The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-09-11
INCREASED PRICE OF BREADsTUFFs.


INCREASED PRICE OF BREADSTUFFS.
THE VERY rlHsr STEAMER which brings to US intel
Igsnes from Europe, since the receipt there Of the
sws that our new tariff has become the law Of the
knd-the very first steamer coming from England
lasr this has been made known, brings US intelli-
snee which raises the price Of breadstufIs in all our
atlantic ports That this increase Of price is owing
the demand for our breadstuffs in the English
arket, cannot, as we conceive, be seriously ques-
Oned. On Monday last, says the New York Jour
al of Commerce, ''ihe English market lifted -four
"a so. For that market 5000 barrels Genesee,
tho and Michigan -four were taken at that price
he English market and nothing else has done US
his benefit. Here are the facts in the rec ,rds OF
bade. Argument, theory, prophecy, all are frus-
rated, denied, demolished. BreadstufTs are in fact,
bow going from us to some Of those very markets
FROM which il was said Epgland would be supplied
10 our utter exclusion. The farming interest must
credit the free policy Of England with three cents a
pound on cheese, ten cents bushel on wheat, five
cents ON corn, and on just for this recent advance
In addition to this the farmer will find the articles
he wishes to purchase cheaper, SO tina, If he gets
10 per cent moro for his produce and buys his fam
lily supplies at 20 per cent cheaper prices, he is
gamer of 30 cents on every dollar Of his earnings.
This is quite moderate estimate of the value Of the
new policy Of England and the United States, to the
agricultural interests Of our own country. This is
the way the farmers and laboring men are TO be
ruined by free-trade."
Here is the first result Of the liberal plan Of COM
mercal intercourse which has been at the same time
established by the liberal parties of England and Of
the United States in their respective countries This
result was predicted by the democrats. The pre-
dction was secuted by the wings. They were for a
homo market. They would secure home demand
by stringent protection They have had their protec
ton for four years, through all which time the farmer
has failed to find an increased price Of his products
growing out Of home demand. At the beginning
Of August the new tariff bill passes--just time
enough elapses for the intelligence to reach the mar
kets of the Old World, and come back again--and
at once -four rises in price half dollar barrel,
wheat almost In equal proportion, and corn,
nearly as much.
This, of course, is but the beginning. But it puts
in clear light the fatity of that objection to the
new tariff, which urged that the vast English mar
kes for breadsus would be filed from the shores of
the Black and the Baltic seas. Breadstuffs are at
this moment in process of expectation from the
port Of New York to some Of those ports, from
which, as the wings have told us, the whole Eng
lish supply was to be obtained. These are facts
which cannot be lost upon the agricultural masses
ofthe country. In view ofsuch facts, it is hardly
necessary to argue in support ofthe new tariff. The
argument may be safely left to the records Of trade
and to the Prices Current.