New-York tribune., 1869-05-21
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PtspectuliB represents; Ihat your mtmoralsis VII
Messing tie sinking condition OF the commercial interests
our country have upon investigating the causes, been
tccting of the Government can rescue IL from that
ruin 10 which IL Is rapidly approaching.
That since the peace In Europe tho Introduction or
British manufactures on the European continent, con
spring with other which shall notice has not
only occasoned our markets TO De gutteu TO an aar
ing degree but has arrested trade from It's best and ac
oustomcd channels and given IL direction which II pur
sued, must inevitably ultimate IN the RUIN OF the mercan
tile establishments OF our country. 80
sympathy and patriotism combine 10 induce us, while
this subject to speak also on behalf OF the manufae
turing interest OF tae nation The same causes which
perty fast precpatng our manufacturing brethren
into the abyss ruin The fate OF the necessarily
involved Ia that OF the other and the destiny OF the ma
ton nseparably interviewer with the welfare of both
IIs lamentabe fact that our laws operate TO give f
gitive commercial agents advantages In this country
which, independent Of fraudulent dealing, transfers the
trade Of our country into the hands Of tmnsitory
strangers enables them 20 mOnOpOlzo the market drive
merchants from business and arrest the industry OF
manufacturers.
goods 10 this country uyoCcd at very reduced prices TO
one Of his agents hero, who having entered them, de-
who is furnished with the true invoice. The owner Ia
beyond tho reach OF our laws. lie who enters them
the invoice he receives lie who holds the true invoice
has 40 agency IN their entry Thus they all elude the
aud mnnufacturer become the common victims 0t foreign
frauds.
mercantile and manufacturing interests this mode oi
sale afording TO foreign agents an early harvest OF the
the regular merchant cannot cpate-adNantages
when are prohibited to them In their own country the
WsO policy OF which uterdCts except In few Instances,
all sales ut auction owing their evil effects on the mer
oantilo and manufacturing interests. by this mode OF
sale the regular merchant stripped OF all the adyan
tages which large expenditures,
aud u long course OF honorable dealing, had acquired
To him. while strangers bound by no ties 10 this country,
who bear OF its bardens, who perform no civic du
ties any service In peace war; who are at no eN-
pense either Of housekeeping, sOrc-rent or clerhlre,
who ranstory scarcely 10 be amenable To our
laws, who enabled 10 mOnOpOzo our money and our
markes-by which means our merchants are obliged IN
many instances TO sacrifice their goods through the same
channel I'm order To pay their bonds for duties to the Gov
ernment-and many induced, In moments OF distress,
10 money by sales auction and by thus cOncCang
their iusoyent circumstances for time, involve them
selves and their benefactOrs In ruin.
10 is too often the that one foreign agent per-
mitcd become the security for another for duties
which they never intended 10 pay and any probable
sacrifice of goods at auction is met by the countcryang
act of abscOndmg and leaving their bonds unpaid.
with respect t0 the manufacturing interests OF our
country, your mcmoallss think proper TO observe that
when the aggrcssOus OF Great Britain mado an appeal TO
necessary the nation found itself dependent ON the
enemy IVr the munitions ot War and the clothing VI