New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-12-19
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MecULLOCH AGAINST HOME M0NOPOLIES

Secretary McCulloch has informed Congress that
his notion Of nice tariff is one whose rates Of duty
shall not be so hi,h rs to "buld up homo monopoes.'
Which savors of buncombe. Which also has stale
flavor Of froe.trade can't and perceptble seen: OF
domagogsm.
II would bother Secretary MoCulloeh to tell how
manufacturing monopoly could be created in the
United States. Say monopoly Of making salt
saline springs aud rock salt being large deposit in
fifteen different States and Territories. How would
you create it Copper sheathng for ships-hOw would
you 20 to work to make a monopoly Of manufacturing
that; tho copper of America not being concentrated in
single hole, owned by one man or one company of
meni Pocket and table cutlery-how, Mr.. McCul-
loch could you confer on the smartest Yankee that
ever simulated gunAnt or cheated the eye with a
ligneous ham, the monopoly of supplying even your
town of Buncombeylle with table-kniyes and forks,
pocket.kniyes and scissors the road TO Buncombe-
vile being highway by law to all the world, aud the
making Of cutlery. good or bad, dull or sharp tenn
pered or distempered, being one of the nalienabe
rights Of every man. woman, and child in the United
States.
The proposition that high duties on imported goods
would build up homo monopolies" is proposition
that is absurd on its face II the Atlantic rolled
tariff of fire and birthstone between MS and Europe,
manufacturing monopolies could not be established
here WHY Because, in the United States of
America, iron, coal, copper, lead, zinc, oil, and
timber are geographically diffusedi and because
man il Free labor is free, capital il free, and
land is cheap. By way OF charitable sub
scription 10 a scanty stock Of economical knowl-
edge where il is officially needed, let us mpart that
one Of the essential conditions Of monopoly is cog
i,"! .. labor. Not till land becomes as dear in
America as Is in Great Britain can American capital
control American labor. What-does Mr. McCulloch
suppose to be the average length OF manufacturing
life in the textile mills Of Massachusetts, IL Is only
from three 10 four years for the menonly from five
TO six years for the women. They quit the mills then
for what The men for piece Of landi the women
for husbands and piece of land. The Homestead
law" is law u American industrial lie:
We can't keep Operatives az WORK ahef
they have earned money enough to buy
and improve land The American passion
is to own a bit Of the earth to have home on,
TO cultivate 10 adern, 20 welcome children back to,
to die on. A fact underlying political economy that
a statesman should know. But where you find labor
without education, without the right to vote without
political representation, without the power to t1 its
wages, without the choice OF markets. without access
to land, without the power to change its condition,
there you find the possibility of monopoly. There,
money aud genius can build one up. England is
dotted all with monopolies-with respect to the
rest of the world There is lovely monopoly in the
town of saaire, which town Afr. Salt owns, the In
habitants of which town Mr.. Salt owns, and whom
Mr. Salt keeps at work, supplying the world with
worsted dress goods thanks to the knavish free
trade gospellng which breaches and prays to nations
not to make their tariffs so high as TO be prOhbitory
nor to build up home monopolies tho foreign ones
being all right Mr.. Salt makes eighteen miles Of
worsted dress cloth in day Consul Abbott thus
describes his little monopoly;
Tho Model Mill erected by Mr. Salt at Saltare
occupies six acree of ground between the Midland
Railway on one side and the canal which connects
the Atlantic with the North Sea on the other. II
has ia acres of flooring The front on the railway
is 545 feet long and 72 feet high and has six stories
" The lower floors are divided In the middle by the
" engine rooms. but tho top story rups tho whole