New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-09-21

fest that these Agricultural Staples commAna oes'
ter prices in the two former thaa in the three a-
ter of these States because Labor finds g'eAs''
diversity Of employment 10 the former tnan -
latter-because the manufactures oil We"
afford a Home Market for the food Pro'"0e -
which has not yet been secured IN any
equal measure by the farmers o' VIC
s,.,a., R.;.e M factories and workshops az 'ne
We., g, abundant as they now are at the East
-, doubt that Corn, Oats and Wheat
wopld appreciste in price at the "est "nne
.L..,.ods of farmers who now grow these staples
h.o.,.e they can do no better would then produce
F,pits. Mix, Vegetables &c. to better advantage
than growing w heat even at dollar or Corn at ty
cents per busheL Would this be building up Manu-
features at the ezpense and TO the injury OF Asrcui
ture Or take the statement Of this effect by ten
Jackson in his well known letter OF ls2i to Dr Cole
man Of n. c. wherein he says
When there il no market AZ home OF abroad, u .
proved that there too much Labor Employed ~ sros'
tare. Cosmon sense At once points out tne -
from Agriculture in the United states sx hundred non
sand and children and you wi AZ once Wv
a market for bresdsufs than al Europe no" i'f
nishes Us" &C.
Here is enunciated the principle OF which the con-
nas,ed prices of Grain in the Eastern and West
ern States afford the practical illustration. Cr-
cumstances have somewhat changed since "a :
many men have wofully changed but the propo
sjtion that the policy most beneficial to the Farm
ing Interest ia that which raises up other Producing
Interests by its side. and creates convenient mar
kets which no nuctuation of Foreign policy or Fo.
reign harvests can destroy has not changed Tor II
is based on immoyabe truth. Gov. Wright may
fairly controvert it argue that 1t is not applicable
to the present controversy but when he talks Of
the iaridious and partial encouragement OF Ger
tain interests at the expense OF others he cooily
assumes the very matter in dispute, substituting
one sided statement for the demonstration which 1t
became him TO furnish This would have been dis
ingenious anywhere, but it is peculiarly so IN an
Agricultural Address
But this is not a solitary case. Gov Wright
long argume:.. against "erciuSrdy domestic
market plainly implies that the friends OF Protec-
ton object 20 the export Of products which are
needed abroad and are not at home, while nothing
like this is true What we do maintain is, that IN
So far as we need articles which Nature has not for
hidden us to produce for ourselves il is better not
for my particular class interest even for our
own people solely but better for ALL that we should
fabricate to the extent of our own wants rather
than import our Cloths and Wares and export Pro
visions to pay for them and to feed the workmen
engaged in producing them. For instance, Ohio
has surplus we will say, OF Five Million bushels
of Wheat but needs One Million yards OF Woolen
fabrics to clothe her people. Now we may con-
cede that this cloth would cost nominally less IN
England than If made in near Ohio. but 1t -
clear to our minds that its real cost to Ohio would
be far more-that it would take the profits OF many
more days labor in Ohio to pay for the cloth IN
England, send the Grim thither to pay for it, aud
pay Transportation thereon, than it would to make
the clotn in Ohio or pay for it if made there There
is nothing particularly beautiful about this the
ory but it seems 10 US the obvious dictate OF com
mon sense if not, why don't its adversares crap
pie with lit Why do they beat round and round
the bush, misstate and delame. accuse us OF seek
ing 70 advance one interest at the orpense and to
the injury Of others, when they know that we pro-
pose nothing of the kind Why substitute their
conclusions for statements OF the matter in dispute
Why accuse us of seeking to shut Foreign markets
against our farmers, and coniine them exclusively
to our own We have never doubted nor ques-
exporter of Agricultural products for many years
perhaps always. We know well that our people
need many articles which cannot well be produced
at home either now OF hereafter, and these we
would import exporting our Cotton, GRAIN Beet
or whatever else will most advantageously pay Tor
them We wish other nations TO practice on pre-
csely the same principles that we commend to our
own and of course 10 buy Of US such articles as we
can produce to advantage and they cannot thus
rendering Commerce reciprocity OF benefits, a
minstering to each others necessities. But send
ing our w oo and Cotton to Europe 70 be made into
Cloth for our own use and our Grain to feed those
who there make the Cloth does seem to us depor-
able waste of the capital, skill, labor employed IN
the inland and ocean transportation of these raw
materials and fabrics-a plain subtraction from the
efficiency and the reward of Labor universally Ia
stead of sending the Wool and Grain annually tC
Europe to be transformed into Cloth, we would
bring over or raise up manufacturers to make Tho
cloth in our own land-and this for the benefit o
our farmers quite As much any other class, anG
of the aborers of Europe well as of this Country
Does Gov. Wright fairly confront this view of th'
subject Does he even fairly represent 1t Rea'
both sides carefully and judge.