New-York tribune., 1870-12-15
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES
Continued from First Pare,

because I remember that there were Wo5snrnIsssy
who were an inventive race and WHO ,Ecro e,anh
and incitemens 10 the industry Of Christendo,n s'
CENTURIES ago; but here see Turkey today ana III
lfklSh race, eNempfying and earring ouf N tbe,
legnate results the doctrines which limit the sphere
vi BoNtrhmfnt 20 aS 10 exclude all care FOR the ener
| sphere. "' "' "s'
belong to another school, learned Of their sncces.
or.-Madi.on and Clay. Applausel I learned OF them
@ & oIu Od vac highest aud at tie time OF thu
,t no,t urgent duties of government was that which
makes us csrein aud proSdent proud Of deyelop-
~, enpd.uing INDUSTRY, al the time taking de
Ne0pments ana entering upon relations and AWAY.
WIN piogItSsNe aspect advancing from tOday's tn
/ umph 10 toInOifOWS - ana 80 on To another,
VALUE OF AMERICAN PROJECTIONS.
may say that II tomorrow this country we're bo,,.o
out Of existence with all its people, the outside world
could well afford 10 pay billion Of dollars for what wa
have added 10 s machinery 10 its powers Of Production
by American invention and American inyentors, which
would never have been made In America but for
| the eBcourag cement TO own Industry by
our legislation. lAppausel say blot out
this people. its hstory-let g. perish from the
| lace of the earth-and stl the c0tton-gn
and the steamboat and the electric telegraph and Inc
| sewln9,machine and the reapng and moving machine-
which may say direct results OF the high wages
PAID 10 labor In this country, would he worth To- tlie
world outsde-and they cOuld not afford to spare them
fora thousand million dollars. ApplauseJ You NAV
say that they would have discovered them that they
would have been guessed OF imagined but know that
so long a. labor drug in the market long tho
laborer could be hired for the wages China Japan
there was no Indictment to discover them. when labor
Is high, In demand; when ii Is very scarce, when the
crops begin TO suffer for abor the inventive
genius OF man is brought into requson 10 ascertain how
one days work can be made to the purpose Of
three four; and these high wages and labor
baye been IN all ages the proper incitements Of the
| achievements Of inventive genius.
don't concur, then, with those gentlemen who dcpre
cate Tie 6iga prices paid to labor in this conntry II on
unfortunate for But when you consider how thess
high prcesas in late years-baye caused that magnif
cent development OF the shoe emokng and bootmaklDg
industry In New-England, which has reyOutOnzed the
tTade-sO with sewing and other machines-yhen you
that dear labor tends directly 10 stimulate invention and
to multiply machinery, then say putting In large
yiew believe that good substantial prices for labor
among the engnery, the impelng powers whereby our
driven forward to continual improvement and adj
vancement lApplausel
FRUITS OF DEAR LABOR
There are certain gentleman who tell US that Proteo
tion very well in inantile state but have ar
rived at a condition where there is longer need OF
it. Well say there articles perhaps which have
reached that condition / presume the whole body OF
and all that family is made by to-day cheaper and Ger
tally better than by any other nation the earth, and
cheaper here So with the great family Of the digging
implements-the spade, the pckax the shovel we are
dearer steel and selling them In British colonies
paying British duties, aud selling them In competition
These are among our early achievements in manufso
into universal acceptance and all the world
admirable the invention. 1t was demanded by dear
contrived to bore holes fastet than other nations did
because could not ind men to bore them cheap
other nations did tAppausel
PREE TRADE TACTICS.
Now then 20 the proposition that II we have reached
a point where We make things as cheap other,
people, then no longer need to protect them ses
good men-sOme OF them perhaps present-whO thinb
1t a selfevdent fact If manufacture cheap
y as any other nation then do not need Protection
Let state fact which took from Free Trade oircu
bar only few days agOa Free Trade circular Issued by
in the copper business do Mt remember his namc.
He says the copper men or tls country some months
ago ionnd themse'es Nitn Sueu t h ht 2 % hand .
| ing prices Ihey were llaDle 10 nave on nahu soHc
100000 20O0O0 OF tun3 OF copper and II they didn't
all at loss What did they doi They cung together,
aud by mutual agreement exported 100000 pounds OF
cents per pound and thereby brought up their market
TO easier condition. and sold the remaining millions al
merchants that that is very probable and natural way
for them They have 100000 pounds OF copper
O SSa sy tS another Country, which they sell
loss but they thereby quicken or stimulate the sale OF
operation. Applause and laughterl
But protest against exposing the markets to the dan
ger OF being broken down by the surplus OF other
tries. lAppausel Their business was TO sell their ls
by selling 100000 of the scope OF their market
at loss they made profit on the 100000 left Now
ware-men OF England have done the same thing time
and again; Why & should they not the market: ss
themselves OF depressing surplus, If they quicken
their markets by the process They naturally VIII do
blssfu condition that you call universal Free Trade, Is
trying TO save Itself at the expense OF other nations
pitching their surplus here and there and anywhere TO
clear themselves. fAppausel
Is possible and easy to be accomplished b the best for
country, or the best for mankind Insist that that
Is unwse policy which exposes the markets OF my
on to be thus depressed and guted simply to meet tho
convenience Of rival nation. do not then believe that
ne s Ss se S ePg % VIII re De w S & or %G 70
| OF other nations which rival our own. tAppausel
A PROTECTIVE POLICY THE ONLY TRUE ONE.
And, fellOw-citizens, while deny that there s any
danger that there anything in the nature Of war in
the policy have advocated. do insist that It Is
Wl
nation should cherish and its statesmen respect Mr.
6nr aSmratep tie and crentSTc ~ me- S BrsS
| friend OF his who was speaking 10 neighbor go
ing OF to Ca California ana left him win sh, IN,
wise injunction. tApplause and laughterJ | think
OF himself viii not be bad neigSbor nor bad friCnd
(Applausel think that was good sound British advice
respect and profit by it. There Is very old dtty OF
British origin whereof the refrain runs like this
AID sd1 she iS lives .irDss n our 81 slI.y.% .y "''''
have no hostile feeling TO the people VINO i've IN 9'het
those who i've in alley. tAppause.l Was IL not the
providence OF God to divide men into nations tor wss
and good purpososi Has 1t not been given this good
old maxim that blood is thicker than wateri-
Was 1t not one that appealed to the @ unlyer LIVER
! TO labor for the advancement aud ven
though desire also the welfare Of all lapp,"ls nm nna
say If each nation will act ON the maxim oI Nj. nun nun
delas friend and be careful TO le gooi 70 itsc W ,ha
work out te best results for each ana TOT ever! n"on
Now then, # were statesman OF thst new country 10
the old land called United Italy should nrst OF ali s
business duty Is % set all these lders TO WORK.
these NeapOltau lazzarUni these ders and beggar In
this great city, hyng from mana 10 ou'n must We en
| poyed." | would. first OF all, give every one of
| these people work would not ask, VIII u be
oheper to make these goods AZ nome or o.! thsh
| abroadf" No, II they were made by labor when
now does nolhng; though there IA acquired tbefeiy
simply the habit OF working. skill in manufacture; and
| though the goods when made should DO worm nUthhs
more than the material out OF which they were made
would still say the nation is the ganer Tor u cohlrNeo
To put employment into the hands OF the begsars, suo
Induced habits Of industry in the iders" lApplauseI
| II | were u native Of Hayu or Lioera wOull say
| Import "A sewing machine and a moving machine
| everything you need. and when You have done, MAKE
others delight in using them aud enjoying themselves
am asked we imaOrt l,0C00t9 tuns OF Iron ana