New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-02
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Beet and pork here have decreased in quantity,
with trivial increase Of price; butter and cheese
have increased sizty per cent. in quantity, while
the total value has grown sir per cent; wheat has
diminished in both quantity and price; four has
fallen of in quantity. and pr &c has fallen TO 81 30
The yet more valuable articles Of export have de-
clined more than one-half; while corn-the corn
That should hare been manufactured into pork
has almost doubled, with large diminution OF
price; and this has happened under system that
was to give us demand for food to the extent OF
hundred Of millions Of dollars.
kecollect now, If you please, that from 1872 to
lSE We quadrupled our domestic production OF
iron, trebled that Of COAL doubled that Of cotton
cloth, and added at least one.half TO that OF
wooden cloth, to say nothing of vast increase in
the production Of wool, hemp, lead, and the thou
sand other commodities that before we had i'm
ported, and then remark that although we had
then made domestic market amounting 70 more
than hundred millions of dollars, We e1portsdio
1886 about twice as much food as We had do ae
in 1912, when our mills and furnaces closed.
Next would beg you to remark, that for the last
four years we have built neither furnaces nor mills,
but that we have closed hundreds Of old ones
and that large proportion of them has been sold
out by the sheriff, a specimen Of whose operations
for the present year is giver in the following par
agraph, which meets my eye while engaged in
writing this letter:
F4 TRApK IN PESSsrLvAyLA-Ts Clarion County
Rec okyortises seven columns OF SHERIFF. Sales
again Amopg the properties TO be sold under the
hammer win Do mine iron furnaces with furnace prop
ery making In all about twenty three furnaces sold 10
thai County by the Sheriff vibio year. the whole
INDUSTRY Of Clarion County IA affected by these disas.
ters 10 shown By the fact that nearly all the of
the property 10 be sold At this Sheriff. Sale which IL
advertised In Tia ReStsy consists Of gristmlls, saw
mills, and fuing and other mills.
We have reduced the production of Iron to less
than half million OF tuns and the consumption
of cotton and of wool has greatly fallen OF, while
the lead received at New Orleans has fallen from
500 600 to BOG, 900 pigs, and the hemp from Ken
lucky has fallen from 10000 to 10000 bales and
thus have we diminished the amount Of the do
nestle market for food at least fifty millions Of
dollars. while adding four or FIVE millions to our
population and the foreign market, ins ,ead Of
growing, has largely diminished. Having studied
these facts, you can, as think, have little diff
Guilty in determining for Yourself the cause Of the
low price of wheat. Whenever we open mine,
or build mill or furnace, We add to the number
OF those who are only consumers of food, and
every addition to the number Of consumers tends
to raise prices. Whenever We stop the building
of mills, or furnaces, or close old ones, we compel
men to become producers OF food, and every ad
dition to the number Of producers tends to reduce
prices Here are plain, simple propo itions, Of
the truth of which you are as competent to judge
AZ am, and if you deem them true, as | think
you must il would seem scarcely possible that
you should fail to arrive to Il correct understand
ing of the true causes Of the difficulty Of which
you and other farmers complain.
1t will be said, however, that the farmer should
have the choice of markets, and not feel himself
committed to sell either at home or abroad. In
doubtedly he should, and tie object Of protection
is 10 secure TO him thai choice. The British sys-
TEN looks to compelling all the farmers and plant
crs Of the world to bring their surplus produce to
British ports, that it may be eaten by British
workmen, and the people OF Manchester and
Birmine ham have succeeded in accomplishing that
object in reference to all the countries with which
they have what they Gull free trade. Ireland mas
perfect freedom Of trade, as it is called shs has,
come quenty, no consumers, aud her farmers have
no choice but to send every thing to The one mar
ket Of England whereas, if she made largely Of
iron and Of cloth, her people would have two mar
kets. the home and the foreign, and they could
sell in one or the other, as they might deem it
most to their advantage. India has seen her
manufactures pass gradually away as British free
trade has obtained the control OF her movements
and with each step in that direction she has be-
come more and more dependent on the single
market Of England. So too with Portugal and
Turkey, both OF which have subjected themselves
TO Manchester free trade, which consists in allow
ing them but one market in which to sell, and one
in which to buy. The West Indies were not al.
lowed even to refine their own sugar, lest they
might have two markets 10 which to sell or to buy.
So too with Canada and Nova Scotia they have
no home market, because, under British FREQ
trade. the consumer cannot take his place by the
side of the producer. Wherever British free trade
prevails, the agriculturist has no choice Of mar.
kets.
The near market is the great one and the dis
tant one is the small one. II yoa desire evidence
that such 10 the case, " oud beg you TO look
only to the fact, that the consumption Of food
among the domestic manufacturers OF iron and
cloth, and the domestic miners Of lead and coal,
and the dome site producers Of machinery for
mining and manufactures, Increased in four or five
years, unter the tariff OF 1872, more than han
bred millions Of dollars, and would certainly, in
the last FIVE years, have increased as much more;
whereas, under the tariff Of 1916, it has diminished
at least Fifty millions Of dollars, and yet the for
eign market is scarcely greater in amount than 1t
vas twelys or twenty years since, as is here
shown. The
Export of food nee Ircuded, In 1880 was. sl7 59 27
Export Of food rice Included, In lst0 vas. 10 1885
Expcrt of food nee included 10 1886 was. 27Ol III
Export sf TODD, rice Included 10 ls0l "" HoiJOoo
Ths fr.t Ma, a neriod Of high projection. when