New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-12-10
YOW PROTECTION OPERATES

SIR: NV friend, who occasionally senuo II ,,o
York papers do not take regularly H" t 7 coo
The Jourrai of Commerce of the 2fth INST :" go
the editor devotes nearly column lo'"o. TIN,
cit Helps Nobody y to my letter 70 AZ. VI
r. ubioh ondeavorcd to show that me Ne"- Nv"
IA "iiO" - j., error when it said that "a pro-
$3.50 ia made million of men poor that twenty
:. et,,. r,ononolist, might fill their pockets"
" yyoi NJ commerce says, among other things that
the no the pockets Of those who have goods on
htte CG5 an make them at before the tide OF aa
van ir into ts cost y that after that It benefits no
oue and simply round tax on INDUSTRY ~ ISr"tecye
that the most and the worst that tn5 nI into
thrift does divert industry from one cnh hI The
snother and to discourage division OF iADor' "i " "0
ouy true economy"
n fine editor of The Journal instead of spinning
sophstical essay about yard of satnet-as lie "OeS
in the closing paragraph of his arucle-lh "h'cn i
adds and subtracts re-adds and re-suDtractS' oai-
ances and re-baances, and so eHectuah9 iniN'S
things MP that Euclid himself II he were awe "i"
ATTEMPTED TO unraye it, would give 10 up III despair
had given the data to show that protective tars III
all ages of the world had worked total rum Oh ,he
,,aonIo-tbat no country had ever prospered which
had NOT practiced free-tade i'll everything shouIu
have been much better pleased for that would nave
been something TO the point. lie dd not 90 H. De-
cause he cannot. If he points me TO England as a
country which practices free trade Will show MN
an England which all its greatness to the pro-
10 pactced Tor over
now while its emssares the wide world over are preach
Ing free trade only practices il on such articles as she
cannot produce herself to the extent Of her wants, and
those that her crushed pauper labor with her improved
machinery enable her TO furnish at less rate than Other
countries can sell them. Whenever 1t is for her interest,"
she practices trade when 1t is not she imposes heavy
duties without stint take her duty of 300 per cent on To-
baeoo 200 per cent on tea and 50 per as
Instances.
Does the editor Of The Journal Of Commerce point me
10 France as country which practices free tradel II he
does will show him prosperous France, under
the protective policy established by the fist Napoleon
and carried out by the present Emperor than was ever
seen before Does he point to Germany as country
which practices free tradel II so, will show him re-
juvenated independent, aud GTOlring Germany, under
the benefcent effects of the Zolveren which has been
in operaton-nOt four huudred-but scarcely twenty
years ask him to look at little Belgium which under
tie protective policy has so far developed her iron ana
GOAL mines her ronmasers enabled 10 success
fully compete, and IN instances undersel the great
English ronmasters in the markets Of the world ask
him to look at Russia, which under protective policy
established ia 1924 pays her ironmasers SOS per tun
for rails when buy English rails for $35 per tun
laid Cronstadt Has that ipocy ruined Russia
think rot but the other hand she is advancing so
rapidly in material prosperity and strength that IN my
opinion day distant when England viii find 1t
difficult defend her ngOtten possessions in India from
the Russian power, that it has acquired Bokhara
which lies those possessions on the north Again.
the editor or journal Or commerce 10
own country for the few years that have been
ton and see effects of protection and antipro
lection have been here So far as protection" is con-
cerned the country has had any kind Of chance
To build up and tedious process, while to pull
down and destroy is the easiest thing imaginable.
We all that Of the great causes that led to our
American Revolution was the determination on the part
Great Britain to force its manufactured articles on its
colonies TO Dc paid for in raw materials sent to England
For many years after gained our independence the
people were poor 10 do much more than till the SOIL
They were compelled to procure nearly everything ex
oepng food from other countries 1t was not until as
late as 1928 a really protective tariff law passed
Under its influence mills and furnaces built and the
production Of iron Increased to 100000 per annum
Labor demand and the annual revenue reached
the unparalleled amount tOr that period) OF thirty mil
lion dollars But in 1884 that taIih was repealed The
country then flooded with foreign products OF every
name and nature Then payday came, and our gold was
sent out country pay for those foreign products
The never tOibeorgOen financial crash OF 1851 followed
In 1912 another protective tariff law passed Almost
immediately business revived Mills again started up
The farmer got a good price for his produce. Again, in
1876 hat tariff also repealed and but for The acct
dental discovery Of gold in California in 1872 with which
10 pay for the eXrayagn importation that followed the
crash Of 1857 would have been sooner than was
From 1851 to the passage Of the moderately protective
tariff OF 1851 the business Of the country WAS, If any
thing more PROSTATE and destroyed than was from
1887 TO 1913. The foregoing are historical Facts,
which The Journal Of Con'neres VIII not
undertake TO cOntrovcrt. What 1 claim
e. that under protective policy this country lke every
other country which has pracced similar policy has
always prospered and that the contrary under tow
tariff eyen-not free trade the gentlemen would have
IT, IL they could support the Government without lit
has always suffered. claim for people that first law
Of nature selreserralios" also claim for them that
policy which Will give the greatest good TO the greatest
numbers" The Journal says. "ithe worst protective
tariff does divert Industry from ono channel TO
another" glad TO so outspOken on that point,
Tor usually the advocates OF freetrade slur that idea
over even they cannot deny II is popular with our people
"Dyersity Of employment" Is the very thngwe adyo-
cate most boldly. II IS The thing, and beIYe the only
thing that will give material prosperity There can
he no doubt of It. II we were all ters Of the soil and
pastoral people, we most certainly would relapse into
s,ubarbarism of Egypt and Turkey the absolute bar
barisn of the millions OF nOmadic hordes VINO teng ihe
nocks Oh almost boundless stsppes Of Central Asia
Whether that ultima thule Of the free trade philoso-
phers which would make 1t the duty Of our Government
20 act upon policy which will produce tun OF iron or
yard of satinet at possible cost in money with
out regard to the welfare Of the people is the best for us
all or not or whether the Protective policy "heps any
bOy" or not leave to the millions Of our welied
wellclOthed, welhoused, and welledueaed producers
tevery one Of whom is also consumer OF every name
and grade even under the moderately protecye tariff
Of 1861 TO decide am exceedingly obliged to The Jour-
nal Of Commerce for pitching into for what we plain
country people want this subject s information We
think our views are correct but II can be convinced
TO tho contrary we viii yield the point gracefully and
give it up like men. Very truly, yours &c,
MarGuetie Mich, Nov. 90 1868. "FAiR PLAY.
THE CESAR GRIFFIN oAsE-IMPoRrANr LEGAL