The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-09-27
From the Plough, the Loom and the Anvil, for Oct
WOOL AND WOOLENS.

From the Plough the Loom and the Anvil, for Oct
WOOL AND WOOLENS.
The following extract from letter that
has been communicated to US will have in
terest for our wool-growing readers:
"In consequence OF the great commercial
crisis in Europe the last year, with the po
liical troubles Of the present, this counlr,
has been filled with foreign WOODEN fabrics ),
on which great sacrifices are being made; a.
large portion OF these goods belong 10 bank
rupt estates, and they must be sold whether
they return 25, so or rs cents on the dollar
Of their value abroad.
"Very large sales Of American WOODEN
goods are beng made at auction in New
York, al prices fac below th.ir cost. IL lie
perfectly settled that there are more WOODEN
goods in The country than can be consumed
the present year; aud The manufactures have
wisely adopted The policy Of stopping por
ton of their works. A hard contest has com
menced between the foreign and home man
ufacturers, which is as sure 10 result in ia
vor of the latter as the sun wi Il pursue liz
wonted course. Although the money pres
sure has lasted more than ten months in
this country, there have been no failures
among manufacturers, while in Europe the
failures have been for millions 10 The same
time. These facts induce me TO believe
that the statement made by Mr.. Lawrence,
al Lowell, TO Mr. Randall, (see lst No.
The Plough, Loom and AnviI,) was no, too
strong, viz: ..rhe business Of manufic,ur-
ing wool in this country is on better bases
than ever before, inasmuch as the character,
skill, and capital engaged in i, are such that
foreign competition is defed.' This is
strong language TO be used in a county JUS
starting into lie in The cultivation OF the
useful arts"
From the foregoing il is palpablo that the
wool. grower must take his share in this con
test. The low prices Of goods, and susPen
sion of large amount of machinery, mus
reduce The value of wool below the cost oil
production. This is Temporary state oil
things, and we enireat The wool-growers no
to do as they have formerly done in times oil
depression, break up their aocks and 60 in
to something else.
"Nevcr give up," should be the motto o.
every American when engaged in good
cause.
| Let them on the contrary, SET their shoul.
| ders TO the wheel, determined to lake for
themselves the protection that is needed t.
enable them to compel the wollen machine
~ and The men who drive il to come and
take their place by the side of their ploughs
and thus enable them TO pay for their clo,i
in The spare, and now wasted, labor OF them
selves, their sous and daughters, their horses
aud oxen, their carts and wagons il,
potatoes and turnips, and hay, Of which the
earth yields by tons-oblaining back from
The consumer not only tho cloth but the refuse
of the products Of the earth, by aid Of which
their poor lands may be made rich, while the
rich ones are made richer by aid Of careful
cultivation and drainage.
Il OF all the labors of the farmer, there i.
uone tina, would yield SO largely as the cul
livation Of sheep, but there are none in which
it is more necessary 10 have the consumer
to take his place by the side Of the producer
A steady market for fresh meat would dou
BILE the value Of his focks, but mutton is /;
meal thu, cannot be preserved. Beet, ant
pork, may be sailed, but We al and mutton
must be eaten when they are killed. Lee
The wool-gtower then offer premium to The
mutton eaters of England, To come with iheil
machinery and sit down by him, aud he will
in few years make this country, as il should
be, the great wool growing, aud the great
wool manufacturing, country Of The world
and then the necessity for protection will be
at an en1. Seeing what had been done
who can doubt that il the tariff Of lS42 had
been made the great national measure oil
the planters aud tarmer rs, the production and
consumption of wool would be, even at this
moment, almost double what il is.
There is not wool grower, nor cotton.
grower, IN the country, that would not pay
towards having road made 10 enable hin,
to get 10 market in less time, and at less COS,
Every man wants To get the consumer a.
near him, IN point Of lime and expense, as
possible, aud YET the present policy Of the
country, advocated, both by farmers and plant
e's, in that Of driving our present consumers
10 the west-ihere TO become themselves
producers-and replacing them by other
consumers who are so distant that the COST
of transport and exchange eats up the Chief
part of the product Of labor.
Every man would pay for making road
by which To get his produce to market, there
10 lose The manure, exhausting his land :
but when they are advised to bring The mar-
kei to their sides that they may save The ma
nure and enrich the land, each man calcu.
ates how much his shirt would cost him al
five cents yard, and compare il with the
six cents that he might for time have to
|, pay To the weaver in his neighborhood; for