New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-10-17
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Home and Foreign Markets,

Trade have inbibed such an overveenlDg concert
of their own ways and such contempt for the
views Of their opponents. 1t disqualifes them for
acting well their part in the great controversy OF
tho age. VIC Protectionists do not distrUst the
sincerity Of the mass Of our opponents we are ia
miliar with the arguments and considerations on
which their convictions are founded we admit
that they are specious and plausible but we think
there is view of the question proiounder than
theirs, which is the true view and that this view
regards Man in all his relations and not merely as
ON eating and trading aDmai--that II regards In
dus.ry not merely as means of covering his back
and filing his stomach, but essential element
Of and impulse to the Education, intellectual De-
yelopmcnt and Mental Progress Of People But
oil this is Greek or funnery in the view OF our OPP
ponents who habitualy represent all that we offer
az impclcd by monopoly stupidity ignorance or
sordid selfishness Such the drift OF the able
say in Wednesdays Journal Of Commerce, OF a
Citizen of the World who marshals and manipu-
latcs hsnestly we doubt not lot Of facts and fig
urcs in such way to prove Protection horrible
nightmare that destroys all Enterprise and Improve
nent wherever it is tolerated The following par
agrpph affords fair sample of his logic
II hare lately articles in support of monopoly
urging upon the people the importance OF securing con
suners OF their produce ut home have TO learn what
difference II make TO the producer whether his pro-
ducc Is consumed ut home or abroad Those that will
9iyc the best price. the purchasers he seeks At
home his land worth $50 has TO compete with other
land Of similar value gu, in England he completes with
land worth $3.50
And ,rhy is the land worth s2j0 per acre in AN
cashire that is worth but $40 in Geneseo County
Is it not in part because the British farmer has
sumers of his products In abundance at his door
while the -four Of Gcnesoe must seek market in
England Suppose Manchester and Leeds were
located in the Genesee valley would not land
there be worth far more than it now isl Compare
the prices Of frstrate land in Richland or Stark
County, Ohio with like land ten miles from Cincn
natl or Pittsburgh
But let us t(or the hundreth time state what dii.
ference there is TO the Farmer between an ample
Home Market and one mainly located across half
continent and whole ocean, such Wisconsin
or Iowa farmer will have in the absence of Home
Manufactures We hold tint ample and con-
vsnient Home Market, such as would result from
the fabrication IN our own country of the Cloths,
Wares Silks. Wines, &c &c we now purchase
from Europe, would be better for cur Farmers than
u 1
l. Because distant market is necessarily pre-.
carious. huctuating market, depending too much on
failures. caprices and potatorots abroad In our
boyhood for example, the Farmers OF New Hamp.
shire Were much addicted 20 the Hop culture, for
which their soil was deemed very favorable The
produce was manly exported, of course. One year
Hops would fetch forty cents pound and cash
would be abundant the next year they would be
down to ten cents and We have known them sell at
Sheriff sale for less than taro cents We necdnot
say that farmers by hundreds were made bankrupt
by the Hop culture aud have generally abandoned
it. Yet with an adequate market Of consumption
at hand hardly any department OF Agricultural In
dpstry could be more stable aud lucrative,
9. Because reliance on Foreign Market con.
fnes the Farmer to the production OF tfco on three
great staples instead OF encouraging him to vary
and diversity his products. The farmer OF central
Illinois. for instance, can now sell his Wheat at 20
10 80 cents bushel, and that is cash article but
no can raise little else that will bring money a, all
Were he to produce Hay, Potatoes Garden Vege
tables Butter, Poultry. &c &c. beyond the wants
Of his own iamily-or Fruit after the ruitorchards
around him have come into beaTinc-he viii mud
them unstable as brush fence except at ruin
oasly low price II they viii command cash at all,
But the farmer OF Massachusetts or Ensland can
sell oil these, any thing else best adapted TO ms
soil or taste ut his own door and for good price in
cash, So the Illinois Farmer soon will ii we can
have q steady and adequate Protection 10 our
branches Of Industry most exposed 20 Foreign com.
petition. Female labor and indeed labor gener-
ally, is cheaper in the West than in the East so
is Cotton; SO is Wool sois Water or Steam. pow err
in extensive localities Give us tenycars steady
PrOteesion and Illinois viii not send to Massachu.
much less to England
; Because the Farmer with ample markets st
hand for his products being led thereby to dversi,
~ his industry finding market Tor Fruits Root,
crops &c which ere TOO bulky or pershabie TO bear
transportation TO distant market IS naturally at
sracsed to system OF cropping which steadily i'm,
proves his soil and Increases his product. while.
with his markets aiar Oft he is tempted 10 grow
crop otter crop of Wheat or Corn or Cotton, ex.
haussius his soil and diminishing his product, Thus
VIC see i, stated by the Free Traders thst the
average yield of Wheat in Poland Northern Ger
many and other grsineSporting countries OF Eu-
rope is only six bushels for one sown, while IN
England 1t will average twenty bushels, With
cur workshops aud our markets in Europe we shsll
steadily exhaust our fertile praries snd river bot
toms OF those elements which are essential 10 the
luxurious growth OF Wheat and Corn. But che,
euer our country with mills, factories SC. and s.
different system OF raral industry VIII secure an
opposite tendency, to the enhancement OF fertility
and production
4. Because many articles which our farmers essi.
" produce-Fuel Timber, &c.--have usually no
market value in the absence OF Manufactures and
diversified Indusry--in other words, OF Home
Markets.
Because country or extensive region wholly
devoted to Agriculture is almost always palpsbly
behind in Arts, Comforts, Refinement snd Atap-