New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-22

and Frgli,b owners Of ships and steam wagons,
vbo,. business is 10. TO make things, bat TO change
their places toward AID from that workshop,
that al our prodgious application Of ingenuity snd
labor /. made to chespening the eo-t OF cgty.tiSg
the soil AID marketing 1t. products. For our Pee-
ple have chOsen England as the place where they
will .ell the surplus Of these products; aud shall
not they BIZ 60 to market, pay the cost OF getting
there. ard then accept the market Prce 1t tue
politicians Of Illinois Ia reflect upon tie lnhu
ence Of the application OF steam TO the production
of grain for export, they viii probably conclude
that in addition to the more rapld exhaustion OF
the land " hich it VIII effect, aud the lowering OF
agricultural values. and the dninu,icn Of the worth
of working men, i viii gradually aggregate the
soil In large bodie. ia the hands Of rich prOprietor.
AID drive the cIas. of small farmers out Of the
State. And is not this class the breath n the nos-
TIL. Of repubLcsnism
In those countries, on the other hand where
Farm Labor ia protected by system which brings
the plow the loom and the anvil together, the value
Of the products of the earth tends constantly up
ward ard the profits Of farming as Business are
in OIL eyer. ascending ratio. Wool in England has
doubled in price IN the last eighty years. Ii has
been grown and sbeared in sight of the mills which
WoIk il Up. Germany cannot stimulate Win hgn
prices the domestic growth Of WOO sufficient 70
keep her looms busy. She is s large buyer. Be
fore .he protected her WOODEN manufacturers against
tie Fl glist, she was an exporter of wool, having
sent 10 London, in l-2J, 10 less 8 quantity tnan
8 COO 600 pounds. IL ISL, undo the blessing of
the Zollverep, her imports Of the article amounted
to $4,000, 900 pounds. Carey quotes Traveller
who ssys that so general il the demand and so 10
creased the consumption Of food ia Germany, that
"liyico in the smallest town Of WestphsLs has be-
come as expensive as il is in Berlin la
France. the changes Of values proceed IN the right
direction. Ia 1-j4, sewing silks had fallen from
the price Of % francs 10 80 francs per pound with
in a space Of twenty.sir years, and cocoona had
ri.en from francs 10 IL in the same time. The
land in France, whose produce elihty years since
was Of the average value Of 57l francs, IN 1857
Welded 10 lees than 237 francs OF value. The
Prussans find in the enhancing worth OF all farm
products, caused BY the Zollyerein, encouragement
to reclaim land once considered worthless and 10
apply scientific aud costly culture to the ulage oi
old soils.
II there va. corresponding f.i in the prices OF
British iron, steel. copper, tin and lead. while the
" heat, corn and pork of American farmers was
steadily going down in Liverpool and London, the
depreciation of their property and labor would
be a more endurable evil. But the enormous
capital invested ia the production of iron
al in pr
feeble attempts Of our furnace.men and forge
men, to establish q permanent competition for
the sale of these metss in their own country. The
price of iron low here only when the interests OF tho
British Association of Ironmasters require 1t to be
lows steadfastiy high as compared
with the ever declining value of American hour.
Tin, copper and lead rise in price. Not merely
does the market value Of the bers Of each of these
metals enhance, but the Labor woven into and
through these fbers-labor which our farmers
v heat. corn and pork have materially msde-lsbor
which is their food in fact-thst steadily enhances.
Very few of the cultiyatoIs OF our soil have ever
thought that in importing metals, hardware and
crockery from England, they relmport their own
The reflection that they actually do
this and that they are compelled TO sell their pro-
duce at an eyerialling rate and buy it immediately
back at vastly higher and sn exercising rate,
,bouH ill them with such resentment against the
politics that exposes their business to this crossre
of Trade that II would be official death TO states
man TO favor the expectation of raw food and the
importation of goods. Wise politicians, and farm
eTs enlightened to their interests, know that farm
crops should never be sent out OF country IN the
raw bulk. They know that they should be COM
pressed into email and portable shapes-that il is IN
the form Of yelyets and satins and silks that they
should be reduced as the French farmers absut
Lyons have their crops first reduced By the weavers
at the loOms-as the farmers of Germany have
them compressed into broadcloth- and the English
farmer into steel tn and iron, before shipping
them abroad. By this process Of condensation, the
farmer nearly escapes that first and most oPPres-
sye If all the taxes imposed upon the agriculture
of Countrywide tax Of transportation. The econ
omy OF France in this respect, under her Tariff OF
Specific Duties, is admirable. She exported in the
year ESQ Of the products OF her soil, in the form OF
silks cloths, paper, clothing and furniture, to tho
value of $500, 600 900; and yet the total weight of
them all was less than fifty thousand tuns, which
would require for It's transport oceanwise but fifty
ships Of moderate size Scarcely anything passes
out of France until il has attained form so high
a. 10 cause the skill and taste which represent her
own food 10 bear 4 very large proportion 10 the
value Of the raw material that IS used In l'5i,
the total exports Of the Empire amounted IN value
to $3.50 600, 90, and of this S2O6, 25O, Geo worth
was grain and other produce of the SOIL reduced in
bulk BY manufacturing, 60 as 70 economic to the
utmost degree the cost OF transportation. VIII no.
our IIlinoi. snd Indiana farmers, who burn their
s-syx n the pr.uDi IA oct rii If ~ f.sl A ..s.;s6.