Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1846-10-20

writer in tho New York Journal OF Commerce says
81 have lately articles in support OF monopoly,
urging upon the people the Importance of securing con-
sumers OF their produce at home. i have to learn what
difference IL mako the producer whether his pro-
duee 10 consumed at home or abroad Those that will
give tbs best price, the purchasers he seeks Al home
HE land worth $50 has compete with other land OF Elm.
liar value, bat England he completes with land worth
$3.50"
We cannot well imagine stronger argument in favor
Of home Market than b. here put FORTH by writer who
profes.edly susans opposite doctrine II the land in
England generally, b, worth S250 per acre, what is the
cause OF i'll l. it that every article which be
raised on il meet. with ready sale Z Is it not that
nil pcrishabo commodities, such as could not bear
transportation, easily disposed OF is not that they
are all needed for the supply Of the immense manu-.
factories employing hundreds OF thousands OF hands,
who must be fed spread a whole sand7 Is it not
because the farmer when he puts in his CROP knows
that he Ac1g upon certainty and encouraged there
by to sow, plant, cultivate and To improve Is 1t
not in one word, because he has failing market
directly his door, upon which no rely at all times
Tor the disposal OF his agricultural products
renders land here, in the noighborhood OF
great city valuable than other land distance from
&C. OF the quality Simply that 1t has market for
products always at hand II is not confined 10 the
growth OF wheat corn, tobacco. 1t can find ready
sale FOR caSbase fruits melons every thing that will grow
upon il: whereas the more land supply the
named articles aoae for the others Perishabr,
yield small profit TO allow OF ransporiauon-
What road, our canals, our improved water
courses If they intended dras the market nearer
The doors OF distant farmer The obiee, Ct them all
Is the sane the creation, namely, OF a Home Market
woald toe correspondent OF the Journal render his
land as valuabe OF England Let him then adop,
poey BY which that lana has been rendered vaua
be Let him seek market Tor Us prod1ets in
h- own nsighbo5hoOd. Ii bad consumers here toI al
tobacco And wheat that be rAsed in Virginia, does
any doobi that Der lands would e IN vai1e fourod
What policy that, then, which for IT, ultimate aim
the depression Of tie value OF laais and the dssIc-
tion OF the system which IS calculated 10 enhance u
II we were compelled TO choose between the two,
should certainly prefer home to foreign market, for
these
LIST. foreign market must, OF necessity, always be
fascinating, depending upon the plenty scarcity in Eu
rope and regulated entirely by the qusnu,y hand.
I'd. Because reliance foreign markets alone always
compes the farmer conhne his labOrs the production
Of one crops No have felt the Of
~ crops the farmers oiVrgnia. They have
raised corn wheat and tobacco, from time mmemoria,
almost the exclusion OF other, because they find
sale those products alone. He has encouragement
10 raise hay, potatoes vegetables melons, fruit poultry
because he can find sale for them. We have codn.
Try fine any the world for the grow OF WOOL ye,
what encouragement has the farmer devote portion Of
his capital the raising of sheeP7 We dependent
ueeu huu ~ years NOTk
is lost.
Sd. Because have country Astounding timber, for
which we have sale, but which, If were furnished
with a home market, would easily DO disposed Of.
To this may be added that in q country devoted TO
agriculture alone, tho land il only cultivated
tness the ch plains of Poland which Free Traders
say yield than bushels Of wheat one sown
while England yields average of tweny hut education
languishes comfort is comparatively unknown auence
knows not how to its advantages and all the arts
which contribute 10 the and convenience OF man. re.
main in OF hopeless immoblity The people pro.
duce, and spend half the value Of their produce getting
to market Living enormously dear, and the poor man
rarely rise above the condition in which he is born
If these things true, why is it that Massachusetts
is far ahead Of North Carolina, her superior territory
in the ratio OF SIX to oneher superior in natural advan
tages, in the proportion OF at least ten to one ?
Bat reduced this alternative We should
but for the rash legislation Of the last session. have had
choice Of markets That home increasing every
year value that abroad would have precisely what
1t is The tariff Of 1916 neither produced IT, nor did
IL render /, iota We had It already and
could have kept just well can now To destroy
the home market under petence Of getting the foreign,
when had the latter entirely possession was On
act Of sheer unqualified, wickedness for which
If the signs in Pennsylvania any thing, s authors
will be yet held to heavy reckoning.