New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-11

lustration, we might have passed this cayil
also in silence. Let It's try it on you once
more
Dewitt Clinton and his friends asked the
People of New-York to bear taxation and incur
a heavy debt in order TO open a cheap high
way for commerce through the heart of their
State. They argued that they would thus in
crease the value of their lands, the eff
ficiency of their labor, and the general pros
perity of this commonwealth. They were met
by lust such arguments as The Worlds above
cited: That squandering labor on a non pro
ductive ditch was not the way to make labor
more productive; that doubling taxation and
rolling up debt would only impoverisll, not en-
rich, the community; that those who wanted
the canal were welcome to dig it, but had no
right to take by force other mems earnings and
mortgage other mems farms for the means
wherewith to accomplish their purpose. In
short, there is not an argument against Protec-
tion which was not at least equally cOgent
against involving the reluctant moiety (almost)
of our people in expenditure and debt for the
construction of our canals. Yet they were voted
down; the canals built; and there are to-day
at least Five Hundred Millions more of wealth
in this City and twice that aggregate more
in the State, because of the construction of
those canals. So with the building up of Home
Markets by Protection.
Tile Worlds assumption that goods must
first be made dearer by Protection is at war
with thousand facts. If, for example, its
Editor were asked: Suppose measures shall
abe taken which will quadruple the circulation
"of your journal, will you thereupon sell 1t
Cheaper or dearer r-be would unhesltatlngly
answer Cheaper" He would sell it cheaper be-
cause he could afford to do so. Northern jour
nails are cheaper than Southern, because they
average many more readers. Assure us a ready,
steady market for all THE TRIBUNEs we can
print and we will reduce their price ten per
cent, yet make more money than we now do
And this is rule of wide application with
which business men must be familiar. we
know that the Tariff of AZ Immediately re-
duced the price of some articles to which 1t
assured our producers the home market.
Twice, distinctly, have the advocates OF
Protection been swindlcd out of their Tariff by
calculated evasion of the issue. The Jackson
delegations in Congress from NewYorll, Penn
sylyania, Ohio and Kentucky (Sias Wright and
Martin Van Buren, at their head voted for the
arm Ol 1895 anu tllllli'h IL, NhNip iNNNN''"
was strong, as a Jackson Tariff; carrying there
upon the intensely Protectionist State of Penn
sylvania by nearly $4,000 majority. Being fairly
seated in power, that party proceeded to reduce
the Tariff Again, in 1872 Silas Wright and
other such voted for the Tariff of that year,
with all the Pennsylvanians, and again they in
sisted, in the desperate struggle of 1874, that
Polk was as much a Protectonst as Clay
and he wrote the Kane letter to countenance
that fraud. Dallas was put on behind him as
ice-President expressly to assure the Penn
sylvanians that the Tariff was safe; and 10 :
Dallass casting vote killed it, Messrs. Free
Traders if you beat us in 'Gs, you will have to
do it less foully than hitherto! Just compare
Henry Cay's speech at Raleigh in the Spring
of "A with that of Slas Wright ut Watertown
in the Summer following, and you will see how
you have killed two Protective Tariffs as you
can never Kill another