New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-26
A CONCESSION OUTRIGHT.

Mr.. Golden is the incarnation OF British Free
trade High-seated on his Manchester throne, or
dverging thence parliamentary or provncial-wise
he has one text-British manufactures for all the
world Whatever be the theme somehow or other
his spinning jenny is tackled on to it, 1t is used TO
be said of Tom MOOre's muse that let her fight be-
gin where it might, she GIFTED in Ireland; so with
Mr. Golden in calm orstOrm, icing the pole, or in
the torrid zOne"-bis Free trade is the solvent of
all difficulties. That perfected all the ports of the
world patent to Manchester cottOns and Bir-
mingham wares, the toughest old social wrongs
will disappear rs ncontlnently as harlequin through
stage-trap
The only difficulty respecting Mr.. Golden is,
that on the subject of Free trade, he does not give
the facts If he pretcnds to be political ecOno-
mist he should at least be exact in figures, let his
deductions be what they may. He may say that
the British Free-trade tariff Of 1876 in this coun-
Try has destroyed the incipient manufactures OF
South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, aud that
they ought to be destroyed, and we have not the
slightest objection to it a statement OF his opn-
ion. Mr.. BrOuaham stated in 1915 in Parliament
Britain "to make temporary sacrifice, glut
.. the market of the United States, and thus
ruin the American manufactures prematurely
called into being by the war" We do not OBJ
iect to such doctrines by English manufacturers
and statesmen, for the principle which has always
guided England in her dealings with the rest OF the
world has been Observation-Disclosures ingenious,
elaborate, persistent-Of the old classic Roman
pattern. DeleadQ est Cartilage. England must glut
the markets of the world. But we demur simply
to the welcome given 10 every Trojan horse which
England may send across the sea. We do oppose
Il system which is njuring the prosperity of New
York as Il reference to immigrant aud ship-building
tables shows We do object TO system which
keeps the South poor, petulant, inflated and bull
headed. We do object to the reduction which has
taken place, first in our manufactures and next IN
our imports, for il is fact which escapes the
Chamber of Commerce, that the country which
has the most hourishing mechanics and manufac-
turers imports and exports the most and gives the
merchant most to do, and that an agricultural
country cannot sustain a large commerce.
We mention the name OF Mr.. Golden because
we had before us pamphlet by him entitled, Vhat
next, and ne1tl 1t is OF course on the war; and OF
course il treats of British Free trade and Russian
Protection, and of course il does not argue accu-
ratey on these matters while it lets slip remark
which is oil We have ever cOnteuded for ON The
question OF Protection. Mr.. Golden, under that
division of his subject entitled ProtectOnist Pol
icy of Russia, says;
For thirty years before the appearance of our hos
tile cruisers on her coast, Russia had been indus
triou.y occupied in bOckading her own ports BY her
prohibive tariff TO have left less for her enemies to
do in this respect than some of them have supposed
When. nearly half century since Napoleon attempted
10 force upon Alexander, at the point of the bayOnet
bis continental sysem, the trade of that Empire r1'
coupdrdfirelV free and Hs people Were dependent on
6rtigH cOHRirfes, and especially England. for almost
ererg comfort and hurry OF cfrii:ed iJ6 Travellers
proceeded from this country to take orders tor our
manufacturers in Russia with almost as much facility
as in Scotland or Ireland and Engshmen opened their
shop. in Petersburg for the supply of all articles OF
dless and furniture nearly a. great a scale a. IN
the streets Of London. At that time to have cut OF
the Russian Empire from all commerce with all foreign
countries would have been to doom part of it, peo-
PIE to nUkedness. But upward Of thirty wears ago,
Seduced b. e example of England and other c0aR'rts,
il was resolved to protect native industry in oil it,
branches A tariff was accordingly framed imposing
protective duties on foreign manufactures"
OF course Mr.. Golden having set out with
declaration in effect that Russia ia Dow owing TO
her magnificent protective system, no longer beg
garry, ignorant, stupid, and dependent of English
manufacturers, but can carry on the war without
assistance from the in'ular monopoli't-2( coq1sa