New-York daily tribune., 1854-08-24

.,;- ,.,,ures know when il should be gathered how
or,ol where il might be sOld or what 1t would DO
18th in MARKET Not half u them are aware that
ia useS in manufactures has any commercisi
value at all.
4 Now ia true that male adults, who are expert
c,ivator, or haryesters have been scarce aud IN de-
nand this season; but that does not prove 'n'' VIC
have M labor that might be proftaby devoted to new
pursuits On the contrary, we haye tsousan1' u
youug persons who mig ght easily become very eAper.
in gathering sumac, in cutting and Peelng osers and
making baskets who are not yet ELECTIVE Win ''e
plow. sythe or cradle; aud we have thousands OF
these urgently required harvesers who le IDLE from
December to March or April, because there Is no
work for them, when they would gladly be making
baskets If such work were to be had
Well, then, why are not these pursuits already nat
! uralized among US
We apswer-Because, according to an old proverb
1t is the first step that costs" Iae Post well says
I'm the old world they have plantations Of o:ier ready
set and fourshing. in marshes ana uhuee hoIs.
every hollow where there is standing water occupied y
49, nj dwarf willows and expert basket MAKERS VINO
have nothing else in which they employ themselves,
are ready work up the plant ws as soon aS 'he ae
cut
These plantations of osier" we have yet to creiie
At n heavy expense; our .hollows " are filled with
alders and other worthless bushes, which must be
exterminated TO make way for the osiers; then We
have to draw hither our first willovgrowers and
basket.makers-all of which costs money and time
Then our first baskets will probably be cunsily made
so that nice people will eschew them and only tho
poor buy them at reduced price-and thus the will
low business only be established here at heavy
cost to somebody, though it will be decidedly profit
.L.fl
baskets better baskets-yes and cheaper baskets
by reason Of such naturalization for before the bu
ness shall have been ten years extensively prosecuted
and prosperous here Yankee will have invented
a machine into which you may throw handful OF
osier twigs and they will come out neat, well male
basket the next minute We have dozen feats
more difficult than this performed by machinery
already But what is to be gained for mankind gen
orally by the policy of Home production we are
asked.
, We answer: The nearer each other you bring pro-
ducer aud consumer the less will be the abstraction
from their product to pay the coat Of inter
changing their productions and the smaller the cap
itsl required in the traffic If Pennsylvania farmer
for example grows Corn and Pork TO be sent to Sicily
in payment for Sumac to be used in the morocco fac
tory Of farmers neighbor il is not probable that
the Scilian gaherer receives one third OF the
Grain and Pork actually paid for bis product by the
Pennsylvania. Transportation each way, by land
and water; shipping and port charges, interes. and
commissions, eat heavily into the staples exchanged
until the toll from point to point taken out, largely
exceeds what is left OF tae grist. But lot the Penn
syyania farmer hire the Sicaus other experts to
help him gather and cure his sumac, selling the pro-
duct to his neighbor the morocco-dresser, and the
,rhoie proceeds whatever they be, will be shared
among the farmer and his assistants, deducting
thing for land and water transportation, commissions,
insurance, mercantile profits &c, &c. In other
words our policy would set aside millions of non
producing satellite, of Industry, and by adding mil
lions to the number of producers largely and rapidly
increase the aggregate product ofweslth and the dvi
dend TO each producer.
But, cayils The Post, "if this doctrine is sound
New. York ought not TO buy milk of New-Jersey."
&C. But that does not follow. 1t would be unwise
for us to sell grain to Europe and buy it back
-four, to export it as -four and buy tback bread
yet this by proves it always bad policy for
farmer to sell grain and buy flour or bread. There
is radius within which this sort Of exchanges
may advantageously be made; there is limit beyond
which, because of the heavy taxes imposed by Trans
portatiOn and Commerce. they cannot be made with
out loss. We only ask that our National exchanges
be guided by vice and far-seeing economy.