New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-02

the domestic commerce. destroying the demand for Ia
Dor; and that as necessary consequence, each such
period has been marked, one side, by great In
crease IN the number Of mlionaires, aud on the other,
by such growth Of panpersm that that terrible dis
eaee appears now, to your own words, like the
Canadian thistle, to have seitled on our SOIL aud to
have terminated with such vigor as 10 defy all half
neasnres TO eradicate II Further, you have been
asked to lock to the facts that the reverse OF all TINS
has been experienced in every period Of the protec-
tive acknowledgements commerce having then gro"
RAPIDLY with constant increase in tho demand ior Ia
Dor and as constant augmentation in the regularity oil
the societary action in the freedom and happiness OF
our people, in the strength of the Government and IN
the confidence of the world both at home and abroad,
IN the stability Of our institutions. Such ia the view
that has been presented to you in the hope and beef
that TO lover of edom like yourself it would be one
Of the highest interest and that h would be met aud
consds red in q manner worthy Of statesman and
Cbri,tjan IIas il been so considere1l TO exami-
nation of that question shall ask yeur attention,
r. serving for future letter the consideration OF the ef-
fees Of the advalcrem stem in producing those nan-
cia cries whose terrible effects you have 40 well de-
picted, and that pauperism and crime whose growth
| You have 80 much deplored.
The experience of the outer world is in full accord
ap,e with our own TIE whole proving that the tcnden-
CIV toward harmony, peace and freedom, exists in the
direct ratio Of the diversity in the demand for human
force and consequent power Of combination among the
men of whom society is composed. Therefore is IT.
that the most distinguished economists are found unit
ing in the idea expressed by NJ. Chevaier, the Free
Trader whom you so much admire, that it is only
the Accomplishment of positive duty on the part
| Of Governments so TO direct their measures as to
facilitate the taking possession Of all the various
brsncb,s OF industry for which the country has been
by nature suited Such must be the view Of every real
states such men must, the exist
epee of perfect harmony in the great aud permanent
interests of all the various portions of society," aborers
and capitalists producers and consumers, farmers and
manufr cturers OF ouch harmony, however, you give
your readers noneconsumers Of cloth and iron here
being told that capitalists " not satisfied with their
profits are anxious TO increase the burdens OF the
peoples" that the fraternity of ml-owDers," and
they alone, anxious for change OF system, with
increase of taxes; that the lords Of the mills are
debating to the Committee Of Ways and Means; that
millowners have dictated the whole system of in
direct tsxaion;" and that It is high time for this
mass of the people now to protest against the further
maintenance or extension Of the system. Here, as
everywhere you are found in close alliance with tina!
.
of discord and dscord and slavery march always hand
in hand together through the world.
Allow ne now, my dear Sir, to ask if you really
believe that the facts such they here are said to
be7 DO you not, US well as myself knop that for
Years past the wealthy mill owners Of New-England
have been opposed any change OF system that could,
by giving Increased protection, tend to augment do
nestle competition fer the sale OF cloth, knowing, as
a.. OIL al Inn he
Of cloth 10 tie consumer. So ia it, now, with the
wealthy iron master Tie can i've hough all around
him may be c1ufhed by Briish competition and then,
In common with his weakly British rivals, he must
profit by the destruction they have made. Such being
the facts (and that they positively ASSERT
are you not BY opposing protective measures, aiding
in re creation AMONG Ourselves of little "oigarchy
"oS mill owners" whose power to increase the
"tribute money" of which you go much complain,
results directly from the failure of Congress to act
as to increase domestic competition for the sale of cloth
ard iron? The ess that competition the less must be
the reward of labor and the larger the profits Of the
capitalist but the eyeater must be the tendency toward
raupeiism and crime, and the lees the power TO
sumo either cloth or iron.
Hitherto" as you here tell your readers, people
have been oppressed by powerful and compact mi
"nortes." In this you are right-a small minority of
voters in the Southern States having dictated the repeal
of TIE protective tariffs of 1923 and 1872 and having
now, with single and brief exception dictated for
Thirty years beth the foreign and domestic policy Of this
country In 1910, however, the free people Of our
Northern States-farmeIs mechanics, labOrers, and
miners-the men VIII, had labor 10 sel and knew that
it mmanded better prices in protective than in free
trade iinetrose IN their might and hurled from power
this little "ogarchy" Of slave owners, then taking for
themselves the protection which they felt they so
greatly needed. That it is which they seek again
to do-desirDg again to free themselves from the
control of the powerful and compact minority" of
slaveholder under whose iron rule they 30 long have
suffered.
Permit ME now, my dear Sir, to ask on what side it
was you stood in the great contest Of 1872? Was it
with the poor faImef Of the North who sought
cipation from the tax Of transportation, by the creation
Of domestic market for bis products Was 1t with
the mechanic who sought the roopening of the shop in
which lie 20 long had wrought Was il with the
laborer wbose wife and children were pershing for
want Of food? Was it with the little shopkeep-
er who found his little capital disappearing
under demands for the payment of usurious interest,"
Vas Il not, on the contrary, with that "ltie oil
earehy" Of men who owned the laborers they en-
poy ed and opposed the protective policy, because it
looked to giving the laborer increased control the
products of his labor? Vas not with the rich capt.
talist who desired that labor might be cheap, and
money might be dear Vas It not with those foreign
capitalists who desired that raw materials might be
cheap and cloth ard linen dearl Has II not with !
those Brili.h statesmen who find in the CAPT
falls of EuQh iron. masters the most potent instr-