New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-07

au.,,v and It's prosperity. II Protection DO
..,, ~. ho,efcent. we would have it promptly
and totally subyerted. We want no repricVe'
No mitigation of sentence, but Judgment on
the merits. swiftly followed by execution.
The one great mistake OF MIR. Gays glorious
career was his Tariff Compromise. 1t was wen
meant but i'll considered. And now, IL the
Frec-Traders would only cmbody their prin-
ciples in n Tariff, we could almost consent 10
ts passage, in our confident trust that the
sweeping ruin it would produce would insure
a reaction so resistlcss and thorough that
we should not be again infested with Free
Trade theories for at least generation. But
while we Protectionists always make Pro-
tectiye Tariff when wo have the power, our
adversaries never make one that is more thah
partially accordant with their avowed prln-
ciple.
We have few recorded instances OF OattieS
won by armies in full retreat. Hence, we
distrust the potency and the policy OF conceS-
sions volunteered by ProtectiOnists to adVer-
sories who do not solicit them nor propose TO
be satisfied Herewith.
With regard TO the notifications sugSesteu
by The Republican, We avowed long ago anu
have often repeated our wish that Coal shouiu
be put on the free-list in the next revision OF
the Tariff. That will afford some relief 10
a part of New England; to all the rest OF
our country, it will be Of no account. III
foreigners would giUe us all the Coai we
would take, mined and laid on their DOCKS
we could not import and distribute IL SO
chcaply rs we are now digging 1t from our
own soil. Our Coa-minors would derive Tar
more advantage from an addition OF 81 per
tun TO the duty on Pig Iron than from slOO
pcr tun added to the duty on Coal.
! As TO Coffee, tropical product no one asks
for q duty on it with any reference to Pro-
lection. Whenever the Treasury can spare
the large sum now realized from the Gomez
duty. we shall gladly see it abolished.
| Tea. we trust, will yet be abundantly grown
on orr own soil. China has no climate that
we cannot parallel; and it is absurd that our
people, 80 largely agricultural, should send
around the globe for product of the
| TemDcrate Zone. We have no doubt that we
! shall yet grow our own Tea at less than hali
the cost of its present importation. Yet the
existing duty on Tea was imposed and Is
| maintained with an eye single to Revenue
| We shall heartily rejoice if it incidentally
| ravors our home production of this popular
| beverage.
As TO Salt, we believe the country as whole
il now supplied with it at a smaller average
cost than it would or could be if our domestic
| Sat-works were closed by untaxed importa-
ton. True, we should make some Salt If there
were no duty on the foreign; but the home
production would be subjected to depressing
competition with that produced by the far
! chpaper labor of the West Indies and OF Canada;
| and our works would for years produce less
and less Salt instead of more and more. We
| could assent TO a reduction, not an abolition,
of the Salt duty. On what principle shall we
| tax Sugar and not SaltY
With regard to Lumber, we make this Sug-
| gestiOn:
The duty on Lumber il now quite low
lower than it could be placed by uniform
Revenue Tariif-and we perceive no good
| reason for aboshing it while we have a
Tariff mt all. We hope for and would gladly
| hasten the day when British North America
shall voluntarily seek an equal and honored
place under the protection of our flag. But
| this contamination is retarded by the open
ing of our ports to her Coal, Wool, Lum-
Der, Wheat, &C., &c, free of duty. Her farm
ers now kceny feel the inadequacy OF the
prices commanded by their products when con
| trasted with ours, and realize that every acre
! they own, whether of timber or tillage, would
| be enhanced in value by their admission into
| our Union. 1t does not seem to us wise or
timely on our part to destroy this palpable
| lnduCemcnt to Annexation