New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-02

and t. DO letter customers to foreign nl-
tons, VINO would then be better customers
f. ms. How can this be tooe 7 VIII rot
this object be accomplished BY seo9eaiag
our mile, furnaces and niacs, aad By butte
irqand opening new ones, aad thus making
? market for the labor Of men who desire to
work in mills aud furnaces. and to work az
the building Of Others. and DO nat desire to be
compelled to1aise their own food
But, says The Journal, If You do rot buy,
you cannot sell. If the value Of our ex-
ports should exceed By SSoOoooo0 the
value Of our imports, we should be CON-
PEELED to import gold when we ought to ex-
port il. while retaining all received from
California, aud then our situation would De
far less "hopefu" than now. Agreed but
is it quite certain that when we cease to
buy pig iron and cotton and WOODEN cloths,
that we shall not purchase more sugar, tea,
coffee. raw materials Of manufacture. silks.
books and pictures On the contrary, Is It
rot absolutely certain that in the increase
in the ralue of our products resulting from
diminuton in the quantity that we must ex-
port. that we shall be able to purhase more
from others-that the larger viii be tho bulk
of inward freights as compared with that of
outward ones-that the greater the value at
the raw products of the ear,h.thc larger viii
be the consumption OF the farmer, and the
larger his power to employ labor on his farm
and to pay for labor employed in the mill
and the furnace-that the greater the de-
mand for labor, the larger will be innmigra-
tion and the more rapid the increase in the
demand for the products of the farm, and
the more rapid the increase in the value of
land-and that the larger the value of our
imports of commodities and men, the great
er will be the demand for ships, the larger
the amount of trade, and the more rapid
the augmentation of the population and
wealth of the nation, and of its influence over
the movements of the world Are not, then,
the interests of all the readers of The Jour-
nal-not even excepting the dealers in cot
ton goods and iron--to be benefited by the
adoption of policy that shall diminish our
dependence on foreign nations, and increase
our power to be customers to them! We
put this question to our neighbors as A0'srl-
cans, and hope they will deem il worthy of
reply.
Before making it, we ask of them calm
consideration of the following important
facts. The only manufacturers of the
world that need to purchase food are the
people of Britain, and their numbers are
now diminishing from day to day, with
the prospect that the rate Of dininution will
be more rapid from year to year. That
it must be so will be obvious on stating the
facts Of the case--eyen those offered by
The London Times, which so much desires
to show the reverse. Our population adj
yances at the rate of million year, and
the whole increase is now being driven TO
the production of food and other raw COM
modities; or to the making of roads by
which they may be brought TO market. La
the next five years to say nothing of the
next twenty-five shall add five millions to
cur producers of food, while the consumers
of Britain will probably diminish million,
and what will then be the condition OF our
farmers? CAM be otherwise than obvious
to our ueighbors that continuance of the
present policy must inevitably be attended
with consequences most injurious TO the
agricultural interest, ard that the power of
purchase must gradually decline, as it did
in 1871 and 1912! Is it not, then, for the in-
terest even of their importing readers that
we should abandon our present system and
return to that under which trade grew so
RAPIDLY as it did under the tariff OF 1912
We put this question to them, not as
friends Of one or of another interest, but
simply as Americans, and as men who
would desire to aid in promoting improve
ment in the condition of our people, and to
witness the nation steadily advancing in It's
power to influence the movement Of the
world toward the establishment OF free IN
stitutions ard it is as such that we ask
them to re-examine the tendency the two
systems of policy. If they can show that
their system TENDS most to the production
of these effects, we will show ourselves pre-
pared to unite with them. Ii they cannot,
does no, their duty to their readers, TO their
friends. and to the community in which they
live require that they should unite with us
IN a1xncatinr the re. establishment OF the