The Tariff and Prices.
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II the Journal OF Commerce will but quote our
East article on Cotton Goods, or 80 much as will
give fair idea OF its positions, We Will leave its
reply uudsturbed, What we desire is that Ame.
Iican worlmen should have the privilege of do
ing American work; and we want the duties on
such articles as can be made here with substan
tally as little Labor as would DC required 10
make and import them. We want the duties
made high enough to secure this; and we do not
see what harm can ensue from ther beng hi
tie higher than is necessary. Now VIC have the
admission of the journal and It's clique that Cot
ton Goods can be made here cheap within a
fraction as abroad and we therefore advocate
duties high enough TO secure that they shall be
30 made But if the men who now make them
do not sell them as cheap they ought, VIC wish
1ho facts widely proclaimed, So that Others shall
Iueh into the business, We are sure they will do
If it will pay. We say, therefore, that II is
morally certain that these Goods will be made
here under Protection as cheap as they could be
imported under Free Trade, If the importers pay
for them, as OF course they usually will.


Now we say that when the Journal and It's I'm
porting hackers say that Cotton fabrics sell here
steadily for II cents which can be bough, IN
England for or Q, and Of course could be made
here for 10, they do involve themselves in a pal
psble absurdity. If this were the fact, the mer-
chants who sell such goods would not bring them
from England at cost (including Duty of IA or
Is cents when they could easily mako them here
for 10. Is not this plain Here are the Import.
ers of this City, with Millions at their command
who can buy twenty Cotton Factories IN three
DAYS for much less than the cost OF erecting them
and have them all running on their orders within
a fortnight Can any man believe, then, that
,hey are buying Cloths in England at cents,
and paying cents duty thereon, when they could
make them for l07 No, they are not; and II
they really believed Cloths were selling here at
IA cents yard which could be made in Eng
land for ii or here for u, they would be still
enough about the Tariff, and deep in Manutac-
turing before a month. The fact that they do
otherwise is conclusive They understand their
own interest.


But why do we need duty OF six cents
yard, if we can make as cheap here as IN Eng
land within cent We might rest on Mr. Cal
houn's answer in 1916, when he aided to give this
very kind of Protection-that is, by the minimum,