New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29

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Alcohol, Mathematical Iui sesHuas InsiTu'
B Bs. AID Ale asi;iIIs" pi,Psi,d ard p.,ui
Billiard Table, MirrOr. aaf Git Fr.@..n 49,,
R RSs:' "a. ss3 I 2sn' sl.A o i'I salad.
Bauk Books AID Poets, Books o. Castor
Carp aTs' Rs'io,I PsulSs. ,pd Fsr,rup,
Chandelier and Gas FiIurs', Psns, prepared s,r,o
Chocolate P.a lSnSs
Cutlery ssd Steel Tools Piotle. ,sd s'Ho''
B BSs' f, mas,A" Printing Prsi.,. ard T,pe.
Ksfb,n ard Stone Ware, seae, lOd Balances.
Eaansssd cIOih s sl9s We,
Rrfs, died and Prss,ryei' s.iris Hoop Sir"'
Pi1s Rsgis,. aud Apparatus, s.s. spring. v..,,.,,.
al, Meters ''' i''' TssHsVIc App,
Hats and Caps r rsWW.
Hemp hahuiAoture' r.n 49, w.t..
Iron RAlag. .ad Furniture, Umbrellas aud PAr''ol'
soTpSeso Leather Wagons, Carts and wbs.banoVs,
Marble and stone Manufactures. Wooden Ware
Not one of these names is given place in
the list of exports after the year 1866, and
probably even this full list would not repre-
sent all the articles worthy of enumeration in
1863, since in 1866 there was yet the sum of
1885,, 900 set down to "unenumerated manufac-
"tures.r Still, it would have been creditable to
include a portion, at least, of the aboYe in a
table of exports Some Of the items here
named reached nearly million dollars in
value in 1866, and in the aggregate their value
reached the very respectable total of ten mil
lions two hundred and five thousand dollars in
that year; sum worthy the notice of all who
care for the growth and development of the
country in skilled industry.
We protest. therefore, against continuing this
deliberate course of repression in regard to our
rapidly growing manufactures. If Mr.. Wells is
opposed to the silk manufacture, to the making
of glue, chemicals, anilinc, and other dyes;
quinine and other medicines; and to others of
the large category attacked in his report, it is
still the interest of the country and the peo-
ple generally to develop this industry. The
actual export of ten millions of dollars worth
of these finer manufactures settles the queS-
ton that we con make them for export if pro-
tected, and pats at rest the pretense that be-
cause of the high duties they cannot be made
cheaply CROUCH to compete with foreign coun-
tries.
And now, as we have protective policy IN
operation. Switch cannot yet be oyerthrown, let
IFS demand q restoration of the true statistics of
the export trade. Congress suppressed one Of
fender In laying the nominal director of these
statistical fallacies aside month or two since.
we next need some step to sweep away the
whole of the Treasury management and man
ayers by whose order the truth Of our com
merca record is suppressed. The Efforts of the
statistical department of the Treasury to sup
press all account of our manufactures and of
the Special Commissioner of the Revenue to
suppress these manufactures themselves, have,
in our opinion, gone quite far enough to de-
serve final and absolute repression.
1t is also well to refer to the aggregate value
of the export of manufactured articles from
the United States in the last four or I've years
of high tariffs, as compared with th' period
previous to 1860. From the clamor ofthe new