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Bread? Very respectfully, W


Ans,Der.-It is easy to suppoSe that loaves OF
Bread, we'll baked, should grow in spontaneous
profusion in one Country, whale Hemp, ready rot
ted and cleaned, should insist on obscuring the
entire surface of another Country-but Nature
has ordered differently from this There Is no
Country which can produce bread stufis as cheap
as other Countries, and yet can produce Hemp
to ten times the money or market value. The
suppostion is absurd and contrary to well-known
facts.


Our correspondent darkens counsel by reason
ing from the case Of small district or State like
New-Jersey to that of an extensive Nation like
the United States. The cost of transportation,
which is the fatally forgotten element in Free
Trade estimate, is bvno means parallel For eX-
ample-it might be expedlent in a narrow pecu-
mary sense for New-Jersey to accept as gift al
the bread stuffs required for her consumption
but il the United States could have all the Gram
they need gioen them at Odessa or Dantzlc on
condition that they would not grow kernel, they
would be impoverished by the gift The charges
for external and internal transportation, distrbu.
tion mercantile profits, SC, would raise the aver
age cost of Bread to our People to the level of the
present standard. A few might live easier than
now, but the larger number wouldbe impovcr
ished by the change.


We repeat then, the expression of our convic-
ton that the People Of the United States can
never enrich themselves by purchasing of Foreign
Nations any thing which the same amount OF La
Dor would produce on their soil. They may
sometimes be nominally cheaper abroad but the
cost ofimporting and ofexportng the wherewilhal
to pay, will more than counterbalance the appar-
ent advantages of buying in the nominally cheap
est market. Home Production, of all things
which Nature has not forbidden us to produce, is
the safe and wise course. Ed.