New-York tribune., 1871-12-27
A GOOD EYAMPLE.

The Wool Growers aud w OOen manliIac-
turers of this country met in convention at
Syracuse last week, and. after free cOnsulta-
tion. resolved that they desire the Tariff
simply let alOne-that it il working -well-that
both interests are prospecting under lt-that
our Wooden factories have doubled in number
within the last few years, and Obetter stllD
have oeen multiplied mainly in sections where
none existed till very recently. The new fac-
tories have been erected. not in New-Engand,
but in Minnesota. Iowa, Kansas, Colorado
California, Oregon, &c, where Wool-growing
is also receiving its most active development.
There are of course few dissenters IN their
ranks, but the immense majority of both WOOL
growers and WOolen Manufacturers, from the
SacO to the Willamette, ask Congress to let
the Tariff alone, and thus permit continuance
of the rapid and gratifying development OF our
Wool and Wooden industry.
What they have so uneQuivOcally declared,
other great Industrial interests generally feel.
The assertion that Protection always stlmtl-
lates demand for higher Protection, is con-
futcd by the most undeniablo facts. Ih0ugh
the duty on Pig Iron was reduced by the
Scbcnck Tariff from 50 to 81 per tun, "a mis-
take, in our Judgment which, by checking the
flow of capital and enterprise into irOn-smeltng,
has enhanced the price of IrOn) tie Iron
smeltcrs are asking no change of Congress-
The duty on Pig Iron was fixed at 50 per tun
by the Calhoun Tariff Of 1876 raised in 1918
to 50, in 1924 to $40. and in 1928 to Sl2f; and,
though our British rivals have since learned how
to smclt Iron more cheaply than they did. yet
our producers arc now active and prosperous
under q 81 duty. They, too. ask only to be
let alone.
The World mistakenly says:
"As we have previously stated Senator Fen ton intro.
duced in the senate petitions from several salt compa
nes to maintain the present high tariff duties upon Tor
eign salt. 1t is not surprising that the Senator Pro-
should lend his aid TO the salt mon0polies cs
pecially the mammoth ono in our own State which, by
its log-rong at Washington to keep tho high rates
on the foreign article, aud its lobbying at Albany
to keep down state duties to cent per bushei upon
s productions, has enriched itself and thus driven
several other American industries Of the same kind out
of the home markets. sells salt to whom and where
it peascs high and low prices, so that other salt
companies cannot compete wit h It,"
All this is wide of the truth. The Salt COM
panies, have not even asked Congress to re-
tain the present duty. What they ask is that
foreign salt may not be admitted free of
duty, but made to contribute, along with other
imports, to the support of the Government and
the payment of the National Debt.
The Salt companies say, moreover, that they
cannot possibly be robbing the salt-cOnsumers
Gas charged) of s1O,OOO,OOO per annum, since
all the Salt made in this country Is but 2O,-
100000 bushels. which they sell Excluding
barrels) for S5,OOO,00O which is less than so
much Salt ever was OF will be sold for by i'm
pOrtcrs-not, perhaps, in the seaboard cities,
but in all parts Of the interior, where it is
wanted by the mass of our consumers, and
where our salt-lnakcrs produce and sell it.
The friends of Protection to Home Industry
can only be wOrsted in the present Congress
by allowing their common enemies to set them
| against each other. He who votes to protect
Iron, or Wool, or Cloth, or Sugar, but against
protecting other industries which do not hap
pen to flourish in his district or State. is at
heart an enemy of all Protection, and should
be so regarded. Shoulder to shoulder let us
stand, and the hosts of our adversareS will
recoil baHlcd and disheartenrd.