Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-07-29

work, for July, the Pow, the Loom, and
the Anvil, and propose TO give our readers
a little of the good matter contained in its
columns. 1t is much devoted to the great
question of protection to agricultural labor
and every species of American industry -
The present number has an able review of
Mr.. Rantou's speech in favor of British
free trade; and in opposing this favorite
scheme of some of our politicians who APP
parently care more for the loayes and fish
es of Office than for the bread that should
feed the mouth of labor, thus alludes to the
assertion of Mr.. r. that the railroad ls "lhe
greatest invention that science has yet
given us for increasing the ralae Of land"
Had the Hon. gentleman read Adam Smith
he would have found, as we have suggested
to him, greater one, for be would there
have found that the na,ural place for the
artisan is by the side of the producer OF food
and wool the first to be eaten while the
latter was being converted into cloth and
fitted for cheap transportation to distant
countries--and that the more fully tie con-
sumer and the producer could thus be
brought together, the greater must be the
increase in the value of land La piece
of cloth, according to that highest of real
free-trade authorities, there are many hum
bred weights of food and WOOL the trans
portation of which, in their original forms,
would be highly burdensome to the farmer,
who is therefore greatly benefited by hav
ing them reduced into the compact form Of
cloth, and that he is so, we have the adj
mission of the Hon. gentleman himself
Diminish" says he, " the time aud ex-
pense of reaching a market from a section
of land in Missouri, and you raise the price
of that land instantly and largely the mo-
ment You do SC" an assertion the truth of
which, cannot, even for moment, be ques-
toned. The object of the tariff Of 1912
was that of enabling the farmer to send his
products to market ia the most compact
form, and thus TO diminish both the time
aud expense Of reaching the market I'M
der it the corn and other raw products of
Missouri were converted into lead, and to
SO great an extent that the export of that
commodity from the west rose from year to
year, until in ISI7 it had attained the a
mount of nearly 100000 pigs, with every
reason to believe that by this time it would
reach 1000 900, aud thus were the time
aud expense of sending to market the pro-
ducts of Missouri and Illinois greatly d.
mnished, a process which, according TO
the reasoning of the hon. gentleman, should
have added largely to the value of land -
Under it the corn of Ohio and Indiana was
being fed TO the great mannf deturer Of ma
nure, the hog, and the hay and other de-
scriptions of food were being fed to those
other manufacturers of manure, the horse
that the export by the New York Canal of
the product of animals doubled in SIX years,
and thus did the farmer find a great de-
crease in the time and expense of reach
ing a market" Under il, the corn and the
pork of Kentucky and the neighborng
States were fed to that other manufacturer
of manure, the laborer to so great an ex-
tent tina, the quantity of hemp received at
New Orleans rose from one thousand two
hundred and eleven bales in lS4l-2, to sir-
tn thousand bales in lS46-7, and thus did
the planter find great decrease in the time
and expense of reaching market.
Under the tariff of 1876, we find the ex-
port oflead diminishing from year to year,
until in the last one it had fallen to $685.
900 tons, and is likely in the present year
to fall below even 100000. Under it, we
find the product of animals passing through
the New York Canal diminishing from
year to year, and likely to fall in the pres
sent one at little above the point at which
il stood niue years since, within which
time the population Of the West must have
almost doubled. Under it, We hnd the
quantities of the same commodities Tecely-
ed at New Orleans diminishing from year
to year, and with a rapidlty beyond exam
pie Under it, we find the export of food in
the form of hemp gradually falling, until it
has almost reached the point at which 1t
stood IN 1923. Under it, the export of
food in the form of bagging is steadily aud
regularly diminishing; but under II, the
export of Indian corn, the rudest form IN
which food can be exported, is steadily in
creasng, and thus il is that the policy adj
yocated by the hon. gentleman is pro6ilng
the farmer and the planter in increasing in
stead Of diminishing the expense of going
to market. Diminish the export of food in
the form of leads Of pork and of beef, of
butter aud of cheese, of hemp and of bag
ging, and send to market ten tons Of Indian
corn where before you sent a single ton OF
butter and of cheese, of hempor Of bagging,
and you will thus. according TO our orator,
diminish the =" time and expense of reach
ing Market" and thus will you give value
! to your land. Such is the political econo-