New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-10

much of our food as does the neighboring little
City of Newark; and then finds itself driven
To the necessity Of evadiug direct reply 10
a question that answers itself in the aiirma-
tive In the support Of righteous cause no
evasion can be necessary, and the very fdct
that TIE Era finds itself driven 10 such a
course should furnish to itself sufficient evil
1epce Of III, worthlessness Of the cause IN whose
support il fluids itself engaged. The market
Of England regulates all others, as Inc Ira
certainly ought t. know, and prices rise or
fall here as they rise or fall there. The farmers
wsges-his power to support his family ana 20
pay taxes and iuterest-are dependent on the
price Of food in England, and he finds himself
forced TO pray for high prices in the regulating
market. and forced 10 roce in the short crops, and
in The rars that raise the price Of food; while the
system that produces these truly Caristianlz'ng
and civilizing effects on the mind is Wanted by
our contemporary as tending to the improvement
of man.
Weare told that il is to his interest to havea
STEADY market, but at what prices we are not
told They must not be so high as to check
consumption, nor so low as to deprive h'm oil
remuneration. Provided he can live and WORK,
and continue slave TO the trader "a he every
where has been. he must be satisfied rtth to1
priees such as prevailed in the glorious British
Free.trade years from 1850 TO 1853, noiwith-
STANDING the discovery of California and its geld.
He must be satisfied with low prices because
they are steady, even though 1t should require
two bushels of wheat to pay his taxes and inter
est where II had taken but one before; aud must
console himself for various privatiOns under
t.ese "steady" prices by the reflection that at
all events they are not so high as to "check con-
..srmptiou." We trust the farmers, will study
carefully The Erals system of political economy,
Al d try If they can satisfy themselves that
steady low prite-consequent on the neces-
sity Of going to England to find market for
6Ev cents worth of food per head of our popu-
lation-is as good for them as would be the
steady good prices that would result from the
creation of an additional domestic market to the
amount of even a single dollar per head
The quantity of domestic iron, coal and cloth
brought TO market in lSi6-7-dddHiOrdt 10 that
brought in 1912, made market for labor, which
had not before existed to the extent OF at
least eighty millions of dollars-and OF the pro-
duce of that labor at least one hall
went TO the purchase of food Here was
market created il the short period OF four years,
three times greater than that offered by Great
Britain. and it was to its creation that the Sus-
tention of prices was due. Never IN the MS
tory of this country has there been so enormous
an increase ia the amount of production as was
shown BY the crops of the years 1872 to lo7;
but bad she domestic market rem aimed where
il was placed by British Free trade In loi2
the producers of those crops would every
where have been ruined. AS il was, the farmer
had plenty to sell aud the mechanic could pur-
chase largely, because the producer OF food
could purchase largely of him; and yet when
our contemporary desires to speak of the system
TO which such effects were due, he carefully col
lects the figures of the months closely succeed
ing the change, aud charges them - TIE account
Of the "Whig tariff" Fairness and candor in
the mode of treating such subjects would be
accompanied by all the courage required for
giving direct reply to the very simple question
pTOpounded for his consideration.
What the farmer really does require is stead
mess at good prices, and the nearer the market
the stesdier aud the better will be the prices.
Under British Free trade there is no steadiness
except in prices so low us to ruin the producer
Occasionally the poor people of Ireland find
themselves under the "cbcap labor D." system
ground down to the starvation point, and then
there arises demand for food at nigh prices.
Sometimes speculation in England rises to the
fever point, and then prices are good. Some
times England goes to war, and then again prices
are good, even if )t steady, and then the Corn.
Law repeaers loudly complain. What they
wat is cheap food ane low wages to its
producers, and they dislike anything tending to
enable the agriculturist to improve his condition
and become more free. They regard the la
borer everywhere as an instrument created by
Providence for the use of the trader, and treat
him always as such; and here they and the negro
drivers Of Carolina fully agree.
In recent work on Russia by Free-trader
We are let into The secret OF the steadiness that
results from dependence on distant markets.
AS yet that country has only commenced the
creation of domestic one, and its people are
therefore largely dependent on the success or
failure of crops elsewhere-on the chiils aud
fevers so constantly recurring, in the British
system. As consequence, says Mr. 0liphant
in his Russian Shores Of the Black Sea- "a propi-
A" tiOus season and abundant crops do not guar
" antee profitable year to the Russian farmer.
The prices may suddenly have fallen go low
" thot 10 physical combination Of circumstances
q" can benefit him. He is thus the