The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-10-13
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
SATURDAY MORNING. oCToBER Is, is4s.


IN odf cie 81 yesterday We presented some remarks
ca The home market iallasy urged BY the monopolists
and rssncioass 10 induce The agricultural interest to
rveiis ad IN laying hrh duties mpors. for the pur
Poss Of projecting those engaged in manufacturing pur
saiis The farmes and planters OF the country should
hook with sasasoa the councils Of their interested ad-
visen The chief advocates Of home market. TO be
built ~ ~ the destruction Of the foreign Market are not
those who sell cotton tobacco. breadsiu. and The other
productions al the SOIL IN order enable them 10 become
purchasers aud consumers 81 the fabrics manufactured
By the loom. the forge. and thu rolling mill but they are
those Who live By dividends SOCKS and reap direct
and positive benefit from protective duties they are those
Who sel the manufactured fabrics which the farmers
and planters wish To buy. and they have plain and pal
Fable interest in increasing theif pree they those
who forced 10 purchase the products Of agricultural
industry. and have visible and distinct interest in re-
dacng ihsr price in the market These men are the non
producing owners q capital and they compelled TO
employ labor in order 10 invest their capital. They
led. therefore. BY motives Of seIn,eresi, 10 sup
port and sustain, and TO urge others 10 support and
sustain. system which win reduce the wages OF Ia
Dor, that they can command the thews and sin
ews OF the operatives, whom they are compelled TO
employ for the least possible outlay. Interested counsel
is generally dangerous eoanscl and the planters and
farmers will find thai the advice Of the manufacturer
which urges them 10 rely entirely a home market.
be built up by high protective duties and BY the desiruc
lion Of the home market. furnishes no exception the
general rule As said yesterday this itea is nothing
more less than naked appeal 10 the great labor in
,eres Of the country TO furnish capital with additional
means to purchase the productions Of labor.
We have. ia former articles on this subject demon
simted that the home market furnished by those en-
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extensive to the surplus productions Of agrcu
ure In this age Of seam.engines and machinery. which
require food for their sustenance and support capital
manufacture the entire annual production Of any Of
our great staples without furnishing than local and
unmpoan demand for the products OF any other branch Of
agriculture The mills Of Lowell. with capital Of more
than twelve millions OF dollars. manufacture 2soes 900
pounds OF cotton, and 2,392 900 pounds Of WOOL while
they employ only 273 operatives and use OF the farmers
products only 765 barrels OF -four $1,000 barrels Of lard
and 100000 pounds Of stacha atom OF the great
production OF farming labor. But admitting that the
Utopian idea that sufficient home market could be
abshed for all the products Of agriculture, such con
summation would produce unexampled misery and dis
ressmisery and distress but feeby Swallowed forth in
the famine which fell upon Ireland in 1877 few States
like Massachusetts would be to the rest Of the Union
The arlstocracy oil England, whe the oaance Oh our
great empire, bare and desoate would present the pic
tue of Ireland in the stages Of her suerngs Gov
eminent may levy duties and mposs but IL is mpossi
be from the Of things, that government pre-
scribe 10 each individual the employment which he must
pursue II cannot say 10 one, you be a farmer
and to another, you must be manufacturer; and 10
third, you must be MINER in order 10 establish due
proportion between production and consumption. and TO
create home market furnishing suiic'eni demand Tor
all the products Of agriculture. folows, therefore. as
necessary consequence that there is, according to the
Utopian theory OF protection, more labor invested IN
agriculture, and hess in manufactures, than the econom
cal interests OF the country require, the proper equilibrium
can only be restored by inducing labor and capital
to forsake agriculture. Every man who Is not we'd
ded 10 prejudice, or the slave oil liked idea,
must readily perceive that the only method oil producing
that result is to impose burdens upon agriculture. and
irve the agrcuurs by sharp necessity TO seek some
other and less oppressed employment ms The man.
aer in which the home market Is to be built npi and
when Is hnshed and completed oy pfohoions and re-
'trcons our intercourse with foreign naons w'li cease
our commerce VIII perish from he ocean, and the naon
vii reap men harvest OF me'ed suffering ior he I'm.
ous enof TO sci al nanght and aorogae he VIII OF he
Creator plainly written IN the vaned climates and The
various productions Of the earth commanding the der.
ent people oil the world TO exchange her surplus products
with each Other