The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-01-17

Abi ''''i, SIlluINIe ilhIuidCJUlcu Dy us lDI use
and Tor export. The money that wenow eXpend
creates a confined drain upon our financial
resources, while it might, by a proper policy,
be Kept at homo: and when once so directed,
thriving manufacturing villages would spring
up all over the State giving an increased home
market to ag'cutlnsts, steady and profitable
employment to mechanical genius and ingenu'
ity and adding immensely to the development
! Of our internal resources
\ 4 a people, We buy too much and what is
more to our disadvantage and discrcdit,wc pur-
chase at largely enhanced price. the products
OF our soil. after obey have made alengthy voy-
age TO and FROM tie Eastern States.
" th the richest lead mines in the Union, if
not Ia the word, We buy this metal in various
forms from manufacturing establishments far
distant from oar borders.
Oar Iron mines are, as yet, almost unopen-
! ed, although ills we'll asceraned that the min
erai aOouuds Ia different points of the State in
| the greatest dizziness and almost inexhaustable
abundance. All our Zinc and Copper is im-
ported, while the ores Of these smetalg are
found In immense dcpo sits ready 10 be convert.
ed into use al the touch of skill and capital
We eEpeLd large sums for glass in its various
forms, while j. is certain, from Geological ext
ploauons, H. he material of which glass is
made, is widely distributed over the State, We
buy mo Of yur pottery and all of our crock
cry from abroad, yet no fact is more certain
than that every variety almost Of clay exists
in plenty in cur limits, even to the keolin from
which china ware j. manufactured So we i'm
port all The marble used from distant points,
as also States. while deposits of these await on.
/ ~ toe hand Of Industry 10 make them available.
/ 30 We eHpehd large sums every year for plas-
/ ter hydraulic cement, mineral paint, and 9TH
er similar necessities, tho raw material of which
IS abundant. Nor is there any apparent rea-
son, except that capitalists have not underta-
ken the work. why all kinds Of agricultural
implements, tools and machinery, wooden and
! willow ware, wagons and carriages, leather,
and the various articles iuto which it is made
up; castings engines, 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 within the State.
it is equally our interest, so far as it is in
! our power, To turn our attention to the mann
facture Of wooden. cotton and linen fabrics, the
purchase OF which makes up so large a por-
ton OF our annual expenditures. Encourage,
tnent to wool growing and the cultivation of
fax is and should be regarded as encourage
ment to the looms we so greatly need that
these productions may not be shipped hund>
eds OF miles and then brought back in
changed FORM but they should be purchased
and worked up in Wisconsin, and by Wiscon~
sin industry and skin. The manufacture of
cotton goods, it is believed might also be in-
troduccd in the State with fair prospect of
success. The vast waterpower existing in al.
most oil parts Of the State, convenient Of ac-
cess to our great market places, chde us for
lack Of improvement, The great carrying
highway on our west invites the raw cotton
hlther- Why may it not as well come and an.
swer TO our necessities and conveniences,
wrought in cur own cotton mills. instead Of
trave ling theee or four thousand miles to New
England and then brought west in new shapes
by western merchants, thus increasing the ex-
pense and cost Of what we are compelled 20
purchase?
Surely the eight hundred thousand people
now in Wisconsin, and the coming eight hum
dred thousand, with all our manufacturing ia
clities, ought to afford a sufficiently wide field
for manufacturing enterprise AS a means of
encouragement to manufacturers enumerated
Or unenumerated, suggest to the legislature
the propriety Of a law. under proper restric-
tons, exempting from taxation, for a limited
period OF five OF ten years, all such establish
m ents as may be erected, which will develope
or work up the raw or crude materials so
plentiful IN the state, and to extend the same
encouragement to existing establishments,
whenever proprietors will enlarge their works,
o r continue to aid and extend the develope-
ment of its material resources.
Snch agwould was not, in my Judgment, d.
mlmsh the assessed valuation OF property to
any considerable extent, nor increase the rate
OF taxation upon the people, exempting gener-
ally only property that would not otherwise be
brought and invested here, while it would tend
directly.to greatly increase taxable property,
from the effects likely to follow the permanent
establishment of new and extensive manufac-
lures. 1t would induce the investment of for
eign capital, that would not find its way hith-
en- and In few short years return to the peo,
pie an ample reward for legislative indul-
gence.
INTEREST.
diilicu lty, in the way of the outlay ofcapi,
ia in manufactures, has existed in the large
rates Of interest authorized by law. While ten
or twelve pei cent. for the use of money can
be realized, money viii be constantly more or
less withdra wn from any branch OF business
that produces wealth. Money loaned produces
no wealth, adds nothing to the common stock.
1t simply draws to itself by a kind eff accretiYe
power. The farmer who can realize two or
three per cent, after all his toll and labor, on
the value Of his farm, must be tempted to sell
! his land and stop producing, when he discov.
ers that on money Tor which be sells, he can
realize wit hcut labor, ten or twelve per cent.
Capitalists will rot put theiY money into
manutacto ries, while they can realize without
risk ten or twelve per cent, for the use Of their
money l have twice before called the atton.
ton Of the Legislature to this subject, and beg
leave to refer again to the views expressed in
my two last messages upon it.
AMENDMENTS.
The Constitution of the State ought to be
amended so as to increase the number ofiudgcs
of the Supreme Court to Ave. The rapid in.
crease of the business of the Court, keeping
/ pace with the growth of popula ton, and bust
ness development, Of the country. taxes the
Judges with too much, and teo severe labor. In
justice to the judges themselves, and to the
business constantly Def ore the Court, this re.
! lief ought to be provided
! The Constitution ought also to be amended
! so that after the close Of my present. tenn, my
successors may be paid a higher salary than
that now authorized by the Constitution, or
else SO that no man but man of wealth can
be eligible to the office, The present salary,
| requiring the most rigid economy in the Of
! fetal incumbent, to give him bare livelihood
renders the position most humlating, when &C.
casions require the commonist courtceies to be
extended to distinguished strangers from
abroad.
MILITARY ORGANIZATION
have before called the attention of the Leg
lsature to the necessity Of some further leois-
lation to aid III a more efficient organi zaticn of
the militia of the State. While there is mere
skeieIoh OF an ofge nlZaton, no efficient use can
be made of it to suppress instruction or 10el.
hon from within. or to prevent acCregsions
from abroad. The militia may be used, under
the direction of the Executive, to sustain the
civil arm of the Government, and to aid in the
execution Of the flaws The laws are TO be
executed only in the manner directed by the
laws themselves, and the military forces can
only be used TO aid the officers of the law in ex
ecutiug the process of conrt, when obstruc.
tons are placed IN the way, and in suppressing
nOts. No provision whatever has ever been
made TO meet the expenses which would nee
essarily be incurred in the use of a military
force for any purpose whatever. While, there
fore, it is the duty Of the3 executive TO see that
the laws are faithfully executed he is left com
paratiyely powerless-called upon to execute
without means of execution, The signs Of the
times indicate that there may arise contin.
gency in the condition of the rovnrnn, ent