Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-03-20

The "oldest inhabitant" in Davenport
month, than March, 1860. The days have
been warm and pleasant, and the nights CON-
Portable Our husbandmen are all very busily
engaged putting in their crops. and from con-
versstions We have had with them, think
they will SOW and plant great many more
acres this year, than any previous season since
the county was organized. 1t Is certainly
very encours ging for farmers to have such
reasonable weather at just the time they are
seeding. Should the Summer prove as prop-
tious a. has the Spring thus far, the crops
harvested next Fall will exceed anything eve
heard Of in this State. 1t is very desirable
that our farmers should release themselves
from debt, and they will succeed in doing So
if they have good crop next Fall.
BASIS OF WEALTH.-Amid all the ac-
tivities of trade. all the entanglements of CON-
merce all the ramifcatons of manufactures
and exchange, with their countless auxiliaries
aai depsndences, with their immense wealth
and swarms Of busy men. We are too apt to
plex activities and capitals is reared. We
look upon commerce as the lever that moves
the world; as the crowning glory and mate
rial power of q nation; as the indispensable
prerequisite to National wealth and greatness
Nothing is more fallacious. Some, and at ore
time great political party, believed that
manufactures were the bone and sinew Of the
basis and power of the nation. and it exerted
high tariff to build up this branch OF industry.
at the expense OF all other emPloyments.
But it is now confessed that the material
wealth of q Nation depends Upon the amount
and value of its productions. Every other
human occupation is based upon this, depends
upon it and could not exist without it. Com
lnerce, arts, science. and all departments of
trade are Increased, strengthened or des royed
by this one great industrial pursuit.
The soil is tie source Of all srealth Grain,
flax. pork beet, hemp, maize. cotton, sugar,
rnolasses, rice, fruit and other articles are the
bulk Of what creates commercial and internal
of the coil of this country, will precipitate
commercial revulslons, to thousands and tens
Of thousands whose business depends upon
productions. Two or three years since one
and every kind of business was crippled
Terrible effects were seen in the failure Of
bankers merchants and anufacturers Last
years productions were ample and the wheels
of industry move on with increased celebrity -
With our vast domain, adapted to iinitless
productions, there is opened before our people
the grandest future ever presented to inspire
the activity of any nation.
There is no doubt but that our cities here in
the West build up faster than the agricultural
districts, and this makes the consuming class
more numerous than the producing class, aud
thus all productions for home consumption are
high, too high by far when relatively consid-
cred. Spectators abound. Spectators in
wheat, in pork, in land, in money, in ali man
ner of nroperty, and they must be fed. must
have houses to live in. and build none them
selves. and this keeps up products, and rents
Of buildings But this evil, incident to all
newly settled countries, is fast passing away in
Scott county and Eastern Iowa. Farms are
cultivated i; sreculators, except in produce, are
leaving for moe inviting fields; stability is
taking the place Of uncertainty and change,
and the basis Of wealth-production--i en-
larging, expanding, and building up every 9TH
sr industrial pursuit And what magnificent
future is open before Scott county! Her az
resources are beyond computation
The manufactures, trades and activities of
business that will be built up thereon, will
make old Scott one of the wealthiest patches
Of earth on the globe.
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