The National tribune., 1881-01-01

While manufacturing establishments were
fined to great extent to special section of the
nation, that section reaped these great advantages
alone but this has long since ceased to be the
North and South, East and West, they spring
ing up. sat
The South, with her great advantages of more
equal climate abundant and unfrozen water power,
nearness to the material is making great
advances in the manufacture of cotton
The West, with her amazing coal fields, her en-
ergetc population her rapid acquisition of wealth,
is dotting her whole surface with factories, and
Chicago is pressing close upon Philadelphia.
The ten years just past having witnessed de-
velopment of wonderful magnitude and the coming
decade will dwarf all its predecessors into nsgnf
cance atN
There is now nothing which is necessary for
human life and human progress which is not pro-
duced in abundance and fair prices within these
United States and this of things is the result
of the American system of protection to home in
dustry.
And yet during all this time the regular and GUS
tomary price ofartices ofnecessity has been steadily
reduced
We as people wear and use American products,
and quality for quality, as cheaply as they be
That some classes of manufactures are now COW
cred by duties too high is true for the scale ought
to vary by gradual decline as the business be-
comes established and permanent. Yet this fact
that any particular manufacture is highly profitable,
Immediately increases the number of factories and
the home competition brings down the price to the
consumer The true measure of craftsmanship is
so to regulate duties that there shall be healthy
lcompetiton, first between the foreign and the
homemade article; and secondly, between the fac
/ tories in the United States. fses
/ An example may be seen in the article of nails,
on which duty has been imposed for many years.
There no foreign-made nails offered for sale in
/ the United States, have there been for years.
The duty is and has been for years prohibitory.
Yet nails are far cheaper now than ever for there
are many factories and much home competition.
\ In woolen goods of certain kinds the competition
between Eastern and Western factories is more in
tense than that with Europe, and hence it is that
some of the largest wool manufacturers of New
England, whose business has been built up by pro-
lection, now ask the repeal of duties, because they
say that they easier meet the English competi-
ton than that of the West.
There is at this present time no article of any
sort, uecesSdTy SUSTAIN lIe 10 uit Ill TeaI
wants of civilization, to keep the growth Of agrcu-
ture and the arts, to maintain vast population to
defend the soil and maintain the honor of the ma
tion, which cannot be produced and is not pro-
duced within the confines of the United States.
BY of this great fact this nation is to-day
independent in the true sense, of all other commu-
nites for it is selfsusaining and this independence
is the result of adherence to the general principles
of the American system.
So far the effects of this plan of national growth
have. until within few years, been simply defens
ive in the great war between nations
i In our next article we will try to show how it
has lately become aggressive, and has carried the
war into Africa"