The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-03
The Itsfaia Of FREEDOM.
Lawrence, Saturday, March ), 1855.
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Capital.
The great want Of this country Is cap
ital. Everybody feels this necessity
Kansas win be slow in its development
without this essential element of prosper
ity. The greatest need of to-day are
sar-mills. We mast have them. A
dozen would find constant employment
at exorbitant prices.
The spring emigration viii begin to
arrive IN couple of weeks. What shall
be done? Must the pioneer return for
want of material to erect house, or cab
in? There are logs enough waiting to
ibe sawed into lumber; but to talk about
one mill cutting boards sufficient to sup
ply the demand for popuious city-such
as we shall build here in very brief
duration, if not crippled for the want of
materials preposterous. VIII not
private enterprise undertake the erection
'of mill Immediately? Ifnoi, we appeal
ito the Emigrant Aid Company for help.
Something mast be done, and done nors.
To dsiay IS to drive thousands away from
US, into the interior or to their eastern
homes.
We number two thirds less in popula-
ton at this time from what we would IL
lumber could have been procured last
autumn with which to erect structures
for protection from the wintry blasts
Any intelligent observer who has seen
the large parties as they have arrived,
and IS they have left the place. must be
ready to admit the fact.
Mechanics who como here want en-
ployment. The residents desire their
services; but without lumber what can be
done ? The cabinet-maker cannot get q
board for table, nor the wagon-maker
q stick of timber for an axei, or felloe.
The chair-maker must lie upon expense
until he can procure material 10 prosecute
his business, and the future is all dark,
as he cannot obtain promise to encour-
age him.
We talk OF building concrete houses.
They are no doubt the kind of structures
which will come into general use. Sew
eral gentlemen have already combined to
erect one which shall serve as model for
the Territory; but where are the boards
for floors and roofing? When can they
be obtained? Must they wait until boats
commence running up the river, and then
pay sixty dollars q thousand for lumber
which can be richly afforded for Sis or
$50
We are not complaining of any one.
for we know of none who are in fault:
but we desire relief for ourself personal
ly; for the hundreds of others who have
suffered with us so severely during the
last winter, and who are suffering still.
We also ask it for the thousands who are
leaving their homes in the East to better
their fortunes on the banks of the Kansas
Reader, have you capital? Do you
wish to invest it where there is a certain
ty of realizing one hundred per cent. an
nually for its use? Are you aware that
this Territory opens a wider field. and .
greater certainty of reward for cash in,
vestments, than any other part of the
worlde The surplus labor of the Eas
is making its way here. The capital o.
the East should accompany it. 1t mus
come, else there viii DO suffering and
vretchedness.
We have shown elsewhere that SUR
reward awaits the agriculturist who in
vests his money in the improvement o
the soil. We can demonstrate by figure:
equally reliable that every class of me
chanical pursuits. from the fine arts dowr
to the coarsest product of the workshop
is just as sure of receiving just recon-
pense for pecuniary investments; bu
there must be capital, else it is.impossi
bic to set the vast machinery in motion
50 much needed among US. Where shal
it come from? Who viii bring it here
and who will secure to himself the proft
so abundantly in his reach! We wai
for an answer.