New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-26

trust TO the free lances than undertake TO sup
pement them by an organ.
Mr.. Sands saw fit to prove his organ super
fuous, as follows
ct can give you better evidence OF the sta.e VI
onnon In the West than when tell you that west vi o
AeObanies there is single great newspaper which
,ayors .Protecton st. Louis, there Is only ONO op
evenine paper against while the same Is true Oh
Cincinnati In the latter place the paper referred
edited Inv Free Traders happen to know, VINO advo
cate because they court the support OF tne
monopolies eren am told that me edto''~ S"V Z" "'e
leadiug Proteciio,1s organ IN me East Is compose"
E,,1od,ys ciM one great ercepon And is also true
that this journal the lavish support OIL ING HUH
masters--one firm taking 766 copies OF IT,
of course, q journal that advocates ITO
lection cannot be "geat" In MIR. SandsS
opinion; but the oldest paper west OF the
Alleghanies is The Pittsburgh Gd=ette-always
Jealous for Protection. The Chicago hepuon-
can, The 81. Louis Tribune, The Detroit Dal'y
advertiser, Detroit Post, and ever SO many
more such, are small concerns in MIR. Sandss
view, because hostile to Free Trade. III he
has been "toldn that the Editorial staff OF
THE TRIBUNE ais composed of Free-Traders
with one great exception" he has been told
q lie; but what if it had been trueq No
one who writes editoraly for these columns
is q Free-Trader; but we employ persons
to deal with non-pOlitcal topics without regard
to their politics. and it is quite possible that
some of them cherish convictions on some
points adverse to orr own: what Of itY And
why should not "the iron-masters" subscribe
for and circulate THE TRIBUNEY We hope
not one only but many of them do so, and
that they will take thousands of copies where
IL ILL., 10 MI oh n
too many, provided they pay for them-and
we shall see to that. Mr.. S. continues:
"appea TO your humane feelings TO induce you to aid
us in relieving the poor from taxes which take from
them their hard Learned wages to enrich monopoliSts
Commissioner Wells has proved that, while the advance
wages since 1860 has been but 80 cent? the advance
the OF the prime necessities OF life has been % per
cent CATER boot. Which cost before the war
cents costs o. O5. The tax on blanket shaWlis
over per cent while lace pocket-handkerchief
is but 50 per cent. The duty on common earpetngs 10
increased by the schenck bill to 90 per cent while the
tax upon Aubusson and Administer carpets but 90 per
cent stout suit OF clothes be bought IN England
for Ct hero costs SIS The tax blankets $50 per
cent"
Well, Mr. Sands, how does the price of
blankets under this $50 per cent duty, compare
with that of ten years ago, under low reye-
nue. duty9 Why did MT you give hdtf And
why did MT you tell us how tailors are to 1--we
when ga stout suit of clothes is bought for
Gtq And why not inform us why the laboring
class are fleeing not only from Great Britain,
but from thinly settled Canada, to densely
peopled New England-from cheap blankets
and cheap clothes to oursH Do you think them
too blind or stupid TO know where their bread
can be buttcredi
We now ask Mr.. Sandss attention to the
table of comparative prices of Wooden fabrics
in 1860 (undcr Free Trado) and in 1869 (under
Protection as furnished by Mr.. A. /. Stewart
to Commissioner Wells for his last Report and
published in The Free Trader for January. 1t
is expressly stated by them to be " the selling
price of those fabrics-of coursei in Green
backs in 1869. when Gold was at an average
premium of over 80 per cent, making the real
prices of 1869 far lower IN the average than