Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-08-25

they have been able to pay tire,
fold wages for labor to those paid il
Europe, pay the costs Of transporta
ton, and yet undersell the British
farmers in their own market.
Prospects of the Farmers.
From Europe we have advices Of
large crops. That Of France is said
to be one-fourth above the average
and those Of England and of Ger.
many are reported as abundant
Our farmers cannot, therefore, look
to Europe for market. From Cal.
ifornia we have advices that the
home supply of wheat is very large
that the mountain regions are
raising immense numbers of swine
cattle, and poultry-and that fresh
meats are generally as cheap in the
mines as in the agricultural valleys
below. In this state of things the
journals Of that State are rejoicing
for, as they say, the gold no longer
passes off as soon as il is obtained.
The yield Of the mines is increasing
but the export is decreasing, and
they are daily increasing in their
power to retain the quantity requir-
ed for circulation.
Locking westward, our farmers
see thus declining market; look
ing eastward, they see the same
looking homeward, they see that
they are no longer TO be secure in
their own market. The Sham De
mocracy, fresh from the passage OF
HE Nehraska iniquity, has shown
itself determined to crush the farm
ers Of the North by opening wide
the gates for competition with those
Of Canada, and thus adding to the
value Of Canadian produce the
whole amount heretofore paid by
Canadian farmers into our treasury.
A fortnight since the price of wheat
at Toronto was 1925 to $l,30,
while that at Rochester was So I;
and yet five cents would pay the
cost Of transportation. The differ
ence was the benefit derived by the
American farmer from the fact that
he had made a market at home, in
which he was then protected. The
Sham Democracy, together with
some men from whom we expect
better things, and whose conduct
yet remains without explanation,
has, however, resolved that the far
mer shall have protection no longer
nor will he have it from the day on
which the Provincial Legislature
shall latify the treaty dignifed with
the title of Reciprocity, and under
which we admit all the products of
the Provinces free of duty, while
continuing to pay on all tina! we have
to sell and they require to buy, ex-
cept cotton, rice and tobacco-aH Of
them the products of Stare labor.
The bill by which all this was ac-
complished was carried through the
House without being permitted even
a moments discussion of the rights
northern farmers. IL was introduced
on Thursday morning, and was, as
we are informed by the correspond
ents of Sham Democratic journals,
signed by the President in an hour
and a haD from the time at which
az ,1dS reporfed-and all this, as we
learn from the same authority, was
accomplished by means of ga skill
ful maneuver" on the part of Mr..
Bayly-one of the illustrious tribe
of Virginia slave-drivers, whose to-
bacco is allowed by the treaty to
pass free of duty.
Canada will this year have r.
900, 900 of bushels of wheat Tor sale,
and no European market for ii. Next
year she will probably have 10000 |
600, and as we have now granted
an enormous bounty on all her ag-
ricultural products, we may reason
ably calculate that the increase from
year to year will be enormous--and
that the whole of it will seek a mar
ket within the Union, the conse-
luen es of which will, as we be-
Iieve, be disastrous 10 our farmers
10 an extent 10 which we would not,
At this moment, be willing to fix the
limit.
The remedy for all this is now to |
be found in the substitution of real |
for sham reciprocity, by the incor-
poration of the Provinces into the |
Union--a measure that can be ac-
without the slightest
difficulty, or the smallest cost. We
nave recently paid ten millions for
4 piece Of worthless land at the
South, aud the Administration is
now hard at work, trying to obtain
Cuba, with all its negroes, at a cost
IF a hundred and fifty or two hun /