New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-11
Prssectien % the Farmers Of Gernaay
and Its Results.

0m0 hbosoasss
Within the States of the Zollrersin, or
German Customs Union, trade is free, but
the system everywhere protects the farmer
in his efforts to draw to his side the mea
who drive the shuttle and strike the
hammer while consuming his food. Its OBJ
iect is the emancipation of the people Of
Germany from the tyranny Of the monepo-
lists of Manchester and Birmingham, aad
how far il has tended to accomplish that
object is shown in the fact that Austria is
now engaged in an effort to bring asout
union of all Germany and its dependenciea
within which trade shall be free, while
establishing efficient protection against the
British monopoly-the most important meas
ure, as we think, now under consideration
in Europe. Ia view of its probable adop-
tiou, we have procured the statements
which will be found in another column, in
reference to the imports into the States Of
the Vere,n, and now desire to call to them
the attention of our readers, that they may
Judge for themselves how far German pro-
lection has tended ~ increase or diminish
the demand for our products; and how far.
too, it has tended to improve or to deterio-
rate the condition Of the people Of Cor
many, whether laborers or mechanics, farm
ers or merchants.
The formation of the Versin dates back
only fifteeR years beyond the last year Of
this table. At that period, the whole im-
port into the States Of which the Union 10
composed amounted to fifteen millions Of
raw and twenty. four millions Of spun cotton,
making a total of only forty millions Of
mounds. In eight years afIerward the con.
sumption, under efficient protection, had
doubled, the quantity Of raw having grown
to thirty millions, and Of spun to fifty mil
lions, making total of no less than eighty
millions Of pounds. The table we now pub
lish shows that the ratio Of growth was
steadily increasing, the average of the years
ls45 and 1916 having amounted to the
enormous quantity Of a hundred and thirty
t,oo millions, Of which sixty-two millions
were of raw cotton, and only seventy.one
Of twist. The disturbed state Of the coun-
uy, as a matter Of course, arrested the
uropress Of the manufacture in l648, but in
the two following years We find the soa-
sumption rising TO the extraordinary quaa-
titv of more than two hundred and seventy
seven millions, giving an average Of about
a hundred and forty millions Of pounds, one
half Of which was raw cotton, leaving tho
import of twist from Manchester as lover
amount than that at which it had stood four
years before.
We have here an increase Of ne less taan
three hundred and J6fty per cent, ana :.
this in the short space of fifteen years. -.
under system, too, that, accorsine !" l"'
Journal of Commerce, tends to destroy
trade while il destroys the power OF coz
sumption by enhancing the price Of tho ar
.:.,ar Consumed. During the period Of he
80 ~;....ce of the tariff Of 1912, and the
~.,y Of famine that followed il, our csa.
sumutien of cotton more than doubled, sns
ret Il was then asserted that it wodid %
greater if protection were ABOLISHED me
..r;fr Of ls4s reduced profession to IS rer
cont and cur con.-mption Of cotton has
s.,,s. At ous Aurth, while the consumption
&c .o...a goods has fallen yet more rapidly;
% -. -" Whole quantity, foreign and domestic.
,ov consumed in The country being net