Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-01-05

I
thai. .seither Mr. Pyle nor Mr. Gallagher shoaA be
appointed aud that some new man-cne that Aas
been connected ith the army, should be the NAB
py recipient of tue appointment to the Postmas-
tsrship. As the difficulty has arisen from the
conduct of those who had been connected with
the army, some Republicans openly declare we
have had asost erosghes arry yrsa 9 I f3fb
Legislation Against Agriculture.
The depression in the farming bnsi-
ness, if continued, must prove very det-
rimental to all other interests. i, They
cannot continue to cultivate the earth
and live and educate their children as
they have done, If the present laws are
continued another decade. The tendency
will soon be toward European poverty
and ignorance. BOYS will be compelled
TO work the whole year. instead of in
the summer season only and the con-
sequence will be that they will get little
education where free schools are pro-
vided by State taxation. and where this
is not the case schools will be wanting
from the inability Of farmers to bear the
expense. This may seem stretch of
imagination TO some; but it must be
remembered that it has been the case in
other countries, as is proved daily to us i'll
the vast number Of foreigners who have
come among iuA that can neither read
nor write. f.a...a
Blythe present tariff laws theforeign
market for grain has been almost totally
destroyed, and the consequence is that
although the farmer has to pay from 25
to IS per cent. more to his laborers and
for all he consumes, he receives no more
for bushel of grain than he did before
the war, and not near so much az in
some years previous thereto. This was
clearly stated in former number Of the
GAZETTE, and in so concise manner
hy one of our contemporaries, that we
reproduce it here, that we may more
forcibly impress il upon the minds o
our readers.
TIE price Of grain is oyerned by tht
foreign market, and that is gold price
Grain is worth for other uses precisely
what ii is worth for expectation. NJ
dealer ever pays in Chicago or St. Louis
ons price for what is destined 20 a for
eign market. The value Of tho whoi'
crop is determined by the price in Liver
pool Accordingly, bushel of whea
or alharrel of -four sells for no more q
present than it did previous to the wal
But the prices Of commodities whic
the fauner has occasion to buy are fron
IS to 30 per cent. higher than they wer
before the war. They are so becaus
the manufacturing interest has cease
10 be an exporting interest, and the fol-
eign market does not govern the price
of its products. The consequences j
that farmers get only gold prices for .
they haFerto sell, but pay inflated pape
prices for all they have to buy; and thi
is the chief reason why they are 80 III
prosperous and impoverished. The ei
feet is the same as if the GoYernmer
should establish one standard of weigh
and measnresito sell by and anothl
standard to purchase by. which woul
bring legalized robbery into every tran
action. Mr.. Amass Walker argu,
"that as farmer can pay his debt on
out of Whist be saves from the sale
his cfeps q gold prices, and has to ps
paper prices FOR ell that he buys, tn
he can therefore retain but a small su
plus of receipts over expenses to /,
toward his debts, and his property W
be eaten up by the payment of int
est" The remedy for this is, that Il
Government shall enable him 20 bl
and sell by the same standard, BY viii
he can save year by year the differen
between gold prices and paper prices