New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-19
FREE LAucR-EREE TRADE.


the following lef-handed compliments to his
weak-in-the-faith American brethren in the Free
Trade economy:
Il am truly reioccd TO q start made 10 establish
freedom and common sense IN American fsc lesisa'
tion-in which NY SAYING that we OF his worn
ont Old country have hitherto sought IN vain Tor any
trace Of either You may probably not have heard THAT
in common with other old leaguers aud new 70.
cruts have been for some time working in financial
reform association for absolute freedom OF industry ana
trade aud direct taxation aud TO tins complexion we
at last depend upon II, ald you sooner than
we because except ea) hrt Is hardly tar Which you
ran ry imports thai oiU not be pyoeetire an as nature
either fcf produce or manufactures and imagine mat
this difficulty Will drive YOU to go the VINCE hCS,
rather sooner than some Of you count upon
This merchant might be more compli-
mentary; but he certainly is more con-
sistently, logically wrong than his half
hog brethren He is right in his assulnp-
ton that, if Free Trade be the true
theory, then all import duties are wrong,
being unequal in their pressure and injurious to
trade. If tariffs on imports do not beneficially
protect Home Industry, then there should be
no tariffs at all Yet our milk-and-water Free
Traders will be very careful not to commit
themselves to an abolition of all Duties on I'm
,orts and consequent addition Of One Hundred
Alillions to our taxes on land and other property
or its income.
The Post thinks Free Trade a logical Sc
quence of Free Labor. Others think there can
be no true freedom without what they term
Free Love. We cannot agree with either. And
we oppose to The Posts assumption the fact that
Protection in this country has always been
strongest where Labor was at once free and
intelligent while the Free Trade has had free
course and been gorifed around negro auction
blocks and wherever Labor was most thorough
ly chattelized.
The current slang concerning New England
monopolists," and all assumption that Protec-
ton is especially demanded by the East,
ignore the most indsputable facts. New.
England has no advantage from Protection
that is not equally proiFered to every section
in fact the abundant coal and cheaper food Of
the South and West, with their proximity 10
the cotton fields, give them signal advantages
over her. Cotton and Wooden fabrics should
be produced for less money in Virginia or the
Carolinas, or between the Ohio and the
Missouri, than in either of the New England
States. In producing Iron and Steel,
the West and South possess great
advantages over the Northeast. Eew-Eng-
land did not even initiate Projections; it was
forced upon her by the votes of the Center and
West, strongly aided from the South, in oppo-
sition to her persistent, emphatic remonstrance.
New-England is now manufacturing because
the farmers of the Center and West voted to
create Home Markets for their produce by
nourishing and difIusing Home Manufactures.
They found that their bulky products could be
sent to find customers in Europe only at ruin
Gus loss; so they resolved to lure the producers
Of their Metals and Fabrics from Europe TO the
peiehborhood of their farms and dwellings by
Protection. And this they have partially effected.
But for the votes Of immigrants who could not
read. thrown into the scale Of Slavery, power
fully aided by the potency Of the Democratic
name, not even such unfair make-weightS as
South Cardinals attempt at Notification and
Folks letter Of lo44 to Kane would ever have
even temporarily overborne the policy Of Pro-
lection.
Let us see what this policy essentially is:
Let us suppose the great Prairie region Of our
country, extending from the Maumee and
Miami beyond the Missouri, were an independ-
ent nation, just settled by pioneers and small
farmers-its pioneers growing Wheat, Corn,
&C., and sending them to Europe in exchange
for Ayn If
brings them its price in London or Liverpool,
minus the cost of transporting it thither; so
that Indian Corn nets the grower ten TO thirty
cents per bushel according to his locality and
the season. 1--WE have seen it vainly offered in
Iowa City for fifteen cents per bushel, paid in
deprecated and dubious shinplasters, with few
or no takers.) And even this wrctched price is
subject to all the ups and downs Of Commerce,
so long as the market is so remote.
But the corn growers tire of this, and say,
"Let us have tariff that will make it the in
terest Of the producers Of our Metals, Wares
and Fabrics, to transfer their works to this
country and settle among us, even though 1t
should for q time be necessary TO make
our imposts 100 per cent" And they
make good their resolve.
Now suppose Though it is not SOY that their
Wares and Fabrics would for time cost them
twice as much money as before-woud sell at
81 per yard instead of So, and SO throughout;
Free Trade says, "There! you have doubled the
cost of your goods-that S the effect OF Protec-
Il 1,.~l~ in.