New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-17

consumer. Is this the only true principle n
trade A melancholy conclusion, truly. Wa,
we read Of house in Boston netting two hunArsl
and fifty thousand dollars during the last year u
their operations in -four, we conscious that 10
are reading of false state Of things. This ssn
Melted by ore particular house does not add b
the wealth of the community 1t is the earn
ings Of unproductve labor. That amount saved
to the community in the price OF bread.
would have enabled the consumer 10 buy other
commodities TO precisely that amount hence, the
productive industry of the country was injured 70
Just the amount that was distracted from the
pockets Of the community by the operations of tho
above house. There is an easy remedy for this
leakage. Certain farmers in Western State hsv-
ing grown tired of paying the fabulous prices that
were demanded of them in the country stores fer
the various manufactured and imported oommod
tiles in daily use among them, subscribed fund
purchased their goods of the Eastern dealer. end
now obtain them at importers prices, with the
sole addition of the cost of transport They con-
tented themselves with no such dolorous assump-
ton as that the true way OF regulating trade .
ito let it regulate ITSELF" their common seass
told them that direct interchange Of commodities
would save the retailers added cost, 80 tAey
wisely determined to exclude him.
Our second remedial step is the aggregation Of
Labor. Under our present system the arersgs q
bakers consumption OF -four in this city is twelve
barrels per week Upon this his average
profit is twenty shillipgs per barrel Each
tradesman has his family to support. bis
jourpeymen zone or more) 10 maintain. Ais
rent and gas bills to pay and bis oven to
heat To meet this aggregate expenditure, profit
of twenty shilings per barrel is the least that hs
can live by. Now, suppose that three fourths 4
our thirteen hundred and eighty nine city bskeu
would take to productive pursuits and leave tie
task of supplying the metropolitan demand fr
bread to the remaining one fourth-woulA the
community be benefited thereby Unquest:oa-
ably. The same domestic expense, the same ret
and gas bills, less than double the amount OF fad
for his furnace and one additional Journeys nan,
would suffice for quadrupled sales and profit Of
ten shilliDgs instead of twenty upon each bard
baked would afford the baker larger sggregah
income. This is upon the principle of the aggreSa-
ton of labor. But can be continued indefinitely,
even to the extent of the CrotOa water compssg
and the Manhattan gas-light company. SuppOssa
million dollars subscribed and bakehouses erected
for the public supply of bread; every iabor+Avine
improvement is introduced, and fair days work
exacted from the men engaged. Owe wsuid.
parenthetically remark, that under our prseat
system, q baker has no continuous labor for he
hours at time) The -four is purchased directly
of the miller, and received into the bakers cellar
without the Intervention Of the hour-speculstor'
or middle man. Flour baked in this manner. o.
an extensive scale, with economy in the details,
and good commercial judgment in the direction.
could pay an excellent dividend upon the capita
employed together with all the costs of manipua
tion with profit of one dollar per barrel upon
each barrel baked. Then, how does this foot upf
At this present time in Ohio and Virginia markets.
extra bakers brands are selling at seven dollars
and half per barrel. The cost Of transport t.
this city is dollar per barrel, and the cost Of
baking would be another dollar, making total
cost to the consumer Of nine dollars and half for
the -four he consumes instead of thirteen dollars.
which he at present pays
But this is not the whole of our case. 1t 10
confidently believed BY dealers in -four, that the
extreme prices Of last Winter will be exceeded
during the approaching Winter. The highest
range of bakers brands was thirteen dollars per
barrel Suppose it attains the same in New-York
this Winter; the public will then pay to tho baker
fifteen and half dollars per barrel for their baked
-four Here is the spectators harvest. Thsy
have their contracts now standing with the millers
for the delivery of -four at any required time. An
enhancement in the price Of bresdstuffs is dread
full to the poor man, but it is q godsend to the
speculstor No wonder we hear Of such fortunes
being annually realized BY tampering with
nations hunger. BY more efficient system u
interchange, the same contracts that the jobbcrs'
make could be entered into by the peoples
bakers. When -four is at the minimum price,
then they should buy largely and contract heavily
90 that when, during the dreary days of Winter.
-four ascends to its maximum price, the poor may
be relieved Of the pressure, and their unsstished
appetites less heavily taxed
Viewing the case in this light, the following ar
suments of The Times lose all their conclusive
ness: ITO abolish middle.men and credit would
"be to destroy commerce altogether, and, by 10
"ducing wages to make the prime necessaries d
Z" life more difficult than ever to be obtained. Al
= for middle-men, the association itself becomes
middle man--for it is simply an impossibity for
" the consumer to make his purchases directly Of
% the producer"
When the National Know Nothing Council was
about to be held at Philadelphia in June last