New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-02

counsel clalElS tnhU IWO years 10 VIC e+N'NiiN -
the term for which the ex-Alderman could be
sentenced. The point is a technical one. IL
is whether the Penal Code, which pre9crlDes
ten years Imprisonment for bribery, was an
ex-post- facto law. AS Jaehnes crime was COM
mitted long after both the Penal Code and the
Consolidation Act went into effect, 1t would
seem that the chances Of the " Booders' es-
Gaming Oh such plea are not great enough
to warrant paying very large lawyers ices 10
contest the matter. STILL the men who had
dealings with Sharp we presume, can ano
to be liberal with their purses
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HFyRY WILSON md THE thrift OF 1857.
Sneaker Carlisle has been using in vain the
name Of Henry Wilson. Iii the closing speech
of the tariff debate Mr.. Carlisle argued that eA-
periencc under the horizontal tarlh Oh ioio
convinced New England manufacturers OF i's
wisdom, 50 that eighteen of their repicsch'aV''
voted for and only nine against the reouc'ion
Of tariff in 1867; that they especially deHia,u-
cd free raw materials, and above all otlei
thines free wool, and that Mr.. Wilson inc"
spoke strongly for free wool as the nlou,'lp''Vt
of Massachusetts manufacturers. urVhei' !.
v-as affirmed that the manufacture pfoSpcnV'
nightly after the duties were leduceu' An0
reasoning is plausible and may impress soiIo
minds Brt Mr.. Carlisle was caIe1ul nov W
state that four years of experience under inc
reduction of duties, which he said they favored
lod Ncy-Epgland manufacturers to such &c
tostation of the Democratic policy that III
robruarv 1901 before the war broke out.
cverv representative from Ncw-England Win
ont exception voted for protective du'ies on
wool and woollcns. If the test to when MI
Carlisle has appealed is OF any value "na'e'ei'
that test goes fatty against him.
But Mr.. Carlisle was careful not TO teii .no
truth which would have shown how llttic DIS
test indicated the opinion of manufacturers III
1857. The Congress which voted in It's dying
hours for the tariff of 1851 was elected IN 1904
and in four Of the New England States by that
sudden uphcaval which the secret know-Nolh-
inc lodges produced Every member withous
rvcention from Connecticut, massachusetts
Rhode Island and New-Hampshirc was nom
mated and elected avowcdly as an American or
Know-Nothing: the only Republicans IN the
Nev-England delegation were five from Name
and three from Vermont Some of the prevI-
mslv unknown men thus brought to the sur
face aftelward became Republicans in pnn-
ciple and useful in public life. But much tho
ereater number were never heard of again, and
vanished with the secret organization which
brought them to light.
II is indeed strangely fitting thing that Mr.
| Carlisle should quote in defence Of the DARK
Lantern Tariff bill the only votes ever cast
on the tariff by the Dark Lantern party from
newfoundland. How little they represented
the manufacturers Of that section may he IN
ferred from the fact that Massachusetts, elected
to Congress that year not q single manufact-
urer, Rhode Island not one, New-Hampshire
and Connecticut not one. OF the twenty
Know-Nothing members from those States. five
were merchants, four were lawyers, four were
preachers, two were doctors, one was an editor,
one o printer, one a farmer, and two were me-
chanics. Really it takes an impudcnce almost
sublime to quote the opinion of these men,
| elected by the Ozark Lantern lodges in 1854,
as proof of the opinion Of New-England man
ufacturcrs in 1857.
Henry Wilson was delegate to the " Ameri-
cam National Convention of 1855, and was in
that year elected TO the Senate by cOmbna-
ton of Americans and Democrats. The fact
that he soon became q Republican does not
argument in the Senate, which Mr.. Carlisle
quotes. was combated by Senators Seward, of
New York, and Collamer, of Vermont who
were Republicans, and a short experience under
the tariff for which he voted in 1857 so fully
convinced Mr.. Wilson himself of his errors
that he was one Of those who voted in Febru-
aIv, 1861, for duties OF and 8 cents per
pound on wool which in 1857 he had voted to
make free of duty.
But Mr.. Carlisle essentially misreprescnts
Mr. Wilson, as he was then, in the quotation
made, For the situation was this Senate
overwhelmingly Democratic had voted down
Mr. Wilson's motion TO make no change in the
wool and woollens schedules it had decided in
spite Of him TO reduce the duties on wool; and
then Mr.. Wilson protested against the Demo
cratic policy which, under the tariff Of 1876,
had ruined the woollen manufacture, and said
in the very speech from which Mr.. Carlisle
quotes fragment:
Under the operation Of the tariff Of 1s4C, the man
ufacturc OF the finer and better classes OF woolens
has almost entirely ccascd-hat by the mills
for the manufacture Of these finer and better classes
OF woOllens have been compelled 10 suecumb-that
hundreds Of thousands of dollars invested In these
mills have been lost-that even in the manufacture
OF the cOarser qualities of wooens, hundIeaS al mon
sands OF dollars have been sunk They point yon
SIR to many Of their mills In which at least 90 per
cent OF the original investment has been sacrificed
under that policy which has increased your importa-
tlons Of woollcn goods from nine millions In 1siG 70
more than thirty flour millions I'm 1864 policy
which dscrminafes against tho manufactures OF our
own country by taxing the raw material higher than
the manufactured artice-a policy which practically
offers bounty TO the manufacturers OF England
France ppipiun and Germany. ard all nations which
have the raw materials free 20 command our markets
and increase their wealth and power at tho expense
of our wool growers and manufacturers
The duty on manufactured wool Is 30 per cent,
on cloths, cassmeres and carpets, 30 per ccnt-iust
what the material pays. He VIII ma, II he
looks further INTO the not Of 1s46, that woNteds pay
from e5 to 30 per cent, being less than on tho raw