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

an,bcston. Of capital The development OF our gr-"
natural resounes-a da iDcrease N the necessity Tor
looking 10 tra'e the only mans OF oot.'oag snp
port--sbd N consequent increase in tho proportions
horne by mere m,dileuen TO produeers, eansins in
creased demand for shops and s'orrs, and oi"es IN
great cities, and enabling landlords TO demand the
enormous rents which are paid The poor tenant
,lsy.s and starvvs and finds himself at length driven
To BANKRUPTCY because bis profits, after hs rent Is PAID
are not enough TO enable him 70 feed and elothe b"
vie and children-be and they being then driven TO
seek refuge in tenement house. there to pay rent
that enables ts rich owner 10 double bic capital In nj
most every other year. The rich are thus made richer
while pauperism and crime advance wit, the gigantic
strides you have described.
Isit however Ia your city alone that facts like these
present ibemselves to view I That sach lie not the
care r shown in the following accurate sketch Of the
Philadelphia movement in the direction given,
few da, since, by your neghbors of The TRIBUNE:
Poverty has reached higher places in eey than the habit
pslJ destitute Want Of emp ymen With mons and I,ddce
seson one Of peculiar hardship end ,asehn HOtest labor
without ito Loaf b-czuse afford 20 employ H.
Persons ornty abb. support tn.ms'es decen,y are NJ"
cr'wdng for relief to our benevolent n-tu'ions The visitors
known. lehinF food, and fuel Ge daily given 10 large
amounts and the distress continues The sonp bolsrs
have coiped and the charitable faxed to
tie uucs Thre suffering thousands the victims Of
nsny hrsDcbe. Of industry They would gladly earn their
bread If PERMITTED to do 90"
All I'm is strictly true, and It would as think be
equs'y if sad OF any other city Of the Union-ths
whole presenting picture of enforced deness such
10 not At THE moneot, TO he paralleed in any country
claiming 10 rank ~ civilized Pass next ifyou please
outward from on cities, and look To the towns aud
villales of your and other Statee-msrking the
fact that the Iower of local combination is steadily
diminishing ard that majority Of them have either
become stationary, or have retrogrs ed Go almost
where yen may, you will find that The interval CON.
merce OF the country il gradually declining -th.t the
services Of mechanics are meeting less and le's de-
naDdthat the dependence great cities Is incre asing
10 the proportion nst those cities themselves
becoming dependent upon Liverpool and Man
che,teI-and that, necessary consequence, panper
ism and one are every where assuuiug proportions
20 gigantic well to you IN the assertion that
their growth lie vigorous TO bid defiance TO
" all half measures OF eradication"
How nay TREY be eradcacdf This is great ques-
ton; bnt find the answer TO II, We mus i'st To-
aure TO " hat il is that such growth il due. Doing
this find that the facts Of the preeent day are IN
strict accordance with those observed IN the years
which Oloa I'd the terrible tree trade crisis Of lolto
and ls3740 well with those observed IN Ireland,
India and all other countries subject 10 the British
f.e-rsde system. Looking next 10 the periods which
followed tie psssa of the protective acs OF 1873 aud
1872 We find directly the reverse Of ths-pauperism
then steadily decipi T. and ibe morals of the commn-
nifty improving the societsry movement became IRE
regular. Turning thence toward Sorthen and Central
EuroJe-io~aid that portion ef the Eastern world
which steadily ressts the exhaustive Brsh system
We find phenomena pondiug precisely with those
observed IN our own protective periods-the demand
for human service becoming more aud more regular III
France sDd Germany, and TIE reward OF labor grow
il with aeadn tnGt has rarely, If ever, been e1-
ded Such beiog the fncts is il not clear my DE Ar
Sir that il r tie resdop'ion Of the protective policy
We NUT look for eec,na Of eradication"
Believ. me, nothing short Of this will do.
The readers of The Journal Of Commerce have
lately hem assured that our nrt utions nurture the
evils in Question Were that really the case, the
evil would be 80 radical in character that nothing short
of revolution could produce the cnsnRe desired. Tnaf
haptily. IL not So you will think, he well assured
wien Won .bs have reflected that all institutions
find their foundation in local development, tending to
the creation Of thr wing towns and villages IN the
peiyhborhood Of our vsst deposits of coal and lead,
COPPER, zinc and roD-there making market for tha
products Of agriculture and g,iog occasion 10 the
improve ment Of great water powers 10 be used n
The conversion Of food and vol into csth and food,
coal and ore into knives an axe' steam-epgnes and
railroad barr. What no js the object for whore at
taDu.nt our people Geek protect,n' Is it not this
very locslDation III which aioue institutions fod
their base That such is the s besOna all ques
iion and T. treore IL it, thai confidence in those ibsti-
tBoDs grove III every period Of protectioD--padper-
inn aid grin then declining in their proportions with
each suct ssive honr.
What, on the contrary are the tendencies Of the
Brrsh fIee-tIade system Do not, under it, towns
ana villages decline while great cities grow 10 szs
Under il, does not ihtern.l commerce die away Do
Lot crifet become more frsqueot and more severe
Does hot paraly sis take the place Of that healthy
ton bieh is Indicative Of strong and vigorous life
Do lot pauptIi-m nd immortality grow with the o1th
Won have 80 web oeecrlbedi Does not confidence in
tie utility and ptrmaDence Of institutions diminish
with each Successive year, To all these questions, the
abewers must he ID the afirmsiive-such phenoOoua
bavIR pre- sened tbtseves st the close Of every free
trade period and the only difference between the pres
en and the past being thai the current one has been
10 mnch longer and that the d has therefore, be-
come by far more virulent.
Looking al there facts, is II not clear my dear
Sir
That the of disesse lie not 10 be found in the
character of our institutions
That ire contrary is 10 be found in the pursuit
OF rolicy Inst il at war with these institutions, and
threatens Their destruction
That the remedy Of which You in search IL To be
found in the readopron Of the policy Of protection,
VI der which the county Duch prospered in the Pc
Iiods closins with 1884 and l847.
That in default Of the adoption Of this remedy,