New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-24

Chinese az they were fifteen years ago But Mr. Reed
is against spill ing drop Of blood. But does he think
the Chinese will bulge from their hoary stiffness and
e1clusiveness, except by boodshed, or threats of
bloodshed-the means and disposition to spill i, being
apparent Old Commodore Stewart, in addressing
the company Of the dinner in question, said in con-
clusion: Ships Of war are good Legotstors; they
speak language no nation msander.tands; and
when accompanied by profound talents, they are the
greatest Of the great"
The result promises to be that when England fires
guns in China, America will do the sane, and
one shot may beget another. II must not be argued
that such will not be the case, simply because Com
mOdore Perry shed blood in Japan. Ihen the
Americans were alone. But the EDgu,h never have
treated the natives Of the East. " We have always
on hand 10 that quarter, says TIE Loador
Times. England il the aggressor in the East.
She goes the East, the Fact does not her.
In such COMPANY auakerisms will be whistled down
the wind And when treaty ia made. wha. ad-
vaptages can come oft The Chinese want silver
and viii have it in exchange for their tea monopoly
and they will get il long there is any 10 send
With them the animal man has eaten out the animal
horse and, with human labor drug their Govern
ment laughs at labor.saving machinery. They will
not take our lngenuites in return for their chops,
first or lowest and staples out Of the question.
As for the immense Chinese trade with the newly
born California State and over the projected Pacific
Railroad, II will be time enough to dilate upon that
wien California shall have paid her expenses which
up TO this time she has never done. Meantime, while
embassies sent out TO China to work wonders the
pecuniary difficulties AT home increase. We
amused with Arabian Nights Entertainments about
the fOregnest Of foreign trades while ell the gold that
can be scraped out Of California il hardly adequate to
pay for our European wares while all native
wOrkmen and manufactures languish for want OF en-
pigment and stocks run down steadily deeper.
wonder il never occurred to any If the gentlemen
OF the dinner who said 40 well what they did say, tha
the want of the country not foreign treaties, bu
domestic protection not the squanderng of money on
the called greatest of the great" Of Arguments
chips of warbut the ecOnO MES due the wants of the
people and the depressions Of business 1t is related
Of more poets than that reduced to his last guinea
be spent it on dinner and bottle of wine. That is
poeticol and so is our Government In proportion as
ship-buldiDg is being reduced, m0ney-matters are
Threatening, as immigration declines the rewards
for labor in cities and towns become uncertain it in
creases expenses and the taxes, which in 1923 were
one dollar ahead. are now more than three, to pay
the General Government. If the mission to China il
iDcrease of naval forces and augmented taxation and
while the fracas lasts, teas, the low-priced ones
especially, will be at exOrbi;ant sales; in
deed, the latter have trpled in wholesale
prices since Last Autumn. According to late Secre
tary of the Treasury, the with Mexico cost S27,
100000; and yet that war was to have been settled
quickly and cheaply If we get into a long-armed
tight with China-acting in company with England,
who is warmaker general of the East, with France,
who is never backward in a fray and with Russia
who has no moral sense where conquest is concerned
we shall have some frstrate glory at high prices.
The pseudo Democratic Government at home requires,
especially as u DIVERSION good "cry' for lSGO-be-
side red and blue tints for election transparences
and the Chinese are famous for the latter. A bonn
bardment by /" the combined American, English,
"French and Russian fleets would light up well, and
round many period; while high wages cannot be
painted on canvas and are too positive for tropes OF
defamation suited to sham-deraocratic tastes. W. Hs.