Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-08-04


rable and both are necessary, but the South
have always made war upon the former, and
sometimes the allies of the south in their opposi-
ton, have shown an obvious want of patriotism.
The great demand for wheat and corn abroad,
has proved the occasion for new attack upon
home manufactures. We pity the credulity of
those who have been made to believe the lie
that this foreign demand has arisen from the
Tariff of 1916, rather than from the nakedness
of the whole European country, striped as il has
been, almost like Egypt of old. But recent
events have shown the weakness of all such
elances for support. We have sad assuran-
ces that there are this momeut large quantities
of Grain in New York City which will not paw
the expense of its transportation to the Sea-
board. The New York Post remarks.
':If they who raise wheat and maize in this
country are confined TO the United States for
market, they will obtain largo prices when their
crops are SMALL but, when the crops are abun-
dant, prices will Immediately decline, and the
farmer who lives remote Fl ON the market, will
often find, as was the case under the tariff of
1912, that his wheat will not pay the cost of
sending it to market"
Now this precise event is realized under the
tariff of 1916. Some of the growers of corn,
living in remote sections of the country, in the
ordinary course of business, have been unable to
get their crops to marek In season for the ordi-
nary course of business, and others, more ava
ricious, and therefore, deserving to suffer, have
kept their crops in the expectation of better
prices than those which have been paid.
We hold it to be most wise for government
to rely upon itself,-to protect its own people,
its own industry, to manufacture what it can,
to consume what it can of the productions OF
its own soil, and to be anxious only for an ex-
port ofits surplus production, whether of the
soil or the work shop, Manufacturing towns
and villages at home, scattered along our riv-
ers and waiter courses in the neighborhood Of
fine productive country, as Cincinnati is in
Ohio: and Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania Pitts
burgh having the double advantage of Coal ant
Iron,- are the best customers the Farmer car
have. Here is market OF easy access, Of goot
prices, of prompt pay, of mutual convenience
of land and sea, from all the expenses of heavy
commissions, from losses incident to doing bust
ness among strangers, and from thousand
risks known to trade. Why should the Far.
mer desire market abroad, if he can find one
at home? Why should the Cotton grower wish
TO send his Cotton to Leeds and Manchester
when he can find good mprket at Lowell. OF
Dover,-or at Liverpool and Havre, if Boston
and Philadelphia will pay him as good prices
In the South, and particularly among sucf
men as McDufe, Hamilton, Pickens, and the
South Carolina School of politicians there ha.
been jealous of Northern prosperity, and pre-
ferred Old England to New England and Eu
rope to home.
Just see, for moment, how this thing of /;
home market works. In the very heart of til,
pine country of Georgia, we read an advertise
ment of Boston laths for sale. Even Georgi;
pig-yoke has to be bought in Yenke land, ant
from the pig-yoke to the shipin the Savanns'
river, there is hardly an exception. We re
joice however, for the sake Of the South, to tn
prospect of remedy for this, and to evidence
like the following, from the Savannah Repub
lican of better theungs ahead:
! The resources of the South need only to b
: developed, to give her children wealth and com
fort Northern brethren, but they have husband
. ed their resources, while we have squondere
and neglected ours.
u Take, for example, the State of Georgia.
e Vast quantities of her timber are now rottin
| L.
;, into our pert. The finest water power in tn
: world which might be converted to the usan
useful purposes, is allowed to waste itself ovd
n rocks in its channel. The shad Fishery on tn
# Savannah river is yearly made a source G
large profit to company from Maine. Our ca
nal furnishes our city only with eetsand tcatel
) lilies, instead of being completed to bring u
: down the lumber and the products of the Oga
n cheei and in one word, we continue poor DE
cause we will not make the effort to becom
rich, by developing the actual resources in OF
power.
= Agriculture and commerce absorb most
y the energies of portion of orr people VIII
e will work, whilst the class of unproductIy
q consumers at the South is fearfully large.-
r'ho professions have much to answer for
a tais respect. Many sturdy young fellows VII
n would enjoy both health and competence i! 70
is lowing the pio"gh. are vasteihg their energie
, aid lives in frutless chacc after ''cases, e
Il Their legal, medical or clerical, to the freat los
5 of the community and their OVID.
Georgia. we are happy to see, is waking NJ
the former stupid idea, that "a gentleman wa
s one who wore white kids, and never. worked,
= fast giving place to the sounder doctrine' tn;
the working men (either with hand or. brain
are the true nobility of the country and STAN
&c its character at home and abroad, Upon ii
$ present generation rests the duty of developin
:, the internal resources of the State of empoyn
!, her water power in turning the busy wheels
n factories; in exploring her mineral treasures
J. increasing her exports of lumber, and develt
ping all her countless resources.
J. MEXICAN NEWS.