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eyitable and universal as that OF grayItation AN
around US are Cotton Mills, Wooden FACTORIES, and
factories Of every sort, be sold for less than cost
10 ssy nothing OF thousands OF convenient water
falls that go begging, and Of steam-engines that
may be multiplied 10 iafnlty al moderate cost
Whether five owners Of one MIL have made SO
600 we know not if they have, we should need
10 know how large was their investment before We
pronounced it exorbitani. We know one man IN
this City who made $4,000 IL one year BY ceiling
goods, and on a small capital at that Yet he sold
quite as cheap as thousands around him who rnhde
nothing al all. If any FIVE men have made Sl0,Uo
year each by manufacturing, they ,rnade II IN
open and fair competition with every body else IN
the country vino chose TO make cloths


"A word must suffice 70. the direct application
of this matter TO shr-makers. We know right
well that Protective Tariff cannot redress all
wrongs and correct all Social Evil-far Otherwise.
The extent OF us power TO benefit the Laoorer Is


limited by the force and pressure of domestic COM
petition, for which Political Economy has as yet
devised noreInedy f,he Laborers OF our Country
find their wages depressed and their employment
restricted bv heavy imporaions OF the products OF
other Countries, they may be sensibly benefited by
The imposition Of a Ta,lfi which shall greatly di-
nninish tie importation Yet the evils thus warded
off may De reproduced or parall-ed by the growing
ferceness Of Home competition, by the muliPlica-
ion of hands and the relative diminution Of employ
nent But to argue from this that Protection IS
useless is Just like exhorting man not TO be cured
of the Small Pox, because if he did he would silil
be exposed to the Cholera and might take this and
die Of il.


The seamstresses Of our City were exposed. while
the Tariff was lowest, for some time preceding Au-
gust, ~, to an active Foreign competition, which
filled the Southern market with imported Clothing,
and so superseded that which had formerly been
made up in and about New.Yofk. The present
Tariff restored, in a good degree, the Southern
clothing trade of our city, and has thus secured
work al far better than shrt-maklRg wages 10 thou
sands. But shirts are still made far too chedpy be-
cause the number who seek employment at shirt
making is large and the demand for their labor
comparatively limited, Suppose, now, we repeal
the present Tariff, which imposes fifty per cent.
duty on all Ready Made Clothing, and impose Ia
stead low Revenue duty alike on Cloth and Cloth
ing-will that mend the matter! If our City seam
stresses cannot stand competition with our coun-
try women, who make shirts for j cents each, how
will they be benefited by throwing open our market
10 all the world, when shirts are made IN Eng land
for three farthlngs or a cent and halt each! Let
us hear