New-York tribune., 1870-05-09

"and Social Science" which proclaims the
"abolitiOn of all CustOmH Houses" all Usury
laws, all laws interfering with the employment
of Capital OF Labor, among its objects, favOrs
us with the following:
BRITISH GOLD.
The Council of the Financial Reform Association OF
Liverpool, England, wrote to the Free Trade League,
NewYork Offering to get up subscriptions in England
ia aid Of the The Treasurer of the League re-
Piled to the Secretary OF the Financial Reform Associa
ton as follows
DEAR SIR: have received your favor OF the d instant and
Wednesday last read to the Executive Committee regular meeting
The Committee desire express and to the Council Of
Association their thanks your offer Of support but they fee
it would be many neIpent accept yOu kind owing
the very which sue your note namely help
from the Bnther would really be preude than beneficial to
great
We Yankees desire keep
far removed from forein influence possible There
thousands this country who sincerely that bought
British god and that all made with he Of rlnng
countrymen and beneftng the foreigner.
We know dfereBy but Necessary io' close the mouths Of
opponents cutting
tion for their acclsltion<
Indifferent praise support
enlightened and who really liberty; contrary
welcome and feel its inevitable ad the midst Of auous
abors
good work advancing lines every AMI
have advanced enemy will
be long shall carry his inmo citadel strong appears
Horace Greeley has the reputation of being honest
man. and, although he hes much shaken the confidence
Of his friends by his reteraon of statements without
shadow Of evidence in their support after their false
hood had been proved by the FreeTradcr-, he can
establish his character by publishing the above letter Of
Mr. Marshall.
viii he dare TO be honest enough TO do sOi
Comments by The Tribune.
Having dared to copy the above, we beg
leave to assure our challenger and his clan that
we are not one whit more "hOnest " than we
were before, and have no wish to reGsablish
any character which we may have lost in
their eyes. On the contrary, we are more
likely to lose than gain in their regard by the
discussion to which they invite us.
|. Let us look at this matter in the light of
common sense:
Our country is now buying of Western
Europe Metals Wares, and Fabrics, to the
average value of some Two Hundred and Fifty
Millions per annum. 1t is our firm conviction
that the great mass of these products are pur-
chased by us at q lOss-that we might dig the
ores from our own soil and fabricate there
from the Metals and Wares we need at a
smaller cost IN labor than we now pay for
them. We hold that the labor which now
produces in Iowa or Minnesota, the Wheat
wherewith we pay England for thousand
tuns of Iron or of Steel, would buy far more
Iron or Steel, if those Metals were wholly
obtained by us from domestic sources, never
from abroad. Our reasons for this faith are
fully given in our little volume on Political
Economy, which any one can consult who will.
And that volume contains we are confident,
no single allusiOn to British Gold"
II. But there are many persons interested in
supplying us with these European Metals,
Wares and Fabrics, and who are personally
profting by this trade. They-as is very
natural-see this matter in quite different
light from that which strikes oar eyes, just as
the rumsel)er has radically different notion
of Temperance and the Liquor Traffic from
ours We find no fault with this We expect
the importers and distributors of British
Wares and Fabrics to view the matter as we
do not 1t is as natural that they should get up
Free Trade Association, and flood the
country with tracts, periodicals, handbills, adj
dresses, &C., &C., as that we should seek to
counteract its effects.
But all this costs money; and somebody pays
it. Who pays? Who should payP We have
printed the circulars of British exporting
houses, reducing the prices of those Wares on
which our Duties had been increased, but not
reducing their rates on similar articles whcreon
our Duties had not been increased. We have
also printed the recent circular of large
Iron-exporting house, telling its correspondents
that their only hope of advancing the price of
British Rails hinged on a reduction of the
American Tariff.
These British competitors for the possession
of our markets undoubtedly believe that they
would sell us more goods, and at higher prices,
if our Tariff were reduced as our Free-Traders
would have it. Here is an arduOus, costly
struggle TO be maintained, by the success of
which the European competitors for our mar
kets expect to profit directly and bounteously:
why should they not offer TO defray good
share of the expense! Why should not the
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