New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-12-11

Balance in the Farmers pockets. ei,05o
We'll the Tariff IS altered Protection abandon
ed goods How IN cheaper from Europe. or what
answers the evil part OF the same pgrpose-they
are more novel more snowy more attractive. and
are purchased instead of the Home made We
wil! suppose that the Farmers Of this township Oh
tain their W ares and Fabrics $500 cheaper in mo
ney price than before, or $1,000 ii you desire It
though the TACT would not be Now we come to
the consideration OF Payment how IS II to be
made The Home Market Is maniiestly destroy
ed in graspnc htter the Foreign, for those who
have hitherto consumed these Farmers products
can buy and pay 10 longer-they must move oil or
produce Food and Fuel for themselves VIII the
two markets now buy their Fruits and Fuel and
Vegetables, and give anything like the old prices
Tor them Can they afford 10 send Cord wood 10
Europe or Cabbages or even their Potatoes and
Apples Who does no, see that for the greater
part Of Agricultural products, and those always
TO the producer most profitable there be
no other than near or Home Market and that
the talk OF Enrope atording choice OF markets is
delusive The bulk, the pershabe nature OF
most Farm products iorbids the idea OF their ex-
portation, save q; ruinous loss to the owner We
have Just received letter rom an American IN Ire
land. who casually mentions that the Corn Meal
sold there is libel on genuine Indian Meal-so
mus,y that only famine reconcile one To eating
it This is in the nature OF things. Very few articles
OF food will bear shipment from America 10 Eu-
rope charges and deterioration destroy the value
OF the greater number While the Annual Product
of American Industry is some Two Thousand Nil.
lions OF Dollars We could sell the whole abroad
TO realize fourth OF that sum after paving
expenses Of transportation &c Is not this papable
to any who will reflect Is it not plain that the
great mass Of our Products ever mast find market
Il, home or nowhere Then why not cherish and
extend that market which does not depend on ca
prices nor deficient hsrvess but on the activity
OF our Industry. the prosperity Of own People
Nay why cannot even Mr.. Polk see. IN the fact he
SO trumphantly procams. that millions worth OF
our manufacturers have been sold abroad under
the Tariff OF ~ and that many branches OF
our Manufacturing Industry have cutsrown the
need o, Protection, the peril Of Foreign rival
~. signal retu,ation of his entire theory OF
duties necessarily increasing prices and thus
taxing the! consumer Why can he no, see,
in the present state OF British Manufactures
emerging from century OF stringent Protection
superior in the average both in excellence and
cheapness TO those OF any other nation. aud now
rejecting decrying the ladder on which they have
so mounted another reutaton OF his notions OF the
effect of Protective Duties J In sho.t, why should
the advocates OF Protection be called to -eiute
snd again the same threadbarc fallscies, the same
unsupported assumptions when not the least notice
is taken Of what is offered on our side , VIII no,
the Country see this And VIII not History sup,
port the assertion that where one inequality OF
fortunes has been produced by any Legislation what
ever. millions have been reduced TO bessary and
kept SO. by such Wars OF Invasion and Spoiation
as Mr.. Polk Is now wssins against Mexico
~ EUGENE CASsEKtY. Esq. has been appoint
ed Corporation Attorney OF this Cry vice A NJ snisen