confidently look for higher prices
in the early part of next year." We beg our
readers now to reflect upon the ridiculous position
in which we placed with regard to this important
article With the means of supplying the world
at low er rate than any other country, we persist
in policy that forbds the application OF capital
10 the improvements required for its cheap produc-
ton, and thus find ourselves altogether dependent
upon the will OF the French Emperor for asuppy
a. a consequence Of which we are no y paying
double, and are likely to have to pay treble prices
for all we require to consume II our Western
friends would agitate for policy that would stop
the export of gold and promote the development Of
their mineral resources, they would profit much
more largely than they can by any effort they may
now make toward diminishing the supply Of sugar,
and Increasing its price.
Mr.. Walker told us that the people We're taxed
three cents upon every pound Of lead, and as
much upon every pound of sugar, for the benefit
Of mo.opolists, but the duty having now been re
duced, the people pay more for both than they did
before Who was it, then, that paid the tax under
the tariff of 1922 Is it not clear that it was the
foreign producer and that he paid it for the benefit
of our treasury Who pays 1t nov Is it not
clssr that it is the domestic consumer, and that
he psys it for the maintenance of Slavery 10 Cuba
and Brazil, and the maintenance of the power
OF France and England
So. too. with iron. Under the tariff of 1912 the
manufacture was gaining so rapidly as to render it
certain that in very brief time the whole de-
mand would be supplied at home, with constant
diminution f price, because of the constantly in.
creasinq competition for its sale. That, however,
did not suit the British irOnmasters, and the duty
was reduced, the consequence Of which has been
that the domestic supply ha, not increased, and
that we are now as dependent on British bankers
and iron masters as we were twenty years since
"tbe yhole United States trembling" as We are
told by the British Minister "when a Liverpool
merchant falls" more contemplate position
than that row occupied by the Union, with money
at double and treble interest and with every man
waiting anxiously the arrival of each successive
steamer that he may be enabled to find what is the
rt,-o
" be conceived Assn edly the Britah Minister
was right when be said that the mos. productive of
Enclsnds colonies was found 10 these United States
Having been indebted to the tariff OF 1916 for an
increase in the price of the lead, sugar and iron
that we are forced to buy abroad instead Of pro-
ducinQ them at home, we mag look to its effects
on the cotton ard wheat that are forced by
il to sell abroad instead of consuming them at
home The tariff of 1912 was gradually producing
variety in the modes of employment at the South
BY the conversion Of cotton estates to the culture
of sugar. and the effect was beginning to be exhib
tied in 1867 and ia the gradual advance of the
price of cotton from the low rates to which it had
fallen in the disa strOns Freet ade times OF
1e4l- y Now, however, the movement is in an OPP
posite direction sugar estates beiGg converted to
the culture of cotton, whereby the competition to
sell cotton is increased as that for the sale OF
sugar is diminished. The more the com petition to
sell, the more must the price decne-aad yet the
cotton planters, like eur Western cotemporaries'
rersist in the cuckoo cry Of Free trade!
So with wheat We were to supply the world
with grain, and the more we had to sell the richer
we were to grow; but as iron aud lead went up,
wheat went down-the prices of flour in this mar
ket in the three years prior to the war having
been lower than they had been for twenty years
before Prices are now high because Of the tenn
porary dtmasd consequent upon the stoppage Of
export from Eastern Europe, and yet the wheat
growers are unable to see that if we made our own
iron, cloth, lead and sugar We should make per
ruanent demand thrice as great!
The only effect of British Free trade as yet e1
bibited is to be found in reduction Of the prices
of the commodities we have to sell aud an increase
in those of the things have to buy. To those who
desire continuance of the movement in that direc-
tion we recommend an increase in the agitation for
the further estabshmentof The monopoly ofEn-
gland to which she is pleased to give the name OF
Free trade
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