New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-22
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ADAM SMITH told his cOuntry'nen that IN
Abe natural course Of things, the mechanic
and the manufacture took their places by
the side Of the producers Of food and of the
raw materials Of clothing, eating the former
while converting the latter into cloth, and
tina, in a piece Of the latter wsuld be found
included rot only great weight of weoi'
I'M, also many thousand pounds Of food, the
TRANSPORTATION OF which latter 10 distant mar
ke,s was greatly facilitated by being thus
made to pass through that great nil, the
human stomach. Such, too, we're the views
of Mr.. WIN. Brown, the free trade member
of Parliament, when he informed his hear
ers that the British nation was the largest
exporter of food in the world.
1t will, as We think be quite clear to our
readers that the more perfectly this idea is
carried out, and the larger the proportion
ola community engaged in consuming food
while producing lead, or iron, or cloth, the
smaller will be the proportion employed in
producing food, and the smaller viii be the
quantity Of surplus food required to be eX-
ported to distant markets and, on the sim
pie principle of supply and demand, the
greater will be the tendency to a rise IN It's
price. Equally clear must 1t be that the
smaller the proportion of consumers the
larger must be the proportion applying
themselves to tie production OF food, the
larger must be the surplus, and the greater
must be the tendency to a fall IN prizes.
Applying this to our own case, we have
desired TO show to cur farmers-First, That
the tendency of The system Of 1912 was,
toward increasing the number OF persons
employ ed in consuming food waile making
iron, cloth and lead, thus increasing the
number Of their customcrS, with tendency
to a Use in prices. Second, That the ten
dency of the presen. system Is toward de-
ereasing the number Of persons employed Ia
building mills and furnaces, and in working
them, producing lead, iron and cloth while
eating food, and toward increasing the
number that must either 90 without food or
raise it themselves, thus adding daily aud
largely to the number Of their competitors,
tending 10 a constant increase in the surplus
for which market must be sought abroad,
with corresponding tendency to diminution
Of price.
We think it now quite safe TO assert that
among our readers there is not even
single enc who does not think he beleGts by
dimnutien OF compe htion--nor one that has
not occasion to feel that increasing com
petition tends to diminish his profits, and
perhaps to produce his ruin. Cur ship
owners complain Of the destructive effects
Of competition. So DO the dry goods mer-
chants and the grocers, the makers of cloth
houses, and the retailers Of ribbons and Of
gloves; and if the principle Is true with re-
gard to all other products, why should 1t not
be 80 with those engaged in raising food
We beg the reader now to remark that
this is plain and very simple principle that
may be examined without the slightest re-
ference to protection or to what 1t Is the
fashion to call free trade Increasing COM
petition for the production and sale OF any
given commodity tends to diminish profits
or il does not. Increased competition for
the purchase and consumption Of a cont
modity tends to increase profits or il does
not. The question in regard TO the farmers
is settled by the fact that they always grow
rich when there is competition for the Pur-
chase of their prodGcts, and are always I'M
poverished when there is great compe titlon
for the sale of them. Such being the case,
we have desired them 20 study the fac. that
the system of 1912 tended To produce the
application of labor TO the aiding of mills
and the making of cloth and iron by those
who consumed food, and thereby 70 increase
competition for she purchase OF food, while
that of 1916 tends TO close the mills and
furnaces and to draw the whole population
into the production Of food, thereby increas-
ing competition for the sale OF food leaving
them to choose between the one system
which augments the number Of their Gus
toners, and the other which daily aad
largely augments the number OF their rivals.
Simple as Is the principle here stated, il
is clear that our critic has failed 70 compge-
bend i. He does not DENY THAI by closing the