Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-07-12
From the Marlboro Gazette.


Az WORD IN TIME FOR THE FARMERS.
The recent extraordinary fall in the price
Of whea. in the Baltimore market, demands
few moments reflection. How can it be
sccoun,ed FOR )? And are there any jus,ifa
BILE causes growing on, Of the legi.ims.e ex-
igencies Of trade, TO which we can proper
~ attribute 80 sudden and unexpected de.
preston. We reigiously believe tina, no
such causes exist, bu, the whole result has
been brough. sbou, BY an unholy conspira
cy on the part Of speculatnrs end jobbers,
against the interest of the farming classes.
We have oil witnessed for the last three
months the uncommon efforts which have
been made. by that portion Of the public
press which is under the control, and 10 the
pay Of the commercial interest. to produce
The impression that an unusually large crop
is 10 be grown This year. All sorts Of ex-
aggeraied statements and conjeclurai esti
mates. have been greedily published by them,
and widely circulated, with no other osten-
sible view than to depress the prices Of our
agricultural staples in the hands OF The grow.
tr, without any reference whatever to the
wants of consumption. This Of itself is
combination, end for an object, too, not a,
sll beneficial TO The poorer classes OF con-
sumers, since the price will be all the same
to them, willis, the fraudulen. speculs,or
runs off with the entire profits, leaving the
farmers and consumers the only sufferers
by The process. In addition 10 this comb.
nation on the part Of a portion Of the press,
we have also combinations among class
Of middle men, who deal in agricultural pro-
ducts as they would in fancy stocks, and
this trade is carried on to considerable eX-
tent. we have reason TO believe, by the very
men who are confidA in, by the Farmers
end Planters, as agents to sell. Then there
is o self.cons,luted board Of trade, who un-
deriske to regulate prices just as it may sui,
their own selfish purposes. This Is The
season Of the year when they begin to put
their machinery in operation. We have
witnessed the regular annual workings OF
i, for fifteen years past. JUST as the harvest
is coming on. and The new crop is expected
in The market, they begin by manufacturing
stories sbnn, the immense producti"ns both
q, home and IN foreign countries. We have
before US papers which contain glorious de-
scripions cf The abundan. crop in Europe,
jus. preceding the Irish famine, end YET
those ssnguine predictions were followed
BY the greatest scarcity that has been known,
with the exception Of last yenr. About this
time las. year The same statements were
made with reference to the then growing
crop. The consequence vas. that The Far
mers were induced TO hasten their crops
into an early market, and in the course Of
abou, three months the greater portion Of
The Maryland crop wss bought up stsn av
ersge price Of S rs per busheI. The same
Whea, was afterwards sold for 50 so per
busheI, either 10 the form Of The raw male
rial. or as manufactured into -four. The
same result, will lake place this year, If the
Apricul,uris,s are no, wide awake. In the
p,esen. position Of public affairs both q,
home and in Europe," j, is impossible for
agricultural products TO come down to The
old prices. The wars in Europe, the short
ness Of the las. crop, which canno, be i'm
media,ely supplied, no matter how sbun.
dan, The p1esen. crop may be, owing 10 the
time necessarily employed in preparing the
raw material, IN its proper form for con-
sumption, The gree. and abundant supply of
The precious metals, which have given
higher grade Of value 10 oil exchangeable
coma od,ies, and the likelihood OF regu-
lar annual increase for the future OF this
source Of wealth-,he high retail prices Of
every necessary and luxury Of life, end The
immense costs Of lsbor-sIl conspre 10
s"Patuxent Planter in the article elsewhere
referred to IN this paper, estimates that sin the
Old World half million Of men have been with
drawn from the fields, to become mere consumers.