The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1852-07-20

HOW the dreaeerb damage Cno <emES
What is good farming land worth within the
ncighborbood of Rochester? What is equally
good land worth in the vicinity Of Lewis.cni
The difference in value between the two,
amounting to three and four hundred per cent,
is real and fixed. There is nothing fancifol or
speculative about II. Now what makes this
difference? Rochester is manufacturing city,
and Lewiston is a slumbering village. Tho
motive power furnished by tho tumbling Ta-
ters of the Genesee river, has be en- seized and
appropriated by crowd If ariizans, and
Manufacturers Of iron, steel, cotton, wool,
wood. leather-indecd of everything useful to
man--have been established. Rochester grew
large with workshops, and with the residences
of Ter artzans. A great crowd of people
gathered there, directly, applying the power
Of her noble stream Of water, or ministrative
to their working men, in the many relation
that diversity manufacturing labor.
Now these tens IT thousands must be fed,
and right around Rochester is a belt OF land
from which their subsistence IL drawn. ALI
agricultural products grains aud Vegetables.
butchers meat and poultry, fruit, eggs. honey
-.--even flowers 10 crafty the taste and nlsase
the sense, readily find d rhafket among these
manufacturers and their associate population.
They find good market too for receiving re-
munerltive prices for their labor, they buy
freely, and live handsomely, furnishing in this
respect as Americans, remarkable contrast
to the lobo. ers in Europe, who pass their lives
in q struggle with want The farmers that
encircle Rochester are rich. They must nse-
essarily be so--for they can sell everything
that they can raise, sell it at good prices, and
get IL TO market In a resy short spec Of .time;
and aoithout erpense. That 10 the main thing.
The farmers near Lewiston, to get into 80 good
a market with mixed load of potatoes, caul-
flower. beans, eggs, and butter, must 60 thirty
miles, be absent from home three days, pay
the expenses Of the road, waste upon the route
the manure taat should have been carefully
saved for the farm, and come into market with
a load deprecated by the length of transporti
and tho casualties of land carriage.
The Monroe County farmers and the Roch-
ester manufacturers, are in the .nAtura! and
proper relations of producers and consdmors,
and of the growers Of food, and the makers Of
Monroe agriculturist profits by the relation
o is rch-he is comfortable-hei is elegant.
Ills charming white house, half hid behind
shrubbery and flowers, is the home of taste
and pleasure His daughters are beauties, and
60 in purple and fine linen. His sons in Sum
day broadcloth, drive horses glorious for beau
ty and speed, and are men Of intelligence and
spirit.
Contrast with his condition that Of tho far
mer of the Wabash. who has been unjustly
separated by Loco Foco Free Trade, to great
distance from the manufacturer and consumer
clad in red flannel leaning against log
hut, surrounded by ,lrovcs of sharp nosed,
hogs, vast pens Of yellow corn unprotected
from tho westhcr his emily marketable product,
and long rifle his only pleasure. he stands q
picture IF Free Trade, and silent protest
ag inst the cruel parting of the farmer from
the mechanic, whom God so evidently join
cd together.
Every where oppressive, the Loco Foco sys-.
TEN of economy applied to farmers repressee
and cripples them. They suffer from il more
than any other class of our citizens. The ag-
riculturists Of Wisconsin, Illinois. Michigan,
Indiana, and numerous other States, are re-
s,ficted to wheat and corn as the vegetable
products to which alone they can apply their
labors and ,heir capital. The Loco Focos have
established their market, such as it is, in Eng
land, and that is to far off for them to send
oa,s. potatoes hay, fruits and vegetables. If
these implacable enemies Of American labor
would but permit the forge to be set up beside
the plough, and tho loom to work near the
sheep walk, the farmers of the West would
speedily see a very different result OF their
labors from 60 cents bushel for wheat, and
80 cents for corn Blast furnaces, nail works,
rolling mills, wooden factories, copper millsi
steel factories and innumerable other industri-
al establishments would be set up all over the
length and breadth Of the land. Wherever
they were planted, farming produce wUuld
enhance in value, all that could be raised would
be sold. farmers would get rich, and lndepend-
once and case would characterize tho rcndi-
ton of large circles of population. This is
the condition to which the Wings arc laboring
to bring the country. The Greasers and
especially their leader the fainting PIERCE arS
deadly opposed to this condition, and deter
mined to keep the American people in Free
Trade bondage to British manufacturers ana
British money lenders.