The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-03-13
From the Ses fsTE Farmer ana lyehani.
C0RN-LAWS AND PROTECTION.

WHEAT IT'S rRoTEcTIoSIS TIE UNITED STATES
'slPPosED AhEEssARY--fHE REVERSE BELIsy.
Ed TO BE- THE FACT ....
Ma EDuoRi You called en- me 20 reply 10 Gen
eral A. Chandlcris statement, adopted by General
Talmage, prostdeni OF the American Institute
shat we require duty Of twenty-five cents per
bushe on wheat, to prevent eur whole Atlantic
coast from being supplied with grain cheaper than
II can be grown IN our grain-growing districts
with the further assertion THAT grain is now selling
on the continent of Europe, Notwithstanding the
danger Of famine, from thry TO forty cents ~ bush
ell; and It can he transported at six eight cents
freight from Bremen, and eight 10 tweivt~cents
freight from the Mediterranean to the United States
must say was startled with this bold assertion
both from It's source and from the manner you in
PRODUCED II, unanswerable, and in favor of pro-
tection If true, and with direct call on ,rour part
for my reply to It. An early mercantile education
IN this country, and at CadZ, the south OF Europe
where was largely in tho hour trade, conducting
ste IN Touring mill, with six run of stones, that
caused me 10 Import large quantities of wheat from
the north Of Europe, well from the Medter ra-
mean, let Impressions on my mind that prompted
me to inform you that General Chandler az well as
General Talmage both in error as to their
facts, and Of course their arguments in favor OF
duty Of 25 cents, To protect the American farm,
lf this is SO, trust To show, the American far
mer can breathe again under this alarm al ID he
need not fear the competition Of "serf sbor' in this
market; certainly not with -four thousand miles of
ocean between Us, and the principal shippin ports
Of The Baltic and the Black seas where the average
prices for series Of years, with fraghs, a nd risk
OF cargoes heating, repeat, precudes conn etiton
on our seaboard.
| trust to prove this to be the fact from present
and past prices Of wheat in the Baltic and ON the
Black seas, particularly there is no reel procity
IN the trade by return cargoes either under our own
or foreign flag. Further the actual prices Of
freight from Bremen and the Mediterranean, even
to England are three times the rates quo we'd by
H.. nIaI
country, whereby there is greater risk Of the cargo
heating.
Aut now to the facts, and "a plain tale to put We
down"
On reference to McCullochs Commercial Die
tionary-a standard work in the Americas Insti-
tute, and which should have been before General
Chandlsr-I find that ''the price Of wheat al Dant.
zic, the great shipping port and mart for wheat in
the Baltic, averaged from 1873 to 1879 forty years.
ASS. 3D. sterling per English quarter of b'oshels,"
AT par As Cd TO the dollar equal to 81 % per bushel
delivered on board. RYE, during the p erod of
forty years, averaged 27s. 3D." Add to Al %, as
the usual freight, 25 cents per bushel to London
and we have ii 80, and 81 O6 for rye-:n,es that
preclude competition in this market.
In the same work find shat the average price
of wheat, from 1872 TO 1881, at the ssl6 place,
Dantzic, During period Of profound peace, was
34s. sterling, or 94i cents per bushel.
As respects freights from Odessa, the Black
seas, to London, it is stated in McCulloch "that
the rates of freight for series of years have been
from l6s. to l9s. per quarter" The average is It's
Cd, "A cents per bushel. This price of freight
corresponds in remarkable manner to the reply
made me by Mr.. John J. Boyd Of this ct,y "a
merchant, whose long experience in our foreign
trade, makes him undoubted authority,) when
asked him "the lowest possible price of freight from
the Black and Baltic to this country" ne re.
piled, .'about 40 cents from Odessa, and d from
the Baltic" He at the same time handed me J. c.
Ritter & Co.'s price current, dated Trieste, the lat
of last December, in confederation.
In this price current find the freight Of bushel
of wheat from Trieste to London was 9s. per quar-
ter, or 81 cents the bushel, with ten per cent pr-
mage, or about half the from Cd essa to Lon
don. You will perceive the price Of VIII eat at Trieste
was from 37s. for soft, to AS. sterling for hard
wheat The average price (40s Cd equals l2l cents;
to this add % cents freight and primage Exclusive
of insurance, and we have dollar and fy cents
delivered in England. Query: How much in addi-
ton would the prudent ship-owner charge for New
York, without the advantage of any cargo to make
a return freight
McCulloch further states, Oh the authority of Mr.
Jacobs, who made his inquiries by order of the
British government, for the use of Parliament, that
'the cost of wheat for the English merchant, from
Dantzc would be 3ls. Sd. per quarter
Charges Is. Cd. &C
Freight IS. Cd.