Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-10-26

1t the first the duty nominal, but. as the price ue-
Zines i, becomes heavy, and soon runs into prohbi
ion Il is thus that England watches her agricultural
There has been another little bubble about short
crops in England but. at he last advces, the duty OF
barrel of our flour was nearly $50 none had been
old for consumption! But there had been few days
# sunshine; and, IS the price of wheat declining,
he duty about to advance This is a chief part
If the British 'ree trade system so much spoken OIL
md held up for imitation! Britain excludes our
lour, though must furnish 1t at much less price
han her own costs her people, even when she has
air and full crop--bu, we ought to purchase British
,alcoes, though can make them ourselves, and
,s chcaply She villas shall be shown below.
The American consumption requires the equivalent
of % millions of barrels of flnur-the foreign de-
nand takes off less than 900 900 The domestic de-
1and is sctted-he foreign, small it is, unsteady.
1917 the value of all the vegetable food exported
was S22594 O0o--n 1899. only 9,O79 762 The
much complained of fluctuations in the value of cot
ton, present nothing like ths.--The foreign flour
trade cannot at any time, be depended on. We have
exported more than 500, 900 barrels to Cuba and
Hayti in year, and in another less than 90 900.
We nave sent several hundred thousand to England
in year. and barrel, it in the ensu-
ing one. To this wretched unccr, ainty, with our
continual gaping at things abroad, instead OF attend
ing to things at home, we are indebted for tnree
fourths of the pcrpleXtes embarrassments, which
the farmers OF the United States have suffered as
must appear manifest to every rejecting mind AS
it regards foreign trade, we
PLEASED with a rattie-tickled with a straw
Now to meats OF all SORTS The consumption
and waste exceeds lib. for each person day. The
gross quantity required is then 2l6OO00,O 600 lbs
equal to millions of barrels of beef or pork. The
greatest export that made of beef pork
was in lB05,-240, 900 barrels In 1929, only 900
or % millions OF pounds, just an hundredth part of
the domestic consumption.
1t thus appears that the vegetable food of the Uni
ted States reported, Is about twenty fourt h part
of what the home demand requires--and OF meats
only hundrrdth part 1t is then the Hume market
that should mainly occupy the thoughts of republl
statesman.
This great marke is best encouraged by divisions
of abour. If all farmers raising their bread
and meat, there would be home market; and fur
.or the foreign would sell Tor more than two
dollars barrcl-f for much, delivered at our
ports.-The English could ha rdy take gift of it,
becausc of the duty, unless times of scarcity,
though delivered free of cost for freight But all
farmers. should have no cities. How would the
account stand then? New York, alone CONSUMES the
equivalent Of one third of all ofour exports of flour
Baltimore $50 900 barres-or three ifihs of oil thai
was sent TO the West Indies last year-and much
more than exported direct to the British West
Indies when the ports were open.f Baltimore and
her daccn also the equiv of
600 barrels of porkor about three fourths
Of the whole export of last year. Yet we have heard
senselcss farmer wish that Baltimore This MAJ ket)
was sunk in the basin!"-He might almost as well
have wished that The mills which prepared his
grain for bread were destroyed The people
IT the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia
md Baltimore, employ twice as many men as farmers
srazers, gardeners, &c. all the people of Asia
Africa, Europe and America (eXcept the United
'tates) employ. Here IS specimen of that di-
ison of labour, just above mentioned Large
'tles cannot exist unless the mechanic and man.
arts prosper in them. 1t is tho product
t. industry thus applied, which obtains food and
her supplies for them, TINS causes that lnva-
liable interior commerce, which prevails in every
civilized nation, and must more or less exist IN
'opulous countries. Two of the greatest cities in
he world, Nankin in China and Jcddo in Japan
ire thus mant aned;-a vast amount of home trade is
transacted at them, the foreign being of account.
And at London, the greatest commercial city the
Tord the interior or home trade IS at least twenty
lines greater than the foreign enc. We have in our
,wn country two beautiful types of the PrneiPscD
hat teach, in Pittsburg and Cincinnati. They
lave no foreign trade-but lands and houses i'll
hem and LII their neighborhood, bear fall COM |
,arson with the value of lands and houses Bal
more and IN its neighb, rhood.-The manufactures
VI Philadeiphn, lthat Is, those supplied with
Philadelphia labor and capital, and which centre
n that city, have been estimated at the Of
,25 100000 anuay-equnl to the full average
ne of all tho cotton export. Without an interior
rnde city can only be as Heligoiand was, when
onverted into nest for smuggers or as the Is
lad of st Thomas is, because free port" which
lhe British islands are supplied with flour, 81
mora special application benefits derived fom the
'' s avision OF abour may he thus shsSn:
Massacbeits, Rhode Island and Connecticut capable
u raising all stnffs their people need and
therto mad considerable surplus; but early period
my turned Their attention much to navsauoni and nave lat
strict are not well i,ted for the cultivation of wheabu
ney prefer bread made from IL, Vt able purchase We
axe Oh them cotton and other manufactures OIL &c and they
ecoe IN exchange of less than the equivalent of
milton and hay barrels oour, bread stufs, much
ea'er value han the whole foreign This may
e called ne" business and Of Importance all par
res equally profitable to the one, whether yard of
otion cioh be sold for 8 or cents, 60 Baltimore
'na-o 10 the Other if barrel of flour sells for S., pro-
eco 10 Boston or kamsohatka! But there this imposing
orders and decrees nngues AID caprces Of
ofe'Sn nations have effect upon home trade is
mount oeyond calculationa knts the people cossy
ogether--We have seen Baltimore branded -four midst
inc mountains OF Vermont Such is the ''American tys-
EN- Tins could not have happened the id
islon OF abour have spoken Of
we might multiply facts like without number but we
annot give tfe room necessary to state them. ,
the coneXion between agriculture manufactures
we snail no" notice the folly fasehood WHO insist
at ne laws Tor Tie protection of domestic
lHres ON consmersor these laws one lnyari5de
ency to reduce the price of articles protected without al all
diminishing the foreign demand for products of our soil
'8s the year before the ahoDuable tariff we expored
5O00000 lbs of cotton and 1850 bbls -four:
worth 2l8O ODO dollars and 1926, 2Oi bs Of COT
on ana 05oOo bills of -four, worth together 49, 600 dol
ars the quantity and value being both increased in defiance
u all the predictions TO the contrary
Taxes Of kind be pad-A reverus du,v russ
&c collected; but whether protecting duty superadica Il