New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-17

way of domestic commerce, is found IN tboxe largo
British capitals which, 90 we are now officially IN
formed constitute the great instruments Of warfare
against the competing capitals Of other countries, sud
are the most essential instru nents remaining By
which the manufacturing supremacy" Of England can
be mainaiDed" and in protecting our people against
that most destructive warfare" are but follow
ing in the direction indicated by the most eminent
French economists from Colbert TO Chevaer. France
has protected her people, and therefore it, that ag-
cultural products are high in price, while finished con-
modities sre cheap and that the country becomes
rich and independent from year to year. We refuse 70
grant protection, and therefore do we sink deeper in
colonial vassalaee from day to day.
Foreign competition In the domestic market is, how
ever, here told, indispensable to improve
ment in the modes of manufacture. This being really
80 how Is it, my dear Sir, that France has 80 very
much improved in the various branches, In which TO
eign competition has been so entirely prohi6hedf
How is II that Belgium and Germany have 20 far su-
perseied England IN regard TO wooden clott.l How
is it, that American newspapers have 80 much i'm
proved, while being cheapened7 Have not these last
an entire monopoly Of the home market Would It
be possible to print TRIBUNE, or Post, ID England,
for New-York consumption Perfectly protected, az
you yourself are il it not time that you should open
your eyes TO the fact that it to the stimulation OF do
nestle competition for the purchase Of raw materials,
and for the sale Of finished commodities, we must look
for any and every increase in the wealth, happiness,
and freedom of our peopIel
The more perfect the possession of the domestic mar
ket the greater the power to supply the foreign one
THE TRIBUNE being enabled TO supply its distant
subscribers 60 very cheapy, for the reason that and
its fellows have to fear no competition for home adver-
tisements from The London Times, or Post. " This
principle" as you yourself have moot truly said,
ais common to every buiness Every manufacturer practices
surplus snusctue advantage the domestic consame
for the simple that the domestic consumer must support
T. much larger than that abroad the habit Of this
manufacturer send his surplus abroad and :e At any price 20
home and compel him to work at little or no pront
Admitting now that it were possible for The LOadog
Times to supply, on every. evening, paper precisely
similar to yours-forcing abroad the surplus, and felt
inc az apy price go as to relieve the domestic mar
ket would you not be among the first to demand pro-.
lection against the system Would you not assure
your readers of the entire impossbiiy of maintaining
competition against journal, all of whose expenses
of composition and sditorship paid by the homo
Misunderstanding s proprietors TO look abroad for little
more than the mere cost of paper and pressTork
Would You not demonstrate TO them the absolute ne
cessity of protecting Themselves against warfare
that must inevitably resu in the creation OF little
oliparchy" of monopolists who, when domestic com.
petition had been finally broken down, would compel
them to pay ten cents for journal neither larger nor
better than they now obtain for two! Assuredlys
you would.
Addressing such arguments to your British freetrads
friends they would however refer you TO the columns Of
The Post begging you to study the assurance that had
there been given, that
whenever the Of financial fncuaton sha have
IRON and coal 6ich the Almighty the q
whenever there shall be men Of skin and enterprise q
on speculation sha their wits at 70 nd out the best
ways ana the easape he 1se 70 Weld plenty o. ron in
spite the competition Of European iron masters VINO nave "
bring their products three thousand miles TO md market
To all this You would of course reply that hnaIi-
cial fluctuations created monopoies, and |" never
broke their hold" that of " skill and enterprise
were not generally rich enough to compete with such
rivals as The London Times that domestic COMPETE
ton had already given us cheaper ways and cheaper
processeso than any other country in ths world that
the freight of sheet of paper was as nothing COM
pared with the cost Of editorship and composition;
that all these latter costs were the ofhe British
journals paid by the domestic market; that the do
that the quantity of journals consumed at home was 20
very great that their producers could afford TO sell
abroad at any price"-thereby relieving the mar
ket of surplus which might depress prices at home,
and compel them to work at little no profit" and
that for all these reasons it absolutely necessary
to grant You such protection as would give you the
same security in the domestic market was then en-
joyed by your foreign nvalsl
w. -. H.. Il ~
our producers Of cloth and iron coal and lead Doez
the policy you advocate tend to place them in position
successfully contend with those British manufacturers
who voluntarily incur immense losses, in bad times In
order to destroy foreign competition, and to gain and
keep possession of foreign markets" Can they resist
the action of the owners of those great accumula-
tons of capital which have been made at our cost and
are now being used to enable few Of the most
wealthy capitalists to overwhelm all foreign compei-
ton in times of great depression thereby largely
adding to their already enormous fortunes, before
foreign capital again accumulate TO such an extent
as to be able to establish competition in prices with
any chance of success" Can be 10 the interest OF
any country to leave its miners and manufacturers ex
posed to warfare" such &c is here officially de-
clared Do not they stand much in need OF protec-
ton for the sake of the consumers as you wosd do IN
the case supposed Does not your own experiences
prove that the perfect the security Of the manu-
facurer in the domestic Market the greater the ten
dency to that increase of domestic competition which
tends TO increase the prices of materials, willis
essenng the cost OF cloth and iron Do not men, eve
erywbere, become free, as that competition
grows, and as employments become more diversified
Is not them the question discussing of the
freedom and happiness of your felowmenl If 90, ID
it worthy of you to offer to your readers such agu-