New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-12-11
dBsrer bu The Tribune.


Aaswer By The Tribune.
I. The first issue raised by the above state
ment is one Of fact. The Free-Traders assert
that. after trial Of half century almost
all kinds of Home Manufactures are dcare'
[than1 and inferior to those of Europe With
this assertion we take issue, and cite News
papcrs--this papcr-in evidence II Is fact
that American Newspapers, from the nature Of
the case, are substantially shielded against
Foreign competition in our home market; and
il is also fact that they are cheaper, all things
considered, than those Of Europe We do
personally know that our people are supplied
with Newspapers at a lower pr.ce and cost than
they could be if they were rivaled and super
seeded in our market by casually imported
Foreign journals, as our homemade Metals
and Textile Fabrics are or may be. So with
American School. Books; 80 with American
Flows, Scythes, Axes, Augers and many other
manufactures which, because Of Yankee inyen-
( ton or improvement in form or quality, have
,. obtained such currency as utterly TO defy oil
= defeat foreign rivalry. Yet we who make News.
papers, OF they who make SchOol-Books, Flows.
Axes, Augers, Scythes, &c, are neither better
e nor worse as a class, more or less skllul, more
II or less rapacious, than American producers o.
g. Textile Fabrics or of Iron. We produce TO live
! and sell for the most we can get. And the fact
10 that We enjoying complete protection against
>. foreign rivalry from the nature of our products
] Il. hon, lar al n
IN market were shared and struggled for by GU
European compeers. proves that the repression
re Of foreign rivalry for the control Of our market
in does not tend to enhance the cost of the produc
- to American consumers. The prices Of American
satinets, Flannels Dnllings, Sheetings Cali
,ir Goes Deanes and other cheap fabrics in genera
nd use, tend TO illustrate the truth, or at leas
'st did so until all prices in this country wer
ire bewitched By War and Currency Imitation. S
much for the issue Of fact.
y H. The rce-Traders quietly assume that, if
.. fun Of imported Iron costs S75, while like tn
an of homemade Iron sells at 800 these price
demonstrate that the home made Iron costs -
H. more of american L0bOr. But this is the yer
he point in dispute. We most emphatically an
u undoubtingly assert that the American Iron j
really the cheapcr-cOsts us less labor-than Tn
d. British; because that cost is made up Of Fuel
10 Food, Ore, Limestone, leaning, &C., &c.
d whose market value is created, or at lcas
greatly enhanced, by the proximity and ac
u tivitv Of Iron-making In other words, LET III
suppose 81, 900 worth of British Bars o,
Rails imported at S7j per tun, that cost
will have been reimbursed or met by
% the export sale Of say, 100000
e barrels of Flour laid down in Liverpool at $ll
(specie) the barrel, made of Iowa or Minnesota
> Wheat for which the farmer receives an aver
!, age price Of 75c. Gn gold) per bushel. Now
let that same Iron be made in this country, and
sold at 500 per tun instead Of $40, and that
# cost will have been made up Substantially as
j follows:
1000 uns OF ore at s. per tun.........-.... $1,000
. 1000 Limestone, at JOc..........-...... lOOO
e 1000 Coal at s2........................ 10 OOC
:O0OO bushels Corn and Oats, at 75c.....".... 200
G 1000 Charcoal at Observation-Disclosures 200
). 1000 tuns Of Hay. at sl0............... 10000
Potatoes and other Vegetables. ............ $1,000
- &c. &c, &c.
. &c, &c, &C.
We do not present these as On even approx
+. imately accurate statement Of prices, quaint.
ties or even articles required and consumed in
the production of Iron, but simply to elucidste
the truth of which Free-Traders seem profoundly
unconscious that one article may be sold for less
mones than another yet cost far more labor If
Illinois were to-day making all the Iron required
By our countrymen from her Ore and Coal, her
Grain would net her farmers thrice and her Meat
twice the prices they now receive. If there is
any truth demonstrable to rational intelligences,
this is truth: Bring the Manufacturer close 10
...s.nJ II bcs;no bc,D A 100 suirs