New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-17
HEAR THE ENEMY.

HEAR THE FsNEMh.
Fas est ob hoste doeeri. 1t is good, said the an
clients, to learn wisdom from the teachings of our
enemies, and the maxim is as sound in our days as
il was in theirs An illustration Of its truth may
he found in an account given in another column
of the proceedings in the case of Hertz charged at
Philadelphia with enlistiDg men for the Crmea
Our readers will there find the British minister en-
couraeing Mr. II. to the violation OF our neu-
traity LAVE on the express ground OF the feeble
ness Of our Government, which he regards as una
BILE to adopt efficient measures for the maintenance
Of it's rights When told that the popular voice
would be opposed to such measures as he had sug-
pested, the reply of Mr.. CHAMPION was brief and to
the point "Nerer mind The popular roice;" said he,
Z" ia house in liverpool fails the phOle United
q" States trtnJles"-an assertion embracing such an
amount of truth that we print it in the most en-
phatic manner, with view to caA the attention
of our readers to the way in which the policy OF
the country has operated, and is now operating, in
deriving not OILY our people but this government
of all power of independent action
1t is true-lamentably but toe true-that when
house in Liverpool fails the whole United States
trembes But why is it sol Because the existing
commercial legislation of the country requires that
our Dc ople should waste their energies in carrying
their wheat and their corn their cotton and their
tobacco, I'D the hill to Europe in the hope Of OBJ
tanning some little Of it again in the form of iron
and CLOTH when by the slightest effort they might
bring the makers Of iron and of cloth to their side
and thus forever free themselves from the enormous
tax of transporta ion. Because that legislation
founded on the principles of Dritish Free trade
compels them to sell their products in tae rudest
state. and thus to lose all the manure that would
result from their consumption, and then when they
have exhausted the soil they heretofore have cult
waited, to fly to new and distant regions with
increase in the tax Of transportation and increased
difficulty of finding consumers for their products
in any but the most distant markets. Because
British Free trade thus enriches the soil of Great
Britain with the spOls OF world, and enables in
diyidual iroI-masters, as we are even told in an
official report of Parliament, to waste hundreds of
Thousands of pounds in carrying on the war
against all competitors and to find their profit in it
by reason of the monopoly of the trade they are
thus enabled to secure. Because, by reason Of
this monopoly they are enriched, while we are 30
impoverished as to be compelled with outstretched
hand and on Bonded knee to solicit them TO take
our bonds and give US iron in exchange, when our
own mountains and those Of the neighbOring States
could supply US with iron in unlimited quantity,
could our people be protected against the war that
is thus waged upon them, in the name of Free
trade, by men with whom monopoly is the only
object Because we thus build up against oar
lol< l. Ill
lions of dollars, the interest upon which absOrbs
more than the whole produce Of our farms that
goes to Europe. Because we are thus rendered
tributary to Europe to an extent that causes
the export Of all the gold of California, and
thus maintains interest at ten, thirteen, fifteen
and twenty per cent, while in England it is main
tanned at three, four, or at the most, five
Der cent. Because the march Of improvement
among ourselves is thus arrested and our water
power, our mills and our furnaces stand idle by
reason of the instability resulting from the per-
petual fuctuation of European markets-those
markets in which the failure Of single merchant
causes the whole United States to tremble. Be-
cause our people are thus compelled to stand idle
when they would desire to work aud their wives
and children are forced to fast, and perhaps to
perish, by reason Of their own inability to sell
their labor. Finally, because the whole machinery
known as British Free trade is most ingenious
contrivance for subjectng the world to the control
Of British sailors and British traders; for perpetu
sting Slavery where it exists and for creating it
where it does not and for rendering all mankind
mere property in the hands Of that worst of all
aristocracies-the one which rests for support upon
cheap labor and whose whole soul is found in it's
breeches pocket.
If We would change all this, let US change the
tariff.