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

seeking it at a distance Aho oOJeC' va
this hitter letter was to show the labor
ers and mechanics Of the East ho,c greatly
thev pe,e oppressed by the duties on food
for the benefit Of the farmers Of the West
and how greatly they would be relieved by
the abolition of al restrictions on the i'm
port Of food permitting the farmers OF Can
ada to bring in their potatoes, their butter,
their cheese. and their grain, duty free, the
proceeds to be employed abroad In the Par-
chase of English, French, and Russian food
in the various forms Of lead, iron, and cloth.
Such is everywhere the Manchester and
Birmingham policy. At the West, ssays
:. Abolish the tariff, and YOU will have cheap
iron and cloth, while you will have high
prices for food" At the East, it says
q Abolish the tariff, and you will have cheap
food. while YOU will make large market
for your cloth and your iron" At the
North its agents enlarge on the abOmlna-
ton of slavery, and the advantages to free
dom that would result from low prices in
the products of slave labor At the South
it cautions the planters against opposition
to the free admission Of Canadian flour and
potatoes, because, if reciprocity be denied,
annexation, they are assured, must come,
and then the North will be so powerful that
it will exterminate slavery-whch was, as
we understand, the argument used oy the
British Minister to Southern Senator's at
the date of the last discussion in Congress
of the Reciprocity question. The tendency
of the whole system is to fan the fame of
discord and to excite hatred between the
various sections OF the Union and all for
the purpose of enabling " the shoP-keeplng
nation " to enrich itself at the expense of
the farmers and planters of the world. The
maxim of Britain is, as was that of Rome,
Divide and conquer. BY aid of it, Ireland,
Portugal and India have been ruined, and
America is governed. By its aid, during
twenty years, she kept Europe in a state of
war. the results of which are now seen in
the depressed condition of the people of
Spain, Italy and Germany.
Our attention has been called to this sub
lect of Canadian reciprocity which the
reciprocity is all on one side-by very
weak article in The North American Re-
vie,o, just published, in which the measure
is advocated on the ground that it will
enable our Eastern friends to obtain raw
materials at a cheaper rate-that Is 10 say,
that, by admitting Canadian lumber, Cana
dian food and Canadian wool free of duty.
they themselves will be enabled more ad-
vantageously to compete with the British
laborer who how eats German and Russian
food.
Our friends in the West now complain
that the price of food is SO low that
the farmers can no longer purchase lum-
ber How will it be when the price shall
be reduced yet lower by the free admission
of Canadian food ! Orr Eastern friends
complain that the low price of food de-
stroys the demand for cloth. How will it
be when food shall be cheaper! We should
be glad that either of them would explain
how they are to be benefited by measure
that would reduce the value of labor and
land within the Union to level with those
of CANADA.
We have closed lead mines in the West,
and we now import from Europe a million
and half of dollars worth of foreign food
in the form of lead. We have closed fur
naces in New England, New-Y York, Penn
sylvania and Ohio, and we now import
from England eight millions of dollars
worth Of fsreign food IN the form of iron.
We have closed wooden and cotton mills
throughout the whole country, and we now
import very many millisns of foreign food
in the shape of cotton and cotton cloth. We
have closed oil mills, and we now import
large quantities of foreign food in the form
of lnseed oil-and all these things we have
done with view to obtain for the produce
Of our farmers the British market, uhich
nOw takes from rs a smaller amount Of food
than II did SIR years SINCE. As yet there
remain in operation some mines, some fur
naceS and some mills, the operatives ia
which consume homegrown food but it is
thought that cur farmers would obtain
cheaper cloth, and iron, and lead, if these
operatives could be fed with foreign food,
and thus be relieved from the heavy taxa
ton now imposed fer the benefit of those
farmers-and that the nation would be en-
nched If 1t would import not only its
lead, It's iron and its cloth, but also its corn
and its potatoes Cheap iron. cbean lead