, 1861-04-04

England In harvest time. Why have We
exported to England since last September
SIC, 0,00o, 900 worth Of grain? Because last
summer the British wheat%crop was par
TALLY destroyed by unprecedented rains,
and the deficit had to be made up from
wherever it Aeould be obtained ed-ssal ,arga
quantities were purchased. from Russia,
considerable from. Germany, some from
France, and the balance from us. But not
a bushA>s has ! been bought from This
country that could be elsewhere gotten.
The year before, England had a fair
crop, and purchased from Us very sparing-
II. Indeed, from the year Of the 1risis
famine in 1848,; to 1886, the quantities of
breadstufs annually obtained from this
country has been Observation-Disclosures
years Little more, others less, but never
large, If the English crop happened to be
"short" any year, tie deficit was promptly
supplied from France, Germany, Poland,
Italy, Egypt, Turkey, Canada, Odessa, any
where but America, if it could possibly be
avoided. English dealers are buying our
grain now because they can't help them
selves. No other country can supply them,
and theymust have our breadstuf1s or starve.
They have been paying thesgold, therefore
Notwithstanding the low tariff Of 1857,
which was in force until: last Monday.
We purchase vast quantities Of manu-
f1ct1lred articles from France and Germany.
Will the Times tell us, how much bread
stutfs on the average do they buy from this
eountry2 The truth is, rarely have they
ever purchased q pound Of our -four or q
peck Of our grain. But on the contrary,
they elbow our farmers out of the English
market until their own surplus is disposed
of. It is false that Great Britain buys
bceadstufs Is from this country because we
purchase goods from her. Nor is it true.
that the quantity Of grain she buys here,
is governed by the quantity Of goods she
sells here. If the Island was larger or its
grain growing qualities, like France and
Germany, equal to the consumption Of its.
Inhabitants, the English would never pul-
chase bushel Of our wheat or corn.. We
might do away with all tariffs and adopt
Free Trade and direct taxation, and it
would not make the difference Of one bar
rel.of -four per annum, in our export Of
breadstuhz. :, -*1-.
The consumption of American bread
stuffs in Great Britain willis the present
extraordinary scarcity Of home supply
continues, must not be taken aa criterion
Of what it may be when new harvests are
garnered. But if ten or twenty years be
taken together and an average struck, it
will be discovered that the English me-
chanic does not purchase one quart of
American wheat to every bushel which
himself and family consume. Our Ameri-
can mechanic is worth more in the lone
run to our farmers, as q customer for all
kinds Of agricultural products, animal IS
well as vegetable, than score Of English
artisans, or ten score Of French and Ger
man Workmen.
If our people would reflect that they in
port from Europe twice as much Agricul-
tural products as they ship: there, they
would prize the home market more and
the foreign less. It is fact that double
the value ofstur agricultural products ex-
ported, is consumed in the production Of
the articles from European workshops,
which are imported by the people Of this
country. In fther words, if those foreign,
fabrics were made in the United States,
the people employed in creating them
would consume Of breadstufa, vegetables,
fruits, meats, poultry and other articles of
the farm and garden, twice the value Of all
the edible products exported abroad to ali
markets. Indeed, the interests of the
farmer and gardener will be fully as much
subserEed by the enactment Of the new
tariff, az will the mechanics and capitalists
of the country. Whatever system helps
the latter also benefits the former, because
the mechanics and laborers are the peop1e
wherever they may reside, who consume
nsnc~tezths of the products of the farm:
and the nearer they can be brought to the
American farmer, the more of his crops
and animals, they will purchase, and tho
better price he will receive. The farther
be has to ship his products to reach them,
the less he will get, as the transportation,
handling, time and insurance, must all
come out Of what the mechanic and labor
er pay him for his commodities.