New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-31

thus take for example TINS Sity OF faseIsoH W. ~
e and once knew IL, it but a little one-horse
Village while now Il is THRIVING city, with long on op pems
tves" did not attempt to enter INTO any discussion
with the on ss what have you got
TO make 10 correct and plausible M CIV
the response to the question came back 70 me IN ts ny
Since 1854 the duties imposed the importation OF SILK
have averaged GO per cent ad valoieul anu We ~
62e average 9sS o yas e aggregate Of consumption
for the last eight years would DC Represented ny
Now no one can doubt. however It may be IN other
cases that in this instance at least the cost OF tne SIN
in exact proporon to the duty imposed upon its import
in other words that the American pe1Pe
would had the importation of six been ReLSsD ~
without duty. Now, what has the SIX ndos, Synd ~
n nFe cOu %6y End in the statements submitted BY
them to the Committee In defense 81 te domestic
silk manufacture about s25OOoOOO capital, wiicn Ses ~
employment al tod 70 not Said ' o vseas every
sensible man must saythat If this Is all tat we hahe
Gears OF 500 If we 90 back to 1860 i has been
the whole very Improbable lnVesInens an anu Gov
ernment TO have pensioned each man, woman, ana
child engaged in this business, ana 10 nave ,nS
public in general TO have bought their SILK where tey
eould obtain il the cheapest and have taken u Ior
granted they could have used their saving d move
beneficial result than any which could have been at AZ
tanned TO under an artificial and oDstrueNS PHn yntaT
doubt this is doubt whether the people Oh Ie %
States have sufficient capacity to use thel Own oap
in the way which shall be productive oI tle sIeoYo
advantage and to affirm that body Of men mostly COM
nosed of LAWYERS meeting together in what we call Con-
gress, can better decide the question iol ui'"'
OUR TRADE WITH JAPAN.
On the evening of the same day OF my interview with
Senator Nye it was my good fortune TO be brought In
contact with Minister at Japan and certain persons
familiar with recent events in that country and learned
for the first time the fact which has since been brought
before the public that the authorities OF that county,
ton have determined that it is expedent as spee az
possible effect change in the characteristic hauona
stve of garment worn by the inhabitants OF Europe
and the United States The japanese are a nauoh Ol
thirty five millions sheep or cattle do not exist 70 any
extent on their islands, neither can the cultivation OF
cotton be attempted in competition with the O1ited
States To carry ont the policy of the japanese Gov
ernment the people of that country are, therefore,
certain TO require the very articles whlcp aDOvG @
others it the specially of the United states 10 pouuce
viz fabrics of cotton and wool, hats ana caps manu-
features of and steel and manufactures OF Learner
and I'm return they would give us those things Wlen
they produce in greatest abundance and when we most
need viz, teas and silks gums and hDers But tle JAP
East, and their contact with western cNzatiqn nas
taught them one thing certain ana that ea I G the
United States than in most other countries; anu so 70
other countries this great market of 350O0oO OF people Is
sure TO be opened rather tah 10 us anu az .l5
We have adOpted and carried out pOncy OF ulnatdiS
interfering with the legitimate industries % Tue PvC1
and have not yet recognized what seems 10 ne pun
cOmmOnsense proposition that no natl0h OF community
has ever attained to commercial ana othef IS prosper
if tbr0gh he agency OF OngcOntinued, grevous, and
unequal taxationwhich is only synony In Tor deprV&
THE CINCINNATI MOVEMENT
Mr. Wells, in conclusion said that 10 support Greeley
az the present lunctuTe DISCRIMINATION. Cres
for Greeley In the present condition of the political
field he felt very much Like the old darkey who, when it
was explained to him that the way to salvation lay
either through predestnaton original SIM said !f
that the this Niger has got TO take TO the WOODS
Applause and laugherl He must confess that he had
vention and that he still felt If he was In the
woods He had consolation, that he found the num-
Ia Of in bp G
posed He MT see his way clearly out OF IT, but ne
certain that way would DO opeHed' lheir duty
mites and strike as determined independent body who
would not compromise their principles
The Chairman then introduced Mr.. Atkinson, who
spoke as follows:
SPEECH OF EDWARD ATKINSON.
Mr.. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN: We have not come
here tonight to discuss the principles Of Free Tradez We
have come Free Traders to take counsel together
in the circumstances in which find ourselves so I'M
expectedly placed. Our last experiment at Cincinnati
was an utter failure. How that came to be failure has
not been plainly told in its full exent but it ought to
be told When Horace Greeley lapplausel gave to the
Cincinnati movement his malign support the danger
that was to come upon us foreseen, and in order
that the integrity of that Convention might be main
controlled it, every who entered the mass Con-
venton. and every man who from the mass Convention
should be called upon 10 sign the declaration OF prln
cples by which its promoters intended i should be
call which demanded genuine reform Of the Tariff by
removal reduction OF those duties which involve
tons and consequent tax for the benefit Of
favored interests 1t was not believed tnat there would
to the principles contained in that call and then go to
he convention ana Een o b b one p her Uf What 81
we're the factsl Not that all the men who supported
Traders there who thought he their best candidate
declaTson knowing that they did not believe IT, and did
not ID lt.an
delegations to exclude the honest and honorable
men who had come there by trckery and fraud such as
never saw before In any Convention, heard Of And
they captured It and who stood back with his hand
might have done had he stood in War Department
and contrOledthe Confederate forces in attack upon
mo for President and fof whom Free Traders asked
to cast their balots-HOrace Greeley /! lApplause.l
CLAIMS OF CINCINNATI UPON FREE TRADERS
Gentlemen, is there anything binding upon an honest
and honorable in such a Convention as that for
one scorn and dsdan it, We fought for that resolution
until we were beaten in the Committee, and then
proposed that there should be unnecessary nerfer
ence with the affairs and industry Of the people by
means of taxation and we declared that the reduction
of the public debt should be moderate and gradual, and
know, that that declaration had been de-
clared by. Greeley to be complete sur
render to the Free Traders and know that on that
ton Of the debt it is going now, and for the
tnued imposition of the taxes at present grinding the
people. And he stands to-day by these declarations and
are asked TO vote for him the exponent Of Free
Trade. IA voice, Owe Wilt Now gentlemen, having
declared against interference for It is but branch OF
the system Of interference which is advocated and
has been advocated by Greeley from the time he had
any public position at ALL expected 10 support for
the Presidency one whose meddesOfne interference I'm
every department Of the Tariff has brought us to our
present condition. We might have this consolation that
no mischief would from it, for in accordance with
previous preeedens in an emergency he would back out
What could be expected from one who stands the
national enemy of all foreign countries, of Great Britain
especially What could be expected from whose
philosophy and record is that all foreign nations the
natural enemies OF this cOuntryfrom one whose chief
adviser Henry Carey, has declared that the material
prosperity Of this country would be fostered and pro-