Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-09-11


words to the mechanics and others having
an interest in city matters, and who wish
well to her prosperity.
The war has taken off much Of the
floating populating upon which the
farmer depended for labOrers in the har-
vest field and in the putting in of his crops.
The same scarcity is felt in other industri-
al pursuits, ana it viii continue, it is
feared, for years to come. Even if the re-
bellion was nowput down, the army would
still hold many of our young men, enam-
Ored of military life, for experience taught
US a lesson at the commencement Of the
war that will hereafter cause the rank and
file of the army tObe doubled many times
over, in order to ensure safety to the Re
public from the turbulent and ambitious
men in our midst, and the rowing bands of
savages upon our frontier. Besides this,
the many who return with disabling
wounds-with constitutions broken and
enfebled by disease, added to the number
killed in battle and dead of camp feyers,
show that labor, for years to come, must
bear a high price and be hardof procure
ment
As consequence upon this state of
things, many far-seeing men from Ohio
and other States contiguous to the Lake,
will visit the State Fair to view the me-
chanieal Department, particularly in its
labor-saving machinery, in order to guard
against its scarcity, and it behOOves our
mechanics to be prepared for their visit.
The conviction has forced itself upon
our business men that Cleveland, in order
still further to improve in populate and
in wealth, must not, as heretofore, rely
alone upon her Canal, Lake and Railroad
commerce. The Ohio canal gave the first
impulse to her rise. The Lake commerce
centres here, and the Railroad interest and
Railroad facilities, all united, have made
her the first city in Northern OhiO-the
second city of the third State in the Union,
as she is, confessedly among the first in
beauty on the continent. These things,
with the enterprise of her people have
made Cleveland what she is, and the doubt
in the mind of many is, whether she Is
net now as populOus and as wealthy as
commerce, unaided by manufacture can
make her. This doubt has given an impet-
US to manufacture The incipient steps
have been taken to change her character
so as to combine with her present i'm
mense capacity for doing heavy CONNER
cisl business, a manufacturing interest
which will give her an accelerated speed,
increase her growth and material prosper
ity as much for the quarter of the century
to come as during that which has past.
Already our machine shops are turning
out engines not surpassed in the country
our Agricultural shops are engaged IN
the manufacture of labor-saving machine
ry to enable the farmers to gather crops
with the least labOr,-planing mills, door
and sash factories save the house carpen-
ter much of his hard labor, while in other
departments of active industry Cleveland
is fast assuming shape as a manufacturing
city of the first class. Yet this fact pa
tent to us, who reside here, is not known
abroad as extensively as it should be, but
for this there is a near and a sure rem
edy.
The holding of the State Fair in Cleye-
land, during the present month, offers a
remedy for the evil. 1t will be attended
by many who visit the Fair, from dis
tance, seeking machinery to take, as far as
machinery andmechanical implements can
do so, the place of manual labor. Besides
these, as at all other similar gatherings,
there will be men of cultivated taste, men
of business and men of wealth, each to
purchase that which pleases the eye, or on
which money can be made. Let then our
mechanics and andmanufacturers-every man
who makes an article, or can make one, of
real use to man, have a specimen of his
handicraft at the State Fair. In looking
over the list of premiums to be awarded,
1 find all classes of articles, useful as well
as ornamental, well presented, the
list of premiums being unusually full In
these articles, Cleveland should exhibit
the skill of her workmen, and thus, by her
superiority, give TO the world an earnest
of what she can do, and thus show that we
are in earnest in the attempt to make this
city as noted for the exceIency other man.
ufacture, as for her commerce-her fine
dwellings, beautiful streets and fine shade
trees which gave her the name of the For
est Tree City.
But, says one, who fancies himself wiser
than most men-one of the "penny wise,
and pound foolish sort the competition
will be great, and may not get a single
premium That is true, you may not, and
yet you may; but even if you do not, il
drawing attention to the capacity of Cleye
land, and the skill of her citizens to man.
ufacture all kinds of articles useful to man
you do more for your own interest than i
you were to get twenty premiums if nC
one came to buy the article yeu manu-.
faeture
The business men of Cleveland feel Al
interest in this as deep as the mechanic OIL
the manufacturer, for every man tha
comes from distance to purchase article!
manufactured here, aids in the genera
prosperity Ofthe city. If the Globe Works
for instance, manufacture and sell thre,
times as many engines this year. as the,