New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-08

believed what he said especially he name stands on tho
subscription list for many thousand dollars TO engineer
this scheme TO supplant American laDorand introduce
"free trade for foreign goods manufactured 10y rAupef
labor pauper labor wages. what adds weight 10 MS
testimony the fact that most Of the subscribers to tho
Free Trade League funds are the NowHork agents Tor
mporter foreign manufactures, who take hs method
Of instrucng the American people rs to what us their
duty and interest touching open market Tor foreign
wares as against the products Of American Labor one
OF the tracts circulated by Mr. Sands states that the
League had got subscriptions this year to the amount Oh
$780, III 60 TO the 18th Of October It's with TINS corrup
ton fund that these emissaes OF British manufacturers
are sent out over the country advise how TO shape
our policy to benefit them aud cripple our own Industry
The thing won't work
TIE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND IT.
The people understand Free Trade would work As
all manufactures crippled and broken
down by British goods undertaking ours the market
and could no longer produce any manufactured art
Giles, because American laborers wont work Tor
the pauper wages OF Europe, then should be at the
mercy Of English capitalists. The first year after our
industries broken down. and we had to stop manu-
featuring, they would offer dollar busho LOT our
wheat and sell at $40 per tun moro than they WI"
now. The next year, when they saw We were iuF !"
their power and they had control OF tho marketfor We
must have the manufactured articies-they Woud To
ceive our wheat at rs cents and mako another advance
on their iron and other commodities and II they hhaiy
got prices so high that could afford to commence
manufactured down would 90 their prices again 70
what they arc nOV. and we should nave 10
unit Thus the business would be go I'M
certain and so subject tho interests OF British capai
that nobody here would risk anything In Manufacturing
enterprises We should be WHOLLY subject to the Gcta
ton OF foreign manufacturers, and our own country
woud be unable to develop its vast resources We should
simply buy what We wanted OF England and sur
plus raw materials pay for H. asuch prices as they
saw az TO give us for them We should have TO pay
freight on our products England to pay for what We
bought and then pay freight what We brought from
there to our homes-a very nice arrangement LOT E-
gland but poor policy for this country. England du
not acate Free Trade" until s42 after she fortified
herself and accumulated immense wealth under pro
tective tariff for thousand years or more When We
have been nation long enough perhaps wo may talk
Free Trade but not while country Is comparatively
a wilderness
That our present tariff should DO and will DO modified
in respects, there is no doubt Probably SAT- COAL
and Lumber among the leading staples should be looked
after; but sweeping free trade" would mako the
subjects" dependent upon England for the develop
ment OF our country
After the Eastern lights had closed some Of the friends
Of American interests announced their readiness to adj
iourn and meet tho champions OF British interests at
another meeting for free discussion both Sides bat
they declined the offer, and appointed committee to
form Free-Trade League in this city. Among those
who declared themselves ready 10 answer the iree-
trade arguments were two exDemOcratic Aldermen OF
this cty-and one of them an Ir'shman-both OF whom
were heretofore trade advocates until they began to
study the subject with American spectaclcs on.
Messrs Perry. Brnkerho, anG Sands are on western
trip, to eniehten tho barbarians on tho particular
interests OF British Manufacturers. WOLvERiNE'
Detroit, Oct. 81, 1869.