Year: 1859

The Want Ofa Home Market for West.


tern Produce.


From the Philadelphia North American.


After all, the great reliance of natural pros
perity is in the agricultural products. The
crops already harvested and those now rpen-
ing, give every assurance of great yield
But where is the market Europe is abund-
antly supplied by her own fields, and the re-
source which has been so confidently relied
upon, to extinguish Indebtedness and to pro-
cure additional comfort, is now in q manner
worthless for any such purpose. Enormous
production and limited consumption confront
each other, and consequently, the excess in
wolves absolute waste in part and diminished
prices for what may be sold. This is one of
the inevitable results Of free trade, as preach
ed by the democratic theorists who have
shaped the public policy solong They have
aimed to create jealousies and hostility be-
tween the agricultural and manufacturing in
terests, promising the farmer market in Eu-
rope for their products. The time is at hand
to test this theory. We have full crops
and no demand abroad. The home market
which the friends of American industry
sought to create has been destroyed by fire.
quent changes in the tariff, and the farmer
finds himself to-day with plenty to sell and no.
body to buy.


There never was material fact of larger
consequence to the country, than this which
is now visible to every eye and palpable to
every understanding. 1t demonstrates con-
clusively that a harmony Of interest can alone
prosper and elevate labor, and that the farm
er, manufacturer, miner and mechanic are
alike interested in a tariff of l842, or any 9TH
er recognizing the great principles upon which
it was founded, were now in existence, every
bushel of wheat and corn the West could
furnish would find a rcmunerative and relia-
able market at home, instead of being de-
pendent upon capricious and uncertain de-
mand abroad. Every new hand put to work
in mine, or factory, or workshop, is a gain
to agriculture and an accession to the home
market, which the farmer, first of all others,
is to profit by. The day is at hand when ex-
perience will teach him this lesson, land, though
at some cost it will be for his permanent ben.
eft and that of the country.


From the New York Courier and Enquirer.


Yet there is mode of putting limit to
this downward tendency of grain, and but
one and that is by enlarging and strength
| ening the home market. The loom and the
anvil must be recognized as the natural allies
of the plough and the harrow. The mechanic
arts and manufactures open new spheres OF
employment, and gather masses OF popula-
ton who have need of the productions OF tie
farmer, and, through their own productive
industry are able to pay good prices for the
same. A foreign market not only involves
the loss consequent upon distant transporta-
ton. but it is at best very limited and very
variable. for there is not nation in Europe
| which does not make it point to raise its
own breadstuffs from its own soil The
West in this respect is very differently situ-
ated from the South. The latter has virtually
a monopoly in her great staple and other ma
tons have no home growth with which to
make themselves independent of her. 1t is Of
comparatively little nsequence-thoughw we
think Of far more consequence than she inn