New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-11

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neIimg eonnuanoe OF low wages practlGape.. and
great change. which should cheaper eS 10 live in
Great Britain had become an evident AN. an nor
rious necessity. Neither the nnoct 10 hold
t tH own much less TO expand ana WreedpGsiiup,
long as the laws stood Free tna" nrnecop aud
~ in fact become essential 20 their rfIi onno
,"s dnaIy carried against the fierce ara p I'm %
sition Of the landholders" And row rw materisIs
b ,ad commercial relations and large merchant
marine, Great Britain went ierl 70 oods Said Sir
az the world with her manufacturers 49, ornS ,La
Robert Peel at the close OF me 9eoao 49, irfa onara
modified tariff and the modneu duties: on the con.
trary the amended tarif maintains nany @ az
nnry nr0tectiye as distinguished from revenue duties
qua ri Oyotecti6n was applied to articles wholly manu-,
featured and in the manuiactuTe OF Which tIo d ~
England was largely engaged. These articles were manu-
fac1rred cotton wool, fax, iron and Steel brass anu
copper china, and earthenware glass; paper, And
watches hats candles leather chemical OILS etG t ihe
trond remind the New England manufacturer thal we
highest rate Of duty 9O on every 9loo value brs
is laid cotton and wooden goods, iron anu ed on
hats linen and leather and also, that paper pou
i'm the English language Is prohibited anu % end end
Lawrence and Lewiston, and Worcester ana hns
may well remember this. In fact GIeaI DIrh hse an
niicabty TO existing wants and necessities ana whose
inyigorating power teach us what "sG sd pnagnify
do To develop nations resumes nr,et Tor her
nations wealth She has made marke1 , lur h in
farm produce, she has neglected no 'J' ~ rn
which skilled labor is employed, she has tempted inc re-
hottest producers of raw materials 10 open tolt o
o the products OF her spndes she has MADE herse '
center OF commerce and exchange by the protection OF
her home Industry and by multiplying her NUMBER Oh IN
UrOlucprS.
among tbase nations who believe in the Importance OF
protecting domestic industry. In expressing thS ne
Dries with which these sometimes so disguised
that their most familiar friends would scarGey EeVS d
MIC them This policy, which has been so shaped anu
NODDED nv British statesmen to conform to British ne
cessties is the policy OF every eplghteIed n'T S
on IS Of the Council General the Manutac
turers OF France IN 1852, protection, Ne na and
nrfncna cause OF his conquests" In later days, what
ever changes may have taken place In the customs d
under the Anglo French treaty to
Importance OF her manufactures has not been lot sign.
Of she may have admitted English coal anu r on ~
order TO give increased stimulus TO her mauniaGtureIs
hut she opened the markets OF England 10 heI SIN
equivalent and before ner pIoauS S d
silk industry of England withered. langulshed anu ue
She held on to her protective duties with wise InacS
wrngng from Lord Grey an npG TnsIrcted com
merce, authorizing Count Gasparin 70 RAM dI hnr
irn woolen and silk interests TO an extent equal 10
any protection furnished by the United states anu per
in European countries and the supply OF capital ader
the lower rates OF duties eduaiHEi ohar duties
of our own country. in competition with them
In 1924 Count Nesselrode =. established .nS
protective system for Russia and the civilization ana
prosperity OF Russia commenced at Once her iron mines
have been opened for the supply of rails as against Tue
nave Increased labor has become elevated and ser
dom has vanished before policy which Is ionnueu upon
application of skill and intelligence 10 ihe raw prO
ductiOns Of more primitive endeaVors. Win ner oMn
mills is proceeding to clohe her people WIN el owl
railroads she is binding her great territory INTO c0pag
empire with her ingenuity she Is placing neISen
among su nations of the earth ana Is raising T
agriculture out of the primitive condition OF her ora se
barbarsm, TO the higher system demanded oy @ h
intelligence and more immediate nafhes anu ~ na
side in this labor at least. stand all the cohtlhent IN
tons-Austria Belgium. Sweden Denmark. Prnssla
Snaina differing their civil poity aud IN their ma
topal relations but all in this great modern attempt
TO clothe, each nation its own people WIN shDSanud
fabrics and to develop its own creative genius ana pec
liar resources
EFFECTS OF THE PROTECTIVE PoLcY-TARIfF LEGIs.
LATIOS.
Now. gentlemen think we have right to infer that
a nj Hay irrt ha
of these nations must prove successful also in
deveoninr our own, even were without our own ex
perence to sustain opinion. That system of proec
tion which has been found necessary even between ma
tons where the differences in labor and capacity are
slight and accidental rather than deep and fundamental
and the violation OF which has enabled one OF these ma
tions TO crush entire industry In another must
inevitably be required 10 guard our labor against mat
which, from the simplicity OF its wants and It's inferior po
ston society has every advantage over US as means
of production II cheap labor in country must I've pro
tected against cheap labor in another country Is II not
manifest that the well paid labor OF our own country -
entitled to and requires similar protection even IN large
measures suppose man, not even the most enthnsi
asc doctrnare would attempt 70 assert that me con
dton of an operative in mill at lowell II similar to THAT
of an operative in mill in Manchester or Ehoeuf.
f dDey S ednestop his taxes his
books his natural ambition oil compel Nun 20 earn more
daily wages than the latter. And when he re-
Signs All this and becomes satisfied with what
less money will secure, ne loses at once his ds
tiuctiye characteristics American labOrer ana
leaves capital 10 engage alone and sihSe-naIueu III
and manhood should be Interested. You may tell TINS
American aborer by reducing the price OF his own pro
PRODUCTIONS OF his foreign rival by reducing his own
wages-you may tell him that by TINS process OF educ,
food and rents aud fuel; would he not naturally sus
pect that competition among farmers. aud builders and
! might be for him a better remedy As a
consumer he IS %ldnms Pay neither io"S seIs
respect, his economy, nor the prosperity OF his EN-
poyers requires that he should estimate hs services ny
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And so long as he is well paid himself he may be sure
will be well paid also An energetic capitalist bihlds
cotton mill encouraged 10 do sOby the protection gov
erDnent affords that industry by the same protection he
is enabled TO pay his operatives lberayan active mar
created for meat and breadstufs and the garden
prOducts;-wi any ore tell Inc THAT the money when
| started from the mil owner viii not reach ere
long the farmer, and through him the laborer
| the farmers laRd-the amount which reaches
the mouth Of the stream being In proportion 10 the ygor
OF the spring head When claim, therefore for the
tsan and the manufacturing operative that protection
which necessary for his III this country, in
clude with him all those whose toll supplies his wants,
and leaving u Tor sophlss TO complain tat We would es-
tabllSh an arstocracy OF WOrkinSnen,' propose as
briefly as possible show that such protection has thus
far been necessary bo TO the laDorer ana the capitalist
who has employed him, and that upon the prosperity
Of both these has grown up me great agricultural
industry not only OF New-Encand but OF the
meat and grain producing States OF our Republic.
Notwithstanding the sound and siatesnabke views pre-,
sented by Hamilton JeHersOn, MaulsOn ana nearly All
the leading minds OF our early period the
ais which attended what was called tarin OF revenue.
distinguished from protection The prostration OF
business WhCh followed the OF war IN 1919
appalling. The restrictions upon the importation of
manufactured goods which for few years prior to and
during that struggle with Great Britain, had reused
the agricultural ana manufacturing enterprise OF
| the United States 10 most encouraging ac-
st y be S fa GeEan had Sps up Gel IN al Ge
duce market. 10 find purchaser. And 1t
only when these restrictions removed by peace,
and our country flooded by British manufactures,
TO stihe, as Mr. BrOu9ham said in 1916, IN the cradle
those infant manufactures IN the United States which
the had forced into existence" that the American
people began 10 learn by sad experience the dstresses
which would attend unrestricted commerce with fOTeg
countries. Mills closed money disappeared, the
labOrer like mOurner went about the streets fortunes
vanished, agriculture was mOckery, and commerce
failed In looking FOR "a remedy for these evils
tnne of the fathers revived the American mind; and