Show MB CARNEGIES ERRORS In a recent address before the Young Mens Tariff Reform league of New York + HOKACE WHITE discussed the article of AXDKKW CARNEGIE in the North American Review for July The discussion was exhaustive and able + being a complete refutation of the alleged facts and specious pleas put forth by Mr CAnXEGIE One point is made by Mr WHITE that is of special importance He denies that protection pro-tection ever established an industry in this country An industry cannot be considered consid-ered established untilit is able to pay its own way and to live without taxing other industries for its support Our opponents arc our witnesses that very few if any of our protected industries era yet estab lished because if they are then logically they no longer need protection CLAY said in 1S3S that it protection should entirely cease in 1842 it would have existed as long as its friends supposed might be necessary Mr WintEb whole article is excellent but his summary is admirable A glance at Mr CATIXEGIKS paper as a whole shows that he has rested his case on promises which arc false viz that this count y as a manufacturing country is new that when the civil war broke out we had not the means of providing ourselves with arms or with iron or steel and that the republic would have been lost but for our puicbase of these articles abroad that wages in manufacturing employ ments liere are more than double what they are in England etc etc If all these premises s were true I for one should still maintain that the protective policy is wrong delusive and fraudulent and to show that it is unnecessary I should point to the upspringinjj and growth ol manufactures in our own west and south without a vistage of protection against the older manufactures of the east But I have shown you that his prom ises are not true and that they have not the least foundation It remains to add that Mr CAKKEGIL an interested party in this discussion discus-sion and therefore not a gcol witness His testimony is under suspicion because he males pront out or the tariff we stave seen that too duty on steel rails allows J1J44 per ton to compensate com-pensate Mr CARNEGIE for a difference in wages of J3bl per ton The duty on iron and steal beams for structural purposes under the Mc KJLNLEY bill is dU tit per ton to compensate him for a difference in wages which cannot be more than J5 per ton if so much I suppose this is one of the industries in which lets protection is now necessary provided that it be kept at the point of prohibition clearly M CAUNEGIE is under suspicion If he were on the witness stand the judge would be obliged to charge the jury that Since he has a pecuniary interest in one side or the case they must scrutinize his testimony closely to see how far it Is corroborated by facts If the facts contradict con-tradict him he must step down and out Ve will accordingly dismiss him and let him tight his future battles with his own workingmen He has bad his share of that kind of light ngand has been oftener victorious than otherwise I think As a public teacher he is not a success |