New-York tribune., 1870-02-10
CnnNTING CHICEENS.

CUNNING CHfChENo =.
The sanguine youth who answered his friehu
inquiry as to his luck in angling that when
"catch this fellow that is nibbling, and nine
"more, | shall have ten" has many lmitatois
among our i-Tarif contemporaries. mus Ihe
World cheers its importing patrons WIN 'no
assurance that
$50 soon as the West is represented In Congress IN pro
portion to its population. the era OF hsh taiins
The Protectonists have even now'a ma9ofi! y, o"'
eleven and the New Apportionment VIII at once o"aso
If into majority at least thrice as great Oh 'n o'0
side"
If the British manufacturers and JoooerS
could only believe that assurance, 1t would save
tbem nile of money. Their " Free Irader
might be stopped its Office shut up ana their
fabrication of tracts suspended.
But tbey are not so green. They know that
in Iowa. the heart of the Great West, the Hon.
George G.. Wright, an avowed Protectlonis'' Has
lust been sent to the u S. Senate for SIX years
in place of Gov. Grimes, bitter Free rauer
that the Governor of Missouri declared Tor Iro-
lection in his late Annual Message; that 1uii
half of the Missouri delegation are Protection-
ists that though the st. Louis organs OF both
the great parties are industriously, splteiuiiy
anti Protective, public meeting recently heid
in that CITY. after hearing able speakers on
eocb side. decided for Protection; that many
leading Democrats of that city, including the
Hon. John Hogan, who lately represented her ID
Congress-. are active Protectonsts and they
comprehend that they are yet to hight Tor the
West. They may carry it for season; but
they will have to fight for every square inch
Of if. and to fight under disadvantages they
lovo pOt vpt fully cOmDrClcDdcu,
For the West, like the South under the new
impulse inaugurated by Free Labor, is turning
her attention to Manufactures Missouri has
probably more Iron Ore than any other state;
Indiana and Illinois abound in excellent Coal; /;
West Virginia and Kentucky have both Coal
and Iron and st. Lonis, which not long ago
bought all her Iron from the East. is now
selling thousands of tuDs TO Pittsburgh. In
diana promises soon to make the best Pig Iron
in large quantities; IllinoisIat Chicago, Mich
igan Qear DetroD, and Wisconsin Cat Mil
waukee) are already producing freely though
but n flea-bite of what they soon will II Pro-
lection be adhered to. With the Tariff well
let alone, we shall be making Pig Iron largely
at the base Of the Rocky Mountains within
four years. So with regard to Textile Fabrics,
The World says
til after the Southern Senators and Repre-
sentatves withdrew Congress- in the Winter before
the war; that the Protectoniss able to the
Morrill, tariff With the South again represented ana
both the West and the South largely strengthened Pro-
lection will be repudated by majortes which viii make
the editor of THE TRIBUNE stare and gasp"
The World forgets that the South that
went out of Congress was different from that
which is coming in. The former bred laborlng
men and women for sale, and sold them: hence
were jnveterate and ultra Free-Traders the
new South believes in government Of the
People, by the People for the People" and
considers a labOring man made to vote, not to
be sold from an auction block, as may be seen
in its vote on Marshall's proposition. Every
month increases the intelligence of the Southern
laboring class, and thus hastens the develop
ment of Southern Manufactures. Already, Nir-
gnia and North Carolina are exporting home
made Pig Iron; cotton factories are rising by
the Southern waterfalls and few years will
witness a heavy expectation of the Southern
staple in the form OF Yarn, Drills, and Brown
Goods gencrally and then Goodbye to South
ern Free Trade Slavery frOwncd down Man
ufactures; Free Labor will cherish and develop
them and the South will conform her policy
to her cxigencies, as Ncw-England did before
her. Az to who will "stare and gasp" just
wait and see