Hillsdale Whig standard. (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1846-1851, 1850-08-13


eriog cfop--and fortnight will scarselye-
lapse, ere Il will begin 10 pour in upon us.
New cars and new locomotives have been
| added tn the force of the rail road.
which will soon be completed into the very
heart oi Southern Michigan. Our port. so
long deserted. will DO speedily revisited BY
the customary fleets, and others in addition,
! 10 bear the golden harvest TO tho ses board.
and our docks, now so quiet. will resound
the hum--;he bvs,le--lhe life of active busi-
ness. Money will be more pleDsy. new life
v i'll be ippatted 10 the local trade, aud our
streets will exemplify the benefits Of our
plank road enierpfise.
These are certain results. which con-
template with pleasure, not iitiie alloted
! by the equal ceiiaiuty. that prices will be re-
ducej-ihat the iaboTer will be disappointed,
and The operator dissatisfied. Our EASTERN
maikels are Uverstocked. there is but littIo
demand for export, aud the hume market 10
in good supply. The old supply must DO
removed 10 make room for the pcw.
! OF the causes which will prevent a speedy
movement ia western produce. the stock Of
Hour now on hand ia New York is probsbiy
the greatest. A large portion OF this Is Ca
madam. Finding no market nc homa-nons
| in Europe, it has sought one with US. where
al prices slightly reduced, il wieIds power
(ul composition with our own msoufscture,
aud renders the marker unavailable for the
crop. A large supply from the same uniail-
ing source, awaits the disposal ofthe present
| stock, 10 fad its way into the same market.
This must ever be the case, nnless We pro-
| tect ourselves by law, when the home sup
ply exceeds the foreign demand. Europe il
Oow ovefstocked from the granaries, which
her owu harvesls filed last year, and which
are reported as beiug ample, for year To
| come. lie the meantime, our harvest is rich
er than ever before, hat we not only derive
no benefit Of foreign demand. but are COM
PEELED, in our own market to encounter q
: : formidable foreign competition. Is there
not something wrong ia this!
The foreign demand Tor our grain. will
poorly compensate for foreign competition
al home. Il is entirely too insignificant al
i,em, compared with our home market. The
whole quantity Of wheat exported last yesr
as shown from late exhibit Of the Secret<-
~ OF the Treasury, was l,527,53a bushels
not so much as We have reason TO believe.
will change hands in Toledo during the next
six months. England was the market for H.
| O42 go bushels Of this wheat, and for 1885,
e07 barrels of American four--a small part
oi which found it's way across the Atlantic
through the British ports on the 81. Law
reuce. Duriog this period. while the foreign
! demand, MAS as i've as ever, the surplus
! cIop of Canada West, was working it's way
into our markets, 10 take advantage Of our
home demand. which always. in some rate is
reIiable-aud was thus enabled TO dispose of
! q. .e2S bushels Of wheat, and $500 barrels
of flour. Small as these figures are, they en-
| body this important fict--,hat foreign pro-
ducer can bring her flour and whea, toto our
markets. and dispose of them at living rates,
when our own merchants are buying the
same articles for export. This is not ALL
/ She can make money by the operstioo-s
much, AS To make her both camorons aud
! threatening for tho Passage OF a law which
will admit Of better terms. Ever since that
1 experience OF the benefit OF our market, Ca
nada has been plying our markets with her
breadsfuiTs, aud The result is, that at this time,
Yhsn n,nhnes,s nssi h2mi n..rs. =. ell
petition prevails. prices are daily declining.
aud the demand is inactive.
We a,e not as yet prepared to say, that
the reprociTory law sought for by Canada.
should not be granted. The experience OF
the present season, will as we imagine, do
much To settle that question. We hope no
such law will pass the present Congress-
Let US test by actual experiment, how great
the competition may be, which Canada can
otter, 10 season OF great plenty, when there
is 90 foreign demand. Ii we mistake not.
our farmers and operators, throughout this
entire lake region. will feel the burden
OF thar competition sufficiently before the
close Of snother year. without aifordiug Cam
ada aoy great facilities than she now enjoys.
We shall be disappointed. il among those
now favorable TO Canadian Reciprocity, nine
of everyt-n year hence, will not be willing
10 sign memorial asking for laws 10 protect
The industry Of the country against the en-
ctoachments OF a ruinous competitiou. Facts
and figures tell sorry tale for US already,
ard we confess our inability in such an ex-
igency as the present, when the loreign mar
ket is good for nothing, and our own hsryesis
abundant, 70 see how we can protect oursel-
ves, not only ruinous competition with
Canads, but u constant glut from the influx
Of Canadian grain. The producers Of Can
ada West, prefer our markets to their own.
They will send their entire crops to New
York, in preference TO sending them TO the
cities Of the ST. Lawrence aud the Gull, and
;hus force Us to supply those markets with
breadstuffs. at low rates. and poor pay. This
has already been done. and in common with
some others, wto had not reflected upon tho
subject, we have been led to exclaim 10 Wow
of il, behold how great will be the benefits Of
reciprocity. Let those who answer the ques-
ton of what we shall do. by telling US to avail
ourselves Of the Canadian markets, bear in
mind that in addition 10 the difficulties We
should encounter 10 our owo, we should
there be subjected TO the difficulties Incident
TO a Colonial Goyernmeut--the lack OF enter
p,ise--scaniy resources, and poverty. This
would be no reciprocity at all. II Canada is
able To- clog our market now.what could pre-
vent her from controlling it at such time az
the present. unCe the reciprocity lawl VIII
some one familiar with the operations oftrado
inform usl Ifthere is nothing, then we eau
not believe, that our western people-and es-
pecislly those Of them who live io the rich
agricultural regions tributary TO Toledo, wo'd
wish to see the principle Of reciprocity sdop-