The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1846-09-11
From SINNERS Journal Of agriculture.
Repeal of the English Corn Law,


of the English Corn Laws
ITS EFFECT ON AMERICAN AGRl.
CULTURE.
Our readers will readily believe tina, we
take no pleasure in cauIioniog them (Which
we consider matter OF duty not 10 be too
ssnguine in their estimate OF the benefits
10 be realized by American wheat grow
ers from the long talked of and much wish.
ed for repeal Of The English Corn Lars.
For the following, among other reasons,
II NAV not prove for us lie horn Of plenty
that some may have been led 10 imagine.
|. Wheat, there Is reason 10 apprehenJ,
can be produced in Europe, and sent and
sold in England, cheaper tuan we can do
il-lf for no other reason, because OF the
lower price OF labor and OF ireights.
,. The readiness with which the thous.
ands OF foreigners who are daily arriving
can obtain our richest lands, almost for the
asking. Immigrants accustomed 10 living
on potatoes or pumperascksl (back rye
bread will augment the production Of
wheat here IN manner to keep down the
price to the lowest point Of depression, and
vet do better aud live a thousand times bet.
ter than they have ever Gsen accustomed
to do at nome.
/ 3. The act itself the refca'--is not the
out.and.out liberal and Sc sacrificing mca.
sure, on the part Of the British Govern.
ment, which some have been taught or IN
clIned 10 consider II.
In reference TO The wages of labor and
the sort of living in vogue among cur II
val wheat growers on the Continent, what
docs the reader imagine these to be 2 In
an essay on German and Dutch Husband
4 ~, recently published under high author.
It's in Scotland founded on a tour Of per.
sona observation, OF late date, II appear,
that, ia the neighborhood Of Dduzlc, sort
Of +" black rye bread, called pumpe rnic
KEEL" is the principal food used by The poor
er classes; aud their wages Tor the year
out Of which they find themselves ~ eve
~ thing except house for shelter, is no
more than would suffice to buy IN this coun
Try the working and Sunday clothes Of
thrifty slave on u Southern plantation.
THIS pumpernlckel is known, too, TO con
stltue not only the principal ood used b
; all the poorer classes in Germany, but i
/ Wesiphaia "it IS to be found on tie table
Of the ricn and poor" Ia those countrie
! the powmen receive -! cents, women
cents, and girls cents per day not more
J al the most, than one fourth Of What IS pal
Tor agricultural labor in this country.
As the question mus, arise, N the min
} Of the reader, how can these people lisa
J ia these Countries where tie price Of mea
is nearly or quite as great as here : tt
, best way We can answer II IS by setlIn
. forth their usual dietary, 10 which the nj
ked truth is tina, meat has no place, or y
!. ry rarely for, as we learn from a moter
candid, and Intelligent writer on the lndu
Try Of the Rhine, j." in the morning the
BOXERS get their pumpcrnlckeI, OF black T
o. bread, aud milk in the forenoon, potato
OF with such kitchen or meat along v
no them as they can obtain from one p
which they sometimes fatten through /
g year; and, in tho evening, either brc
1g and milk, or simply rye meal and brose
ce Here, says this writer, expressly, Z"
shall only remark that, for wanl Of otl
Il OCCUPATIONS. the WAGES or laborers are
II. ceedinrly low. averaging from ten pence
". ore shilling per day for men, aud pet
nd to pence for women. Ii food be CIV
-, three pence halfpeuny day IS an iha,
: added in money. On The larger farms f
!" pounds SEQ is all The ply u the farm 81
yants-w hose board Is valued at five pour
~ S25.) From this ana the adjacent dts,rlc
- the greatest number of emi.rauts proce
10 annually TO America"
70 Now, against this, We Yesterday yisli
:, farm Of l31 acres, belonging 10 y
- Townsend, Of Long Island managed 81
- extraordinary Judgment and economy,
: proved by is luxuna4t crops and proii,at
results He gives to one man, who h
e teen with him 10 wears. $40 month.
: SIX times as much as such man Won
p, get in Germany, in money. and. be,,d
that, board far above the CUSTOMARY die
: arv Of the wealthy IN Germany-sorh n
lag as would give man the dy.oe,,l
= we're ia Nc, for Tie wholesome lah,, 81,