New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-05


average price of her great stSples-N heat Iim'el'
&c Consequently, those staples ratge Tar lower VI
her markets than in cities aud villages eqaah!
di.taht from the seabosrd Her farmers note the
contrast and are dscontented; they see that their
labor is not so well rewarded a. Is that OF
tber rivals on our Tide If the Lakes that with what
i. plsusibly termed "a choice Of all the markets
"of tie world. they cannot sell their produce so
dv,ntsgeousy Is our farmers sell theirs because Of
tho Home MARI ets We have built up for them by our
IRREGULAR and inadequate but still measuraby effective
Protection 10 Home Manufactures. The desire OF
Annexation to the United States IN order to snare IN
there advantages, has thus been difused and deep
eped among the Canadian farmers AT hrst' their
rolitjca managers pached them with the story that
this disparity in prices grew out Of the closing OF
their natural outlet the St. Lawrence, for nearly
half the yesr-that they needed only the right to send
their staples to Europe through the United States to
make them all right. Well: they obtained the re-
oured concession but it did not the purpose
Wheat was still worth less at Maiden than at MilwGu-
kee when by the logic Of the Free Traders, It should
have been considerably higher.
A new dodge was essen,al Its title was tax
ing one-RecprOoiy. But this does not make the
measure one of genuine Recprocity-the cote oil
twenty Senates could not make it So There is no
Reciprocity in an agreement that the United states
and the British Provinces shall freely exchange wheat
Corn. Timber, Meats, &c, with each other; Tor
these being all decidedly cheaper in Canada than in
the States will flow entirely in this direction. There
ia DO Reciprocity in raising the price of the Cana
didns crop and reducing that Of the farmers OF ONO
Illinois snd Wisconsin 1t may be wise and beneh-
cent to do this, but if So why could not an honest
name be found for it This bill raises the value OF
every arabic acre in Upper Canada and tends 10 de-
press that Of every arabic acre in our own Free
West. 1t renders land 10 the Canadian peninsula In
trinsioally worth than just such land IN hchl
can or illinois, 1t will tend to divert immigration
from Iowa and Minnesota to the banks Of the Canadian
Thames and Ottawa. We think an American Con
press should have paused long before asserting to IT,
As to tie advantages secured to our people By this
Treaty they are illusory trivial. The navigation
of the ST. Lawrence, so far as it is secured to us by
this measure belongs to of right and ought never
to have been refused We don't want to take our
produce down tie st. Lawrenee-it is to escape that
necessity for herself that Canada has devised and
urged this treaty. All we do want is permission to
1un our Lake vessels out to sea in autumn, so that
We may run them to the West Indies or elsewhere in
the winter and take them back to the Lakes, if we
see ft in the spring This privilege we should have
had without paying for it, Mr.. Clays letter of in
structons when Secretary of State to Minister in
London, demonstrating right to nav gate the St.
Lawrence, has never been answered, and never can
lie. Yet now have bought this privilege OF nayi-
eating the natural outlet OF large portion of our
own territory, have thereby given up our claim of
right to it, and yet we to enjoy it only on suerance
after all Yes; Great Britain reserves by this Treaty
the right to shut the st. Lawrence against us when
ever she pcases, without giving the right to re-
claim any of the advantages we hereby concede to
her. except the beggarly boon of freely navigating
Loke MicLigGn
In the Fisheries, we give and take something; aud
if what we gain is worth little what we concede is
probably worth less. The advantage here is Of small
account but it il probably on our side.
We have said that this measure, while it seems
every way GisadyantageOus to our people willmmedi
sely stimulate the growth of Canada to her ultimate
loss She will sell Der grain for better prices than she
could without it; sic will grow far of j. for
export and thus extend and hasten the process of ex-
hausting her soil of its ura element; of fertility
and food, until she will byand-by awake to the fact
that her lands which readily yielded thirty bush
els per Of wheat, will now grow but ten, FIVE, or
none at all and that she has been living high and
seeming to grow rich the exhaustion of her soil of
all which made its cultivation remunerating. She
will awake to the ruth that she has been e. porting
her natural wealth to pay for fabrics, when che
should have saved those and secured these by inviting
the makers of those fabrics to make their homes by
the side Of her farmers.
But must net enlarge this head. The Treaty
is law of the land and must be respected accord
ingly. Like other brooms, it will sweep delight
fully for time, ard have no lack of al nirers. We
are all intent Oh living if not getting rich by some
thing else than Productive Labor: and here is new
Glance for making money BY specializing forwarding,
milling, &C., &C., on products OF other lands So
We bow to the decree Of our superors, aud look on
while they play out their game.
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