The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-10-22
THE HOME MARKET.

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THE HOME MAiiKE1'
Tho Philadelphia Ledger, u neutral paper
Of large circulation in Pennsylvania, has the
following remarks on the whig doctrine Of a
home market.
Tho increase Of the price Of wheat and
corn caused by the abrogation of the oppres-
siye Corn laws ofGreat Britain, If calculated
on The entire produce of this country for
the year 1916, snpposing the produce Of
those grains ~ be no greater than the estt-
mated yield for lS45, will amount to the e.
normous sam sum Of $42, ,443, 700! That is
10 say, ,iliA wheat and corn raised in the Uni
ted States the present year are worth about
forty two aid half millions Of dollars more
Thar they were before the recentr rise Of price
and the recent rise Is clearly attributable to
the demand for breadstuffs in England and
Ireland. so muck for the removal Of one Of
the arbitrary restrictions Of trade, which shut
cut tie abundant supplies Of The farmers Of
this country, to the injury of the starving
nilIons Of Europe, that the few landholdsrs
4 there might live in afiluence. The wrong
and oppression was maintained in England,
As in the United States, with the fudge and
fslIacy ofseli-roliance ce-nde ependeAce Of for
eign conAtries--a home market. and all that
surt Of stuff.
The manufacturing masses in England,
who bore the burthen eff the protection TO
the landed nsbobs ir that nation, precisely
as the turner's of tho United States bear the
burthen of the tax that enables manufactu-
rers in this to grow rich, feel the benefits Of
opening their ports TO cur breadstuffs 10 a
mack greater extent than do our farmers,
greatly increased in valus as the product OF
| their labors is seen TO be. The removal Of
restrictions on our side will still further ben
eft the agricultural interest. The cry Of a
"home market'' is fast losing it's charm with
the hardy tillers ofthe soil They, with much
force ofreasoning, ask, esif the. building up
the Lowell or Nashau ever incrsasedthe price
Iof the farmers wheat and corn in Ohio, Hi.
nois or Iadianai Every man knows better.
Has il increased the farmers corn and rye
raised in their. very neighborhood? Every
farmer, fifty years old, no lives there, knows
better. Heknows that their prices thirty or
forty years ago, were higher than they are
now. Southern and Western cora and flour
have Nen brought, by means Of these man
ufacAHring establishments, into competition
with those ofihe New England farmerat his
own door, reducing prices there, without in
sreasing them in the regions whence the new
supplies come. These ayo facts and the
strongest arguments.
To think ofincreasins tho price Of Wes-
tern produce by building up manufacturers,
and thus increasing the nnmberof domestic
consilmers,is as idle as to thing of affecting
ths volume oil the Mississippi above or be-
low, ,by throwing the water over the leveo al
New Orleans with hand The pro.
ductisn ofihat teeming region is too vast
to bo affected by an operation so Minute
The Mississippi have an ocean to re-
ceiye The waters Of lis innumemble fountains
and lis valleys musi have world for mar
ket. To create home market for lis pro-
duction BY legislatios, is just about as ludic-
rous an operation as digging a homo rsser-
voir to receive the waters of It's mighty riy-
ers. AS friends ofths great leading iatcrest
Of this country, we say let tthe General Gov
ernment clear outour great public water
courses, improve the harbsrs, protect us from
piracy aud war on the ocean, and giva our
farmers the wolld fora market. Dothis, and
in u half . century we will show results aey-
OF surpassed in earthly. beauty aud produc-
tivensss since the plsnling of The hrsl gar
den among the faurFlyers 0f Edan.
SlNcERITY.Ftare are hundreds Of dis
honest wbig writers and speakers who have
insisted that a high tariifmake goods lower.
Yet now these same people are telling panic.
stories about manutactelies stopping be-:
cause tlie.4eluciion Of the tariff will enable
.lireinne rs u ,lnflrfsell thnm If 4 linli far-