The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-19
Home Industry and Free Trade

Home Industry and Free Trade.
"From various correspondents at different points
on the canal and railroads, learn that the crop
Of 1850 and 1851 is at last started, holders seeing
no prospect OF realizing the prices of S47 and lS4S
The consequence ia, the warehouses on the canals
are fast filling up. and will need early opening
of navigation TO make room One OF our forward
ers, just returned from tour south, reports the
quantity of wheat now in store az points between
Evansburgh and Fulton, the Ohio canal-a dis
lance OF only sixty mes-420 5000 bushels; corn,
$1,000. There is considerable in store at Clinton,
Akron, and lesser places this side of Fulton, and
great quantities south Of Evansburgh. There is
also great deal of produce accommodating at San
dusky, Milan, Toledo, Chicago, and other western
ports."- Cleveland (Ohio) Piaindealer,
MIR. exSecretary WALKER assured the farm
ers of the country that his free-trade tariff of
1916 would provide for them abundant markets
In Europe for the sale of their surplus grain at
remunerating prices. Believing that the good
time predicted would come in due season, the
Ohio farmers have held back the greater part
Of the wheat crop of 1850 but their patience
being at length exhausted, they are now send
ing 1t forward to take its chances in the gut-
ted marts of the Atlantic. With commend-
able endurance, they have looked forward to the
tuliment Of Mr.. Walkers prophecy while
he, we presume, has been waiting for the APP
pearance of another famine to turn his predic-
ton into history. No doubt Mr. WALKER can
do much but the cleverest legerdemain can
not enable him to create for the farmers of
Ohio renewal Of the demand experienced IN
lS11 and 1913. MIR. WALKER is now in
Europe seeking to borrow some fifteen millions
of the So, 600, OO0sent hence to England since
LIST January, 1851, to pay for productions which
a continuance of the tariff of 1912 would have
enabled us, to large extent, to produce at
home. We would therefore submit, that the
Ohio farmers may with some show of reason
Constitute him agent for the sale of their wheat
and call upon him to advance the difference
in amount that may exist between the price
obtainable in Mark-lane, and the price held out
to them in his delusite statements. The con-
slgnee would not grow rich by the operations but
really he seems bound in good faith to come TO
the aid OF those whom he has so seriously mis-
led. He pledged himself in his free trade re-
ports to high prices, and he should strive to
redeem his pledge. Hereafter he will find
that the farmers will hold him TO the most
rigid accountability, as the getter UP of the ia
nous Polk-kane letter, by which they were
cheated of their votes, and by which the signer
was made President of the United States, and
It's concocter Secretary of the Treasury
Not only the farmers, but all other industrial
classes, will ere long demand TO know why it is
that their interests have been crushed under
the iron heel of British policy. Mr.. WALKER
may be honest in his advocacy of doctrine
which enables Britain to dictate prices to suit
her own interests, and regulate the value of
every pound of cotton and every bpshel of wheat
grown in this country. No one has right to
accuse him of acting from corrupt motives; but
every one has the right to say that no paid
agent of England could have promoted her in
terests more eiiectually than has Mr.. WALKER.
She owes him much, and the fattering recep-
ton her traders and manufacturers have award
ed 10 him is justified by his devotion to their
interests. He has done more TO cripple our
spinning jennies, to quench our furnace fires,
to render valueless our coal beds. and to
blight our wheat and cotton fields. than all the
English statesmen combined. But while the
representatives Of English interests are in duty
bound to welcome him as their 'next best
FRIEND" we may with some proprety ask what
sort of greeting is due 10 MIN from our farm
ers, whose crops are burden on their hands:
from our cotton planters, whose crop of 1852
will show falling off in the proceeds of its
sale Of many millions Of dollars, compared with
the crop of lS5O-5l from our ron-masters.
whose furnaces and FORCES have passed under
the hammer of the sheriff; and from our manu-
facturers generally, whose operations have been
either crippled or suspended?