New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-09-21

the poor mantle triumph Of capital over labe
Is complete. Many Of our small farmers, rte
commenced life with some little prospects Of &c :.
tss;pg their condition, are now beginning to fcsi-
lis re hopelessDess Of their position and are max
,ae the most oftheir effects and flying to couni =
where labor has a better chance for reward. Ssy-
etsi my immediate neighbors have done 80, anf
n'O'e are preparing to follow.
"ur merely iaboring population seem, by sort
o. natural instinct, to apprehend the position ID
h'ch the LANDS of England are placed they feed
ma they are repulsed from the soil. exactly in
the condition Of serfs. To III. poor man thu
possession Of land England i. rather a curse than
blessing. Laboring men, the most sensible and
thrifty, look around them and zee that tho, n
the possession Of small portions Of land are a.,
greater straits and more hard pressed than than
selves, and they do MT like the looks Of it. Tue
phrase most current with this class 10 thh:
There is no more good 70 be done in Engia
and they take the nselves of by thousands. I
have got the big loaf Of Free Trade but they
don't like the conditions-a lie Of sheer d.
pendence, without hope Of bettement and Z
dead certainty Of the workhouse at the end Of IL;
cheering prospects. This is the secret Of the
astounding exodus of the agricultural popul,,i9a
OF these islands.
Ii is no, true that the English agncpit'ns
are all renting. farmers, for the class to which !
belong-the small freeholders among whom Iva,
the men who live on their own iands ana
work them have always existed, through
oil fha Ma Of
litical economists have done their best to OK
tirpate us, but, blessed be God we still sur
yiye, though sore oppressed. multitude
OF mposts under the names Of 1.-THE, poor rate,
county rate, church rates, property tax, income
tax, land tax, and highway rate, DO heavily burdes
our land and iacunber our labor, and certainly
enhance the cost of our produce. These fiscal
membranes, without protection must in the
long run swamp us, tenacious as we are of exist
ence. For years the doctrines of the political
econcmnts have been against us, and we havs
faded away Ike doomed race. The old and
comfortable occupations OF small yeouofn eroftcr,
and cottsger, that made England the merry p"
England she once was have been long declining.
aud are now disappearing faster than ever. We
have been told that farming must be carried on
by men Of large capital and liberal education
that machinery end steam must take the pace OF
manual labor, ard that the email proprietor whs
cannot command ths Sc advantages must dot hts
independence and Become day iaborer We are
told that must give place To race Of gentle
men farmers akin 10 Manchester mar uficturers.
who have been biec up ia towns and tactorios,
and v 10 have studied ia schools ard colleges tor
n hemieal and mechanical system oil tiiiage- A
sort of Wholesale 81 stem OF cultiV alton ~ To be
introduced one farmer.n. chief is 10 preside over
msny laborers, that agricultural produce may DC
raised mo- economically Tor our exporting msn"-
(actrrrers The one eyed men who teach these
doctrines d2hgt 10 seeing massive mountain on
wealth, with a dead level Of poverty aud depend
ence sround Il. They worship national wealth.
and wea,tl liz masses, but they lnilc with humsa
happiness.
The question that aetate9 she English peopls
is not whether they will have a bread-tax or not
for God kuo our English bread is loaded with
1.-THE tax and rates-but whistler It IS taiI toe
the English producer to pay a multitude oil IN
posts and the foreigner nothing at all. Inc man
must be a natural fool who does not see that o
tax on the English corn field is virtually tax on
the English bread Loaf.
1.-THE is the tenth part Of every crop, or, com
muted, il is plump, sum of money as an equlVi-
lent, no matter at what cost of capital skin o.
labor it may he produced. Call it what you Will,
1.-THE operates as burden upon the land, and a.
tax upon tho labcfs of the hrsbandman. L.
Is said that We bought cur lands with the incum-
brance of 1.-THE upon shem This is not always
exactly true, but If We did, we always bought
them with the equivalent Of protection. Tho
Free Traders tell that this tenth part OF every
crop is national reserve. Very well, take II 50
for the nonce. Now, is it not hard upon the Eng
lish iarmer-the man who farms his own land--,s
1t not unjust for the nation TO claim so larges
share OF oil his care, skill and diligence as one
tenth Of the whole, and then 10 tell him
that be shall sell his remaining nine
tenths as cheap as tho foreigner who haS
no such entaDg ement. The very fact Of a rosef-
walton SO large as tenth Of all agricultural pro-
duce, for national puTp oses, airy entities the Eng
lish producer TO protection. Such reservation
fairly demands for the sake of even. handed ushce,
that an equivalent impOst should be land upon for
eign produce, or otherwise the burdens that oP-
press the Engishman removed. There was
time in this country and not very remote when
tithes were paid on the profits Of every trade, ar
tifce or profession, but our traders and town.
people thought lightly Of the national reserve 10
their own case, and flung it, or commute u iofa
trhing tax on the annual rent OF their dwellings,.
How would the manufacturers OF Conooc1cut
feel if the nitsd States claimed the tenth yard
of every taxable fabric that issued from their
looms on the ground that il was national re-
serve, and at the same time admitted Ensi,sh
manufactured goods into American ports duV
free OfcOurse they would not like it. fot th1
is the exact counterpart to the position IN winch
am placed, and that OF thousands around mo.
and know but too well the disastrous conse-
...a-.. - fi-~-r-'
ouences that have followed.
The malt tax produces about hFe rodhons sLeF.
ling per annun, and the farmers do com pa'n taas
so large a revenue raised upon their barley, ssd
assert that it abTdges the demand ior nss pse-
duct Of their industry. And besides, they myt-
mur because She malt tax in its operation P5vLJ /,
it's them from sleeping or mating barley g. : Z.
! I, mig or feeding purposes.
POOR rates were charge upon stock N
when they we're first ordaine 4 but the aye,
towns have repudiated aie 'a' ,se asnusi ', 81
> "a estate they own or occupy. oi c9sfses
a. - Srmer has 70 sn or hire large suria;es o.
"a! estate, and as the poor rate, only iails npon
AL property, he is burdened with q ,,ssss
shsfe Of this charge. Thusa small farm yissnne
TO ne bard-worked owner poor ana scan.y .sts
sfsTSe factory or shop, returning to tso~nsr OF
ocrnrier rich and princely revenue. The charge
vNNSF'N of . nm ainsas hut uDO0 thu