Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-10-07
Aa,I59.582

Bot lite more than one-6En. The exports 70
other parts Of Europe Of these products do not
amount to 100 900.
The remaining ~ or IL millions were sent 10
the different West india Islands TO South Aneri-
ca, 70 the Brlii,n American Cooniss 10 China and
the East Indies.
Row, according to the idea which am
discussing, England a.Id Fruuce being the
countries from which we derive the great
bulk OF our imported manufactures, ought
70 furnish US Tie best markets for our pro-
ducts, and particularly would we expect
irons England the heas lest purchases, as she
raises Nc SURPRISES. And vet, the foregoing
ihconsroyerti5le results shov that these two
Countries together have not consumed more
IMAM onc-filih of our hreadstufs aud proyis-
IONS Whit, then, are we 10 expect, when
those products shall be multiplied by the vast
increase which we are told is to follow from
the enlargement Of our cultivated lands and
the augmentation OF our population?
Throughout these observations, England
has been spoken of as an exception from the
general remark that the countries of Europe
were exporters Of breadstulls and proyis-
ions. kut from this it is not 10 be inferred
that she is unable ordinarily to feed herself
II Is believed that unless extraordinary cir
cunlstances occur, she can do so, or at least
that the deficit will be unlmp0rtant. The
high price Of provisions there, particularly
Of wheat and is flour, has been owing to
system of duties on imported food, called
the Corn Laws, imposed not for revenue
purposes, but with the avowed object of
Keeping up the price, and, rs the Govern
menr has supposed, thus protecting her hus-
bandmcn and enabling them 70 pay their
enormous taxes. These prices, therefore,
are not to he attributed % a scarcity Of food.
Those laws were IN 1917 modified, and in
effect repealad The author Of the last
years Address 10 this Society, congrattlatos
the country on this relaxation, aud evidently
anticipates from il the opening Of a new AID
ynsi market for our hreadstutfs and proyis
IONS. And II is 10 a general adoption Of the
Same liberal system by European govern
menis, that he refers ns au argument IN favor
of foreign markets, Since Than Address was
prepared, we have hnd the means of testiag
the effect Of this relaxation, upon the price
ot hreadstuill. In 1917 a scarcity amount
ing almost 20 a famine, prevailed in Great
britain, aud there was deficiency IN the
usual supply from the Mediterranean aud
the Baltic, and other regions IN the vicinity.
The prices Of hreadstuds particularly be-
came very high, sud heavy cXporiations
were mndc from this country, u was under
tue influence OF this state of thing that
the reliance upon foreign marke,s was so
strongly recommended 10 you. Bat IN 1873
the famine has ceased while thc same re-
taxation Of the Corn Laws continues, and
We can now see what has been and what
viii be the effect OF that relaxation under
ordinary circumstances. BY comparing the
prices Of heat at different periods between
The 10Th Of April and tho l7th of July, 1913,
with the prices of the same article a. cor
responding periods in 1916 and in 1917, il IS
found than they have fallen so much from
the standard Of 1917 as 10 DO actually less
than they were Ia 1917, when the Corn Laws
were IN operation
The following are the averages of " heat,
MS taken from the London Farmers Naga-
zine for tho years lsl6-7, 5;