Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-12-22

Several of The members have arrived,
and are looking up quarters. Many
private houses will take hoarders. Pri-
ces will range from six to seven dollars
per wcek-two in bed.
Butter is very high--iifty TO sixty
cents per pound and strong enough to
walk. Hens are on strike, owing to a
fatal disease which is now prevailing,
called the roop. Sixty cents per dozen
for eggs. Flour high and rather dark.
The best -four comes from Cedar Rapids.
Wood and coal are high. Houses are
in demand.
The members of the Third House will
be necced this winter, unless they pro-
vide against it. 1t has been suggested
that the members of this House make
application to Adjutant-Gen. Baker for
camp equipage, and that they locate in
Capital Square. They will not he suhjec-
ted then to the foul and contaminating
influences of the lst and 2d Houses, aud
steps can be taken to prevent their be-
ing bored by the members.of the lo,cer
Houses. They must have free scope
They have an exalted career Of greatness
and glory before them. Their opportl-
mites, capabilities, and responsibilities
are great. TO achieve all the glory be-
fore them, they must have free speech,
I free thought, free air! The air is thick
with big events, and must not be con-
fined. All that is wanted, is for the
/ Third House to have II fair chance and
equal start with their interiors. Those
OF this House will see the necessity of
coming prepared to stay until they get
ready To so home.
Des Moines has two Wooden Facto-
ries, and they are doing very fine bu-
Siness. Our old friend and former
townsman, Mr.. Jorden, has the running
Of one of them. The raising ofwOol in
Iowa has received II new impetus, and
is every day increasing in Importance.
But the question is asked, What be-
comes of the wool? The question il
easily answered. II is shipped to the
Eastern Status-Ncw York and Massa-
chusctts-and there manufactured into
goods, and then brought back to Iowa
and the West. Now this is all wrong,
and should not he. We certainly have
the advantages to work up all the wool
we raise in the State. What better field
| for capital than our own state in the
! manufacture of this product Mr.. Jor-
den tells me that he can sell here in
Dcs Moincs more than he can manuiac-
ture. He has just returned from the
East with more machinery, and Will
enlarge his building aud increase his
facilities for manufacturing.
Excessive frcights and tariffs are Che
great evils of the day. The great mo
nopoliCs are eating out the life Of our
young State. Legislation will be called
! for and means sought to check theso
monopolies in the great Northwest. -
Can ii be done? VIII legislation bring
the required relief? My idea Of This
matter is this. The sooner we build u
road from the North line 0f the state t.
our Southern border and connect
with ~. Louis, the better IL will be fDi
us as Il people and n state. My opinion
is that the Iowa Central, when built,
/ will be the best regulator OF these mo
. uupulie5 that we can have. 1t viii
bring two great interests into cOmpcu
tion-Chicitgo and ~. Louis. These
cities are rivals, and both are now using
efforts for this tradC-ChiCago to kCci
1t and st. Louis To regain it. No com
binalion can be made to CompromiS
this great interest between these tive
great rivals.
/ will close by laying down my pen
and giving three cheers for the Iow}
Central and Old Black Hawk for Ser
gcunt at Arms of the senate.