New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-23
ERhE THADR INIRON.

Our neighbors of The Post have been urgent for
the final rejection of the excellent Tar bill Of Mr..
MornlI--takiDg sides, now as always, on this
question with Messrs. Hunter, Mason, and Ham
mond, the most enthusia' tic of all the opponents
Of every measure tending toward the emancipation
of the laborer, whether black or white. ." Let us
/" have free iron," say they, and then We shall
make railroads, aod buId prOpellers, and construct
mach nery-" doubling or quadruplirg the pro-
/" ductve power Of the country, as a competitor
" in the worlds broad markets" with bound
less capacity for invention" They say:
Let have free ron and the ne1t thirty yeas will present
est increase ia the and application Of machinery than
the sd sSs ss sA hsaes *o dh building
rodmssns concon and TIE ma1ufaeiure OF all articles Of
yet imsgnea by the dr. aaest s,heners
and an Incredibly snort P.rod ta free demand for iron
tariff ohtr artificial protection could ever give What this
business needs energy ingenuity and economy II has been
by the habit Of upon sH for and the
D Dpe b aycS by maEna on s aud we should
deyo ed to the iron bus with degree OF econ
ony that would aks American iron in little tn, best and
clesp.t world. With eIhaistlss supplies Of ore
fuel power convenience Of location les OF trans
poraon, defy to point out csuse which oagato
pr,cuce making cheaper iron than other County
rhr difficulty H. We bsye set about II in the American
vs hope protection Let fee thought aud ce
enterprise have free lion to oesn with and fIe: osssed; and
natural and beahy vsO which will laugh at protective tariffs
and Government atanee Of sort as the mouusig boy
bItsle."
These are beautiful predictions How far they
would probably be- realized, he proposes to show by
help of brief comparison Of the present. with the
past. Under the strictly revenue tariff of lsil-2,
our total consumption Of iron did not exceed
300, 600, of which less than 90 900 was used for
railroad purposes. Four years later, under the
highly protect tariff of 1912, the domestic prod
ust was estimated by Mr.. Walker, thea Secretary
of the Treasury, at 765, 900 tuns-addng to which
sc, Geo imported We have total consumptio of
SCI Geo. The domestic production of railroad iron
being then in its infancy, its amouot cannot have
exceeded 80 900 tuUs. The total import Of rolled
iron, of all descriptions, was but O,OOO of which
1900 may have been, and probably we're, for rail-
read purp0ses-mnking in the whole 40, 900 tuns SO
applied, and leaving for mining, manufacturing,
and farm 6 purposes s2l, 900 tuns. In that time,
the population lad increased about thirteen per cent,
but the power TO obtain machinery Of the various
kinds required for enabling as to double or qua
druple the productive powers Of the country"
ana 10 DecOHle 'cOfnpcttj Ts OI tuc pooscssloh vi
our Own and other markets, had grown almost
t1o hundred per cent.
Highly prosperous az We then were, The Pos,
united with Mr.. Walker in the effort once more TO
subugate people tothe system SO well described
in the following passage of Parliamentary docu-
ment given to the world few years since:
1.-THE sboIins classes generally In manufacturing districts
ofhi county, aud especially IN the bcn aud coal districts se
yerJ little ID. which they often indebted
FOL the beng III 70 the Duens ses which their
employers voluntarily incur In bad meS In order % destroy
Jc'egn eonpotiUs and " gain and keep uss0n " foreign
markets Authentic nstancr well known Of employers
having in taeh times carried their At los amounting
In ssrsae hrre four unde thousand ponAd IN tn.
Of three or four II tie Efforts Of those who
tn combinations restrict the amount OF labor aud 10
produce strife, 10 be successful for length OF Tine tho
great seeumVton OF capital could no longer be mads phLh
saab Jsp Of nf Hot Sethy eapaLisi' TO eAeIn al
The way ri trade step u when prices revive aud
10 carry great business before foreign capital agn
uss such extent a. 10 DO able 10 establish petition
IN prices with any chance Of success The large cdpaIs Of
fH Of Rdyfdre
,no ca Of FOREIGN ooIE and ihu.
now remaining by which manufacturing supremacy
can be the other eemench-sp labor
of raw materials means OF Communication sklled labor
b,iI rapidly In process Of being equAized"
The effort, as We know, proved successful, Civ.
ing us the unfortunate pct Of 1916, prices followed