Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-11-04
From ths N. Y. Evening Post.
The Home Market.

familiar 10 tnelTeatS Hlab bney Uoii6F6 tney1
have some sense and some meaning Butt
not one Of them could tell what they mean
by "a homo Market. in it's bearings on
protection, without being ashamed Of using
the meaning as aIargpment v &
Ifby a "home market is meant that the
products Of the soil are used on the spot
where they are raised, the words have
sensible meaning, and their truth is appli-
cable to our own and almost all other ma
tions. But, if in their application as to the
tariff, they are designed to convey the i'm.
preston that any reasonable increased pro-
portion Of the farming products are con-
summed in consequence of the establish
ment Of cotton and woolen or. other manu-
factories, it is a fallacy so easily refuted
BY facts. that it becomes ridiculous in the
mouth of man that lays claim to an ounce
ofcommon sense. 9.i' 1" S'
"a The number Of persons employed in
these manufactures could not consume, for
instance, as much -four as one county in
our state produces. The simple reason isl
that there are so few Of them, not enough
10 make more than decent sized village,
vet the protectionists would make us believe
that manufacturers keep up the price Of
agricultural products.
The truths of these remarks may be H.
lus.rated by taking the returns Of the State
Of Massachusetts, as on example, for the
the year l645: ..s-'.-.'.r
There were then employed in the cotton
manufactures 20,7lO
And in the wooden factories, includ-
ing worsted goods, " = 50 s,2rs
Add 70 those the calico printers and =.
carpet weavers 3,Os7
Also the persons employed in MAX
ing machinery D's' 2,50e
We then have total Of 1882
Thc estimate in this country Of tho con
sumption of -four is one barrel to each in
dividual The county,of Monroe, in thi.
State, raises 100000 bushels Of whea,
annually-equal to two hundred and fifty
thousand barrels Of flour, and half as much
as the highest pretender Of Massachusetts
alleges is taken by that State for consump.
tion from all other parts Of the Union.
The same ridiculous pretensions are made
in reference to Pennsylvania. Yet the
county Of lancaster alone raises more
wheat than can be consumed by all the
iron and coal miners and manufacturers in
the State. In order to get over these diff.
culties, we are told sometimes that we must
include the families who are dependent on
these operatives. This would not help the
matter essentially, as if we allow five per.
sons for each laborer, the county named
would furnish the whole quantity required
In cottons and woolens, however, the mass
Of Operatives have no families, being gene
rally unmarried persons. The number of
persons employed in coal mines and in the
manufacture Of iron in all its branches in
Pennsylvania in 1910 was Ii, $50; allowing
Eve persons to each of these and there
would be dependent on them inclusive H.
$50 persons. II we suppose the number
10 have doubled since that time so that there
would now be l43,50O persons, they would
only consume 1880 bushels of wheat.
The county Of Lancaster raised in that year
l,l29,277 bushels, more than fifty per cent
beyond what :hess operatives would con-
sumo. The increase Of the crop in Michi
gan annually is more than is consumed
by the manufacturers in the United States
If all they consume were burned up every
year, it would make only half cent dif.
ference in the price of wheat per bushe.
Thus far Free Trade: but let us subioin
few other facts: . .... ..'
The crop Of Indian corn for 1915 will
be more than five hundred millions of bush.
els. --,..., a. a..s..... D.. ..s
The crop Of wheat will exceed one hum
dred and forty millions of bushels, which
would produce equal to twenty eight mill.
ions barrels of -four ,c -+a~.
Within the last four weeks the price of
Indian corn in this market has risen, in
consequence Of large shipments to Europe,
from fifty cents per. bushel to eighty cents
per bushel, which is ON advance Of 80 per
cent on it's value.
Flour, within the same period, has risen
from "a to $5 per barrel, which is an ad.
vance of 25 per cent. G.
Rye has experienced much greater ad.
vance than wbeat. @'."
All other articles ofagricultural produce,
ns well as provisions, have advanced con.
siderably in price in consequence Of q for
eign demand.
The enormous amount Of wealth which
this advance adds 70 the capital of the coun-
try, and which goes chiefly into the pock-
cts Of the farmer, can easily be estimated
by referring to tabular statistics. We shall
not pretend to indicate the precise amount
1t will be seen at a glance that it must
be prodigious; we will even venture 10 say
that it greatly exceeds ull the wealth that
MI the cotton and woolen manufacturers
could make for il in ten years. Yet the
farmers, who are 50 deeply interested in
the principiesof free trade, are most ahda-
ciously asked tosacrifce their stupendous
interests, that a few upstart manufacturers
inay lie tailowedto coin money for Them