New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-06
FOREIGN EALLACHES.

Inc Ignorance OF tue DtsI INFORMED EngllN
Journals, touching things in this country is very
remarkable The British trade against the Nor.
! Iiii tariff affords new evidence Of the fact. In
its recent furious onslaught on that measure, The
London Times strikes right aud left, the venom
Of it's invec,iye leading It to Indulge in the most
absurd miI statements. 1t threatens that " if the
- backwOodsmen Of America are 10 be deprived
% Of good axes, and settlers of cheap clothing
&" the penalty viii be paid by them Now, if
there be- any country on the earth where clothing
is cheaper than in oil others, it must be that
which 6rst gave 10 the world that marvel If
mechan cal ingenuity, the sewing-machine. We
have long ceased to import clothing from En-
gland That invention has enabled us 70 outrun
all other countries in the production Of cheap
clothing, and hos built up in this city colossal
establishments which have no coun4erports even
in London. Half the South is clothed from this
city. aud probably half the West; blt England
furnishes neither shirt nor dckey. In this
branch Of manufacturing, competition would
DO ridiculous We once imported shoes,
but here, too, American ingenuity has been
40 decided In its achievements as 10 def
the cheap labor Of Europe. Even our own
band.wOrkers have been superseded by its com
p!e;aness. With this new machinery, % per-
soma now produce Geo pairs Of chddrens shoes
daily. All the stitching is done BY the sowing
machine. One portion Of the apparatus inserts
the awl, cuts out the pegs from Zip of wood
as they are needed, aud drives them IN 20 rap
idly that il will peg two rows around the sole OF
a shoe in 20 seconds, oil done at one operation.
4 raw calfskin is taken in at the basement Of
the building. aud in half On hour is turned out
| in the form Of shoes complete aud ready 10 be
worn. Cheapnoss is the inevitable consequence
Of thee facilities, Of which the vast consum NJ
public have the advantage. This benefit ia the
| fiuit Of protection TO our own industry, and We
should have been deprived OF It to this moment
had we continued to be flooded with for
eign shoes Protection stimulates ingenuity; III
senuity develops improved machines aad pro.
| cesses; these save labor aud reduce the cost of
production, aud while the combination may en-
rich tbe originator, the public, after oil, are even
| greater gamers.
Tie Times must be utterly ignorant OF The
| trade in axes. Its warnings on the subject e1-
| down our salutAry tariff. England supplies her
colonies with axes. Those in general use about
the houses in Jamaica are described TO be " 10
shape, size, and appearance more like the onter
Z" half OF the blade OF scythe, stuck into
small wooden handle" Traveller there says
that, with tits long knife, for it is nothing
" else, have seen negroes backing at branches
\ 90 min fo liai
"what good wood-chopper, with an American
AK, would accomplish at single stroke As
| long ago az 1sil, partner in the celebrated
house of MAYOR, Vickers, Nicholson & Co., Of
| Sheffield testified, before q Committee Of the
| House Of Commons, who were inquiri0g into the
expectation OF machinery, IN these remarkable
| words,
"Tbs Americans have got ts trade in mAi!ng oas
which sgy one employ ing T,sL de o. abof We send
more steel to make Telling axes alone mako fr ell tho
small EDslaaa It g. for pln article .hs os. rusch.a
Ay and the best Constructed little nstTancn know tho ert
bers fol three compared with those
| hat oTlnshly mtds In England"
Thus, twenty years ago. English axes had dis
appeared from the American market. Yet The
Times, driven 10 the wall for an argument With
which to frghten us from our propriety, reyives
in liz ignorance fallacy 80 completely exploded
| Us this. II u not 30 much the nterregnum Of u
year in Cutting our markets which English NAB
Iacturers fear, us the permanent displacement of
their products, which they know continued pro-
lection viii occaf!ou. They fear American in
genuity and skill. They know that wages are
tho measure of mechanical activity, aud that that
country prospers most where labor is best paid
Wages are higher in France than in Spain, hence
the French spindle reyolyes more rapidly than
the spanish. For the same reason the British
spindle Is more ninble than the French, while
| the American exceeds them all in the rapidly Of
! its revolutions. For the year ending with June,
| LEGO, we imported cotton manufactures of the
value Of $40, l39, l29, but the exports Of our own
manufactured cottops within the same period
were worth slO,93i,796. This shows a huge
displacement Of British fabrics somewhere. For
the same year we imported iron, and articles Of
steel and iron, Of the value of SCI, 526, 59. mos,
of which were British. In the same year we OK.
ported iron and iron manufactures, all of our
owp mako, of the value Of S5,703,o?i. Tx