New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-28

the agency of Protection: we base our action
on established, statistical, undeniable facts. We
answer vague defamation by appeals to the re-
corded Prices Current Of antl-ProtectlVe and
Protective eras respectively. Just face these
facts: When the protection of tbo Cotton Manu-
hcturc was Grst made feature of our National
policy ia the Calhoun Tariff of 1916, the MINI
pum (lowest) duty on Cotton Fabrics was hxed
o. Mr. Calhoun at SIR cents per square yard
that il, at rather more than fifty per cent
That rate was steadily upheld under successive
Tariffs, until our Cotton Manufacture obtained o
development and expansion unparalleled III It's
extent and rapidly. During the last fiscal year.
under low revenue Ad.yalOrem Tariff we iui'
ported fen Millions of Dollars worth OF Cotton
Fabrics and exported just about the same
amount, which exports were sold IN open compc-
stion sith the cheapest rival fabrics that Europe
eould furnish. But that balance of exports and
imports does not fairly exhibit the case, because
eur Foreign Trade Is so much less universal
bau that of Great Britain that our ex-
ports are far less extensive than they
s,hcrwise would be. Ten distributing merchants
OF Africa. Of Australia, Iudia, Ceylon, Brazil,
BUencs Ayres, &c, are in direct relations with
British exporting houses, where one is with
those of the United States, and order their
stocks accordingly. Were our facilities for export
equal TO tLOse Of the British, We should doubtless
be exporting twice as many Cotton Fabrics as
&C import, proving that those Fabrics are in the
svotsge cheaper with us than abroad. Rich and
tsStclul'fabrics are still Imported, but very few
81 tie palmer and more substantial And our
sew tariff accordingly imposes duty on coarse,
plain COttOns Ct one cent per square yard, or
just nc-sixth the duty prescribed. by Mr. Calhoun
forty-fyc years age. Has Miss Martineau hon.
sstly cDdeayOIed to acQuant herself with the essen.
sal facts'
Nv. Miss Martincau, assuming that the new
Tariff subjects or consumers TO monopoly
"prccs," exuts over the triumphs over these
exact.ons to be achieved through the benignant
mterpOsitIOn Of wholesale smuggling. She thus
threatens us in profound ignorance of two very
material facts, VIZ !. This Tauff is not nearly
30 high nor so protective as that Of lci2, and
hardly half 80 high as that If io2S, under neither
Of which was there any material expansion or
smount Of smuggling. ?. While the Tariff Of
f9i? was in operation, we constantly challenged
our Free Traders 10 o rigid comparison OF the
prices Of Wares and Fabrics under it with those
which rad prevailed under the preceding regimen
Of comparative Tree Trade, and they uniformly
shrauk from the scrutiny. Time and again we
showed from the unquestIonaole testimony Of the
Prices Current that important articles which had
been charged with Protective Duties under the
"a al in market nj
lower prices THAI were charged for them just
before, under the preceding low, revenue Tariff.
We shall be ready TO make such comparisons
under the new Tariff SO soon as it shall have
fairly taken effect Aud If it De true that,
given u decided advantage in ths American
market our own artisans and t't.Icdnts stand
veadr to supply us with most Wares and Fabrics
n c.caply as we ever obtained them from Eu-
sope where will be the unjust taxation 7"
Where the Gloss" predicted as certain to "fall
non the American public :" Where the new
Elyeium Of the suuggeTl
Y. "Thon," says FREQ Trader, if you are
"e5irg to have cheap Metals, Wares and
"Fabrics under you new Tariff, where will be
"the good Of III How viii it help your manu-
"f.ctdrersl"
We answer: They viii be helped precisely as
o. are now helped BY the Protection afforded us
b, the nsiure Of things against Injurious rivalry
from foreign newspaper establishments. News
papers are nOw afforded cheaper, cost and quail
ity considered, in this country than any where
slse--cheaper than they possibly could be but for
the existence OF efectual Protection. If bale
Of British journals, LEFT over as unstable at
bone. could come in here and supplaut so many
American newspapers, just Us fun OF British
iron a bale of British calicocs may DO, il would
GOT be possible to afford go large aud well-gotup
slee.i at so low prices as TIE TRIBUNE and
Kindred journals are now sold for. We now
pint cheap aud make a living at prices that
would DO utterly ruinous if the market for our
wnrcs were unsettled and circuwscribed by
foreign competition. If We were compelled to go
h. press uncertain that steamship might not
arrive before morning With a consignment Of
British newspapers that, being ratified of for
whatever they would fetch might suppant and
supeIsede our edition, We could not afford such
q Journal as The TRIBUNE for double its pres
eat price.
vi. In other words, what we seek by Protec-
ton is, to shorten NE distance Iei'eeCn producer
and consumer. ard thereby increase The stability IF
marlets and reduce the sost Of exchanges. Ii, for
exampe, ten thousand grain-growers over coal
aud iron ore-beds in Missouri and Illinois, are
exchanging their surplus products for Metals,
Wares and Fabrics, with lubricants in Western
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