New-York daily tribune., 1862-05-05


=, T.;tod KINGDOM. in 1853, was 23,6s6,C1l
n.l,ons Upon the domestic article, according
- no statement made in the Anglo-french
tro,tv dated February %. 1860, the excise and
other charges amounts t. Sc. sd. per gallon.
The tariff duty upon foreign spirits Is Jos. cd.
rer gallon. Dcductng 2,co0,OOO gallons French
.ririts consumed per annum, which are ad-
uitted at, az little over, The excise rate, we
have u .6S6,67l gallons surcharged 2s.-f2,-
lG8, ,6G7. To these import duties upon sugar
tobacco and spirits must be added
Tho "extra rote" vpon sugar of S. upon every
me uSt Of enfy laty: ID. on every cst..... sl2S
upon tobacco: s. upon every AcOdnty NV
n 81 s@'y Eycr uuy .yir e. upon every 100 duty. s2
Init Of entry duty: Id upon every 20 esllona''' 500
agrteg,.e Of extra rates and Unit Of entry duties oo
mon Manufactured 'ggar tobacco and iAit'''
Aggregate of Customs daes upon the saine'''' No'-1
To. ,,res npon these qusntities Of 'ura tctsc
60 and sriI!t. If impofl'
Here we have defensive duties leveled at, II
not levied upon, these three articles Of British
consumption for the protection OF the domestic
product. amounting to above ten millions
slerl.uo. or nearly fifty million Of dollars per
ann.m. Add TO t'sse the amounts OF dutJ
made to stand guard over the home marAe'
against ioregn beer paper, cards, chIceOry'
Dice vinegar, plate, hats, books, miil'boaros'
eubroidery. musical instruments, linens, and
number of other articles which compete with
similar articles Of British manufacture, and
above twenty millions sterling would be ihe result.
/ The ale and beer alone, made and consumed
in the United Kingdom annually, amounts to
seven millions of barrels, the duty levied
upon foreign ses and beers being IL per
borre. The excise and other charges upon
the material and manufacture and sale being
about twelve shillines per barrel, gives pro-
tectiye duty Of eight shillings per barrel,
amounting TO G2sOO, goo; which shows TIE
reasonablcncss Of tie estimate we adopt Tor the
purpose of sparng the labor of calculation.
On this showing. the British Government
manages to protect her home manufactures in
her home markets, by customs duties which
resist foreign Importation TO the amount of
above thirty nn..ons sterling or nearly one
hundred and fifty millions Of dollars per an
mum. -'
Is Ills freo-trGde
The pretense is an impotture.
Fnolapd has set free all of thousand articles
which she imports, except about 1ity -sIA' or
counted by their genuine denominations twenty
s;x But has she abandoned one item OF all
her multiform manufactures TO the danger OF
competition from abroad Not one.
England began Elk hundred years ago TO pro-
tect her native industry in the mechanic arts,
by duties, prohibitions, and penalties, some OF
them atrocious in their severity, such as cut
ting of the left hand of the importer Of foreign
voolens, under Elizabeth, and the imprison-
ment Of the whole crew Of the vessel employed,
under Charles II. She relaxed this system,
little by little, as she secured its advantages,
Kill in 1919 she contented herse,f with duty
: Of e. Iss. Cd. tun on bar iron, when sh'
II was making it at G3 per tun cheaper than The
" cheapest OF her foreign rivals In 1913, when sL'
. had attained a still better command of her owl
; market, she reduced the duty to 81 per tun
Z And in 1860, being able to make 1t lower thar
u all the world for home consumption, aud al
any price Won please for foreign trade, she gel
il free As safely as Massachusetts might trea
the ice of the trOpics, and for the same reason
Protection is simply defense. roughshoC
: donkey needs none in the poultry yard, and ht
may, If he please, proclaim free dance to al
tbe chickens. But where is the magnanimity
rec competition at an even chance meant
something; but when We see England putting
on what her attorneys call countervailing i'm
posts TO dyke out every species of commodity
that might otherwise get possession Of her home
market, we are not deluded by ler long list ol
free goods against which she needs as little
protection a. the Gulf States needs it against
foreign raw cotton.
Count de- Morny, Minister Of France, said
happily, when the late Anglo.Frencb CONNER
) cial treaty was under negotiation, that " Fro.
lection is the route 10 free trade" Just 50
far as England reaches supremacy and safety
in manufactures she adopts tie sysiem--not Il
step further. We want no better, no more
unwasering example than hers; but We could
not have q worse counselor.
Mr. Golden did the best he could in ihe treaty
with Louis Napoleon last year. helped him TO
clear the French tariff Of rubbish and incon.
qruity, was overreached, and put bis hand 10
the very beet protective tariff in existence, as We
showed in Il former article. That treaty bars
Eneland's commercial invasion OF France con-
pletely. She is checkmated in the Northern
states of this Union by the Morrill, tariff; and,
by the blockade Of our Southern ports, ;he