New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-21
THE FUTURE OF NEw>oRK AGAIN

sUch readers as desire TO see bow our arguh'a'
are net By those who differ with us in opinion IS TO
he future Of this State.
Our correspondent does not seem 70 have iully
understood the point that was made b. our Phua-
delphis conts mpOrary nor the exact extent OF the
admission that we ourselves had felt compelled to
make The former never claimed nor did we admit,
that this stale was to cease to increase In both
p-pula,ion and wealth butt was claimed thasPenn-
sylyania would increase much faster aud that, al
no distant time, v it'll continuance OF our present
policy. the latter would become the first State
of TIE Cnicn, snd We the second In proof that
such must be the case II was shown tnst,
without single road crossing the State, e1cep:
one that passes for short distance along lis edge.
Pepnsylvana has obtained, under the last census.
ore additional member, while New-York has lost
one-that the State was now, already, crossed BY
several roads, opening up great districts OF coun'
try that before had been entirely nacessible-and
that all the surrounding States were now busily
occupied in making other roads tending TO produce
similar efe cts All of which being facts whose truth
cannot be disputed, the inference drawn from them
By our cotemporary and admitted BY US, was, that
without roads Pennsylys nia had gained upon US,
sh. was likely to gain still more rapidly now THAI
roads had been obtained Thst once admitted, it
becomes a mere question Of the time at which
New-York 10 to cease to Occupy her present pos'
ton st the head Of the Union
In reply to this our Correspondent gives US
numerous facts furnished by the ceasus OF 1850,
at tie date of which our neighbors were entirely
upproyided with the means Of communication
between the severa! parts of the State Of the
men vhe made that census no small nnmber were
compelled to 60 outside of the State when they
desired 10 20 to Philsdelphia its commercial
capital; while almost every man who took our
census cozld reach this city in less than dozen
hours. Sifce then, as we see, circumstances have
totally changed, and the changes are now progress
ing " it'll great rapdity. TIE most important roads
pc ourselves are now making are those which
r,,.t promote the growth Of Pennsylvania in popu-
l.son by presenting an outl,. for her products,
willie all the measures of the general government
teu1 TO provide ovtets for our population by dmn-
isb;p, the demapdifor our products. This state OF
tbjpr, had little existence up .o'the date OF the
last census, and wAs1 our correspondent takes the
facts then obtained i, proof of vIat is to be dO.e
in the eature, he bit proves the weakness of the
position he attempts- TO occupy. That he is not
careful d to his facts was shown IN our remarks
upon hiostatement of me prices Of wheat to which
be was disposed to attribute the decline Of our
rural popalation That he has been as little so on
the present occasion, IL shown by bis asking our
attention TO q fact that has, as he ,ays, puzzled
hm-that without anything that can be called
" protectica, the iron manufacture has steadily
" increasedssnce 1910"
What are. the real factc of the cass' Do they
bear out tho statement ofiour correspondent! II
they do. we may endeavcr to explain them as best
we can. If they do not, il will be unnecessary.
Tn 1882 the ron manufacture had reached 100000
t8ese.spd tka Eas then exert RI0sssct t. Of rapid
duty in that year. and rolling mills were closed
Next came the compromise tariff, and furnaces
seased to be built, and tho consequence was that
at the period referred to By correspondent the
quantity scarcely exceeded 25O0Oos Next came
the revenue ta,iff of lS4l-2, under which furnaces
we're everywhere closed, End the product declined
to an amount certainly not exceeding 100 900 tuns
and thus, a. the first stop, our correspondence 4.
facts fail him
Next came the tariff of le42, afosding complies,
and entire probation, under which the manufacture
increased with such rapidly that itrwas estimated
by Mr.. Walker in 1876, at more than eight hn.
dred thousand tuns, or quadrnpe the qaantty Of 1912.
Next came tas tariff of 1876, under, which furnaces
ceased to 5e built and. those who had hslt
them wero sold out by the sheriff. and by 1850 81
the product fell to less than half million of .uns
Next cama the discoveries Of Californian, sad
Australian gold, making great demand for missrs
abroad and raising theis wages and producing great
animation among ourselves q. home and tAus to
some extent, afording the protection that had
been denied by the makers Of the tariff cf 1916,
ard by help of that protection the iron raanufac-
ture has again risen to tho point at whiah it was
estimated by Mr. Walker nina gears since
Such are the real facts. Having studied them,
our correspondent will perhaps cease t0be puzzled
By reflection upon stats Of facts that has never
had the slightest shadow Of existence, The iron
manufacture never has grown in thia country aai
peyer will grow without protection against tae
warfare" carried On by English iron-masters,-a
warfare whose existence is now, in Parliamentary
documents openly admitted, and justified - the
ground that ii constitutes "tho most essential in.
strumeat now remaining BY which sar the
British manufacturing supremacy can be main
tanned" Had our State been protected against
that warfare its center would now present scene
Of activity not exceeded in the world for nowhere
in the world are collected together so many of the
elements Of success in every department Of the iron