New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-02

the British manufacturer for yard Of cloth, aud
two more bushels to the forwarders transporters'
shippers, who carry the first to the cloth maker
wno is to eat it; while, if be pays for the fabric
with Indian Csrs, he gives FIVE times "a much corn
for his cloth as tie maker receives for it. II the
makers Of the Wares and Fabrics we now import
from Europe were located and dffused among US,
our CRAIG growers would receive at least twice the
amount whether estimated in money or products,
for their food-staples that they 10 do, while the
manufacturers in turn would be more steadily
employed and better subsisted. Protection
in our case means simply stopping the
superabundant Grain and Meat of the
bountful West at the Mississippi the Illinois, the
Wabash, the Lakes, the Ohio, the Juniata, the
Delaware, the Hudstn, the Merrimsck, and there
converting them into the needed Metals, Wares,
Fabrics, instead of pushing them at grievous cost
across the ocean there to fud purchasers and con-
sumers. Only shape our laws 90 th.t the Iron,
Hardware, Glsss, Broadclotb, Dalsines, Prints,
&C., we need can be steadily produced in our own
country, and not undersold and supplsnted BY
foreign rivalry which profers substitutes nominAly
have one person lowering about soup.houses, hotel
back basement doors and free dining saloons, where
We had dozen last Winter. The grain-grower in
Illinois or Iowa may seem to psy a little higher
cash price for his CLOTH but he will receive double
and ultimately treble for his produce so that the
balance in his favor will be immense His gain
will be nobody's loss-or rather, the loss will be
nothing in proportion to the gain. The very Ship
ping Interest for whose special benefit the policy Of
keeping our workshops mainly in Europe would
seem to have been devised, is now sharing fully in
the general depression, thus affordng q striking
evidence of the essential Harmony of Interests,
and the moral impossbility of elevating one depart
ment Of Nations Industry on the ruin of others.
They who pull down the stately fabric of General
Prosperity find themseves buried in its ruins.
We have reached point where if those who
talk Free Trade really believed it, they could not
fail to impose Direct Taxes for the support of the
Federal Government. If their principles are
sound, this certainly ought to be done. Our Reve-
nue. Tariff, as in Ale, is yielding very made
guate revenues; the Government is reelng mady
into debt at the rate of Forty Millions year. That
deficit should be made up by taxation of some sort,
80 far as it is not averted by retrenchment; and if
higher duties do not afford the true resort, then
there is no alternative but Direct Taxation Why,
then do theapOstles SILVER and shrink away from the
Legitimate results Of their policy If they are sim
cere they ought to rejoice that SO fair opportunity
for putting their doctrines into practice has presented
itself They profess to believe that Direct Taxation
is equal aud less onerous than any other: then
why not resort to it Why plead that the People
are not prepared for such cbange7 Why have
they not prepared them What have all their
Messages, Reports, Speeches, Pamphlets Edito.
rials, demonstrating the faIlscy of Protection,
efected7 What have the voters meant by prefer
ring Polk to Clay Pierce to Scott, Buchanan to
Fremont and Fillmore, if they have not meant Free
belief; because you have often opposed and beaten
us. Why, then, should not those who talk Free
Trade act as if they really believed it
"Well," says correspondent who is careful to
keep in the shadow; "Ido believe in Free Trade
absolute Free Trade-direct Taxes and No
" Custom Houses. l heartily agree with you that
Revenue Tariffs are not to be justified, if the
ait. lam for Free Trade unqualifedly, and
" don't see how you can be otherwise"
OF course you dOnt-we do not question that
bit have you tried to see Have you read the
essays of Matthew Carey and Hezekiah Niles on
this subject Are you familiar with the speeches
in Congress on this theme Of Henry Clay, Ron
C. Mallary, Tristan Burgess and James +. Sim.
mons? Are you familiar with the more recent
writings Of Henry C. Carey In short, have you
any systemati, and tolerably thorough knowledge
of the grounds on which Protection to American
Industry lie advocated
We, who stand for Protection, do study both
aides Of the question, and we have proftet by this
study to unlearn some of our former errors and
gain deeper Insight into the nature and strength
of our position; while the Free Trade doctors,
wrapped up in conceit and selfsufiicency, and
confident that we IAN never teach them, have made
no advance for many years. But these times are
iustructive they compel men to be political
economists aim, ct in defiance of their will. They
summon us to take up our ground respectively on
the side Of absolute, real Free Trade, or on that
of Protection, and bid our Government cease shilly-
shsllying and lodging around Point-No-Poiut,
and take its stand clearly, unequivocaly on one
principle or the other. Which shall it be-
The recent wholesale system of bribery aud cor.