The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-11-27

House to rent.
Dissolu,ion--Braw e. Synonds.
,L% See first and second columns on this
page.
Industry vs.. Banks and Railroads.
Every few years, our whole country "lays down
the shovel and the hoe'' and mounts some hobby
Of speculation to take ride, Banks. Baden corn,
mulberry trees. merino sheep, railroads, town
lots, pine timber, California, anything, but regu-
lar, steady, lsborious production. that fills the
corn crib with plenty and covers the back with
warmth. You, can't cheat the ground, with i'm
punity. Labor yincet on,nia,' is as true now as
ever it VS.. Everything must 90 wrong, when
we abandon digging the soil to dig at each other.
Spectators no more produce wealth than gam
blers do These remarks apply as wei in Min
neso,a as any where else. A nation, a state, a
territory or town. can no more get rich by spec
uIa,ion, than dandy can raise himself up by his
shirt collar. Like farmer, who ueglects his
crops, to make tramways and railways all over
his farm, on which to ride next year and trans
por. his crops home TO his cellar and barn, so is
sensible would that farmer be, who would raise
his crops every year and devote only his surplus
time and capital 10 making roads over his farm
Travelling South lately, upon the Mississippi river,
which passes very door, the highway Of North
America, almost from the Arctic regions, to the
ocean, we found along its shores, on both sides,
farmers, mechanics and all sorts Of men, who
had bought stock in railroads to the East, who
were neglecting their farms and workshops, spend
ing their time in idle talk and speculation in
stead Of production, waiting impatiently for the
construction Of railroads. the panacea of poverty
the patent highways to wealth, by which they all
expect to get rich. In Grant county, Wisconsin,
we found the railroad mania raging. Farmers,
mechanics, every body had it. There was but
little surplus PHOTOGRAPHERS were high; but the
whole country was perlshiug for want of a rail-
where boats were daily passing to take their crops
to cash market, either up or down, were exc
cradle; full Of rocks, and gullies, and mud hole.
and tree tops and stumps and ungraded hills and
unbridged streams and whatever else makes loco.
motion dangerous and expensive, not to say i'm
practicable. But instead Of intending their ways
every man is bawling out for railroad. II cost,
them more to &c, their freights to and from the
ri er, upon these execrable roads, than the freigh
to and from ST. Louis; roads that could be mend
ed by their own industry, without paying out a
dollar of money; yet they neglect to mend these
roads, and only camor for railroad. They have
tried the Mississippi market; that does not save
them from hard times; and they will find the re
suit just the same, after they have tried rail
road. One remedy they have not tried; i. e.
hard work. Thrift and economy and a rigit
in the Valley of the Mississippi. We also wan
the navigation Of the Mississippi cheapened, BY
removing the rocks in the Rapids. Congress viii
do it. There can be no reasonable doubt of it
As for railroads East, let those who want tn,
trade of our valley, build them. Produce enough
to make railroads pay to this valley, and the ci,ie
of the East will build them. Railroad building i
not the business Of farmers and mechanics. Thei
business is to produce; and if they neglect to d.
that, railroads will not pay. Capital will make
your railroads for you, as soon as they are worti
making. Give the river, and towns upon it
whose shores you inhabt, their legitimate trade
In the natural course Of things, if the trade o
this valley is not drained to the East. New Yorl
and the capital of New York and Of other Allan
tic cities, will come to St. Louis aud Burlington
and ST. Paul AID to New Orleans, and ever
where along its shores, to share in and profit b.
that trade. We have the Mississippi river, whic
God has given us. Ii New York has any rail
roads to give us, equal to the river let her brin
, them along.
The Valley Of the Mississippi has enough to d
to produce ffeights, without producing bette
means Of transporting those freish,s, than natur
and Robert Fulton have given US. II we pIung
into railroad operations. we 60 into debt, the
comes banking, idleness, speculation, bankruptcy
Learn lesson in time. The West is not too Of
, to learn. New England has made net Of rail
roads all over their ter'itoryhas made herself q
, poor as a church mouse, by building railroads
: What is the RESULT Why New York taps Il,
whole Of her vast system Of railroads, desigue
to agsrandize and enrich its emporium, Boston
and makes them all tributary to her own gganti
trade. Just 50 the West may impoverish itse
: in building railroads every where, to drain Eas
: ward the trade that naturally flows South. TO i'm
povcrish ourselves and dePopulate our towns. an
E leave US at last without any West--aIl poIarizs
towards New York, withou, Western interes
without Western Influence and deeply indebte
in Wall street, tied up with railroad bonds, whc
. we have foolishy and voluntarily fastened upo
oarselves,as with chain, to be forever led at I'll
triumphant chariot wheels Of old Gotham.
D RELIGIOUS NoricE.--We are requested
state that Elder Weber. of Saltwater, will hoI
divine service in the Baptis, Church Of St. Pau
on Sunday next, the 3o,h inst.