New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-22


Such was the condition Of rhiags when
,Le terifi' of 1916 was enacted. That has
Glanced the entire face of things, and
hr. ~ HI on the state described b. The let
pr. The policy which stops the building
Of rc,v nils and furnaces aud shuts up the
I'D ones, which drives the artisan away
from the vicinity Of the farmer, aud con-
ve,ts him from customer for agricultural
rroducts into competitor for their sale,
can have no other effect thaa to scatter the
-,eople abroad and remove them farther and
farther from market. Hence the uneXam-
pled emigration we now see going on IN the
older States. There is an immense EXo-
dus 10 the West, 10 | wa, to California, TO
OREGON, the further the better. A letter
from Iowa CRY, published in The JoarHat
Of Commerce the other day, says that this
wears emigration to the Pacific Is without
parallel. 1T is pitiful." says the writer
..to see such q mass of human beings and
animals fast approaching to great scarcity
of food, if not starvation, before the im-
mense emigration on the way shall reach
lis destination"
Now there must be some cause to force
people in such masses and in the face OF
such perils into the wilderness. We are
told it is the enterprising spirit of Ameri-
cans. That may do for purposes of decla-
nation. but the sober truth is tina. Amer
cans are not such fools as to lily in droves
from prosperity and good prospects, No
country can be very prosperous or IN
healthy state whenmyriads hndit necessary
to emigrate. Even as it is, the gold OF
California tempts comparatively few ofrhose
laboring people of the country who are
well off and in a secure position to leave
their homes. 1t is only the great and in-
creasing mass, who are not well of, and are
in a precarious position, who are driven to
Quit their homes and TO scatter abroad, IN
the hope Of better fortune. And great as
the Influence Of the California discoveries
would have been under any circumstances,
the chief cause Of the present excessive emil
grafton among our people is undoubtedly
that there is not employment for them at
home. That this is so is the work of the
tariff Of 1876, which has arrested the pro-
gress of our manufactures, shut up our
mines and furnaces, and destroyed to an ex-
tent so fatal the home market for agricul-
tural products, without substituting, as it
promised to do, corresponding increase
in the demand for them abroad.
The effect of the tariff of 1916 is to dis
perse the population, and as the farmer and
planter have no home market and can hope
for none, they must perforce build new roads
to the only market that is allowed them -
the remote one. Since they can neither sell
their raw products at their own doors, nor
buy the manufactured articles they require,
thew must needs seek for some more rapid
and convenient way of reaching the dis
tant places where they can. Hence the
need of all these railroads built on credit
which cause such alarm to the The Ledger
signs net of prosperity, but of impover-
ishment. Each work that We construct in
that way is only new monument OF the
great fact that the process of dispersion
goes on apace, that we are separating the
producer and consumer more and more
widely apart, and increasing the expense
of the exchanges between them, all for the
benefit of the middlemen who levy tribute
alike on what they buy and what they
sell. 1t matters not that we are with
out the means Of building the facilities
required for access to the distant marts
which remain to US after the destruc-
ton of those at hand. Our credit is
yet good. British capital is ready to be
put into our hands. Having rejected the
easy and natural way of rendering access
to market cheap and speedy, namely, by
having the market right at home, let US
now try the difficult and artificial way of
doing it. 1t is the last effort, and let it be
made. 1t is certain that when it is accom-
plished, and the fabric of debt and delu-
sion finally totters and falls, we shall re-
turn to the paths of wisdom and good
serse. Then British free trade will have
received its Quietus, and we shall enter
upon the road to real free trade by adopt
ing that policy which viii build up the
National industry into complete maturity
ard perfect independence. We predict
that that policy, once more adopted, will
not again be laid aside till we have out