Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-08-14
state Democratic Ex. Committee.


Of the Wisconsin trade, says:
"Whsn the west could no longer buy freely
on almost unlimited credit ct the East, Other
means we're rssortsd TO TO supply locsl wants
This lsads to more decided development o.
local manufactures. Many thriving hrn'
that formerly bought their clothing and othei
supplies from the East. turned their attentior
70 manufacture. 1t 10 found that goods can b
produced cheaper by giving employment
- he Asods On the spot. and . home market
. materials. The result 10 diminish
- intsrsonrss East and West, to be revived
NJ doubt, when large crops and better prices
shall have renewed . speculative so'ion, call.
Ing Eastern md imported goods. through the
medium Of credit. once more to compete with
the nssesut fabrics ofths West"
We trust, says an eastern journal, that
the Magazine will fail in its proguostic
and that the west, having learned wis
dom by experience, will be slow to pur-
chase imported goods to the serious pre-
JUDGE Of her own interest, because she
can buy them "through the medium OF
credit" and because that once iu five or
ok years, she can realize high price
for her surplus crop, by reason of Irish
or some other famine abroad.
According to the magazine quoted
above. the West has at last discovered
the true secret of prosperity. She
has q ound that goods can be produced
cheaper BY gioing employment to the
hands on tie :pot, and a home market
to materials. that We can convert our
own wool into cloth, employ our ow.
labor in doing it. and pay for that labor
in our own wheat, corn, bacon, etc. If
our people have not already found it
out. We sincerely trust they will at IN
early day. We should also find, if We
have not already, and to our sorrow.
that It is cheaper to manufacture our own
WOODEN goods upon our own soil. in our
own villages, than it is to send our WOOL
away to England, there to be made into
cloth, and then to be brought back for
use, and to send our wheat and corn
after it to pay for the making, we pay.
ing oil the expense Of transportation to
and from that country-tsking such
price tor our corn as English laborers
see tit to pay, while our own people
our working Glasses, seek in vain for
profitable labor. The systemis entirely.
grossly wrong, snd should speedily end
a-prompt corrective. We can maniac.
ture ogr own wooden goods and ssk no
favo's Of any foreiga concern, nor need
We even be dependent upon our active
down-east brethren for accommodations
Of tho k'nd-lst y. depend uponFoar-
sslYsa-ist ~ manufacture our zwoolsns
Win our own hsnd.-pay fol. our labor
With oar own products. It i. the ONLY
wise course to be pur.ued. By 40 "a, do
ing y, a. ? COED artiel. Of, doth
which .sa,, e n2t the Gaze rhea 70 get it
msas up iSnr thousand mile. from home omuus,
-avsydu Eagland. 'IsIns, b that our
ho@A,aiids DOH viii eco.s ihs ooa..m-
Or more per yard-but il is cheaper
viii wear NOR, tbaa tFiea A. long, from
the fact it i; nnadulteratsd With s.;Shsd-
dy," - il the case with Bsitish wS5aen
manufactures. Why slhs s'aspI shoulSsxe
consent to ship our wool to En9jind
asd' brist bsS mai a&a a,f u, Il tbeyI,sse &
y sd 4oawh4 export wool and i'm
posi xsEsX5yF WY not do our own
vssAss Ae44 n &itb*s8sls yaksas
bs~yx.