New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-03
pROTECTrON-BRTT FREE TRADE
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
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in9uafrx and VrO0uCuOn. lltHac ufHi'H w '~'
and interchange Of iis products, or Commsrre.
An men are not equnl to ali things-al sous aiapcn
10 all productions. One man has more ect'iy, VI
more inventive genius, or more executive 'oroe .,aI
ano,her One region il adapted 10 planting, anouer
70 ferning another 10 manufactures another 10 con-
nerce wbf another may possess al these aV ana1es'
Edncst4 men and they will 6nd out for what pur-
suit hey best qualified how tne nuuiN resources
AT their command may be beet developed IN what WY
tb,ir skill and labor may become most productive.
The duty of Government is TO aid individual enter
Prise where necessary not 10 snpereede NJ 10 SECURE
10 The Individual the fruits of his lndusry, not to al
tempt lite control direction Justice, Security
Help in establishing cheap and Intimate interconm1-
Dication where individual enterprise is insufficient
md means Of general education-ihese are what Gov
eminent owes to the people; hut 10 them, not 10 Il be
longs the management of the complex business of pro-
ductiOn. distribution consumption Generally, leZ
isaiion designed TO mOd, productions, regulate dis
tribution restrain consumption, Is lnpertinent AMI
lib ci svous Tie tme will arrive when bounues and
tariffs will be regarded as no better than sumptuary
laws.
Tie early Colonsts of New-England during the first
few years Of their settlement traded IL pcltry and con-
fined Themselves 10 agriculture. Immigrants rop-
siapty arriving were their customers, and supplied The
circulating medium of the colony. Soon Immigration
stopped-Ley found that they raising more bread
etufs than they could sell-labor was not relnunera-
tiye-prices went down. What dli they dol Com
mop-sense was tier teacher and protector. Tney
diverted portion Of their labor and time 10 ot'cr pur-
suits They began 10 build vessels; they turned
aen ion to the fisheries; they carrie fish and slaves
10 other counres and brought back wine, sugar, and
dried fruit; Rome cultivated fax and hemu; sbne
brought cotton from the West Indies; manufactures
of linen cotton, and wooden cloths were siarteh
Ip this way without encouragement from the Govern
ment of England under disabling restrictions against
the competition Of the ample capital an trained labor of
the mother country were laid the foundations OF the
commerce aud maDufactu,es OF New-Engidud' What
was done by those enterprsng c0lonlss may DC doHe
at any time any where 10y intelligent enterprise Men,
enlightened and industrious, need 10 LEGISLATION - DIT
r. them how TO dispose OF TIER capital, or SKILL or
labor, 10 the best puIpofe. IL they RAISE more corn
tan they can eat sell or exchange profitaby, they
will soon rhse lees and devote portion OF their tlms
and energies TO tie production OF her articles. II
there be on OF all agricultural products 80 ne
will become mechanics, some trgdesmen, some fishers,
some manufacturers some merchants some shippers.
Ii was thus through the workings OF ma ural causes,
by ntelig nee, quick 10 appreciate the means az hanf
by enterprise, prompt and wise to use them, th>t the
Colonies of this country gradually grew IN popuialon,
wealth and power, exhibiting all the varied forms OF
industry without The forcing processes OF hOt-bed leg
islation IN The teeth of the competition OF England,
under severe restrictions inn Osed by monopoly, until
they became strong ough to assert and make good
tbeir independence Having achieved all this without
Protection, while yet in the gristle, to us It sems
simply absurd, now in fr maturity, to call upon
Government to secure us from being Impoverished aud
ruined by foreign labor
These remarks will serve as Introductory TO brief
reply to the Political Economist of TUE n. I.
Tribune, who has challenged us 70 discus ion OF the
Era lis article promising in eturn to give our reply
place in The TRIBUNE. Two weeks since we inserted
in columns an editorial of TIE TRIBUNE on our
position in relation to the Eastern War; and proposed
10 that paper 10 republish reply. II paid 10 At
tention to the request, has it yet proper 10
plead guilty not guilty TO our arraignment. Does
this conduct betray consciousness of weakness
But we can afford TO be generous. The article The
TRIBUNE desires to reprint to give reaecs
the privilege of reading both sies of the Question,
appears on The fret page of The Era AMI we shall
now expect The TRIBUNE to fudl its part of the ar
rangemenf, by reprinting this reply.
Discussing some time since the position of that Jour
nal tie Eastern war, we remei ked:
BY FnS and admitting lis breadstns to her poS DUTY e and
snuacurers will have TO study long time TO understand
of he Iors Of Russia and Turkey against rem ltwoud be
1000 thing have lie Allies humo ed because Ensi,h Fres
should hail the triumph o. Ru sa because ber rotec i've
system would shut out fom Turkey well as her own do
nmions! That s queer philosophy"
Our contemporary chooses 10 make this paragraph
the eat of long article, designed TO prove that the
faIm of the United States are injured severely by
the repeal of the British Corn Lave, aud the opening
of British por to the grain of the world aud to show
hcU they ar, iured.
was the ia, ory of Hobbies that the natural state
of mankind is war Such appears 10 be the notion of
our contemporary. He deals with nations as ii they
were not related TO another by the tie of com
NOR bpmanity-as if each should isolate Itself from all
come con with every other. 1t would be difficult on
his theory 10 txplsin why the EARTH with its system
of end aud water, its continents and Islands, bonnd
to each other by oceans lakes and rivers is ma lie
TO constitute unit, or why men aud women are
formed of the same flesh and blood. This principle of
isolation ard antagonism he carries even beyond M
tioue down to classes and professions. The farmers
are war ing war against the dealers and m1uufl tar
ers and these against The farmers IL s the interest
of class TO buy at as low cate ard sell at as high
a ore possible, without the slightest reerenceto any
law but that OF It's own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Aad II 1t
Las the power TO leeislate in Accomplishment of lis
policy II is prsseworhy to do so.
W. must be Permitted TO that after reading this
argument in The TRIBUNE, SO intensely selfish IN is
animus so utterly rreconcilabe with the principle OF
human brotherhood, and, il seems 10 us, 30 narrow
and illogical in reasoning dislike of the doctrine OF
Protection has increased eufold. But would attri-
butte to the writer not single one of the qualities
that ofiends US in his argument.
Shall VIC call his article argument Is 1t not ra-
Their n doematic exposition of his views than exhi-
bition of reasons in support of them Take single
paraCralh as al illustration. To show that II is mere
doematism, we will place IT, with precisely reverse
SYMPTOMS in parallel columns, and the reader shall
say which is the more plausible;
Tns TRIBUNE poeMaTIziSe. THE ERA DoGMsrIzNG.
The object Of Great britain The obi ct Of GTea' Britain
In rel ealing repea The Corn Laws
to cleapen food hat cuce the Of food
bad desire that reasonable rates, aud sake 1t
ght be cheap and III uniform What farmers
Brit,i succeeded IN bad desire uniform
they market nsbe prices
quite unlikely TO pront by her hat britain IN accomplishing
eed L. bui, II vii be said it her policy promoted IA
save them market they bad But IL be said il * from
y. ebiGvsd On tn them market they I'D b-fJfe
contrsry ii deprived them of enjoyed. On tn. contrary
ke Of which they before gave them market Of which
had had possession and thus hey before had hd
greatly injured th The ion and thus really benefited
market of England was value them The nglani
that country had Of little value when that
large crops tut valuable ~ had large crops and
when CROPS short; and not much valuable when
when tha, proved be crOts shOrt for when
case advantages hat proved be the hey
f.r su plying Il such were Doed such advaltg
enjoy ~ other people supplying en yed by
thu word They bad f.st shirs Bs'tc wheat
canals railroads, ard their True they had fast ships,
consumption was 30 arge that pes uhrOads ana their own