New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-10

The Cincinnati Gazette replies to us in an
article whose misstatements are not so gross
as those we lately exposed, so we will treat
some Of them briefly:
/. The Gazette says that our essays
"clte as authority this declaration of Mr. MorrPs; In
decd / would engage 10 export rails to the British
domlnions profit, IL We could have our own market
for twenty-five years Is this true"
No. it is false. We cited Mr. MOrrilPs
declaration as opinion, not authority, and
dSsentcd from it.
9. Again: ..--,-,.
iron from 1880 to 1870 from 10000 tuns TO $4,000
tuus being lO per cent for ten years, under Whdt M
GJectry calls the i0tc duty"
On the contrary, the duty on Pig Iron was
higher most of this decade than before or
since-the Protective Tariff of 1923 imposing
duty of 1921 per tun on Pig Iron, While 1t
was never more than $40 under any other.
This Tariff had just begun to make itself felt
in the production of Pig Iron in 1880; and the
Compromise Tariff of 1888 only took off one
tenth per annum of the erceSs over 20 per
cent down to 1912. In fact, there has been
no other decade in which the production OF
Pig Iron was so effectively stimulated by
Protection as just that
g. The Gazette says
"When Mr. David A. Wells presented an oncal report,
embodyng facts procured by much labor going to show
that our tor is oppressive 10 American industry Nr
Greeley who could not meet his facts charged that he
was bribed with British gold When challenged for the
grounds OF this accusation he had none TO give but that
ne faucied that Mr. Weiss ideas would advance the in
torests OF British Manufacturers
The misstatements in the above paragraph
W l.. IoI,n af no
spccifed; but, long afterward, The ST. Louis
Democrat named several eminent champions OF
its anti Protective views and challenged us to say
whether their course was or was not influenced
by money. We-thus constrained TO give our
Opinion-repled that Mr.. VIM. c. Bryant had
always been a FIee-Trader, and we doubted not
that this was his honest conviction; but we could
not say the same of Mr.. Wells, because, rhHe
protesting TO be a ProtectiOniSt, the whole drift
of his Report was clearly intended to prOre
Protection a folly or fraud. Thus he was
understood by all-ProtectiOnists and Free
Traders alike-and, since it was not credible
that he alone should fail to comprehend the
scope and purport of his teachings, we must
believe that he was earning a subsidy by his
crooked course Such was our conviction;
H''SN"
it: such is The Gd:ette'S misstatement of EACH
We submit them all to the judgment of an
impartial public.
4. The Gazette speaks of our sort as
The narrow Observation-Disclosures, who sucked In TINS
as partisan idea their youth and have uursed 1t TIL
IL has become fanaucism abolish all reason and make
anything to which they give the name OF protective taru
n thing that it is sacriege to question"
TO which THE TRIBUNE responds that our
gauge" is precisely that of HENRY CLAY, and
the good, great men who We'd with him in
LAYING the broad foundations of " the American
System" whereof The Gazette of CHARLES
HAMMOND and john c. WRIGHT was so zeal
Gus. effective champion. Under their lead,
Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky cast their every
Wing vote for the Tariff of 1S2S-that which
imposed the highest duty on Pig lron--for
precisely the same reasons that impel us to
sustain the Tariff of to-day. If the gauge
of Calhoun and McDuilie seems broader and
better to the present conductors of The Gazette,
so he it but they need not oyince such bound
less contempt for those who read The Gazette
in its earlier years, and have not yet forgotten
! its teachings.