New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-20
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.


of the New V rk Canal Tolls on railroad
and other iron, BY Lowering tie tolls on the
same articles passing through their waters.
Thus, instead of IS. cd. per tun FOR The 81.
Lawrence Canal, and the same srm for the
Welland, the charge will hence.orth be Is.
per tun each.
But short time since we were threaten
ed with the closing of the Canals of Cana
da against American trade, unless our Gov
eminent would consent to sacrifice the
interests of our farmers by repeating the
tariff in favor of the agricultural products
of our Northern neighbors. Persuasion
having failed TO accomplish that object, anu
bullying having failed, we now see the { ana
dian Governmea at in the field, bidding for the
privilege of passing British iron through its
canals for the makingof Western roads and
offering to DO it at discount of no less than
sixty per cent. from old prices. Such being
the case, we may hope that in future our
Western friends may understand the value
of threats, and not permit themsclvesto be
either seduced or frightened INFO The adop-
ton of any measure urged upon them by
the British Government FOR they may be
quite sure that It's interests and theirs will
never be found in harmony with each other.
Britain desires to buy all raw products ct
low prices, and they desire to sell them at
high ones. Britain desires to sell iron and
cloth, and all other manufactured comnod-
tiles at high prices and they desire to buy
them at low ones and thus the objects in
view by the two parties are directly the
opposite of each other. Nevertheless,
whenever any measure is proposed by the
men who desire that food may be cheap, it
is greedily caue ht at by those who desire
that it may be dear, as he's been the case
this matter of Canadian rcciprocity-so
called because the reciprocity is all on one
side. Had Illinois and Indiana, Michigan
and Wisconsin had the making of laws for
the Union, all the products of Canada, by
this time quintupled in quantity, would be
at this moment in our market contending
with those States for the supply of almost
the only customers now left to them, and
the only ones they are likely to have in
future. Mr.. Walker promised that they
should feed "the starving millions of Ea-
rope" to the extent of hundreds of mil
lions of dollars per annum and yet, a.
though famine prevails throughout Central
Europe, we send now less food across the
Atlantic than we did six years since, when
the Corn Laws were in full operation. TO
obtain market for food, we agreed TO
admit their fabrics at low duties;' and
yet. England alone now sends US ten or
twelve dollars worth of food in the forms
of cloth, iron, lead, &C., for one dollars
worth taken from us by ell Europe.
Even as it Is, with a nominal duty OF
twenty per cent, Canadian lumber, rail-
road ties, fire. wood &C., fill our markets.
not much to the advantage, certainly
the farmer who desires 10 clear his lands
Canadian wheat is prevented from super
cedirg that of the Yves. only by the tact
that it cannot be sold here except upon
payment of twenty per cent. duty. Inc
Rochester millers now mix Genesee and
Western wheat, and sell the whole ioT pure
Genesee; but they would do better csll'
they have Canadian alene; and, whenthe
rec trade days shall come, we opIne ns'
our Western friends will have 10 look eise-
where than Rochester for u market. iu'
millers are, as we understand, all free Irs"'
men: but. as the farmer and the mine'
have not generally the same object lii Vie"'
it may be doubted whether the interests"
both are to be prom oted blythe same cou'S
of policy. The miller desires to have cheap
wheat, and the farmer de ,ires that he shan
not have it cheap. The farmer desires iat'
the miller shall sell flour cheaply' tn'
more may be consumed, and that the &C.
mand may be large. The miller, on 'h'
contrary, desires that, however cheapy NC
may buy his wheat, he may obtain his'
price for his flour, that his profits may &c
large. The objects in view being so vess
different. we submit il to our western
friends for consideration, whether the very