New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-24

Mulberry TREES AND SILK-WORMs IN FRANcE.-A
letter from PARIS that the culture Ofmubey trees is
Increasing every year in France and by ascs recently
publ she'd appears that there 10 departments where
the silk worm l. bred with much profit IL il calcult ed
ihaihere 100000 mulberry trees producing 7sOOO0OO)
Kilograms of leaves II aO calculated that the pOduc
ton Of silk in France amounts to the of 3OOOOOOO
francs year box Of six worm eggs has just been re
ceyed here from New Orleans, consinng two varieties of
the Louisiana silk wOnn which, II Is said, are producing
three and four silkcrops year"
There Is no doubt os the eminent adaptation of at
least half our own Country to the silk Culture New
jersey Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee Ken
lucky Southern Ohio, Indiana and illinois, with Missouri
and the Mountain portion of the more SOuthery States
are better fitted by nature for Silk growing than Italy
Southern France is AAd yet we go on, running heels
over head in debt for some Twenty to Thirty Millions
worth of Silks per annum, without making serious
attempt to naturaze the Silk Culture here though it
demonsrable that nearly all the labor required by that
culture Of so light and pleasant nature that super
animated or decrepit people with young children unfit
for our rugged agricultural toll, and wasting hours
of each day in pernicous deness would be exactly fitted
forit.
Silk il should be remembered, is by no means indi
seuou. 10 France and Italy Fifteen to twenty centuries
ago they we're running the very which
row so ciddily embarking. Their people delighted in
the luxury and osentatOn of slken apparel and up
hosiery and would indulge their expensive tastes but
they we're all Free Traders and bought their SILKS
where they could buy cheapest that is, in India an
China If any one had urged them 70 submit TO heavy
impost on imported Silk offer heavy bounty for its
naturalization and growth, in order TO encourage its
Home production they would doubtless have laughed at
the paradox of taxing article in order to cheaper It, or
stRmatized the proposer hired tool OF cunning mo-
poposts who we're seeking to enrich themselves at the
expense ofthe skconsumng So they persisted
in importing caravan after Of costly Silks from
the far East and paying for them mainly In Gold-(tor
the admirable device for hiding bankruptcy under an out
side show Of prosperity by means Of National State or
Railroad Stocks Bonds exported by the ream 20 choke
deficit and create a Balance of Trade had not then
been periected)
The end Of this of course wa, ruin but the ruined
never traced back the effect TO the They
that Enterprise anrushed improvement was arrested
ard Labor stood hungriy idle-but Why Because
Property declined in value and preferred to hoard
rather than invest their hardwOn gold when no invest
meut proved remuneratng, because Property steadily
deprecated in value But why did it deprecated Be
cause the Currency of the Empirethe leblOOd of lis
Business and Industry-vas silently, gradually ebbing
away across the Persian sands pay for the fabrics OF
the Indian Ocean The wider, heavier, bulkier, pro-
ducts of the West would not pay for transportation even
10 the EuphTates; 50 the exchanges equAiZed in
good part by gold In that fact lay the secret Of the
growth Of slavery gradual decline Of the Empire, the
steadily Increasing sudaey of the BarbariAns, and the
ultimate crash Of the Roman World Protection TO
Home Industry rightly understood and seasOraby ap
Piled would have prevented that catastrophe and BY
reform Of the ancient civilization, prevented its
finally necessary destruction
And herein is the answer TO the standing esvl- If
the SILK Culture Ough 10 Be nsturaized here Why don't
some of you who think SET about = We answer
We know that he URited States establish if they
see III, bot we don't know that any individual could
afford to do it, IL is the fret step that costs, is
old proverb We are that generation Of steady
prosperity to shk-groEng here would give Us cheaper
Slks than ve now have have had, bat We d0nt
know how TO secure that age OF prosperity Without the
o;tive Efficient determined interpOsition Of Govern
mept If anybody sees how the desired end can be
Otherwise obtained it is for him. not Us, 70 go ahead