New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-12

| and the lower must be food. To what eAteh'
Sir Robert Peels measures tended to produce
these effects is shown in the fact that after Cau-
forpia and Australia had added hundreds of MIL
lions of dollars to the currency of the world,
and had thus created great market for food,
aour was lower in this City than it had been
since the deplorable British Free trade times
that led to the passage Of the first Protective
Tariff If ls24-while lead iron and cloth were
All at the highest prices. England was then
buying in the cheaper market and selling in the
dearer one; and this she was doing by help OF
Mr.. Walkers tariff of 1916.
Every additional barrel of -four rithhetd from
the English or regulating, market, tends to raise
the price in London, and of course in the world
at large, to the great advantage of the farmers
everywhere. Protection has made great mar
ket for food in France and has thus caused the
domestic consumption to absorb much that
would otherwise have had to seek market in
England, thereby largely beneftiDg our farm
ers. Protection in Germany has in the short
space of twenty years created domestic market
that keeps German food and wool at home, to
the great advantage of our farmers, while those
of Germany obtain higher prices for their pro-
ducts and buy their cloth and iron cheaper than
they ever had done before. Protection makes
large market for food in Denmark and Bel
rium. and thus does much to neutralize the eff
feet of British Free trade measures, all of which
look to the subugation of the farmers OF the
world TO the manufacturing aristocracy of Brit
ain. Russian protection is creating an immense
domestic market for food, to the great advan-
tape of the farmers of the world-all of whose
interests are one and the same-and all to be
promoted by every measure tending to diminish
the quantity of food forced upon the market
whose prices regulate those of the world at
large.
Directly opposed to all this are the inter-
ests of British Free traders. They suffer by what
ever tends to diminish the quantity sent to the
regulating market, and profit by whatever tends
to increase it-because the former tends to raise
prices, to elevate the farmer, to make him lnde-
pendent, and to enable him to make roads and
build school-houses for himself and school
houses are not favorable to British Free trade.
The latter tends to lOrrer prices paid TO the farmer
and to raise those paid By him-to make him more
| depe ndent-to compel him to go abroad and pay
eight or ten per cent for money with which to
buy iren-to prevent the building of school.
| houses, and to maintain British Free trade.
| Slavery and that description of Free trade which
consists in monopoly, travel everywhere to-
pether, and where they are 70 Ind, schOol-houses
| diminish in number; whereas, Protection and
Freedom travel everywhere together, and where
! they are found school houses increase in num-
| Der and rise in character.
The farmers of the world are natural allies
| The traders Of the world in like manner are
allies, and the object of their alliance is to
| enable them to live and accumulate fortunes
| at the cost Of the farmers. The desires of the
two parties are in direct opposition each to the
other. The farmer desires to sell food at high
prices and buy his cloth and iron at low ones;
whereas the trader desires to buy food cheap
and sell cloth and iron dear. Wherever the
farmer protects himself, as in France, Germany
and Denmark, much cloth and iron is obtained
for little food, and men become more free;
wherever the trader is master of the farmer, as
in Ireland, Turkey, Portugal, the West Indies
and India much food is given for little cloth
and iron, and men become from year to year
more enslaved. Nevertheless our farmers per-
nit themselves to be msled by Journals noto-
riously in the service Of Manchester, whose every
object is directly the reverse of that which they
themselves should desire to see accomplished.
Were il otherwise-did they think for them
selves-they could not fail to see that they pro-
fit largely by the Russian system-that its ex-
tension over Turkey could not fail to create at
home a large market that would intercept the
corn of the Black Sea On its way to England;
and that they would therefore be gamers by the
entire success of Russia.
Directly the reverse of all this is the object
sought to be accomplished by the Allies, who
desire to defeat every measure looking to the ere
alton of domestic market in Russia or in Tur-
key. They desire that food may be cheap and
manufactures dear, and whenever our farmers
can prevail upon themselves to see that they
would thereby be bene ited, the season will
then have arrived for them to pray for the sue
GEES Of the Allied aImies-Jut not until then.
We beg now to ask our Washington cotem-
porary to favor as with answers to the folio wing
questions:
l. Is not the price of food everywhere regu-
lated by that in the market of England
III. Is it not, therefore, for the interest of the
farmers everywhere that the price in that market
should be high
III. Does not every increase in the quantity
sent to that market tend to lower its price, and
every decrease tend to raise it
". Is it not then for the interest of our farm