New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-02

had not been xiven for nothing TO the former
feudL peasants. They h.d to indemnify the feudAl
interest BIZ annual payments, and Agriculture was
thus heavily burdened. Then there was the obi
CATION of the interest of the pational debt, con-
tr.cted during the war. 1t was evident that agri-
cul,ure in the low condition in which il was, and
without the capita even TO improve its waste lands,
WAS not strong enough TO bear up under the pres-
.ure and avert national bankruptcy and dissolution.
II WAS under such certainly ioauspicous circum-
.t.pces-under the protests and circumstances Of
the landed-ests'e owners and merchants within
the opposition and intngues Of England, which was
low all powerful on the continent-fhas Prussia
entered, toward the year 1925 upon Der career OF
progress, by enforcing protective policy to which
she has adhered to this day only in some instances
gradually relaxing it's rigor when the efficiency oil
particular manufactures admitted of such modlhca-
TONS
Owing to the exhausted state Of the country, this
system was in operation some years before its ef-
fects became generally perceptlble. But in l525
the industry Of Prussia already demanded wider
fed Of action and the Zoll7erein was naugurased.
Since then, her progress has been astonishing. In
1919 she was not only able to supply her own
wants, but TO compete, in foreign markets, even in
the finer and costlier linen, wooden, cotton and silk
fabrics and velvets, etc, with France and England
The operati ms of the ZollVerein commenced with
the year 1892, and ten years later, in loi3, the
value of its cottons exported, after deducting the
value Of the imported cottons, amounted to ii ,9l5,
GAO thalers and in 1o52 to Il, ,0c5 thaers. The
importation Of raw silk in 10 the Zoveren increased
from $500 quntals in 1912, to 15,-7 quintsls in
1852. and I7,75s ouintals in 1853, beside which
not nconsiderabe quantity domestic rsw-.ilk was
consumed by its factories. OF linens, the Zollyeren
exported in 1853, by way Of Hamburg and Bremen
alone, 5000, 900 tbalers worth. It's exports OF
wooden goods amounted in lci9 to 90,6l9 quintals,
valued at Is 405 600 th.ers and in 1-52 to | $50
auintas, valued at % 266, 900 thalers, by far the
largest portion (which was contributed by Prussia.
The progress and prosperity of Prussia and the
Zollverein are not however, to be measured by the
delusiye standard Of foreign exports. Their policy
locks to the Home Market, and assigns to agrlcul-
ture and industry the highest place-regardng for
eign trade as altogether subordinate to them, and
merely intended to exchange their surplus in an adj
iu,tment of the balances of trade. 1t differs essen
TALLY from that of England, which has made her
people the knife.grinders and cottonspinners OF
the whole world and from that of the United States
which would make US its fed.hands and producers
OF raw. material.
In 1852 the manufactures of Prussia alone fur
nished 90, S37 900 ellen of wooden cloth, weighing
$4,000 quntals and valued at l23, 900, 900 thalers
In 1906 the consumption of cloth was per head Of
the population ellie; in 1912 it was 10; in 1882
3! ellen. The following table shows the progress
of the wooden industry in Prussia:
No. Of hand and me- Number OF