The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-12
Importation cf Crafn anfO
Great NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Manufacturer.

The British Government recently Pus.
lished full returnes of the imports Of Ag-
rieultural Products, Live Stock, DC. into
the Kingdom for ains m0ntAs. ending
with September, 1859. These returns
afford some interesting facts forths con.
sideration of American farnaers and
manufacturers.
The importation Of wheat and -four in
to England from all countries, Is 10 guam.
titv, equal to 6, SAL, 1854 barrels Of Aour
in 1859, while in the same period Of nine
months the previous year it amounted to
1924 barrels. OF this large guam.
tity, 7,257,4ll barrels were furnished
mostly by Russia and France. while the
Uaited States furnished but about $4,000
barrels, and in 1859 hardly 90, 600 were
imported from the United States. The
wheat supplied by france to England
during the last year was mere than one.
third the whole amount bought and OF
flour nearly 80 per cent Of the whols
quantity imported. France, with o
dense population. cultivating an old soiif
manages to supply this immense surplus
of grain to England. England being
chiefly engaged in manufsct Tres, it 10 i'm
possible to raise from her soil food suffice
lent to sustain her inhabitants, the dsic-
iency being equal to So, o0o, oo0a month.
or over 500, 900, 900 year.
This immense sum, except the small
proportion oft furnished by the United
States, is paid for in cash, because the
protective policy adopted BY France,
Russia, and o her countries Of Europe,
which furnish these provisions, sxclucds
British manufactures, and receive only
goldsin payment, while the amount OF
the precious metals more than equal to
this,s annually paid by the United State.
to Great Britain for her m.nufacureo
goods. To meet the balance OF trade
against us last year we paid to that soun-
try for goods. the most Of which might
have been manufactured at home! sun
exceeding by $40, 100000 the entire
product for the same period Of the gold
mines Of California. This large sum 10
chiefly paid for textile fabrics and iron,
while we have the raw material for these
goods at our own doors equal in quality
to any in the world. Indeed NO incen-
siderable portion of this sum 10 paid for
fabrics, tho raw material of which ia the
product of American soil, transported
more than three thousand miles, and 10
manufactured and returned to us at our
own expense. So that, in fact, the Unit
cd States, with a virgin soil capable Of
feeding the world, and with the raw ma
terial sufficient for the manufacture Of
every article needed fer homo consumi-
ton, is actually paying to Great Britaia
a hundred millit ns of dollars annually.
which she pays over to ether nations for
the food she consumes while sue 10 man.
ufacluring goods for us.
Although we purchase largely Of
England, she buys nothing of US that
she can purchase elsewhere. Her inn
s portations of Indian Corn of late have
greatly fallen off, while her importasiors
Of cJtton, which no other notion oas
furnish her, have largely increased.
Cotton. rice and tobacco are the shisf
articles which England receirsa Of 80.
wh e'l must be paid in gold. But for tia
discovery of the mines of California these
'ar@H nrortions would long sincs have
r,n Tered Il 6 nStion bankrupt.
A policy similar 10 that which exists
between tho United States AMI Great
Britain, may be recognized as existing
between the agricultural states Of the
5 uth and West, and tho manufacturing
states OF the North snd Ea.t. We for.
n.sl both the raw material for the Es.t-
ern manufactured, aud the food for the
operatives, and buy their goods in re-
, turn paying transpertations, commissions.
&c; while we possess unlimited motive
power az sinuch cheaper ratio ut home.
for all manufacturing purposes. The
cost of the transportation Of the cotton to
f the Eastern mills, the wheat, beef DE-,
to feed the laborers, while they CONVEX,
the cotton into cloth, and thu profits and
. charges on the manufactured goods back
to us again, would afford the Western
manufacturer handsome profit alono
: to say nothing of the cost of motive pow
, er where the coal may be had for little
moro than the cost of digging. The true
policy ofthe South and Wosi, 10 to man
{ ufacture their own cotton and wool, and
Y Co consume their own corn and beef q,
home.
! With the completion Of the railroads
now contemplated, coal will be delivered
in most of our towns and cite. at . low
: rate. Indeed, at the present time, it.
o cost at our principal Western cities j.
hardly half that which is paid by the
Eastern manufacturers. Besides The
> great facilities afforded us for the employ
ment of steam, we have upon our West
: ern rivers available water power sufficieu,
| to run all the spindles and loems in great
Britain. '@
1t is the true policy of every nation to
unite in the same locality. the pLow, Thu
4 LOOM, AND THE ANVIL; and there is nc
!, country possessing SO many advantage.
for these combined, as are to be found in
the fertile and prosperous valley Of
the Mississippi.-7he Valley Farmer.
|, BE- A teacher was lec.aring elias.
{ of little girls on the inauencs Of ious in.
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