New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-23

In p, npsyIvaua and Virginia, as well az IN other
Siates we have mountains o. iron on one sue anu
rnouttains Of coal on The other, with hundfedS anu
Ihousarcso OF unemployed hsnts, covering their sues
ard their bass ready 20 take them from the bowels o.
,hs eerth ard mOui0 that iron into form for national
defepses for rairosd, agricultural msnuaciuring sal
all ether industrial purposes and YET BY the pocy Oh
our Government say, No! let the iron remain i'm
beddeO in the earth let the coal rest where nature
has formed it, Jet the labor remain IN idienes5-
there are iron snd coil, sod labor ~ E1roQe tHat
we prefer 70 employ; = is better Tor us 70 seni
onr nancy abroad. and encourage the industry Of
those who are foreign 20 Us, than Keep that'mon9y
at home, and lsy II out 10 your Roor, ava our
mineral resources lou 1n,o no ot"i'"I ou
bser for 1s 10 pay tan for irOa in Europe, than
10 nav $50 10 you; and therefore, you may stsrye or
steal or rot but you can get no help from us. Aod
there tbese poor lab0Ters, with families OF children
farojsbipg for food stsod day after day, with their
AIMS fclced ia dlencss and poverty, in anguish and
sorrow, 10 look upon the iron horse, as it passes
swity by their doors, freighted with the iron from
abroad to supply the demands Of those who would
lend wiling 20 their suppcstiOns for work, bat
that this Democratic GOverbU eLt hiss clOsed the far
naees and the fOundiss, and the manufactures and
left them DO stsrostVe bot 10 purchase abroad Or 90
withOut-and this is regarded strict test OF De
nocracy; and these poor, dsladed msgDi1ei men vii
60 the next day 70 the polls and bless the haDd that
fmtes them, by hunahirg for Democracy and voting
for the very men that have caused their ruin.
When I was in Venice q little over year ago, after
visiting other places Of noorety and Interest, geut
TO the old Dnca Palace in which, in former days. the
Ipapision was held and the torture inflicted upon
90 many helpless ard innocent thoos ands in the days
Of the Republic. tpsPeed from hall to hall, through
The chambers Of the Council Of Tea TO the Council OF
Three; then DOM, down, down into the deep dark
dungeons below, shut out from the clear light OF God
ard The pure air Of heaven where ray bat that Of
the dim hgtt Of the guide, at this day pene
trae where Instruments Of torture ard human bones
lay moldeIed ard cr9mblsd toto dust. passed up
again TO the Bridge Of Signs which eads t. that por
ton Of the building used as prs0n.house, and
for what other purposes we were not permitted y
know; and | stood 10 profound meditation on that
bridge asked myeef the question" In what name,
snd under what Disguise, has the greatest amount
Of revolving Wickedoess, and b'deous sln been com
mitted ?" And answered to myself" Religion"
Ntxt ash ed in wD6t NAME and under what Disguise
bs the greatest account OF wrong and Injustice
beep doue2 And i answered 10 myself" .Jusice."
And lattly in what name, and under what disguise,
hsbs greatest amount OF deception, insincerity ard
imposition been practcsd upon the credulty Of
ftirg, honest minded and patriotic peoplei And L
answered, unhesitaingly-" Democracy"
But to return 10 the subject All men will admit
that if man possessing an income Of $4,000 ycar
spends so 600, be must sooner or lster come to the
end CfLis estate; and presume, will be hardy
enough TO question that tue same rule, and tbe.same
result, will attend nation that annually sperds mil
Hors more than its productions will yield. Let 10 see
what has been the practical working OF rseade and
Under tie Protective Tariff OF 40 our imports in i've
yesrs from 1913 to 1871 amounted to 500 800 o. snd
our experts, during the same time amounted TO Sj27,-
9634, showing excess of exports, or balance OF
trade in favor Of 1852 aud under the opera
tons Of that tariff this balance OF trade was going on
steadily increasing, having in the last year Of is Ope
ration 1876 reaphed the sum of s3i,3l7, 2i9. The
country was rapidly recovering from the calanitO1s
results OF low duties, the free-trade policy growing
ont Of the Compromise act of 1882, under viii IN the
great revulsion of 1897 took place. and which
Of the prominent Of Mr.. Van Burens defeat IN
1910.
But this was not a Democratic measure II was
N Otraf.u 10 del aot
him it was necessary TO renounce and condemn his
policy without regard TO the consequences resulting to
The country; and that Law of ~ was repealed, and
the tariff OF 40 free trade tariff as 1t was called,
was substituted in its stead
Now let us see what was the operation of this
tariff during the next succeeding eight years, for ]
have not brought my researches down below the year
1855.
During these eight years our imports amounted to
the sum Of 81 sol AS Cos while our exports amount
only 81 328 ll 99 showing excess, or balance
f trade against us of 1903 33l 906 and that, too,
under the fraudulent invoices that the President IN his
last snnu. MESA &c to Congress, is obliged reluctant
~ 10 confess have been made under the Democratic
sd yal0rem systsD Of duties.
And here / will remark, that habit has of late
years crep into the Treasury Department of classl-
lying uuoer the head of exports all the gold and silver
the permanent, fixed basis of all the currency OF the
country which 1t lie the object of all trade to receive,
and keep in exchange for the perishabe productions
Of Industry, thereby creating the general impression
that the exports enumerated m the returns, const-
hcurs5 from it, OF other ordinary productions OF the
country, aud thus exports are magnihsd 80 az to
maxi cur sales on the balance sheet approximate az
nearly as possible to purchases, az, for example,
in enumerang the exports for the year 1891, VIII Dc
found in gold and silver colo, ST. and OF gold
and silver bullion, $3l ,3009S0, making the cum of
f6O01S 80 Of the precious metals which have been
sent 70 pay for the of our purchases lust
al il were OF the perishsbe articles Of cotton, nee,
tobacco or cotton cloths. To this may be added as
furnishing another decisive view OF the subject, the
reexpcrtation of all manufactured articles that nave
previously been imported. 800.
OF our exports in 81 amounting 20 SIS 9S1oo5, IN.
Gliding the articles already mentioned, we exported
only about $50 600 900 Of manufactured goods as l
have lately SEEN while the exports of Engani were,
in .OuId numbers, about $tlOUOOOW and nearly all
Of Manufactured gOods-a very large proportion OF
which ives from the rsw material obtained from US
worked up and sent back 10 among the rest with the
cost Of English labor which, with al other additional
expense we had to pay. This viii serve to show the
encourage ent given by English statesmen and En-
glsh polcy-and msy properly add, by American
statesmen and American pohcy-to English labor, IN
Preference TO our own.
France exported, during The came year, upward Of
$4,000, 900, it msy be said almost entirely and eX-
cusively Of goods manufactured by the labor OF
France thus showing the wisdom of the French Gov
emt Mt too in giving emplos ment to the labor and
industry Of their people, while Our Democratic rulers
hold that il violates the duties aud obligation OF Gov
eminent 20 adopt a system OF legislation friendly 10
the labor and industry Of its citizens.
Can any Government on earth live and thrive under
such a system as this and will no. the people take
the matter INTO their own hands before general state
Of ruin and desostiOn stares us ali IN the face
But the PresideG. says, in his message, the tarn
of 1857 had no agency in bringing about ts result
hat is Of the disaster Of that year. Certainly nos IL
was all done before AUD nothipgcoud then have stayed
the hurricane that swept over the country anu the