New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-09

Fabrics w hat can induce you to act so IN
L" sanely |" They do not answer-how could they,
without confessing that they have been per
sisting in untruth to the injury of Their
neighbors2
-" But why not buy where we can buy
" cheapest ask the Free Traders. "Why
"deny or fetter mans natural right to do as
"'he likes with his own"
We answer:
To buy our Iron, Wares, Fabrics, precisely
where we can buy them cheapest, and because
we can there buy them cheapest, is our plan.
We uphold the Protective system, because we
are sure that thereby can our peoples wants
be supplied more cheaply flor thenD than in
any other way. We hold, and have often de-
monstrated that the tun of Iron which
costs 500 if made here, and SIS if
imported, actually costs our consumers cODsid-
eraby less mot in dollars, but in days works.
if made here In other words: the cost of the
American tun is made up of ore, coal, wood,
charcoal, feed, taxes, schooling &C.. which
would not have brought S75, nor even S65, had
our Iron been made in Europe. We of THE
TRIBUNE for example, are this year paying at
least $4,000 for presses &C., mainly made OF
iron and we can better afford to pay $4,000
if our supply of iron were wholly made and
fashioned in this country than $4,000 with our
furnaces, founderies and workshops in Europe
We can make this truth plain to any one who
is not steeled against conviction.
-" But what do you say as to the right oil
"every one to sell his own labor or its product
"as he sees fit" t.|.
Just this, Sir; that, as you interpret that
right il leads directly to anarchy. Govern
ments subsist on taxes; and, if it be conceded
absolutely that man may do as he likes with
his own, then collecting taxes must be stopped,
and treasures filed by voluntary gift or not
at ALL If the sweeping Free Trade assump-
ton on this point be sound, then the cOnstruc-
ton of the Erie Canal was gigantic crime |;
for that was done by means OF taxing away
the money and pledging the credit of tens OF
thousands who sternly opposed the whole pro-
iect. and protested that they ought not to be
taxed for its realization.
We talk of losses and calamities by flood
fire, drOuth, or pestilence; we consider, ana
with reason, our taxes very heavy; but all other
taxes combined do not bear 80 heavily upon
us as that imposed by involuntary idleness
Not less than One Million People in this coun-
try are to-day out of employment, therefore
useless and miserable. Not one dime less than
$500, 900 900, and we think $5O00OO,OOO,
are annually lost to the country on
this account. Now we do not insist
that unequivocal Protection would secure
every one constant work but we do
hold that more have work, and all work more
efficiently, where employments are multiplied
and diversified by protection than elsewhere
A purely Agricultural community, still more
LAUNDERING one, has many more idlers or drOnes,
and produces far less wealth per hand, than
Lancashire or Massachusetts. Diversity Of pur-
suit il one main element of efficiency in pro-
duction; and such diversity is promoted by
Protection.
But we did not mean TO say half so much
at present We intended only to express our
Joy that the friends of Protection have met, re-
solved to organize, and to canvass the whole
country. Savery-which 30 long excluded us
from most of the South-is at last dead, and
Labor votes there henceforth instead
of being chattelized and sold on the
auction block. We Protectionists never yet
were beaten by the votes of those who can
read, and their number is rapidly increasing
We have but to work to triumph.