The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1861-01-18

| people. For wan. of some such en-
couragement, MAJ products of I'M
portance laiguisi 1, TOR years before
attracting the attention they deserve;
and then, hot unirequen;ly owe their
| prominence 10 accident. TIE adop.
ton OF Z systcm;hat may lead to new
discoveries, and enlarge and increase
our agricultural pursuits, altogether
too confined and exclusive at present,
cannot be regard ii rs unimportant,
and is entitled to your consideration
| and favor.
| DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.
a great necessity, in my Judgment
to the welfare Of cur people, present
! and prospective, is an increased de-
veiopement Of manufacturing inter
ests in Wisconsin. Although mach
has been done for SO new a State, vet
the fact is apparent that our people
follow too exclusively a single pur-
suit. y sound policy requires that
many articles which we now pur-
chase from abroad, should be manu-
! featured by us for use and for export.
The money that we now expend cre~
ates 4 continued drain upon our finan-
cial resources, while it might by
| proper policy be kept at home; and
when once so directed, thriving man
ntacturing villages would spring up
all over TIE States giving an iucrc&s-
Cd home market to agricultUris..s
steady and profitable employment to
mechanical genius aud ingenuity, and
adding immeuSlly to the develop
m=nt OF orr, internal resources.
IS 4 people, We buy too much, and
what Is more to our disadvantage
and discredit, we purchase at 4 large
ly enhanced price, the products of
our soil, after they have made Il
! lengthy voyage 10 and from the Eas-
tern States.
With the richest lead mines in the
Union, if not i'll the world, we buy
this metal il its various forms from
manufacturing establishments far dis
tant from our borders.
Our Iron mines are, as vet, almost
unopened, although it is well ascer-
tanned that the mineral abounds at
| different points in the State in the
| greatest richness, and almost mex
| hanStlblc abundance. All our Zinc
and Copper is imported, while the
ores Of these metals are found in i'm
mcnsc deposits, really to be convert
ed into use at the touch of skill and
capital. We expend large sums for
! Glass IN its various forms, while it
| is certain, from Geological cXpIora-
tons, that thematerial Of which glass
! is made, is widely distributed over
| the State. We buy most Of our pot
terry and all of our crockery from
| abroad, yet no fact is more certain
than that every variety, almost, Of
clay exists i'll plenty III or limits,
even To the k00ln from which china
ware is manufactured. So we import
all the marble used, from distant
points, As also states, while deposits
Of these await only the hand If indus
| try to make them available. So we
eXpend large sums every year for
plaster, hydraulic cement, mineral
paint, and other similar necessities;
the raw material of which is album.
dnnt. Nor is there any apparent
reason, except that capitalists have
not undertaken the work, why all
kinds Of agricultural implements,
tools, and machinery, wooden, a0d
willow ware, wagons and carriages,
leather, and the various articles into
which it is made up; castings, en-
gincs, in short, all that we use of
these necessary articles, may not be
supplied almost entirely by the labor
and skill Of our own people, and with
in the State
1t is equally our interest, so far as
1t Is III our power, or turn our atten
ton to the manufacture Of wooden,
cotton and linen fabrics, the purchase
of which makes up so large Il portion
ofour annual expenditures. Encour-
a@ements to wool~growing and the
cultivation Of flax, is and should be
regarded as encouragement to the
looms we so greatly need that
these productions may not be ships
ped hundreds of miles and then
brought back in changed form;
but they should be purchased and
worked up in Wisconsin, and by
Wisconsin industry and skill The
manufacture ofcotton goods, it is be
lieved, might also be introduced into
the State with n fair prospect Of sue
cess. The vast waterpowers existing
in almost MI parts of the state, CON
vcnlent OF access to our great market
places, chidc US for lack of improve
ment. The great carrying highway
on our west invites the raw cotton
hlther. Why may it not as we'll
come and answer to our necessities
and cOnveniences, wrought in our
own cotton mills, instead Of travelling
three or four thousand miles to New
England, and then brought West
in new shapes by western merchants,
thus increasing the expense and cost
of what we are compelled TO pur>
chase?
Surely the eight hundred thousand
people now in Wisconsin, and the
coming eight hundred thousand, with
all our manufacturing facilities, ought
to afford a sufficiently wide field for
manufacturing enterprise. As
means OF encouragement to manuflc>