The Arkansas banner., 1844-09-18
From Be " Young H,ctoJg." FIFE HOME MAkET

From He 's Youmg Hlclorg."
 TllE HOME MAkEI.
 live could be amused al any attempt to make the worse appear the better reason, we might bcamused atthe endeavors of the Wings to prove that the s'tafilI as if is, ) to Jise their own eXPrcssion, is putting money in all our pockets. If their figures and calculations conld make Us rich, we ought all of Us to be rich by this time, merely by the effect of pay ing high prices for clothing, salt, sugar, and iron. IL must be infinitely consoling for the farmers, who make up the greater part of our population, to see fl demonstrated by two or three columns of figures i'll nev s-1aper, that while they feel they are growing poor, the ta- rltl has put the country into a condition of un- paralelled prosperity.
 There arc some persons who deny this po- sitlon. They maintain that q few hundred manufacturers dc not make the country that there are other classes whose interests deserve at least little regard, and that when the far mers, who happen te be in debt, find them selves falling deeper into debt every year, and the farmers who are so lucky as to De out of debt, are forced to fight against poverty with the weapons oi q severe and penurious econo- my, that something must be wroag. Oi fhis class Is the Cincinnati Enquirer, from late number of which We take the subjoined alti- cie:
 ''TARIFF TAX ON FARMERss-By reference to the census returns of 1S10, il will be dis coycredthat the capital and income of the fol- lowing employments are as follows
 Employment Capital Income
 Agricutre sS235 GO s62 %
 Manufactures POO co l59 GO
 Navigation aud fisheries, 8os O0 So %
 Miners, iorgers, Ssc., 2l3 co ss %
 1.-The farmer will easily understand this. The whole amount invested in the business ol agriculture will, fl divided among all who arc engaged ill that business, average S285 each. l or course, many farmers are not worth this much, while many are worth 1t and thousand more; but this Is the average We'll, S2S5 invested in farming operations will yield but an income Of but S62, while l5200 i'll manu= tactures will yield S159, more than double the other. The man who tilts the soil.-who lahors in summers heat and winters coll who performs what is the hardest labor of the country, Is certainly entitled to Us high pro- fits as the man who owns Il cotton or woollen mill. Why is he not as well rewarded Be-
  profits, Whieno class Is taxed for his The 1 present tarlf law levies | tax upon every far mer who enters q store and purchases all ar tiefe' of goods; not only q tax for the support of Government, but also tax for the benefit of alaYofed class oi its people. While tariff ties will admit this, they say also that the farmer Is protected as wellas the manufacture CT. Protected from what? From the rival ry of the serls of Russia or the peasantry ol England Who fears their competition ;- No man of common intelligence will say that the agrleultursts Of this country need protec- ton fiom people who cannot raise their own bread stufis.
 A shome market too, is pratetl to them and their intelligence daily insuIted by the benefits of selling their produce at home.-- The shallowness and impotency of this is too plain to deserve grave argument Let each farmer for moment reflect what would be the condition of his class, were they shut up ill the boundary of this Union, with all tho 1 tceming wealth of our rich valleys and plains, l depending upon these other classes who are engaged in other occupations, to be its pur- chasers and consumers How would their profits then compare even with their profits now The Western farmer can be good judge of what would be his condition under this .home market' system We're there nc foreign exportation of their flour, their tobac- co, and other commodities, how could pos slblv be consumed at home Let any man set down, and among the population of these States divide an equal share to each of the products of the farming population, and ht will readily be made to understand the uttel ridieulonsness of this attempted dellsion.
 s.Bat we isil nol deal in speculations. We will make lhe figures speak to the free under standing of ouragriculiural friends--nrices, a correct report of which is here given from the New York prices current:
 f2aotaiioas 5on tie Priaepai Sfaples of fAe Co9trs
 ia ate Neu foat hertet.
 oetober7 '. February Ii. June %. Cotton 095ag 00s l05al0} Q fae 0S3 Flour, 375at t34 93sa50o 37sa
 Wheat 92 a 97 loo d los S5 90 Tar, s7spl D I25 al 5as l4ial 30 Beef ( 50a7 l25 s7ga6 25 , 00a5 D Pork, HOO 9z5a9621 575a
 Cheese, 15 5a 7 F Sa 5s f'Ss fS5seoo ga . < {. "a ( ga : $ $
 ssIIere we 10 not % back even one simple year, and vet wtata most serious decline Is there ii the prices of mostof our great West ern staples during the interval from October 10 June!
 .srhe home market is now ill operation and the farmer can sec how 1t works. Ia fifed to tho highestextreme on all he buys no demand for his products, save at the low est prices-products accommodating, and prices still reeeding--what consolation is il to him to be told by the lords oft loom, who arc , fattening oil the substance that Govefnmen , extracts from the laborers of the harvest field and the mechanic shops, that agriculture is protected as well as the cotton mills : that