The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-08
LETTER.
The English PRESS on the Destruction
OF American Meat-English food
Supplies Effect OF the increase
of American impcrtations.
FrOm our regular eorresponaener.

SAS III ingenuity
the breakfast Of q Londoner may well
claim an important place. The tea he
drinks comes from the far-off land of
Cathay, or it may be from India or As
sam; his coffee is the product of the
strange eastern port. which, with its
glittering white houses and struggling
palms, is known as Mocha, on the
shores of the Red sea; for his sardines,
ships from the Mediterranean have been
chartered; his bacon has probably been
reared in Canada or the western states
of the great transatlantic republic;
sugar, such as he delights in has not
long before wayediin the tardy breezes
of the Indies; his preserves are made
perchance from the mango of Bonn
bay or the pine of Ceylon, the
banana of Jamaica or the fig of
Smyrna, the currants that fill the cake
he eats have been gathered on the shores
of Greece; the beef which adorns the
table has in all probability grazed in
Kentucky or in the far pastures on the
tributaries of the Mississippi. To make
up the triAing ensemble which he
thoughtlessly enjoys, almost every race
has been laid under tribute. Ships,
trains and have been set in
motion, the soil tillers of the remotest
earth corners have been invited to in
dustry in order that he may have set
before him, as the days revolve, a sat
isfactory morning repast. Long ac-t
quaintance with such luxurious wealth
has, however, had the effect of causing
him but lightly to value the numerous
advantages of his ample resources
Practically he forgets that on the ac-
customed cloth is laid a sample of the
whole worlds products, and hat more
interesting than any museum is the
collection of curiosities which is thus
placed before him. To him the thought
of the Arabian desert-wanderer with
the camel-loads of coffee, or the negro
laborer in molasses mills, the Chinese
tea grower, or the Cingalese peasant
seldom OF never comes. He has been
so continually used to the possession of
the treasures which their art and toll
supply that the wonderful breakfast he
eats is regarded with no surprise, is
thought scarcely a subject for passing
remark.
Commerce has succeeded in making
England so completely the center of
the globe that its minerals no longer
astonish, and, indeed, are looked upon
as only the earnest of greater triumphs
yet to be won. Where the English peo-
pie have received one quintal of foreign
produce, they expect a ton ere long;
where commodities of an imperishable
nature have been shipped to them, they
now look for those whose character had
until lately been supposed to initiate
against the possibility of transport.
There are practically no longer any
bounds to their desires as the stream
of supply increases with ever augment
ing rapidity.
Writing Of the destruction of fifty
tons Of diseased meat imported from
America, an English paper says: "The
principal evil connected with such an
affair is that it must tend to discourage,
If even only slightly, those enterprising
people who are just now opening up q
vast meat trade from America to Eng
land. There cannot be any one who
seriously endorses the opinion expressed
ot fto pogofinn Of fl,a sOa;nt1 80 ort, =.
Monday, that a great misfortune would
be experienced were food to become so
cheap that it would no longer pay to
produce 1t in this country From all
sensible people who give the question a
moment of serious consideration, it
must be s~elf-evident that, should the
land not be %proftably employed at home
in the raising of wheat and beef, q
thousand other equally satisfactory uses
can be found for it, that will result in
the production of money with which
the fruits of other lands can be pur-
chased
On the point of supply, Mr.. VIM.
Saunders has written very ably in an
exhaustive work he has just published
upon the resources of the United States.
Indian corn for young cattle can be had
in the west for from about seven pence
farthing to a shilling per bushel, and
any quantity of hay is available at
about twelve shillings a ton; while one
farmer who is mentioned in this book
prepares over eight hundred thousand
pounds weight of beef, and nearly half
as much pork, every year for the mar
ket. As regards wheat and other
classes of food, there appears to be prac-
tically no limit, for, as cultivation is
extended ver the enormous quantity
of land which still remains unoccupied,
the supply win be increased and the
sales similarly augmented. The ten
dency of this will naturally be to the
best market, and that for many reasons
must necessarily be Great Britain.
And as long as prices here rule sufii-
high to allow Of tho surplus
crops and stock of America TO be sold
at a profit in the British islands, so
long will American traders direct their
cargoes to these shores.
Another Important consideration
which must not be overlooked is sug-
gested by this book. Protection, after
n hun1rpl yaarSf trial in Amaric, ~