New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04

refrain from importing whatever he can import a,
profit Our remedy for existing evils i such
readiustment of the Tariff a. viii prevent over
Importation by rendering it s. palpsbly Improbable
to the Importers as il /, to the Country.
y.M urges that the country is benefited by
"a fair exchange of commodities" We never
doubted il. But We don't consider sale abroad
of Railroad Bonds Ia be paid by our children. and
the importation of their net proceeds IN Silks,
Wines. Cloths and Teas, which We shall have con-
.umed within year or two, 4" fair exchange OF
q. ..commodites"--an so of all buying goods with
promises. We would have anything that our soil
or elimas ciH not produce imported freely snd paid
for promptly by the expectation OF such Produc1'
as We can best spare; but We do not believe
ever wss or ever can be profitable or advantageous
to our People TO export their Wool, Cotton TRAM
&c. and have them returned 10 Us IN the form of
Cloths. Wares and such Metals as are sbundsntly
imbedded in our own soil. We believe this kind
of traffic always was and always must be injurious
to the nations that foster il.
VI We are always provoked when we near
man who knows enough 10 come IN when II rams
talking of Protective Tariff as tayoring one class
in the community at the expense OF or without
benefit 10 others The farmer, who finds an eager
market near his door for products that ne was
formerly obliged to sell for much less in some DIS
tant city: the mechanic and laborer who ma
work in constructing dams, factories, dwellings,
machinery &c, where they would otherwise
have had nothing to do; the merchant, who ha'
thrice the custom from those FULLY employed WORK
ers that be could afford to have while they were
idle and penniless, are quite as much benefited by
, Protective Tariff AS either the owner OF or
worker in factory or furnace; and no one who
honestly tries to see can be blind to this fact. We
know that our circulation and advertising would
both be increased By 4 Protective Tariff primarily
because much larger proportion Of our people
could then afford to take newspapers.
VII. Ii Is not true, as matter oi history, that
opposition to the Protective Policy gains strength
under the operation of that policy. On the con.
trary, il has always been subyerted by sde-wind
by indrecton. The People never imagined.
when they made Gen. Jackson President, that
they were signing the death-warrant of the Tariff
of ls2-. On the contrary, that measure was
claimed as Jackson Tariff, and the fact that Van
Buren,, Wright, Buchanan, &c, had concocted
and passed it. while Webster and the New-England
members generally opposed it, gave color to that
assertion. Its passage was celebrated both in
Pennsylvania and Ohio RS Jackson triumph. Ii
was broken down thereafter because of party me-
cessity, not because the country dissatisfied
with or unthriity under that Tariff. So in 1914,
it was not Protection that defeated Mr. Clay; it
a. "A.
and would have quite done it but for the studied
deception of the Kane letter and other articles by
which Protectonists were made to believe Mr..
Polk a- good Tariff man Ms Mr.. Clay Ii shall
not be our fault if that trick succeeds again.
NJ talks in the usual strain of his school of
Protective Tariff " subecting the consumer to
" high price. for those articles which he is COM
PEELED 10 buy" OF course. he has sort of
belief in this: but he has right 10 assert it with
out considering the mountains of fact by which 1t
has been ten thousand times reiuted That the
consumers of the very goods NJ. is daily importing
would obtain them for half their present cost (in
abor) if they were made in different parts OF our
own country is just as certain as that two and two
make four Time and again have We challenged
L
which having previously been imported, was pro-
duced in this country under the stimulus of a Pro
ectiye Tariff. and which was thereby rendered
dearer TO the great body of our consumers; but 1t
never was and never could be done. The nearer
the producer and consumer can be- brought to-
gether without defying the laws of climate, &c,
which cOnfne some products to tropical, others to
colder ATTITUDES the more does the producer re-
ceve, while the consumer pays relatively less. In
other words: Attract the makers Of Cloths
Wares, &C., 10 the yicinage of the growers Of
Wheat, Indian Corn Wool. Cattle, &c, and yOu
snnhilate the enormous cost of freighting the
Food across half continent and an ocean, with
that of freightng the Goods the other way, aud
divide an immense saving between the two classes
OF producers. The Cloth mhy be little dearer in
moncy 10 the farmer (though it very seldom is);
but far fewer bushels Of gram will pay for it-and
50 throughout. If transportation costs anything
if the hall dozen merchants through whose hands
the Grain and Cloth must pass IN being exchanged
between Illinois and England expect to be paid for
their time, store-rent and capitalif the risks Of
loss by fire, wreck damage on shp.board, &c,
are elements of cOst-then this is inevitable.
VIII Admit NJ assumption that high tariff
Sc cannot be permanent" and We say that lts good
effects in part survive, though the tariff IL over
thrown The Cotton Manufacture, aud many
others, which the Tariffs of 1916, "a - and ~
naturaized among us, are too firmly rooted ever 10
be destroyed. Give rs ten years more of a Tariff
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