New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-24
PROTECTION AND AGEscULTCRE.

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PROTECTION AND AGEsCULTCRE.
The 3orld thinks We can only have found
Indian Corn selling al fifteen cents per bushei
in Iowa City when that place twas 70 lar
away in the Western wilderness that its the
Corn's value was ncarl all consumed i'll getting
il to market" That we presume, was the
difficulty: Vet Iowa Ci,y had then over 1000
Inhabitants. and wa connected by railroad
with Chicago and Ncw-York. Still Corn sold
there ior jG-, aboIt an eighth of its price where
our Wares ami Fabrics were IN large measure
produced. and where the poiicy advocated by
Tie Eogld tends 50 keep their manufacture for
ever.
Now il seems 10 IL the dearest Truth ever
eumcaed that policy which would bring the
cloth-mabers aud corn growers so near each
other that their respective products might be so
EXCHANGED that the farmers would receive nco-
thirds (instead Of onf,igbtd) Of the cloth for his
grain that tie cloih-lnaker paid for L would
inevitably benefit both parties and enhance
generally The reward Of Labor We have read
and thought much Oh The subioct-have tired to
regard both sides Of the Question--and have en-
tire con6denc, that our view is the right one
And, if We have less 10 say OF 'lmping logic,
"wird-mihs," md 'reductio 0d GJsurdum," than
our ncighbor. it Is only because thai style Of
argument differs from ours.
Nor arc We moved by assertions that Protec-
ton means growing pineappies at Nova Zenb)e
and making icebcrgs in the West Indies. Only
show US that Nature mas interpOsod barriers to
the growing or making of certain article III
our country, 50 that it must be permanently
produced here by greater expenditure Of labor
than would be required to produce it elsewhere
end we readily agree that that article is not
here a proper subject for Protection.
Thcre certainly must be some smsrtness in
! the assumption that, if Protection be the true
policy, then Delaware ought 10 surround herself
with custom-houses, and Now-JerSey should tax
The importation Of New-York or Philadelphia
fabrics; yet We cannot realize that it is one
whit smarter than Hodges reply to the friend
who urges him to close his great, flarng
kitchen Fireplace, now that fuel has become
scarce and dear, and buy stove that will save
half the wood: "Then Why not buy tno stoves,
aid save it air" We agree that Hodge is a
war--that his good things are irresistible--but
we stl! have faith in the stove. And We have
no doubt that the Zoll Verein-tbat is, tho SUBJ
ytjtution of one exterior circle of custom-houses
for many lines perambulating her interior-was
an excellent thing for Germany, though she is
NOT, and should not be, melted thereby to
abolish her cistom-b0uses altogether.
But let us admit, for the moment, that,
Napoleon, Hamilton, Madison, Henry Clay,
Hezekiah Niles, Matthew Carey, and all such,
were ut once ignorant and stupid with regard 10
tho first elements Of Political Economy, while
We see how The World disposes Of Gen. Jackson's
Argument for Protection purely as essential to the
property Of our Agriculture. We quote only
paragraph from his famous letter to Or. Cole
man, but Tho World will please deal with the
|, letter ss whole. Gen. j. says:
"This Tariff mean a judicous one-poycrsc, more
t,uc.ul .an real myers. fw.l lsk. what Is the real
situation u SIC agrsUinl,stf Where has the Amari
can farmer a mMketf Does not this clearly prove
there 10 too Iouch labor employed In agriculture and
that the channels Of labor should b nultipIedf Com
mon senss points OK At once the remedy; Draw from
gheulture the supsrabUndant labor, employ II In
eAailsm add ne .rfecturos, thereby aresun1H home
market for your bresdstsGs and distributing labor to
urohabe scconIt and benefits b the country will
splt Jsks rom agriculture IN tho United States
,iY hundred tAousand mon. women. and children. and
you Ut give home market Tor moro brekdstufs
Titan al Europe now furnishes 10. In short sir. wo
have been long subject - the policy Of the British
rssrchents II n time We shoeid become little more
AnpcIc ASzlD aud instead Of feeding the parpsrs aud
lnnyvsr Vi Earops, feed our own. OF else 10 short
tims, by continuing cur prtseat policy We shall be oil
paupsrs sorseires.'
The WsrI1 will please consider Gen. Jack.
sons testimony ss 70 the sexual condition Of our
Agriculture whom (the FREQ Traders tell us) It