New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-13

The Erening Post declines TO urge ito friends to
engage in the fabrication Of Brosdcoths Silk,.
Fancy Cottons Cutlery, Watches, and other man
ufactures for which we are every week sinking
deeper in debt to Europe, saying:
"As for the recommendation of The TRIBUNE how.
ever that the friends of trede should undertake
the fabrication of cutlery fine cottoos and silks il
order 10 nfuse vgor into American trade, and TO
belp 10 wipe out the enormous foreign debt, We do not
think il pedent adopt it long there are other
methods Of employing capital more profitable. Ii
would be preposerous in farmer Who can make .
hanes some living out Of sweet corn, to tura his Tina
and money to the cultivation of the Chinese sorghum
with balance on the wrong side OF h,s books AS
soon the sorghum will pay him, he will cultivate II
and as soon as certain manufactures viii pay they w
be undertaken. No legislation will make water ran
up hill"
We seem to have hoard all this before-sy
five hundred times or over. We have not Osly
heard il. but considered it, and detected its fA-
lacy We quite understand that the articles in
question are not now extensively produced in this
country, simply because individuals do not 6ad
their production profitable; wherefore we seek
such change in our Tariff will make their pro-
ducton profitable to individuals, rs we know it
would be to the country. Mr.. Calhoun's six cents
per square yard on plain cottons did "make waller
run up hill,' if you will have it 81, with regard
| to the cotton manufacture, and We are now reap.
ing the benefits Of it 10 cheaper and better home
made Shrtings, Sheeiings Drills, Ticks &C., thsa
we could have had with our factories in Europe.
Our farmers are not speaking generally "mskiag
ga handsome living out Of sweet corn nor any
grain whatever, msinly because that market which
controls their prices is too far away. Enormous
foreign debt 10 the inevitable consequence
of sending bulky agricultural staple, to distant
lands and buying therefrom delicate and costly
tissues in return. This kind Of trade always did
and always will create ga balance on tho wrong
side of tho books" of the agricultural party TO it,
Nearly every manufacture nOw established aud
prosperous among US was commenced under cir.
cumstabces which should have insured its prostra-
ton and extinction but for the influence of the
tariff in checking foreign competition. NeighbOrs OF
The Post We have carefully pondered what is
urged 90 your side oftbe question; whileyou nevet
once harbcred suspicion that there was any other
side, and therein is the difference between w.
The Post thinks there 10 no particular want.
just now, of steadier employment for our labor"
We think differently We know that thousands Of
hired workers have recently been, or will sooA be.
discharged BY the farmers and gardeners of the ad
jacent seabsard, who will drift into this City aud
Philadelphia, vainly seeking employment through
the Winter, spending their Summers savings where
there are any, and sinking into besgary pauperism,
and degradation where there are no savings. 1t is
the all but inevitable misfortune Of an agricultural
community, in climates Like ours, that it requires
more labOrers in Spring and Summer than it can or
will employ in Winter; hence uusteadiness, idle
ness want, misery, and vice. Were our industry
more widely diversified, it would be better for tho
aborer, better for the country, better for US all.