New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-20


houses bridges and all other Of the various machinery
reouired f the comfort and material advancement OF
orr people Our forests, on the contrary, are
constantly diminishing in their extent ana now
that by aid OF protection, our PeoI'o "io
becoming daily more and more ehaoieu 10
command the use Of better dwellings peter roads'
and halter bridges the rapidy' Of dminuton becomes
.oIaring, Neverheess we still continue to this
Aostnctbe material to such extent that to estimate at
s9o Ooo 200 per annum the amount required repairing
, roaoas Of time and fire would feel assured, be
Greatly within the mark Desiring to see why 1t Is that
we still continue practice so destructive 1t may be well
FOR Won TO study the facts that under the protective
tariff Of 1928 great progress had been made in the work Of
so developing to warranthe hope that
nj distant period iron might be largely substituted Tor
the porshabe lumber that under the free trade period
which followed we retraced our steps, largely diminish
ing the proportion borne by population TO iron produc
ton that under the protective tariff Of 1912 there was
made progress wonderful to make 1t certain that
at 10 distant day iron would become 60 cheap
as TO insure its greatly increased application in
the construction OF edfces Of every kind that under its
of 1896 again reraced steps, the closing
years Of that unhappy period exhibiting large decrease
in Of iron for every except that OF roads,
this, too, in face of growth OF numbers amounting
to almost per cent thance the passage Of the Morrill,
tariff, 1861, production has gone largely ahead Of
population that are now daily substituting iron for
the lumber that before had been freely used that the
number OF furnaces at this moment being largely In
creased give OF production quadruplng
In its growth that OF population that TO cause that
growth to become twice greater than the one now wit
messed we only give TO mine operators
land owners furnace capitalists at home and abroad
that 1t is fired determination so TO shape our policy as
relieve ourselves and that ut distant day. from she
necessity which exists for laying waste our forests
well from an annual waste, by time and fire, OF
property hose money rale far erceeds that OF all
IRE iyou NIL
in Britain
"Doing this. fellow-citzens, We shall make sucn de-
mand labor will bring to the close neghborhood OF
our farmers hundreds OF thousands Of the Iron workers
OF Europe; we shall relieve those farmers from tax
OF transportation greater than would suffice TO support
the armies Of the world we shall add hundreds Of mil
lions to the money value of lands; shall so In
crease production to enable each and all to contribute
thrice largely to the public revenue we shall es
tablsh harmony among ourselves; we shall so closely
knit together all the parts Of the Union as to forbid the
idea Of future separations we shall free ourselves from
our present humiliatng dependence upon men from
whom we are now claiming satisfaction for depredations
Of the Alabama and the Shenandoah we shall become
the money lenders Of the world instead OF being now
the great money beggars and, finally we shall be ena
bed say the world that the words of our President
elect LET have peacep meant by us to apply to
the world at large and that II is fixed determination
so to use great placed at command as
to bring close the destructive warfare by which the
world SO long has BEEN and still is being, desoated."
Such as think would have been the words Of states
man such in your report you claim to be. Such, how
ever are not the words OF that report their place being
occupied with others expressive OF the troubles OF con-
sumers of "enpenny nails" suffering at the hands OF
furnace who you your feloweitizens are
so secured by protective duties to enable them 10 OBJ
tain twice or thrice the rate OF profit that might properly
be assigned them Desiring TO reduce that rate you pro-
pose the adoption Of such measures as shall at once ami
aud fF
debted for duplication OF iron product In the short
period that has elapsed since the passage OF the Tariff
act OF 1861 and yet eould you but be persuaded to study
carefully the teaching here below given Of your fellow
laborers Of The Erening Post you would, rs think dis
cover that tho fact that iron production Is now
profitable those engaged therein are to look for
such reduction OF prices will secure largely increased
application of that material with constant dimnuton in
the necessity for using lumber in various works Of
construction as the only that is within our reach
is not unreasonable TO expect that inst as ships
Chincha Islands in search OF Peruvian Guano. so will
they before long crowd the wharyes OF GnaTes n IN
the most lasting value This long hidden source OF wealth
prise and capital necessary for Its regeneration, and for
the establishment OF permanent prosperity: company
Of fertilizer Of Which these picsphates the chief
constituents finds ready market at $50 per tun for this
pare it, is thus divided IaOO pounds crude phosphate
IS co; 400 pounds snlpurc acid s2 xo POUNDS goTnd
Of manipulation may carry the entire outlay to s5
which leaves very wide margin for an increase IN the
cost OF the phosphate Either supephosphate OF lime must
become much cheaper In consequence OF This discovery
or the OF the phosphate lands must become rap
idly rich IMPOSSIBLE THAT 50 LARGE PROFIT
AS $35 CAN LONG BE MADE IN MANUFACTURE
IN WHICH THERE Is NO MONOPOLY" Evening Post.
OF theIporfect truth OF the views thus presented
can for moment doubt Liberal profits IN the outset
the necessary preninares to cheap supplies OF this val
liable substance in all the future Such being the case in
regard to a commodity obainable only from some few
thousand acres how infinitely true must IT be In
reference TO that abounds In more than half the
States OF Union and abounds TO make 1t certain
that the day when shall be the great iron
producers OF the world
Leaving you reflect these suggestions and 20 COM
pare them with your own, remain. Yours respectfully.
Hon d. A. WELLS HENRY G. CAREY.
Philadelphia, Feb. 8. 1869.
NO DISCRIMINATION ON ACCOUNT OF
EDUCATION.