Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-04-28


and those are the largest, which by en-
terprise and well-timed improvements
present the greatest inducements.
but the argument in question, which
was relied upon at one time to defeat the
Erie canal, has long since been exploded
and even the farmers about Schenectady,
instead ofloosing good market for sour
krout and cabbage, soon realized great
" improved one; and not only an improv-
ed market, but vast increase in the mar
ket value of their real estate; an increase
entirely above, from being relatively lar
ger, than what was realezed by farmers
living farther west on the line Of the same
improvement.
That it will be matter of great con
Iyenience and profit to Walworth county
admits Of no question. But it should be
borne in mind that only half of W alworth
county is situated west Of our own, and
that she has other hands proffered to her:
and therefore it should become an enter
prising and intelligent community, what
the inhabitants of Kenosha county are
claimed to be, to offer to Walworth the
first and greatest inducements to make
| Kenosha the theatre of her commercial
and business transactions.
1 1t requires great stretch of magma
ton to believe, as one correspondent has
asserted, that an individual coming into
Kenosha County, and purchasing land
would ascertain and foot up the incum-
brance ON the County and deduct so much
per acre as the incumbrance would amount
to. from the purchase money. 1t is a nj
Ger calculation than is usually made by
persons buying farms, or other real estate
/ But in the face of this .forcjbte argument.
Milwaukee appears to be every day selling
real estate little higher, and every day
adding incumbrance to the same. Keno
sha has borrowed money to go on with
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led the actual market value of her real
estate. But if the purchaser should real
ly hunt up the incumbrance and begin to
strike off one per cent, from the purchase
money, it might be well to present him
with the mortgage the county holds, and
which he would find quite equal in value
to the incumbrancc itself
But if the amount was to be paid by
, the county or. deducted from farms by
purchasers, it would not occasion one
half the loss on the real estate Of the coun-
try towns, that a few public meetings held
at buttons have already done
Let us suppose that no mortgage was
to be executed to the county, and the en-
tire sum was at once to be collected of
its inhabitants, what would it amount to?
1t would amount to Sia' dollars and tlren-
ty-fre cents to each inhabitant; a sum not
one fourth as large as has been already
expended in opposing the loan by Il large
proportion of those who have been pune
tual in their attendance at the Anti-loan
meetings.
The present may perhaps be a proper
occasion for replying to Mr.. Kellogg's re
marks, wherein he is pleased to represent
the city as the only interested party in
this work Of improvement, and that the
country is called upon to build up the
City. The country should indeed ccnsid
er itself called upon by patriotic and hon
orable and by motives of pecuniary inter-
est, to throw nothing in the way of adj
vancement Of the interests of the city. but
on the other hand to join, the country
with the city and the city with the coun-
try in a mutual advance in prosperity and
greatness. Their interests are identified
and theprospocts of the one cannot bema-
terially depressed or lifted up without
having its influence on the other.
That Kenosha is largely indebted to the
country, though not largely to Kenosha
County forits support, is manlfestly true
but that it is not as Mr.. Kellogg repre-
sents wholly independent upon the "nour
ishment of mother Earth" hereabouts is
equally true. kenosha City has within
its limits at least dozen manufacturing
establishments whose sales amount to
from five to sixty thousand dollars per
annum, and whose products are shipped
off and find markets in other States.
All writers upon political economy lay
it down as an established rule, that the
merchant or more properly speaking the
broker who brings the tools the clothing.
the salt, and other necessares of life, to
where the agriculturalist finds convenient
access; the produce broker who buys the
surplus produce of the country, and the
ship owner who transports the one to the
other, are the most useful of all the mem
bers Of society, and the statistics show
that of all classes the feweSt of them be-
come permanently wealthy. ] make these
remarks in justice to class who are stie-
matlsed in Mr.. kellogg's communication
as hungry SPECTATORS" The Aborigi-
nal tribes are the only people who have
tounditconvenient manage their'world-
ly affairs" without the Intervention of
commercial men. We might say what is
commerce without agriculture, and we
might also say, what is agriculture with
out commerce.