New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-11
Greater thar it was FIVE years since, not


withdrawing an addition Of almost twenty
ner cent. 10 our population-while Ger
many. notwithstanding her civil wars, her
revolutions, and her emigration, has in the
same period largely increased her con'ump-
tion. and has added to her facilities fer
maintaining Direct trade with the world by
largely substituting raw cotton, that may
be drawn from Charleston or New-Orfeans,
for twist, that could only be drawn from
Manchester.
AT the date of the formation Of the Ferem
and the adoption Of efficient prosecuoh'
Germany exported sleeps wool aud I'M
no,tsd cloth. She now to so great an ex-
tent manufactures her wool that the export
has become insignificant, while she has be-
come . large importer of wool and exporter
of wooden cloths, and thus is enabled TO
maintain with this and other countries a
great direct trade that before could have
no existence. At the date Of the formation
of the Verein she imported hardware for
which, as fof her cotton and wooden cloths,
she paid the English prices plus the cost OF
importation. Protection has enabled her
70 produce these things SO cheaply that her
people now obtain them at English prices
minus the cost of expectation, for she COM
petes with England herself in Leeds, Biz
minphsm and Manchester, while undersell-
inr her in many of the principal markets Of
he world, with all Of which she 10 daily
more and more establishing direct inter-
course.
Germany is now practicing on the sys-
tenn so strongly recommended 70 his cOun-
tymen by Mr.. VIM. Brown, the British
free trade Member of Parliament. She is
COMPRISING her food and her wool and her
other raw materials int the form of cloth
and Of iron, and thus is becoming very
large exporter Of food to this and other
countries, az under the tariff Of 1912 We
were preparing to become. We, however,
determined to export our food in its most
bulky form and to take in exchange for it
food and wool in the form of cloth, and the
consequence is seen In the fact that while
the German export Of food is steadily In
cYeasing, ours is steadily diminishing, that
of the last fiscal year, to all Europe, exclu-
sive of rice, having amounted to less than
eight millions of dollars, but little more,
il not even less than the amount consumed
by the coal miners of Pennsylvania.
Germany is now, to large extent, con-
Stunning her own food, and at the same time
furnishing her people with manufactures of
iron and of cotton and sleeps wosl, at
prices 90 low that their consumption is rap
idly increasing, while ours, under the
blighting influence Of the tariff of 1916, is
~ steadily diminishing. The price Of food
grows with diminution in the necessity for
locking abroad for market for it, and thus
are the farmers Of that country doubly bene-
fted, selling their products higher and OBJ
tanning their cloth and their iron cheaper.
A necessary consequence Of this is, that
they are enabled to consume more largely Of
other foreign commodities, as is here seen
in the increased consumption Of tobacco,
the average Of which in 1856 was but
forty millions ofpounds, whereas in lS49-5O,
notwithstanding the disturbed state Of the
country, it reached forty.three millions,
while rice grew in the same period ffem
twenty-five to twenty nine millions.
Such having been the benefcent effects
Of complete protection throughout the
States Of the Vsrein, it is not surprising that
Hanover should recently have abandoned
British free trade, the system under which
farmers and planters are everywhere CON-
PEELED to diminish the consumption Of cloth
and iron and all other Of the convsniences
and necessaries of life, and have adopted real
free trade, under which farmers and plant
ers everywhere prosper, and are every
where enabled to obtain larger supplies Of
clothing, of machinery, and Of all other Of
the commodities required for the improve.
ment Of their condition.
Our neighbors Of The Journal and The
Post assure their readers that trade dimin-
hhes with protection. Such being the
case, we should be glad II they would ex-
plain TO their readers how it has been that
The trade Of Germany, before so stagnant,
has grown with such wonderful rapidity
aimee the adoption Of efficient protection
against the British system which looks to
the subjugation Of the planters and farmers
Of the world to the will Of few mliionairss
in Birmingham and Manchester. They tell
their readers that protection is adverse to
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