New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-07-26
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
MONDAY MORNING. JULY 20.
Farmers, Crops and Markets.
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srestsr a.Iaslon csnuo, be held 70 our farmers
than that iSsy 10 depend on England Tor n-fset
What they IL market a io-r own doors. which
they viii have ~hsnoger trey abolish the Land dOoOpo
In which forces the mechanics into cities taxing the
produce Of farmers and mechanics with rents secus
rions and unnecessary transportation. The IrDHAt -
certainly beside itself for once.
The second article on Land Monopoly in CaiA0iH'a'
makes up for tLe mistake Of the leader.
TV~ Oar neighbor was very safe IN bis ss'uinP
ton that 1t cant be Horace Greeley who writes
the article he objects TO- since that person was
many miles Rom New-York at the Tune "'' To-
been for some weeks previously ne i5"' 49,
ia chasing US with those Who Deheee 'u"' '''''
country ought 20 produce her own aOrcS anu
England her own Provisions, aud that eacu ha''O"
pieht do so with great advantage forthwith Tex
we do no, think our associate who wrote the aru-
clio in question 50 far wrong as Young Anefica
would represent him. As long as our Fabrics and
Wares shall continue 10 be IN good part imported,
we hold it desirable that free ingfcss TO the best
Foreign Markets be afforded TO our own farmers
Grain Meats, Butter, Cheese &c. and we
believe that the opening Of the British Mar
kets to our Produce will have some good effect
on the prices Of our Agricultural Staples. That is
10 saw If the Wares, Silks Woolens Linens &c
which we now import were produced IN our own
country We believe the whole Productive Industry
Of our People would be more steadily employees
and more fully rewarded than II can possibly De
while we continue ~ buy largely OF Europe aft'
oles which might with Substantially as little labor
be produced at home but so lOng as We do buy
these abroad. we hold it desirable that we should
have liberal opportunities 10 sell abroad such
staples as we most iessby produce in excess Of our
own wants la this view, we have considered the
Repeal Of the British Corn. Laws theme OF con
graduation and likely TO be worth something to
Our farmers We think great truth need not be
afraid Of little one and the fact that some sort OF
benefit shall result to our farmers from the distant
and capricio1s market afforded them IN Britain by
the Repeal of the Corn Laws only tends to show
that still greater and more reliable advantage
would accrue 10 them from the immense Home
Market which would be created here by the pro
ducton on our own soil Of the Silks, Wares WOOL
ems. Cottons, Linens &c. which we now import
from the Old World To supply food to the
producers of these, our Farmers must now
compete with their European rivals under the
immense odds Of n tedious and expensive IN
land as well as ocean transportation while were
our wants as to fabrics supplied at home the re
suIting market for Food would lie at the doors Of
our Farmers instead OF across half continent and
n whole ocean: would be steady instead Of capri
cious; and would be- in the nature OF things Tar
more ample aud remunerating than 1t now can be-
All this we have set forth so often that no one who
reads The Tribune can possibly be IN doubt as TO
its views ON this subject and we DO not sec that
our Associates remarks ON The Coming crop
positively controvert tn Still the tenor oil that
article was TO attribute an importance and
beneGcence to the British Market for our Produce /
which the responsible Editor OF The Tribune does |
not attach to them Assuming that we have as
great a surplus OF Breadstuts from this year crop
as from the last and that no event now unforeseen
should interfere with the natural action andreactlon
of supply and demand, we do not believe that this
surplus can be sold abroad so as to net - per barrel
for Flour in New York, or ten cents per bushel for
Corn on Fox and Rock Rivers, Illinois Let us
patiently watch the course OF events prepared by
candor and honesty to be taught thereby
we heartily agree with Young America in
its hostility to Land Monopoly, but We cannot re
gard that as the only support of false and Injurious
Commerce. On the contrary, we think we perceive
other Social laws aud influences which tend strong
ly to initiate Trade and dopress Industry, aud we
think these also should be resisted by the Phan'
thropist the Patriot the Statesman. And while 1t
may or may not be true that, were everything else
as it should be, Trade would regulate itself 1t is
very clear to our mind that in the actual world
around us it will not that is, II may regulate
itself so subscrve to the utmost the interests
of Trade, but not those OF Humanity Thus behev-
ing we advocate most strenuously the Legislative
regulation or restriction Trade, SO as to bring its
operations as nearly as practicable into conformity
with the highest interests Of our Country aud OF
Mankind.
That it would be better for Great BritaIn-that
u.s. for the British Peope--as well as for us, that
she should produce her own Food that she oo"id do
SO il her Soil were not monopoized and in part
withheld from useful production by pampered and
prodgal Aristocracy and that in case OF any per
manent deficiency, it would be far better to take
the surplus Population To the surplus Food than the
Food to the Population-we do not doubt II we
had been asked TO devise adequate remedies
for Englands deep seated maladies, we should
have commenced not with Free Trade by any
means. but with Property Tax sufficient to
pay of the Principal OF the National Debt in five
or at farthes, in twenty years Ia view OF the his
toricsl fact tina, this appalling Debt was mainly in
CURED in the prosecution Of Wars to uphold the
Landed Aristocracy aud distract attention from
sorely needed Reforms, think 1t would be right
TO impose this tax mainly or wholly ON Land. We
would abolish therewi th all Feuda Tenures Entails
and other obstacles to the ready transfer OF Real Es
tate These measures would speedily depress the
present enormous prices OF Lands in Great Britain
would ensure an in6nity OF foreclosures and sales
under Mortgage, and would transform hundreds
OF thousands Of FundhOlders into LEndholders
some merely owning the cot and quarter-scre
they have long rented aud occupied but were una
bic 10 Purchase At the exorbiiant price demanded
others having acquired ample estates. Now We
would put in force the principle Of Land Limita.
t,on as TO future acquisitions, whether by iuheri
tauce or purchase render Parhaments biennial
extend the Right OF Suffrage to all who live by
honest Industry, cut down the Army and Navy to
one tenth and the Civil and Pension Lists 10 one
fourth their present amounts, and enact ths,
every destitute person should be provided with