Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-10-26

grade of duty tor every shilling OF the value OF
quarter OF wheat Tor other grain)-from Tee sos.
AT the rst' the duty Is nominal but as the price de-
cines, It becomes heavy, and soon runs into prohbi
ton itisthus that England watches her agricuture
There has been another little bubble ABOUT short
crops IN England; but. at The last advces, the duty
barrel OF our Hour nearly $50 none had been
sold for consumption But there had been few days
OF sunshine; and, as the price of wheat declining,
the duty was about to advance. This is chief part
oil tue British free trade system much spoken of,
ana held up fnr limitation Britain excludes our
flour, though we must furnish it much less price
than her own costs her people, when she has a
fair aud full crop--bu, we ought purchase British
calcocs, though we can make them ourselves, and
as cheaply as she villas shall be shown below.
The American consumption requires the equivalent
OF % millions of barrels of flaur-the foreign de-
mand takes off less than 9000U0 The domestic do.
mand is setled-,hc foreign, small ms it is unsteady
In 1917 the value of oil ne vegetable food exported
was S22 595 on0--n 1929, only 9,o79 1852. The
much complained of fluctuations IN the value of cot
ton. present nothing like this.--Phe foreign flour
trade cannot. at any time, be depended on We have
Hayti IN one year, and in another less than 90 600
We nave sent several hundred Thousand to England
IN one year and not barrel, it were, in the
ing one. To this wretched unceri ainty, with our
continual gaping ut things abroad, instead of attend
ING to things ut home, are indebted for three
ourths OF the perpeSities, which
the farmers of the United States have suffered,
must appear manifest to every rejecting mind AS
l. regards foreign trade, we
PLEASED with "a raule--uckled with a suaw.'
| Now as TO meats OF all SORTS: Tho consumption
and waste exceeds lib. for each person a day. The
gross quantity required is then 2i6O 900 900 lbs
equa 10 IL millions Ut barrels of beef or pork. The
greatest export that made of beef or pork
was in iso5,-240 900 barrels In 1922 only 10 OOu
or p millions of pounds, Just an hundreGth part oi
the domestic consumption.
1t thus appears that the vegetable food of the Uni
ted States. reported, Is about twenty -four n part
OF what the home demand rcQuires--and OF meals
1 htn ~, Il al,
that should mainly occupy the thoughts of republi-
can sta esman.
This great market is best encouraged by divisions
OF abour IT all farmers raising their own bread
and meat, there would b. home market; and flour
for the foreign would sell Tor more than two
dollars barrclf for much. delivered At our sra
pors.-Fhe English could hardy take a gifl of 1t
because OF the duty, unless times OF scarcity
though delivered free OF cost for freight But were all
farmers. we should have cities low would the
account stand them New York, alone CONSUMES the
equivalent of third of all ofour exports of -four
Baltimore 10000 barrels-Or three fifhs at ali thni
was sent TO the West Indies last year-uud much
more than exported direct TO the British We.,
Indies, when the ports were open.f Baltimore and
her adjacent factories, also the equiv lent of
10000 barrels of beefor porkor about three iouths
OF the whole export of last year. Yet have heard
senseless farmer wish that Baltimore Tins ma 5ket)
was sunk IN the basin!"-IIe might almost as well
have wished that the mills which prepared his
grain for bread were destroyed The people
and Baltimore, employ twice many men as farmers
grazIers, gardeners, &c all the people of Asia
Africa. Europe and America Except the United
S'ates) employ. Here IS specimen Of that d.
Vson OF labour, Just above nentonc d. Large
cities cannot exist unless the mechanic and man.
lidcturlng arts prosper In them. 1t is the product
OF industry thus applied which obtains food and
other supplies for them, and this that inva-
cable interior commerce, which prevails in every
civilized nation, and must or less exist 10
popuous countries. Two of the greatest cities in
the world, Nankin in China and Jeddo IN japan
are thus maini ained-a amount of home trade is
transacted at them, The foreign being of account.
And at London the greatest city IN the
world, the interior home trade least twenty
times greater chan the foreign we have in our
own country two beautiful types of the PRINCIPLES
that we teach, IN Pittsburg and CincInuat. They
have no foreign tradc-but lands aud houses IN
them and IN their neIghborhood bear fail COM
par1son with the value Of lands and houses at BIl-
tlmore and III ITS neghb ,rhood.--The manufactures
OF PhiladclPhIa. that is, those supplied with
Philadelphia labor and capital, and which centre
IN that cltyD have been estimated at the sum OF
S25 100000 anually-equal the full average va
iue OF all the cotton export. Without interior
trade a city can only be Heiigolaud was, when
converted INTO nest ior smuggiers The is-
land OF st Thomas 49, because free port" at which
the British islands are supplied with flour, &c
more special application OF the benefits derived the
prudent division OF labour may be thus shrwn:
Massachusetts, Rhode Island Connecticut are capable
oil raising all the bread s which their people need and
hitherto had considerable surplus but early period
hey turned their attention much navigation; lat.
ey become great manufacturing States The auds TINS
district well fitted for the cultivation wbeab
lhey prefer bread made from " able purchase We
take OF them cotton and other OIL and they
celVe IN exchange ofus less equivalent one
million and hdy 6a>res orf0ur, IN bread stuh much
greater value than the whole Of foreign trade This NAV
be called new business and of importance all par
ties IL equally profitable to the one whether yard OF
cotton cloth be sold for or cents Baltimore or
Lma-or 10 the other " barrel -four S. to pro
coed to Boston Ransohaka But there this imposing
dVan'aSthe orders and DEGREES mtngues aud capces
iorrign nations have effect upon trade lis
amount Dryond cdlcuatiOnand II knis the people clny
'ogeheWe have seen Baltimore branded -four midst
OF the mountains OF Vermont Such is the American sys.
tenn" TINS could have happened because OF the d.
vision oflabouT we have spoken Of
we might multiply facts ike but we
cannot give the room necessary 10 state them.
Snch the connection between agriculture and anuacures
we snail now notice the folly f1lsehood insist
mat the laws for the Of domestic manufactures
dres on consumeTsfof these laws
dency To reduce the price Of articles protected without al all
diminishing the foreign demand for the products our soil
10 ISSJ the year before the "ahomlnabc tariff exported
73OOOOO lbs Of cotton and 1864 900 bbs of npur together
worth IS 48O 600 dollars; and 1896 20I 900 o cot
ton, and 857OO obis Of -four worth together 3D.
lars the quantity and value being Increased IN defiance
OF ell the predictions to the contrary.
fHaWa ~ LID