New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-08

We have here a constantly growing necessity for re-
sorting 70 distant market, accompanied By q de-
cline OF prices amounting to - per cent but, if we
compare iS50-52 with the period from 1910 to 1873,
when the home consumption equal 10 the whole
supply the reduction is less than SO per cent. Ad
uniting however that tho pros4 nc lS2I-2J would be
fhe standard in the event OF the creation OF domes-
fc market that would relieve the farmer from inc ne
eessity for going abroad we obtain the result that
the same crops which nov 6 6 sell ior 10
a700 GOO 600, which may be regarded as the actual
price paid by the agricultural body for the privilege
OF almost giving away food TO the extent OF s96ooo
CO.,
The prices above given are those of the ports Of
shipment always greatly higher than those Of the
places of production. Were we now 10 add the saw
ing Of inland transportation that would be consequent
ppon the creation of local markets, the difference
would reach 81 600 900 900 and this, too when taking
nj the standard the prices OF lSl-2J, embracing years
OF almost universal distress throughout America and
Europe Were we 10 take the average of lol6-25--
a Git would reach 81 800 900 900. The average Of
AL France Cor every decade Of the last forty years has
exceeded IL francs for the hectOitre OF Whcat-beinS
she equivalent Of 81 Is per bushei and the later pc
RODS are the highest of ALL whereas, they are here
the lowest. The French average of the six wears end
ing in 1852 for oil France must have been 20 per cent
greater than the average OF those years tor the whole
Of this country: and VET all that was required for
bringing prices here to level with those abroad was
ahe creation Of market for food 10 the extent oil
$4,000, 00c-beiRg less hdH per cent q the foiai
roduci To those who doubt this, be necessary
10 say tnat the UHcfcnCtS mere rtdltu rs lIhty
60 occur correspond exactly with those that did
An England in the period between liJ0 and ifO.
Commerce then growing and the circulation becoming
rapid the dependence the trader dimniShed-eVery
stage of that dimnutiOn being marked by an Increase
In the value of labor and land. Here, on the contrary,
Che dependence the trader steadily ncreaSeseveIy
stage Of its increase being marked by decline in the
price OF food, BY which the price oi land and labor
must ultimately be regulated.
Itmay however Mr.. President be said that the
food consumers would suffer by such of Ope
ration. Directly the reverse of this, however. has
been the in all other countries, and il would be
with At no period of Englands history have the
evidences OF growing civilization furnished by the
approximation of the prices of raw materials and
finished products been great as in the hNe-and-
thirty years preceding the opening of the wars of the
French Revolution, and at none has the condition OF
the people 50 much improved. Circulation became
from year TO year more rapid. Labor from year
40 year more economical and as the power of acCu-
mutation is wholly dependent upon such economy, il
followed, necessarily, that wealth most rapidly aug
sented. Land and man, in that period, almost doubled
IN value, and all because OF the relief from the tax OF
transportation, resulting from the growth of commerce.
So too, in France. AT no period in the last two con-
tures has been low in price IN the days of
Louis XIV; and vet at none have the people much
suffered nom the want of food. Commerce then had
scarcely existence. Since then the price has rapidly
increased, enabling the farmer to gam on both hands
brst, by obtaining more money for his corn, and,
second by obtaining more cloth for his money. Farm
wages rise and with that rise there is, necessarily,
constant augmentation Of wages in every other pur-
suit-it being only by tempting the people OF the
country TO come to the towns that factories can obtain
supplies OF labor. Desiring, then, TO ameiOrate the
condition OF man, must begin with the laboreT on
the land his wages being the standard by which all
Others are 10 be compared and that by which they
regulated The more close the approA NATION OF the
prices OF raw materials and finished commodities, the
hgher VIII DC the wages and the greater the tendency
toward civilization.
AS i: was in England, and as it il now in France 30
would IL be among ourselves. The work of MAKING a
narke; for the food that Is now exported would make
o demand for muscular and mental foice-enabipo
each and every man 10 sell his services and 10 pur
chase those OF the people around him. Labor being
an demand, lis price would rise; ami the more rapid
abe rise, the would be econonized the greater
would be the power of accumulation the more abun.
Siant would become the machinery required for OF.
nblirg him TO cal the forces OF nature 10 his aid the
larger would be the proportion OF the mental anu
physical force of the community given to developing
the treasures OF the earth and the larger would be
the reward Of labor in food and clothing. Commerce
would then grow rapidly, bat the power OF the foreign
trader would then as much dceline-preci>ely As W,
zee TO have been the in both France and En-
gland, az the periods above referred 10.
The proposition that civilization grows IN the direC
ratio OF the removal of obstacles standing between the
producer and he consumer, ana the consequent APP
TIo1maton OF the prices OF the products OF tue earth
m their rude and finished FORMS j. great Srd uniyer
sSllaw, 10 which no exception can be found. Being
90, II iohoSs necessarily tina, raw materials S@o"td
those whch ocsrrsd in The peod IRON 1855 1870 When The
sI,st an ksi wss 20 soon a.I 90 g h,sn r. ' nv,
ss and hmeces had ceased be bOi Then now
onws. being given TO the creation MAJ hnrry r
iood Tbcn proc action diaiaiaihed Will consumption
msrsauedhe decisDey hag up by TIE cont
Of dGs 70 Europe fog nInese souut II cloths aud ,ks
The power gay cI which had existence. Tbsn ecen,y
eel q sia n. pspsoa now S l zoe ,pass \.
similar in al u PARTS end a. The the ssn- nay he
Ssate lhsi ne tbeeis VII rct he er'IeIt