Lexington union., 1843-07-08
From KendaFs Erpositor.
A HOME MARKET.

arm duFocates Is, that II produces 1
Home Ndrket,-The meaning of lhis is
that II Increases the number of consumers
ol produce IN comparison with the number
Of growers.
Does is IT necessarily follow, that the
increase OF consumers is a good thing! vi
It be, why may not Congress pass an act
to protect from destruction crows and
wolves and squirrels, rats and
mice! They are very considerable con- |
snmers without being producers, Ifcou.
sumption be Il good thing, here is a way
to obtain without covering "the body poll
tic" with "sQres" in the shape of manu-
featuring cities.
But say the tariff advocates, "the manu-
featuring operatives gives us something
in return. Yes, at double prices. /
have ten bushels of wheat which | wish
10 exchange for articles ofclothing. What
bots It to me, whether the rats eat up half
Of j, or i! Il be taken from me by tax on
cotton, linen and wooden goods! Are not
the rats Just as good consumers as the
manufacturers when they give me just as
good a return!
But if the Government ought to legis-
late with view 10 increase the proportion
of consumers, there is a more effectual
mode. Force the manufacturers to break
in pieces all their machinery of modern
invention, and resort to the primitive
modes Of spinning and weaving. They
would require five hands, probably ten,
Tor every one now employed, and thus
make an important addition to the number
OF consumers. But says the tariff advo-
cate, "that would greatly increase the
price of goods" Very well; is it not the
very end at which you aim by protect
i've tariff? AYE; but it would increase
the cost Of manufacturing Them"
Aye, tha, explains your real motive;
you want to increase the price of goods
without increasing the cost of manufacture
ing them, and thereby add TO your profits.
While YOU t2lk Of giving employment to
laborers, increasing the number of com
sumers, making home market for far
mers, dc. &c. YOU are constantly intro
ducing machines of iron, brass and wood,
which neither eat nor drink, 10 perform
the work OF men or women who do, and
sending back Our operatives to the occupa-
tons whence they carpe; or as in Eng
land. turning them out 10 steal or starve!
Yet, YOU call on the la4mers and others,
to pay an enormous tax to raise prices,
and make your Wachiue Iahorproftablc-
to protect things Of Iou, brass and wood
from competition of pauper labor OF Eu-
rope!
" hat is the factl Has the building up
Lowell or Nashua increased the prices of
the farmers wheat or corn in Ohio. Indi-
ana or Illinois! Every man knows better.
Has 1t increased the prices of the farmers
corn and rye, raised in their very neigh
borhood! Every farmer fifty years old
whoIlves there, knows better. He knows
that their prices, thirty or forty years ago,
were higher than they are now. South
~ 'lilNA NNoANll II NOlll dHb nun liN I bItu
brought, bv means OF these very manu-
featuring establishments, into competition
with those of the New England farmer,
|at his own door, reducing prices there
without increasing them in the regions
whence the new supplies come. These
are notorious tacts--the strongest of argu-
ments. To think of increasing the prices
of western produce by building up manu-
lactures, and thus increasing the number
ol domestic consumers, is as ldle as to
think OF affecting the volume OF the Mis-
sissippi above or below by throwing the
water over the levee at New Orleans with
a bucket. The production of that teem-
ing region is too vast to be affected by an
operation so minute. The Mississippi
must have an ocean TO receive the waters
of its innumerable fountains, and its valley
must have a world for a market. To
create a home market for its productions
in New England or elsewhere by leglsla-
ton, is just about as ludicrous an opera
ton as digging home reservoir to re-
ceiye the waters of Its mighty rivers.
As man Of the west, we say to the
general government, clear out rivers, pro-
tect us from piracy and war on the ocean,
and give us the world for a market Do
this, and in half century, we will show
YOU results never surpassed in earthly
beauty and protectiyencss, since God
planted the first garden among the four
liyers of 1 den.
We have received the Proceedings ofa
numerous meeting of the Mechanics of
Kinds County, held in Jackson, for the
purpose of taking into consideration the
present odious penitentiary system. We
hav'nt room for the publication of the
proceedings of our Jackson brethren, or
we would with great pleasure, give them
place in our columns. OF the main OBJ