New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-08

\ OF sll grsdes and descriptions. bus, under ear
southern Freetrsde Tariff. . constant and rapid
Standardization has been going on, aud cor
| responding deterioration Of morals aud society.
until cur once thriving manufacturing Ysskee VII
lsges sppear lite ragged colonies of foreign pau
p.rs just imported. And the end 10 not got;
,here i. still lower deep. Every mill within
ny brosleJss is Row, and has beea for some
mouths rupnipg at loss-so that, ere loeg. We
shall be compelled TO employ a cl,o on par with
the benesosp operatives Of England, or stop eur
nile.
Now, good, sapient, Philosophical and philan-
Tropical Messrs. Editors OF T2s Islspesdesf, vi
yeu have the Kindness to lay aside for few mo-
nen's your very learned theories, and give us
plain business uen little practical advices
What is 10 be done Here are facts against as
sertior-experien. sgainst theory. IL IL trre
that urdsr Protective Tariff, new branche, Of
usnufacsure are of.en introduced, which require
TIE importation Of shlful artisans from abroad.
When the calico printing business was frat start
ed here, We were obliged to employ foreign de.
sgners ard engrs'ers until our Yankees could
learn the art, which they soon did; but this fact.
although sfIcrdinga pr,text for your assertion.
4, es not in the least sustain or favor your argu-
uent. There is great cry through the land.
We have nothing TO do ard We have nothing TO
eat" How could it be otherwise, when %
many n ilOns of goods are being brought over
which might ard ought to be made in this couu-
try Ard this is foil owed by the cry from i'm
porters and capitalists 1--WE are on the verge Of
ruin for want OF money What else could
you expect, since you have cent abrcsd the basis
of our currency to psy for these goods For. b
il remembered, the expectation Of specie oper-
stes in q skiold ratio upon our paper currency;
and, if We export bslance of hfsy millions Of
specie. our Banks are compelled forthwith to re-
duce their lcans three hundrsd mllions to meet 1t.
Here is the full explanation of all our troubles.
Can Cause and effect be more obviousi
Talk OF speculation and overriding business
there bas been, in the MAN, no over doing in the
great businesses of the country-no man can
point to any; and as 10 the former, il lie a. the
small dust in the balance-entirely inadequate 10
account for the widespread revulsions which
have visited US.
TIE year ~ furnishes parallel to this. Then.
a. now, universal prostration and stsgnation Of
business prevailed. Congress passed Protective
Tariff, and forthwith, Lazsrus-like, every branch
of industry in the country started up into life aud
full activity. Never has our country known
period of greater prosperity than from ~ 70 'i6.
Let Congress reepsct that law, and will give
boLd, with sufficient sureties for million Of dol
lars, that in sixty days every man, woman and
child north of Mason and Dixon's Line shall find
full employment at good wages. But while
Shareholders, nullifers free-trade theorists and
foreign uipendlaries hold the resns Of Govern
nept, what ground 10 there for hope Its said.
Experience is dear school, but fools VIII
learn in no other" Free-trade theorists will
learn nothing even in this. Though you bray
them in the mortar of bitter experience. they
v.r,iuuriuusiy slicA tu TIER theories. With them
experience is nothiDg-statistics are nothing.
In your re cent discussions, The Independent seems
10 abhor facts and statistics as nature does .
vacuum. To that journal / have one sug-
cestlon to make: when you travel from the
record-leaye your legitimate sphere Of duties to
trench upon the domain Of journal, your senior
in sge and your full equal in ability little more
difference 10 your tor and little more fairness
in your statements would be becoming. To sheer
at doctrine, maintained with such signal ability
| by The TRIBUNE, as ga erotchd "a doctrine
which has been supported by JEFFERSON, FRANK
LIN, CLAY, WEBSTER, and many Of our greatest
Statesmen, and which is now Endorsed by thou
sands of cur most intelligent business mems not
argument, is not sentemsnly but 10 simply con-
ceit or sheer afectation. You have dsguerreo-
typed YOURSELF and not THE TRIBUNE, in saying:
"On this subject it affects prOfandity, swells
with conceit, or ilats down into incoherency."
From an examination Of the census statistics,
ON prepared to prore, to mathematical GER
tainty that Massachusetts, has lost, by the repeal
of the tariff In 49, OM Hundred Millions d
Dollars A MANUFACTURER,
Ma,eAS 1855 Of the Blackstone Valley.