New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-13
THE EXPRESS ON PROTECTION

| INTO ustiDct IePuuiutlon Vi ltS bnio-Hohoioo
professions Of devotion to the policy of Protec-
ton to Home Industry. We are not surprised
at this. Its Editor, having renOunced and de-
nounced his loudly. proclaimed hostility to eI.
tending " the curse imposed on our fathers, and
bis principle I" No more Territories unless they
"be FREE ought of course to manifest his
consistency by denounciDg Protection a. we'll
We asked him:
l. What ourt to be buying Of France that this Ta'a
Do .dg, he. s;,, 5'gS9sssd yos
Hone Inda,try' Yea Nsyf
| Tie EIpTess answers:
"Prsl. We ought to be buying Of France army
wooleus army baskets, which, Il seems, cannot be
got hero good enough in quantity enough Tor our
armies aud the duty which !. high enough 10 pre-
vent buying cheap wines, TO dlihk, In lieu OF
strychniue whisky rot-gut run the duty on these
waes is 40 yer cent. Firearms side,srns, &c. 80 per
duty; canDou brass and iron 80 PER cent? guns,
- per cent. rifles 80 PER cent with many other ar-
ci.s les useful just noa, but too numerous To MENTION
"SrcoAd. Erprsss Learns; TRIBUNE does not. EE-
pres before the OF railroads and terg apis, was
Tor National BAnk; i Is not now. When New-Or-
leans tBIly days of from New-iork, bank wss
necessary Tor the excbangesbut not how, when only
lhifty nindtes of. 80 10 regard TO tho fag1. When
hrr. was not IA spindle ia Lawrence. or Lowell, or
else vbere when these spiudsr Lendcd protection
To live against foreign spinos ErpT,ss was TOR pro-
iecUn; but now that these spiudse can export to
CHM, OF Tarkey, or The Laet luGies even, Eltr,s'
i, n. anst Protection, and Encourages n'hly. John
Bull policy 10 oar policy. lie demanded and r-ed
manufacturing protection and Navigation laws as lcng
profitable nsd paid and when II was not. be
abjgred them all AZ the United States grows older
and RI CT Ia manufaoturs, tue less wo neeJ Proiet-
tin, and ,le more ,of,iyn markets. We live aud
chn Staleenanship is oliu giDg TO the principle OF
tLin.-uo, ire thing itself Dutch logger was IA
naval ohc( desrre our grLndiataors ume steam
or now"
Now hear THE TRIBUNE ia responses
Army Woolcns," and Army Bankets, ore
very scabtily imported from France, DO matter
under what Tariff. We buy 6ne, tasteful goods
OF France; very few Of such as would DO used
in any case in clothing our armies. And not
only can such fabrics as our soldiers need be
obtained in abundance Of American manufacture,
but N. best by far of those now in use are home
| made The wretched Blankets and other WOODEN
| iobrics palmed upon our Commssaries and De-
feuse Committees by rascally contractors and
their back-stairs cOniederates are mainly OF
| British origin, the art of making up Passable-
! looking Wovlens Of " shoddy." or old rags ground
up having been carried to villainous perfection
! IN Yorkshire unknown elsewhere. We challe, go a
comparison between the American aud Imported
fabrics now worn or carried by our soldiers;
aud, ii the American are not declared the better
| by any competent Board, we agree 10 confess and
ertrnct our error. But we know that they are
better
"Cneap Wines" The Elprsss affirms, woHd
be drank by our soldiers but for tho new tariff.
But nine tenths of the Wines in the country were
imported under our former tariff; why not drink
them Who will assert that the price of Wines
in this coultry has materially risen since last
March
But tho whole pretepse is Q delusion. No
great nation ever did or ever will import the
main beverage OF its armies. IL cheap stimulating
beverages are desired for our armies, better use
tue Beers with which they are familiar, than to
import Wines Of which they know liltls or moth
ing. The latter never were cheap in this coun-
try, under whatever tariff, and never will be un-
til We produce them for ourselves. Wine is q
luxury here, mainly used by tho rich, and may
well pay its forty per cent. in these times; or,
it it be Desirable to cheaper it. the true way is
to encourage its production among us. 1t is an
Agricultural product, and this Is an Agricultural
country, with more good Vine soil than oil
Europe. California alone could produce more
Wine than Italy and France together. Ii Vine 10
ever TO be the popular beverage among us, it
must be- made here, and tn that end tho present
duty il low enough. While Vine remains the
luxury OF the rich, it ought 10 pay forty per
cent for tho sale Of revenues aud If it i. ever
" become the beverage Of the poor that duty
will cheaper it by inducing our cutvators to
plant the Vine. In fact, the Grape culture il
now extending Itself more rapidly in this coun-
try (maIuly in California, ONO aud MisSouri)
thnn IN any other. aid will soon have become an
important branch of our National Industry. No
body can pretend that 1t is already 80 strong as
10 need no Protection, nor is its ultimate sue
cess forbidden by peculiarltes Of soil or clin.ats,
or Otherwise subject TO conditions as to render
such success hcpeless; so that if Protection was
ever deiensibc anywhere, the Protection Of the
Grippe culture IA our country now is
but there /, duty of thirty per cent on
FIREARMS. say Tho Express. Yes, and thirty
per cent. IL just the repsnne standard on manu-
features Of Iron fixed by Secretary Walker IN
bis Free Trade Tariff Of 1916. If We are to have
Tea, Coffee, Drugs, &c. free of duty-and this
il demanded by what seems " be q prevailing
public sentiment--we must pay about thirty per
cent on other Imports, ii for revenue alouc.
Aud that duty on Firearms. though il may have
raisod tho cost Of Arms at the outset Of this