New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-07

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shich 90 ioubt. ,peaks the senss MS OF tne
AmsIic.u Protectionists. The vri er u iudg 1sh ta
Epc,and 10 able 70 cay that the United S:stes o.
in American securities held 90 cur ride OF TOE
$50 600 900 or fI00 600 600. Great Bn.aio oY emu
irg Americans money % make rail Ways ana e'-1as
has got the upper hand" of them AID whSa sne eso
mike berseB free Of American corn sas Gotten VIII
have the citizens under her feet The Erea1HR jour
nal does not explain how Americans came 70 &c tx tns
degrading bondage nor DOES il advise them 10 di'con-
tnue increasing the debt IL Engl-hmen az, whng 70
lend. However, 1t is settled that for US 70 nTa
securities in America is moot gang th hs
honor and detrimental TO the interests o. 'ee
Republic, and is perhaps part Of great scheme 70,
the cIushiDg of dem ocrssy in its chooses nome. Du,
how came England to attain this sinister em'nence
As We proceed We seem tO be stu1ying the pr''vus"
phlosop hirpgs Of some St Petersburg or Sespou.s1
publicst rather than an article wilaeD Tor sol Vi
strong Drained PeDnsylvaniaus. IL appears, aocoioI
ing to this writer that England began her co nnerc
career with the view, not OILY OF rendering neIse u
dependent Of all other communities for the great s'a
ples Of her subsistence but to make the ~orid uDu
" tary to her aggrandizement through the revenues
I" paid TO her manufacturer" After persn ing ior
centuries in the plain, coumon -sense pnncipe, 0,
producing herself the materials OF her consu mp loo anu
tellipg TO foreign markets far more than exc par
cbases in return, Great Britain hss now a.
tair ed e preemnepce which enables her - open
her ports without fear OF compehhon. "ou;u
be the duty and interest OF Americs 70 paIsae 'nis
same policy; but according TO the organ
it has Only been at brief intervals thst it hi, been
adopted. With the fsl Of the Wings pro'ecnoo 70
native industry was aband med. The inisnI miu'uy
tf America has been exposed TO com?ettIn win the
ful Grown capitalists Of the whole void The atnsais
o England France and Belgiu csn uudersell Aner-
can mar ufacturers in their own country. Hence IL Is
said cone the closed factories and starving operatives
Of the present Dement While oy oII Ter po.
"tude to defy In an equal stnfe Tor com@eiea
Gees" go.
We cannot but regret to see such reasoning, if 1t
~ q NOS N "a
the pj esent day. 1t is doubt the fact that these
are the views Of minority. and a diminishing mi
noIity; but It'll that any party should sPp9a to sucn
worn out u6ices and believe in su ;h shallow arga
ments is evidence Of how little the community has
advanced in the study Of the greatest of modern ques
tions. True, we only soma 10 or II years ahead
1t is not so long sioce large and powerful faction was
covering the couotry on principles which seem now
es EXPLODED as witchcfaft atIoogy. Yet we could
have hoped that the Americans were too much intel
lectualy connected with ourselves to lag behind even
for a few years. As to the Mschavellan theory 80
popular the continent OF Europe-namey, taat tns
country was Prote ctiOnst during generations through
a subtle policy, and that we haze become Free.
Trader lately in order to crush the industry OF other
uatops SUCH notion shoad be left to the narrow and
splenetc minds which formed in some despotc Court
or pedantic University We know and Americans ought
TO know too. that Protection wa, upheld IN EnSand
because il believed In and that we exc uoed corn
just as 10 old times we touched for the king evil
We certainly made money and became great people
under Protection but this in spite OF the system
and not because it. No in this country viii be
disposed to doubt that it cramp.d our energies and
postponed that great development of the national in
dusty which has taken place within the last 10 ysars
When it is re collected that 10 the last days OF Pfotsc
ton the exports of the country were about f50 zoo o
sterling year. aud that this year they will not fall far
short Of Ga 600 OOO it will be admit ID that perhaps
the community suffered by the previous restrictions
America will prosper by tho adoption of the sam:
principles as have guided England. The truths Of
political science are not local. aud what is proved
one side of the Atlantic must be equally dem ,nstrabe
on the other. We trust the Americ people will re-
ect the fslscous theory II az there is an age OF Po
lection and an age of Free Trade in nations history
Free Trade is az beneficial to the unculivated CONT
nent as to The densey populp.ed slsnd it as fitted
for tie youngest communities of the New World as
for the instuIest monarchy Of Europe.