New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-03

cIude the great fact, that the tariff of 1916
has driven the miners Of lead, Of iron ore
ard of coal, and The manufacturers Of cloth
and of iron, to raise food for themselves, and
thus to become the competitors ofthe farmer;
whereas, that Of 1912 tended to increase
the number of miners and Of manufacturers,
all Of whom are customers to the fIrmer.
Should he again have occasion to
notice US, We should be glad if he would
favor US with his opinion of the effect that
is now being produced upon the interests of
his agricultural neighbors, by having an an
nuai addition of one or two hundred thou
sand to the number of their competitors, as
compared with that which would be pro-
duced by similar addition to the number
of their customers.
Low as are the prices of food, he insists
that they are "yet remunerative :" and so
they will be, no doubt, if they fall to half of
what they are at present, for the laborer will
be glad to accept one-half Of his present re-
muneration" if he can obtain ne more, and
such is likely to be the case. Those words
"yet remunerative" present, however, sad
contrast to the brilliant anticipatiOns OF Mr..
Walker, when he promised his Western
friends an export of food to Europe amount
ing to hundreds Of millions Of dollars.
The extent of that contrast will be realized
by our contemporary if he will now persse
the ex-Secretary's reports, and compare
them with his own article, following up the
perusal of the latter by an examination Of
the Treasury statistics, which exhibit the
English market for food declining from
year to year until it had reached, in the last
one, the pitiful sum of eight million of dol
lars, and thus far in the present one, far less;
while England, whom we used to supply to
such an enormous extent, is now herself ex-
porting food to the Continent. We would
further recommend to his examination the
statement, brought by the last steamer, that
the demand for Indian Corn for Ireland
had ceased, and that the quantity accumu-
lated in that country was so large, as to
forbid the expectation of any demand for
SEINE time to come.
He insists that the Tariff Of 1916 has not
vet furnished occasion for the exercise of
the talents of the Sheriff, but if we may
Judge from the statement of The Chicago
Democrat, the day for this is not far distant,
and in confirmation of this we have letter,
Just received from another and not very
distant portion of the lead-producing region,
which states that mortgages bearing inter
est at the rate of t,centy-four per cent. per
annun, cannot be sold at discount Of ten
per cent. We would recommend him and
his neighbors to compare this state of things
with that which existed when the export of
lead was so rapidly growing in 1916, under
the influence Of the TaIiff Of 1912, and fur
Their, to compare it with that which would
now exist, had the export grown, as it would
have grown, to million and half of pigs,
while furnaces and mills were being built
and coal and iron mines were being opened
in every part of the country, thus making
market for food abroad and at home.
He insists that we are actuated by feel
ings of hostility to Illinois, but there he is
quite in error. Since our last article on
this subject, we have received other Of the
documents published by the agents en-
ployed to effect the railroad loan, and had
We been actuated by any such feeling as
that attributed to us, we should at once
have examined them with view to expose
the character of the statements made
therein, no part Of which can ever be real
lied, and some of which are so extraordi.
nary that we regard it as really wonderful
that they should have been ventured, when
SO open to contradiction. We pray our CO.
temporary to read them himself, and then
to tell US if his opinion differs from our
own. Thus far we have RETAINED from
any examination of their papers, and shall
probably continue so to do, unless some in
judicious friend of the road should force us
to the work
Again had we been actuated by any such
feeling, would our contemporary have found
US opposing Canadian Reciprocity As
suredly not! If We desired to impoverish
and weaken Illinois and the West, we should
have advocated measure that would be
certain to direct the stream of emigration to
the nearer and cheaper lands of Canada
that would furnish market for the lumber
Of that province and enable its people to
clear their lands with profit to themselves