Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-05-10
BREAD STUFFS-A REVISION OF THE
TARIFF NEEDED TO PROTECT THE
FARMERS AGAINST BRITISH POLICY

! FARMERS AGAINST BRITISH POLICY.
We last week gave an extract from the Detroit
Advertiser, showing the amount Of bread stuffs
raised in 1929 A subsequent paper contains an
interesting and valuable article showing the pres
ent amount of bread stuffs The editor estimates
a surplus Of bread stufs of 172,000,000 bushels,
and closes with the following inference:
! ave conclude, tlrat unless there is an increas-
ed demand from abroad present prices Of bread
stuffs will not advance during the present season,
whatever change may follow the ingathering OF
the ensuing crop"
We make an extract, touching British policy.
After giving table of the exports of wheat and
> -four from 1870 to 1910, the Advertiser says:
Thus it will be seen that our exports have d-
mnshed yearly from 1890 to this time, with the
exception of the years when Europe has been at
war. In 1893 we exported equal to 6,S25,770
bushels of wheat, and in 1885, only 2,246,7fi0, al
though we produced five times as much ns we
did in 1870.
+ In 1900, the wheat grown in Great Brtan was
only $4,000 bushels, and barley $4,000. In 1880,
wheat over 100000, and barley $4,000.
/, Notwithstanding the immense increase Of pro-
duction of grain, owing to the oppression of the
corn laws to the poor there is more suffering for
the want of bread in Great Britain aud Ireland,
than in any other part of Europe.
her provinces, is free of duty, that from the Uni.
: ted States is subject TO her corn laws, and when
2 scarcity and starvation stares them in the face,
and the price Of grain reaches certain point, she
allows her subjects to partake of foreign bread
stutls and America then comes in competition
with grain from Hamburg, Naples, Dantzic, and
i Odessa, This leads us to say a word in respect
y to the
CORN LAWS OF ENGLAND,
which Lear heavier upon the products otthe nigh
t. w est than IL generally understood. That the
e farmer may understand the prices of -Four in
e England, when he reads he quotations from Eng
IL fish papers, we give the table of duties on the ar.
Al tcle graduated by the prices of sacks and quar-
), ters Of wheat. He then make his own calcu
ation in sterling money "a shilling being % cents,
whether it will pay the Eastern merchant Tor The
: shipment to Europe, and thus he can determine
the prospect of foreign exports, and consequently
know the rise or fall in the New York market
. . TABLE OF DUTIES.
- sack of -four weighs 240 pounds, barrel o
. American -four 1876 lbs. thus barrel of iou
- is seven tenths of sack by weight When he see
- in the price current as follows:
u Duties on
:, sack of -four, Amer Flour
y At 7Os equal barrel ut 49s Cd Is I'd
81 AT 68s 46s Sd los 0,d
10 At Cos 46s 3d rs 3ld
= At Gas AS Sd lbs lid
~ The last intelligence from England, flour wa
/" selling at Cos sack, which makes duty of So,
10 20 per barrel on American -four, which amount
70 to prohibition, much SO that orders were re
ceved by the last arrival to stop purchases AT owe
T., 81, 30 in New York and from the Let to the l0
~ of last month, but 6S92 barrels were exported
"a which taken at four dollars and fifty cents.
ba Notwithstanding the policy Of England ha
49, been for years, 70 protect her agricultural indus
n3 try, no counervailing protection has been adop
ed by the United States but on the contrary, DIT
NJ ties upon British goods are every year essenn
and many of them IRE free of duty The prod
~ GERS of the West are obliged to pay bonus
10 England for the privilege Of trade. lfGreat Bri
~ ain would receive the bread stutis of our cnunir
~ on the payment Of the same duties which we pa
80, on her nulactures then The farmer would ha'
~ no just cause for complaint
co The imports of the United States, since 1890
- 1910, have exceeded the exports 1898 ASS 6;
ala In the same time there has been but
-, ,' years. that we have exported
'ho more than we have imported
0o, which was 5l,93l II
Sal ,527 A;
Seven hundred and forty-one millions, FIVE hui
dred and twenty seven thousand, four hundred al
enl thirty dollars !! which has been paid to foreg
ia nations in gold ana silver over our EXPORTS for a
/ 5 tices which could have been manufactured in III
OH country and, within the last six years. near thr
hundred millions of this balance has accrued
gainst US, to say nothing Of the two hundred mi
lions OF state stocks which has been sold in Il
md rope within the past five years.
In 1888, the total amount of agricultural pr
1876 ductons of all descriptions with the exception
cotton, exported TO all parts of the world, umou
in ted to only $6046,065, and the same year SILL
to the Omount of over s25,O0O,OOO were admits
on to our ports free Of duly!
n.y. VIM II. Griswold, the young man who robb
the Bank Of Western New York of $500, Il