New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-21

nlmt al az stand anu h""'v "''' ~
Ciu Industry p,rayTd or greatly restricted.
Iu.t Abont that time. tho iaSmors sround us Will
have flashed harvesting tAeir latest crops aud
turned od part Of their iabereTs, "h"' hndng
no ,utiher em ,loyment In the con.try, viii
crowd INTO thu City in desperate quest Of some
,birr a. do. A few OF them will find IL; sone will
live o, the sa, ags Of the milder season. the
great majority will horer around our soup
Kitchens or come to anchor in tae Aim"liouse
before Christmas, remaining burden on orr
Fl liens till the ensuing Spring. Suca Is the
prospect now before us; in the face oil whi,h
hundreds are weekly hocking hither from all
parts of the country OF writing to oae or au-
other to inquire if places cannot be found or
made for them.
Its very common to attribute this deacth OF
employment to the influx Of Foreign Immigrants;
but the immigration Of this year has been Tar
below that of either of the two or three proceed
inp. and we do not find the chances OF Labor
thereby materially improved. In fact, we believe
il exceedingly questionable that complete stop to
immigration would improve the chances OF those
already here for employment. For these immi-
grants REQUIRE houses, furniture, food, clothing.
as well az work: they create employment as well
as seek it many of them bring considerable capital,
and nearly all of them are blessed with good spPe-
ttes. Had twice as many landed this year as have
done. We believe the number now seeking work
would not have been materially increased.
There are many causes for the enormous, a.
most constant. dear,h Of employment among US,
especislly in Winter; but foremost among them
We deem the fsta impolicy which doc ns US to
buy so large portion of our Wares and Fabrics
cf Europe. We're we only making the Cloths,
the Metals, the Fancy Goods, that we are con-
staut'y importing, the tens of thousands noF and
slwsys ysinly seeking employment might DE
steadily and usefully at work. Blu! go long as
we continue TO impor. two thirds of the Fabrics
sna one-half the Metals We require, We shall
have unwilling idleness in our tensnt-souses
and furnishing beggary in our streets.
Did any one ever hear Of q Nation of Twenty.
five Millions which imported the greater part OF
its Clothing, and yet prOspered' How can we
expect 70 have work for our labOrers all the
wear round while We devote ourselves to the
Sumner business of growing Food and buy
abroad the Wares and Fabrics that may az we'll
be made in Winter And now long shall we be
content TO eat up in Winter all the savings of
summer
The Free-traders tell us that Protection is
needless-th we can produce Cloths under Free
trade if our capitalists will be satisfied with
ordinary profits But this day a majority of the
Wooden Mills in this country stand idle because
they can only be run at loss. Ii they would pay
even one per cent the owners would prefer to run
them rather than have them stand idle; yet idle
they are. Dees any one believe them only stand
ing out for inOrdinate profits! They can be bought
for less than half their prime cost Why don't
the Free.traders who say no Protection is needed
lust buy them and set them in motion again If
they could be made to pay FIVE per cent on their
first cost, they might be bought so as to make it
ten on their present valuation and that, surely,
is a handsome profit. Why is it. then that the
opulent Ffee-traders who abound among US do
not buy up this machinery and set the discharged
operatives at work again Food is becoming
cheap: Labor is low enough and most abundant
there are twenty mills that might be set IN motion
in a month: and there is need enough of the pro-
ducts flour laborers could have work wherewlth to
paw for them Why is it. then, that our rich Free
traders DO not buy up the idle mills and start
them. but that the pretense that Protection is
needless is conscious and wilful deluson