Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-09-29
Increased Price Of Breadstuffs.

The very last steamer which brings to
Us intelligence from Europe, since the re.
ceipt there of the news that our new tar.
lift has become the law of the land-the
very first steamer coming from England
after this has been made known, brings US
intelligence which raises the price of
brea1stufs in all our Atlantic ports. That
this increase of price is owing to the de.
mand for our breadstufs in the English
market, cannot, as we conceive, be seri-
ously questioned. On Monday last, saws
the New Nork Journal of Commerce,
''the English market lifted flour to 81 so.
For that market 5000 barrels Genesee,
Ohio, and Michigan -four were taken ar
that price. The English market and
nothing else has done us the benefit
Here are the fact in the records Of trade.
Arguments, theory, prophecy-aH are
frustrated, denied, demolished. Bread.
stuffs are, In fact, now going from US to
some ofthose very markets from which n
was said, England would be supplied to
our utter exclusion. The farming interest
must credit the free policy of England with
three cents pound on cheese, ten cents
bushel on wheat. five cents on corn. and
so on, just for this recent advance, In
addition to this the farmer will find the
articles he wishes to purchase cheaper.so
that if he gets 10 per cent more for his
produce, and buys his family supplies at
20 per cent. cheaper prices, he is gamer
ofthirty cents on every dollar of his earn
ngs. This is quite moderate estimate of
the value ofthe new policy of England and
the United States, to the agricultural in
Ierests of cur 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 commercial intercourse which has
been at the same time established by the
liberal parties ofEng.and and of the Uni
ted States in their respective Countries
This result was predicatcd by the DEM
ocrats. The prediction was secuted by
the wings. They were for heme market.
They would secure a home demand by
stringent protection. They have hal
their protection for four years, through all
which time the farmer has failed to find
an increased price of his products, grow
ont ct a home demand. At the beginning
of August the new tariff passed-iust time
enough elapses for the intelligence to
reach the markets ofthe Old World, and
come back again--and at once -four rises
in price half a dollar a barrel, wheat
alomst in equal proportion, and corn, near.
ly as much.
This, of course, is but the beginning.
But il puts in clear light the futility ofthat
objection to the new tariff, which urged
that the vast Eengish market for bread.
stuffs would be filed from the shores of
the Black and Baltic seas. Breadstuffs
ale at this moment in process of exporta.
ton from the port of New York to some Of
those ports, from which as the wings havv
told Us, the whole English supply was to
be obtained. These are facts which,
cannot be lost upon the agricultural mas.
ses ofthe country. In view of such facts,
1t 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 Union.