New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-21
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 81, 1853

lotbnskers combined with thst OF the ro>a-maAers
would add lars.y to the prices AMI the prcfs o. the
farmer 1t woalS seem. therefore that so far as reiA
10 the grading of roads there natural difficulties
TO be overcome.
We need. however the iron. Wen. iron consists
only of coal, ore and limestone, and they abound
throughou. the West and Southwest, waiting but Tor
the application of labor to convert them into railroad
bars The labor secures food and clothing for the
aborer and bis demands for both would tend further
and largely to diminish the quantity of produce forced
upon our market and still further to raise the prices
OF produce here to the great advantage OF the farmer
and the planter who would grow rich, independently
of the greatly increased value OF their land. Thus
made, with domestic iron and cloth, the making OF
roads would be attended with present sacrifice and
when made the farmer would not find his farm mort
gagged for the payment OF hundreds of thousands of dol
lars of county bonds given in exchange for food in the
shape of cloth and iron.
The more roads we make with foreign cloth and iron
the greater will be the tendency TO force our whole
populatiOn-except the mere laborers on the roads
TO the raising of food wool and cotton and the greater
will be the competition for the sale OF those commOdi
ties and the greater viii be the tendency to have them
low in price Until the present moment there has
been no advance in wheat notwithstanding the great
advance in the prices of all the commodities consumed
By the farmer Cotton is now no higher than II was
twenty years since notwithstanding the greatly in
creased supply of gold These things could not be-
were it not that our policy tends to make our people
almost all farmers and planters Nearly thirty since
General Jackson told the agricutursts that if they
would adopt policy that would convert few hundred
into taa1 havi
all farmers they would grow rich, because they would
cease to be dependent on the chances of the British
markets And all experience since has proved that he
was right.
But a short time since published a letter from
correspondent in the West, containing glowing ac
counts of the abundance ore and showing how cheapy
iron could be made and closing with expression of
surprise that the people Of the East could not open
their eyes the great advantages Of the West Similar
statements have been elsewhere published of the adj
vanages of the South, Southwest and West, in refer
ence to the manufacture of cotton goods and yet not
withstandng all these advantages the manufacture OF
iron does not gain in the West that of cotton in the
South and both West and South have been for the last
five years busily engaged in mortgagng their farms
to enable them to obtain cloth and iron to make
roads Why is it So Because establish
ments stand peculiarly in need Of protection And that
protection is afforded by present revenue sys-
tem under which duties rise prices abroad RISE and
fall as prices fall To establish in the South or Wesa
furnace or mill, capable of making cheaply either
cloth or iron requires large investment of capital
and its mere establishment creates large market tor
food while its operations afterward tend to raise the
prices of food, wool and cotton and yet our farmers
cannot see that in adopting the measures necessary to
bring into activity the vast coal and ore fields OF the
West they are protecting themselves nor can our plant
ers see that in adopting tending to the oca-
ton of the cotton MILL in the cotton field they
also are protecting themselves Whenever they shall do
so, they will cease to find it necessary to go abroad
peddlng bonds in the hope of obtaining cloth and iron
with which to make their roads Until they shall do
So they must content themselves with playing the part
of Jeremy Diddler their wealthy cousin, John Bull
while every new arrival tends and more TO show
that the curtain has dropped upon the farce of Raising
he Wind.