New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-20

OF 100 parts syrscuse salt pule'
OF 600 parts Liverpool me IN pored...''sSs pHI--
OF leo parts Turks Island in ported; So par.
OF locs p.r;s 81. Ties coarse imported.
By this report We learn TIA, ours Is lte aueal OF
TIE best imported salt now in use in this county ms
subject hae also been examined by the authority Oh ne
Uphtd Ststes.
The Secretary Of the Navy hiss made practical eH
perimenta test the re.ut of which the following docd-
ment will tell:
BVkE,U OF PsovisIos AND CLOTHING,
January p 1857.
STA In answer to your verbal r-qne. morning hav.
The honor that the year 1851 thirty barrels vi beet and
thirty barrel. Of pork packed with Onoudss. collar sL
,nder the direction OF hi. Bureau for the purpose py
ss: .:;s , 1S g s! ;s Z:
East Indies bsz and th. Pacific with intention 20 examine
into CONDITION the end months and the end OF
months from the time OF s being received on board and
III, h,n. A, OF ~aSIh concur in uououneins the
beef AID pork cared with the onordsa fully equal
'hA am vsry rePeetfaiy Your
Chief Of Bureau OF Provision aud Clothing.
Hen. ANcs. P. GRANGER, Mouse of Representative
Competition has brought down the price so low that
salt is now afforded TO the consumer at quite cheap
rate. IL is made in Illinois, ONO, and on the sea-
board and very extensively IN Nginis and Newly ork
and il Ia made less 10 most of the States and
Territories of the Union Ii meets and keeps down
the price of foreign salt Sir allow 1t but one-h6 OF
its former protection, and We would soon be ndePend
ent of the world for article at once convenient,
comfortable ard indispensable.
This interest is the last that should be mOested Ii
tnOulQ nave WOIc, IhlitI uIdl tSc PIObSNuoh.
poee the case of foreign war; of which you are never
out OF danger Relying on foreign supply OF an art
Gle that enters into the oaly indispensable use OF every
family rich or poor, you nigh, as well depend on Tor
eigpers for powcer for salt. One would be as ab-
surd as the other Sir if you will not raise the protec-
ton on sat be 80 kind not TO disturb what lltle
there of it left. Preserve the manufacture OF salt for
safeiy's sake, if not for protection lou may think,
Sir the duty in question is but ulfe. Then hope
Won will not disturb IT, Small though 1t be 10 you II is
sufcient to the manufacturer TO transport the article
100 miles, snd thus Tar extend the market hope the
honorable Chairman Of the Committee OF ways and
Meals will consent to place salt Oh the ~ per cent
schedule, and allow the small protection 1t nov en-
joys. ,u
Since the war OF 1919, we have at three different
times re,ored TO protective tacih TO relieve US from
financial distress. From 1918 TO 1894, with mere
revenue tariff the balance of trade mas against US, and
during that term of six years exports OF specie e1-
ceeded our imports $40 900. This caused the pro-
ective tariff of 1874 and the effect of the change was
coon felt. Confidence and activity returned, and in.
stead of exporting specie imported specie to large
amount. The effect obvious and gratifying that
the still higher tariff Of 1875 was enacted-the highest
we ever had This tariff was natured and brought
forward by that distinguished Democrat Siles Wright
Under these two protective tariffs of 1924 aud 1878 up
TO lS3i-ten years-the whole country wss blessed
with prosperity perhaps never before equaed in thus
or any other country In this ten years OF protection,
from 1924 10 1884 we imported thirty millions of specie
more than we exported and paid off the debts Of two
wars that OF the Revolution and of 1872 in ALL piuci
pal and interest, 800 OOO, 600.
Next came the descending compromise tariff Of Mr..
Clay. In Justice to the memory Of that great man. at
this point desire to say he consented to let down his
long cheIished and fayore protection, not as matter
Of choice but Of necessity deeming II saier to come
down gradually than to fall at once saying at the time,
" trust the country III come 10 s senses and return
TO its true policy"
BY sliding icale this tariff brought down n nine
years to horizontal tariff of twenty per cent. The
result was the Government soon found itself out of
FUNDS ard out of credit and bankruptcy and distust
pervadiDg the whole community.
In this dilemma the Government dispatched an
agent TO England TO make RAISE; but 80 low was its
credit that not "hapoIth could II borrow and Its
man (RobertsoD returned without dollar in his pock
et The distress universal, and 90 clearly at
trbuab)e to the ruling party, that the people rose en-
mdsse and demanded q change of men and measures.
The authors of this mistaken policy were driven from
power snd Gen. Harrison was elected President OF tue
United States by an overwhelming majority and the
prott Give tariff OF 1912 the consequence gen
eral bankrupt law became necessary and acted
to relieve generation of sctive and enerprsug men
who had been swept from their mooriDgs by the ire
sstibe current of financial Revision. Mr.. Fillmore
head Of the Committee of Ways and Means, re.
ported the Tariff Law of 1912 as a remedy for the
financial disorders occasoned by substituting reve
nue. for protective tariff.
This Tariff of 1872 was arranged for protection and
revenue Incidental II justified the anticp atoms OF its
most ssnguine friends; and for the skill and ability dis
played by Mr. Fillmore he won the applause and has
received the gratitude Of his country Death removed
Gen. Harrison from us, and the ns:ion mourned the
loes of an honest man. His friends were betrayed By
his successor. Van Buren, was lost in the storm, but
bis party again came into power, and brought with
them their form er FreeTrads propepsites The Tariff
of 1912 WA allowed only brief existence long enough
however, TO establish its character an efectua cure
for the financial heresies of the day. The party in
power thought proper TO the order of things
and the foundations OF our national prosperity were
again broken up The Tariff of 1912 wa repealed,
and that OF 1886 the present one substituted It was
sold in high places that the principle Of protection
wrong, and in an evil hour Congress adopted the
maxim. The great leading interests Of wool, woolens.
and ircn so Intimately connected with the farming in
terest were disregarded. Protection snsered at,
and Free Trade became the bate.cry at every political
contest
Sir, unless we have radical change in our tariff
laws, shGl surely have another financial crash.
Come it will, and it Is only question of time. We
must manufacture and import less, and keep
specie at home. We must raise our own wool, and
make our cloth and iron as we do glas, nails and
cott0ns and thus furnish convenient and ready mar
ket for the farmer with little or no waste TOR taDsooa
ton. We have foreign debt Of near $50 600 900.
We are sending off 80 600 600 year, one half Of
which goes to pay dividends ADD interest. We are
constantly sending away. TO pay balances good paying
stocks and sending them below par at that. Sir must
take in sail or we shall soon be on our beamend Dis
corning men already begin to hoard hard money, and
that IL 0minous. We want tarif for protection for
the sake Of protection, and revenue Incidental Pro
lection now vastly more important 10 Us than reve.
nue. but we can have them both al once. We An kill
the two birds with stone THERE'S not the least diff
fcuty in it, Let your tariff discriminate for protection
and you will not lack revenue.
We PAID the cost of two British with high, pro-
tectve tariffs, the highest we ever hsd The protc-
tive tariffs of 1924 1923, and 1882 gave this country
money, credit and property and the revenue tariffs
that interviewed produced exactly the opposite results.
They have always run under and they always will.
ErgsDd France and Germany understand il and laugh
in Their sleeve at stupidity and folly. They would
contract to day to pay Is $4,000 coo annually for
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