New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-06
POCKET WAR FOR
TRADE.

POCKET MOEALTTV-WAR FOR
To the year l7S7, benjamin Franklin wrote
to an English gentleman as follows " read
with pleasure the account you give OF the Hour
ishing state Of your commerce and manufactures,
and of the plenty you have OF resources to carry
the nation through oil its difficulties. fOu
have one of the finest countries in the world;
and if you can be cured OF the folly of making
war for trade, in which war moro has been
expended than the profits of any trade can
compensate--you may make 1t one OF the hap
pest This advice, we suppose, would be
quite thrown away upon newspaper lrreyo-
caby welded TO the system here so Pointedly
condemned. The London Times accepts the
we'll known aphorism of Franklin with quail
hcaiion-it thinks that there never was good
war. if il was Improbable, and never bad
peace. if it added to British wealth. Such
publication should be treated with all possible
caudor. II its principle BE- Ia have no princi-
pie. and If il would quite hs severely scorn to
affect virtue Is TO possess one, let 1t, ut
least aspire 10 the praise OF sublime consist
ency. If it must serve Maumon, let us be
thankful that it does not pretend to serve
God II it must ignore consistency, it should
have the credit OF frank advertisement OF Its
remuneration. What il thinks upon the First
Of January, it thinks for the First of January,
and by no means for the Second. Its ayowed
business il not to speak the truth,
but to "Bull" this stock and to
Bear" that This being understood, why
should we be angry with il All that
can be said of it is. that it follows its Instincts,
and that its instincts are commercial. IL does
a wholesale business in a retail way. Who
blames it, Who blames the Camucks for
eating raw hOrse.meat Who blames the can.
nibal Of Sumatra for eating cooked man-meat
not because he likes it-for he is very care
fu. to tell the Traveller that he does not like
it-he only devours it as religious duty-Only
that he may proptiate the God OF War by
masticating, swallowing, and dgesting the
slam. He does not quarrel with the flavor OF
the tid-bts, from the deglutition of which he
anticipates such INN, nse advantages. 1t Is in
the same bold and devoted way that this Times
newspaper swallows Slavery on Monday, re-
jects it on Tuesday, and swallows it ogaln on
Wednesday, reshiug the morsela well or Ill.,
according to the fluctuations OF the cotton
market. Yesterday it pronounced Human
Slavery 10 BE- n Divine Institution, and quoted
ST.. Paul out Of its borrowed Bbe-to-day, it
declares that it "would unieisnedly rejoice"
if the Emancipation Proca na'ion could only
be eiectual What will it say tomorrow
Exactly what it NAV think the interests OF
trade to demand. joey h. is sharp, Sir -
dcyilish sharp"
IL would III become rs, members rs We are
OF great commercial community, tO.speah dis-
respectfully OF mercantile prudence and sIgacl-
~ We yield to no one, in our most respect
fu estimate OF tie amelioratGg Influences Of
trade in promoting the comfort and even The
higher morality OF MIN. We know enough o.
monetary operations to understand that they
can oply be successfully promoted by fore
thought, caution aud deliberate prudence. We
are ready to make all proper allowances for
the nstnct oi sell-preseryation when it Is
shrinking from insolvency. We believe money
10 be- good thing, ana that it is good thing
to have money We believe that society has no
member moro worthy Of its respect than the
high-mnic1 merchant, who, without bringing
dscredlt upon trade by interruptions rapaciiy.
increases our sources OF happiness, brings capi-
tai 10 the a,slst4nco of civilization, and supplies
that material aid without which the progress
of mankind would cease. But all our respect
for the honorable and enlightened trader cannot
conceal from us those moral perls which cnvi.
ron him. Indeed, in every scheme of religion
they are admitted; and tho most solemn warn.
ing against absolute devotion to money gotting
came from tho Founder Of our Faith, and has
in his time been repeated in countless bodies OF
divinity. and uttered from ten thousand pull
pits. 0ioaey c.a w uuch aaa WY much.