The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-04-03

eacn arIcto enumerated anu tue ptnpoI
ton furnished by the United States:
Whole import. From U. s.
Wheat ........53 $40 .3l6,9 26
Barley ..--.-.- 97766 2
Oats ..------.iO.248 74O}
Rye..-------. 923 SO I ...-..--. 1854
Beans and Peas. 5.7s4377S
Lnaian Corn --.t2, l67, lou .--.---..- .5,947 .9OG
Am. bush -..79.77I 355 Am bush &. 29O.776
FlOur-cwt -. 3,5s5,Ii4 cwt.....- 647,o Gao
II here appears that of al aggregate
importation nf some ~lhiriy-iuur millions
o bushels Of Wheat into Great Britain
for the last year. the farmers Of the Unit
ed States furnish only BIG 926 bushels.
We were indeed Iold. aud repeatedly,
that the free admission of grain into the
United Kingdom would give Us the cnm-
mand of the British market. or at least
furnish an outlet for large quantities of
our breadstufs; and it was the doctrine
Of Mr.. Walker aud his school thar our
own Tariff system should be brou ,ht
down 10 the free trade system which had
found such favor in England. Bat INV
fallacious have all expectations turned
out that were founded upon the heller
that British free trade would work for
our benefit!
The ;rulh is that the grain craving
countries of Europe, the Baltic countries
especially, ATE so much nearer the Brit.
ish purts than we are that they possess
immense advantage in supplying the
British demand for foreign grain. Onthe
occasion Of on extra"tdiuary scarcity
such as occurred four years ago IN Eng.
land, and to some extent upon the Gun.
tinent. the privilege of supply might be
in our hands for a time-but il would not
DO so by reasons of the British system OF
free trade. Famine prevails over all
systems OF trade. and its exaciions are
inexorable.
At this moment the price Of Wheat in
New York is as high as it is in Liverpool
or il there be any difference. it is lril
ing. For the year 1850 tho average
price Of Wheat IN France amounted in
American currency 10 ninety fur cents
per bushel-less than the average price
for the year in our W markets. In fact
unless some causalty gives rise to a Eu.
ropean demand TOR grain which may DO
transient, the farmers Of the United States
have no resource upon which they can
rely. except the home market-,heir
main dependence indeed, under all cir.
cumstances. What then is more mani.
fest than the wisdom Of that policy which
would enlarge this. home market, strength.
en- il, frlify it. and make il steady aud
permanent Let the manufacturers OF
the country be sustained. that consumer
Of bread stufs may be multiplied in the
midst Of agricultural producers, So that
both interests mny reciprocally and mn.
tually benefit each other aud grow in
joint prosperity together.
To keep pace with IL annually in.
creasiug production ofbread stutfs, a cor.
responding increase of consumers on our
own soil is required, whose labor, direct
ed 10 other pursuits, may add To the ag
gregato wealth Of the community, with.
out competing with tho farmer. The
census returns Of the last ten years will
no doubt show an increase in our agri-
cultural products. la The State of Ohim
we notice three counlies. Wayne. Stark
and Ashland, produced last year over
four millions IF Bushels u wAcat. The
farmers in those three counties engaged
the Deputy MarshaIs To take the stats.
tics of wheat for 1850 as well as for 1919
tho crop Of the latter having been smal.
Ter than the average. The result was as
stated -each Uf the counties If Wayne
aud Stark raised a million aud a hulfor
bushels. and the county of Ashland raised
more than a million. The teeming Yves,
throughout the great v%allies Of the Mis-.
Sissippi and tho Ohio is proving nm OK.
haustlsss granary, capable If furnishing
subsistence to untold millions.