Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-08-15

lhe average ranged as high as one don,,
and thir:y-two cents a bushel, which ~.'
the average price at Liverpool ,hrou.s
the year lS49.
From the publications of The Enor.,
board Of trade, we learn that the imno,,.
tons into England, Of grain Of all ,o,'.
during the year lS49, was nearly donn.
that of 1913, amounting 10 li,ssaa
quarters-which supply was derived n.
the several foreign sources named !,
fellows:
| France 742oe3 or,,,.,
Prussia 6IS.5a4
United states si7,i3l a
Russia 6ou375 i
Hsnseatic cities 1855, !.
Belgium -3E6,0s2 i.
Holland 30s,4s2 g
The returns, up 10 Tie 24ih Of Ami
show that France is furnishing nrs
larger proportion this year than the last;
and it is remarked, her expectation n
IS47, considerable as it appears, is no. 4
suilicien. importance TO affect The hon,
market, for it is but the seventy -secosd
part of an ordinary crop. -
Such are our chances in what the IN.
logists of foreign trade are iond of iellr,
lis is the great grain mar et Of the work
For the sake OF the slender pariicira,ir
in it which is atainable, they would han
the American farmer sacrifice his hon,
market, and beat down his own prices,h
forcing those who would be glad 10 h.
crease the demand into competition win
them. The doctors of this school, tho.
who preach by book, claim generallyh
be intense admirers Of ADAM SMITH, and
faithful echoes of his instructions. Hen
is text from ADAM SMITH, upon which
we cannot remember that any OF them e,u
based an exhortation: +s
"a piece of fine cloth, weighing eieti
pounds, contains in il the price not onlyof
eight pounds of wool, but sometimes of
several thousand weight of. ctrn, III.
maintenance of the different working PEG.
pie and their employers"
These pretended disciples of SxIrn Tell
us that We must encourage TIE inpor.a.
ton of woolen cloths, in order that The
different working people and their en-.
ployers may have the means Of purchasing
our corn. But when we have got ths
cloth We have only &C, back, according 10
this unexceptionable authority, great
deal of corn with very little woods
combination in the proportion Of thousands
Of the former TO units OF the latter.
If all The corn, incorporated into clO.b,
was of American production, il would !.
OF comparatively small consequence, %
far as the extent Of the market of our
farmers was concerned, whether the union
was effected al home or abroad. In The
latter case they would indeed buy then
corn back again, with the expense d
transportation 10 and fro over the ocean,
added TO its cost, and therefore obtain, by
just that difference, SO much less clolh
than they would have done had il teen
manufactured at home. In obiaining .
given quantity of cloth, they would have
disposed Of more wheat, If that is aE
blessing. But there il no reason 10 BE-
lieve that the British workmen and then
employers, who weave the cloth for cur
market, take any special care TO cal M
wheat but that which we send them
Their consumption j. Of various growth,,
and cannot be supposed to vary in its pro-
portions from the general average Of their
fellow subjects. The result would be,
according to the experience of lS49, that
even if all the wheat BY which they nour-
i>hed their strength, reproduced itself in
cloth, was grown on other than English
soils, still the largest constituent o. i
would be French, the next largest Psus-
sian, and, Of the whole, that from The
United States would make but one sixth.
Whereas, had the wool been wrought into
cloth in the United States, the whole Of
the wheat consumed by the working peo-
pie and their employers must have been
of native production, and consequently 'z
times as much in quantity as entered iria
foreign fabrics Of equal value. But thus
is neglecting altogether the wheat Of Eng
lish growth which must always constitute
vastly larger proportion Of its peoples
food than all that imported from ever!
other country.
The system forced upon the agricGi-
turists by the devotees Of foreign .rsts
i'll the name, but no, in the spirit Of Adam
Smith-atrade never exceeding in amoun'
one-tenth Of the internal commerce oil The
nalion--is one which diminishes thtif
market instead of extending ii, and con-
pels them TO sell to poor and distant Gus
toners instead of near and rich Ones
Wash. Republic. -
G. L.. A C.l.frrnIa