New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-09-22

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uentS making Iron for Illinois in Great
/ Britain Rhode Island has bought more
/ Corn during tie last twenty years than
al Europe has taken from Us. The
Senator IS certainly mistaken N calcula-
ing on I large and advantageous market
Tor American Corn in Europe. 1t Is not
popular article Of diet with any class there.
( DurinC more than three months soj0urn
/ this season in nearly half the countries OF
/ Europe, most + them corn growing, we
cannot remember having once been offered
taste Of Corn Meal IN any shape \ sea-
voyage impairs the sweetness of Corn OF
is Flour only ai'n-drying will save 1t, and
even that leaves 1t less savory and inviting
'Lan II found it, Italy might grow Corn as
rteaply Is Ohio; she does crow 1t almost
as extensively, and but for wretched cult
walton would have immense crops Of it,
Spain, Portugal. Southern France and Ger
many can Of course produce it in nearly
equal abundance. is II probable, then, that
an article of such decided bulk and weight.
grown throughout the milder half of Europe
and not liked as food in the other half. can
ever be extensively exported TO that Cont
neut to the growers advantage To us ii
seems a palpabe doluslon 10 talk of our
corn-growers competing with the potato
growers of Europe for the chance OF feed
ING the Poor of that Continent. nlne-tenthS
OF whom must grow their own food or 20
without Let Us learn to supply our own
essential wants, SO far a. Nature has not
forbidden, whether In the department of Ag-
riculture. Manufacture OF any other and
then let US sell whatever we can most
adyantageously export to pay for such
Foreign Products as dlversltles of soil and
climate do not permit ne to rival at home
but do not let US embark IN the miserable
QulXotlsm of attempting to undersell all
other producers of Food on their own soil
The cost of transportation Is too great; the
disadvantage Of our producers IN such a
competition is immense. The ample coasts
of the Mediterranean are equal to any por-
ton of our own country for Corn and Wheat
growing; they not only can never afford to
buy their bread of us. but they can supply
Great Britain at half the cost for convey
ance that must be paid by Grain-growers of
our Great Valley Let us be less ambitious
TO depress by our competition the miserable
wages of European Agricultural labor and
more solicltouS, by dlyerSiiying our pursuits
| and charging our ever reliable Home
| Market, TO increase the recompense of our
| own.
Mr.. Douglas strangely misreads the
facts with regard to the French production
OF Beet Sugar. That production was COM
menced, it is well known, under the spur of
an urgent necessity. The Sugar used on
the continent was almost entirely a product
ofthe tropical Cane but Great Britain, then
at war with France, had virtually sealed her
ports by blockade against the introduction
OF trans Atlantic products. France was re-
duced to the alternative OF making Sugar or
doing without. In this dilemma, she took
hold of the Beet, and commenced, under Il
system of virtual prohibition, the production
Of an inferior article, at 4 high price. But
Practice makes perfect. She has steadily
and noiseesSly improved in this manufac-
ture, until she is now making first quality
of Sugar from Beet as cheap as she can be
supplied from the Cane At first stringent
Protection was Indispensable she would not
have made tun of good sugar without il
and even with it her efforts to supply her
self from that source were long the butt Of
British wits and the theme of Free Trade
epigrams. But she perseyered, and the re-
suit, within single lifetime from the out
set, is the solid establishment of her manu-
facture of Beet Sugar, and the total discon-
tlnuance of Protection as no longer requlr-
advantage of a revenue duty-the duty I'M
posed on the importation Of Cane Sugar Is
balanced by an excise on that produced at
home from the Beet Yet the manufacture
is prosperous, extensive and steadily IN
creasing, and has already been the cause Of
mechanical inventions and chemical dlscov-
erles of inestmable benefit to mankind.
Shall the lesson be lost upon Us
- Mr.. Douglas has of course mode
of increasing our home product Of Sugar
very different from that OF Protection. He
says
sugar from cane Is produced - a great extent
II he United states but large portion l. yet I'M
ported from foreign countries. Whether the United
states viii BE- able 10 produce the quantity
CURED for their own consumption, remains % be
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