New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-19

in this bcmbproot of advantages aud Ssd
Session after session the Tariff bills had faeI anu ~
fail Howl For want OF time to pass them hh comptrV
appointed work in the Revenue syste , .. ~, by de-
laying the maturity Of the bills. Aud ne ana s i
lie successfully beirayed every OH Tho end Of his official
life he betrayed every manufacturer Who souE ma a.,
SSce or @ If deeeations who asked him for
rates Of protection in the Tariff that would s;
in his flesh lie got rid OF them. ana eInpted oI U,
OF ashnCtOn by promising eNeiylnhE my
assuring them on his honor that ,ney couIu @ in
home and leave their interests In his care iheWseht
stances betrayed them. Trying 10 ink out looking
as he walked and looking do%nwSa1 %ht IN Of tue
consciousness being watched ths ar tbousands OF
office that he cast shadows that reaci faciorles and
miles and broke mems hearts In diver ayod him
workshops. Wealth awed him, and naternion ngucs of
and he put rates rate into TS TbG ysr
his own signature, denounced took grand re-
and unscentiac. But he from treason and baseness,
and these Involuntary n bIio expense and there pro
himself to England at fatferine entertainments that
Gasebcd tho Ts na TFrf table h speeSRS ne"
The embargo too abundant proof came back over th9
20 uglt Out WD Revenue Commissioner Oi the United
ocean that promising throughout England that his
states wSocy should cease to be American ana should
6c"ons British ana WIS eohaiI'"H MILL "G hs
and merchants to glVo theu poSseSSioh Vi MS
ddnn,r.itry's markets. 80 ,,,,
'But David A.. Wells was not without n'ely I,,
Wells was faithful lie was faithful TO ms early
love and his early habit Of scissors aud paste
While he expanded into u Political Economist ne
ala moi grow out of the processes OF hiS OBJ
scuCity and the methods of his incapicy He con
nued to paste things. His more prelout0uS rcportS
paste. He had no theories He bad no prhclrT
lie had knowledge. lie had no power OF writing Bnt
oh, ne could pastel 50 the " Great American Econo-
mist parceicd out the preparation OF ms reports
TO the Treasury. giving the Cotton Manuiac-
nrc to Atbnson; Cnreney ana b'nf5 d,,,r,c 70
Wool aud Nooeus to another. Iron and stccl to
concdcncy Of revenue cheats t9en sat down by his pot
ANA waited. When Atkinson produced ne laSic1 Ath-
son in; when Walker produced he pasted WAhcr IN
William orion knew more about the Internal krycnnc
than any man IN the United states anu nc latFloucluy
permitted his knowledge TO bc tapped by tho " Great
American Economist who cauEht 1t al IN h4t'p4
And Orton was pasted IN. All were phsleu III. inis
structure of paste completed, the Great American
Economist" pasted hts 10 IT, and Then famed him
with the wings OF Fame and wrote his own pis Tor
the newspapers; hut his look, when not hidCloT, was
prone the earth aud the air OF being watched was
lncuraby ON him. and as OF DID, he urea 10 sh oI Oh
sight as he walked.
This paste-po yentured on sncer at the pamphlet,
"H,. the National Dcnt. well managed, may WOve
National Blessing! large part of my purpose in
writing that pamphlet was TO maintain TaiI Protection
long enough To enable the country 70 Go 10 rec IIo
Just the English 10 IT, wished to preserve the
National Deb unpaid and undiminshed, 50 as TO make
the necessity for large revenue from customs Oh
foreign imports continuous and perenptoIy The argu
ment Of that pamphlet has never been answered
stand now on every WORD OF II. ARGls Hol uue t t
Greenbacl representative OF the War DEBT is money and
added capal Was il not and 1t not true OF the Ger
tfcaes of Indebtedness Have not thousands upon
thousands OF commercial and industrial transactions
been facilitated by pledges or delyee. OF eydeh'es o.
portions OF the Funded Debtf Practically, eacn
aud AL are money, and captal-rst as mueh
as gold dollars ali the definitions 10 the
contrary Political Economists OF the Free Trade
school, whom the great Napoleon suppressed III France
as public uuiSauccS who would grind nation 20 powder
with their senseess theories Elder has pOrled
his immortal "a curious class of college pro-
fess0rs, professional terateurs, meaphysiciais ana
Torld-menders, among Them, here ana there, rev
theOOans who have taken leading positions among The
authorities, covering with their pale cast OF thought
the native hue of practical affairs and turning awry
their currents till they lose the name of action" OF
that class of Economists, at to be aDhOrred
and despiScd. who make commodity OF their pretended
Science sell il III all markets, and who hire them
selves out to foreign capitalists 10 break down the
Tariff which protects their cOunrYs undcVclOpCd In
usty and safeguard OF its independence and the
condition its greatness of what possible consequence
is the contemplate merchandise OF their opinloni
NetJ- York, Feb. TO- 1872. SAMUEL WILi.L-ON.