New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-24

the throats of their customers, to cut their
Own.
Such an operation might not be pleasant
to the subjects Of it, but we cannot, we
must confess, see why our friends IN IL
linois should object 10 it, even although 1t
should postpone the making of the Central
Railroad for a century, By driving al me
emigration of the present and future years
10 the nearer and cheaper lands Of Canada.
Land may be bought north of the line tor
one dollar, that would be worth i've south
OF it. and the only difference between the
two is, that one has market and the other
has none and if we agree to give up to
Canada the domestic market. the two must
become of equal value. Our neighbors of
TIE Journal of Commerce, however, as
sumo that the more foreign food We con-
sumo in the shape of lead, iron and cloth
the richer we grow tina, the more foreign
labor we employ, the greater Is the value OF
our own that the more We consume the
produce of foreign land, paying for all
these things in certificates of debt, the
richsr is the owner of domestic land-and
cur farmers believe them; and il so, why
should they not believe that the nation will
be enriched BY the substitution of foreign
potatoes, cheese, butter aud wheat, for
these grown in Illinois or Michigan
Some people may be SO foolish as to ask
how we are to pay for all this lead iron,
cloth and food, when it is well known that
low as are now the prices of food and cotton,
a single good crop would reduce the prices
of both far lower To this the answer
would be-by Railroad bonds and California
gold By the latest accounts, however,
from Europe, we learn that the bonds can
not be exchanged for cloth or iron and as
regards the gold, we would recommend our
friends in Ohio and Illinois to inquire how
much of their food is eaten by the people of
California, and how long it will be before
the gold produced by the food of others
will enable them to obtain iron with which
to make roads themselves. We would fur
Their recommend to their examination the
fact that the export trade of the foOd-pr
ducing portions of the Union, is, so far as
regards Europe, in gradual process of an
initiation. Having satisfied themselves in
regard to this, they will be competent to
Judge of the advantage that will probably
result from the establishment of perfectfree
trade with Canada in regard to food.
To US, this project has, we must admit
one recommendation. Reciprocity will
bring with it, among the farmers north of
Mason and Dixon's line, unlUerSal de-
termination to have annexation at whatever
cost, and this annexation will come, and
with it will come the destruction of South
ern control over the policy of the Union;
but it will be preceded by much distress
among the agricultural interest Of the cour-
Try, which we would prefer not to be called
to witness. Annexation is certain TO come
in due season, and to bring it about we do
not ed distress of any kidd but if our
Southern friends desire to expedite it, we
would recommend them to unite in the es-
Enlistment of system that retains the du-
ties on all that the Canadians desire to buy
aid sbolishes them on all that they desire
to sell, and does this in the name and under
the mask of Reciprocity-precisely as Eng
land comPels the farmers and planters of
the world to make all their exchanges in
her single market, and requires them to do
so in the name of freedom Of trade.