The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-12-19

sight of all these thingsf The time was when
coffee could be shipped from Boston to st.
Louis for IS cents per sack. Why cam OF it
be done now? So far as railroads are con-
cerned, he would say to the directors: Gen.
Nemen, We like you SO well that we are going |
to build @ dozen more roads, and have enough
of them. While his interests lay, to great |
extent, in Chicago, he gave the merchants OF |
that city warning that if q remedy was not
applied, the people of Illinois would be COM
PEELED to turn their attention TO st. Louis, Tor |
these southern avenues could be opened, and |
the necessities would eventually bring about |
such a result. The idea was to get at the |
best possible mode to attain this result by |
ayailing themselves of all the resources ma |
ture has given them. Establish manutacto- |
tories, and, if railroads did wrong, they could
be corrected. The water routes we could
control; and corn could be shipped to New
Orleans without injury, for 1t was yearly
| done. He advocated the Fox and Wisconsin
rivers Improvements, claiming that 1t would
| be of incalculabls benefit to the people OF
central Illinois. Already we were driving
| out eastern goods by manufactures here
| al home. There power sufficient, and
| means why were they not developed The
! reason why goods were high was, that we
| had an immense amount of surplus products
| here which the railroads could not carry
| One great difficulty was, that our railroads
| were controlled by men In the east or Europe
| who did not begin to comprehend the wants
| of the west, and what could be done here,
and who were ignorant of the productions OF
| this portion of the country.
Mr. 0. B. Galusha addressed the oOnven-
ton at considerable length, in which ne re.
viewed the disadvantages under which the
food producing population of she great west
have labored, on account of the inadequate
transit accom odations to the seaboard, Civ
ing interesting facts and figures. Like a
river DISTRACTED in its course, the commerce
of this vast region must find an outlet, or
make one He showed the wisdom and econ
omy of creating such outlet at once.
REMARKS OF Mr.. J. Il. TURNER.
| Prof. j b. Turner said that as member of
the committee, he heartily Endorsed the main
spirit of the resolutions. He wanted TO make
! IL contract to carry 900 DOC, 900 bushels of
corn to New York for nothing, and also pay
something for the contract, but he was not
intending by Offering to make this contract
to initiate against the pre- ect OF making the
proposed canal. fOT after he had carried this
immense amount of corn they would still
want the canal tue same before 10 trans
port the immense number of bushels OF grain
when would still be waiting tor transporta-
ton to market. His project tor getting rid
| of or finding q remunerative market tor the
surplus grain In the west was 50 simple and
feasible that ne surprised they had not
| before entered upon il. There were 1000, 200
| OF people in this state. Taking it basis
that each person in the state used $40 worm
of wooden goods imported into the state per
year which makes $50 900 900 annually paid
tor ciuh alone, they receive cents bushel
| for their corn which showed that it took lOO,-
; 600 900 bushels OF corn to ciOths the people
, | OF this state. No canals o- railroads III .ha
l world could carry OFF that immense amount
OF corn, nor was 1t at all necessary that it
should be carried OFT. There was another
and better way of using thcir supplies oil
| grain, and allowing them a share Of the profit
which were now monopOilzed by companies
formed for that purpose, They had long been
asleep in regard to the avenue which was be-
5 fore them and In their own hands il they
would use 1t. They raised their own wool IN
Illinois coal was under their ieet, and need
ed but 10 be dug for; corn anu other grains
: were rolling around their doors. The ques
t ton naturally arose why they could not man
f ufacture cloth here well as In New Eng
land. 1t mad been suggested that they couiC
not procure the labor. That was not tn,
+ reason. Ii they would combine together anC
= use the Intelligence and resources ut their
command, they could get 10000 moulder,
and spinners from New England in si1
months, and they would be glad to come. In
= every cOunty-seat In the state they could hav,
: hundreds OF spinners at work and make NOR,
# money out of them, than by any possible
farming operation they could go into. VIVA
= was the reason they did not not go into IL
e Because they could not get the capital. Why
not? Because when farmer gets q littl
5, money together he puts IL into land, increas
:. ing the area OF his farm, on which to rails,
, corn to rot at his door or use IL for fuel; or i
he realized, nos above five cents bushel -
n 1t the members of the convention would y
y home and Investigate the subject, they woui,
r find they might just we'll save 10000. 0Ot
Dusheis of corn as not. The spectacle 0
farmers raising produce and materials for tn
;, manufacture OF boots and shoes, coats, fan
r nes and shirts, and then eending east to pro
= cure those very things manufactured, wa
. perfectly astounding. Some men would tr,
: TO convince them not to do anything but rais
a corn and york IN Illinois. the reason the,
s argued was because they wished to pull
II binder over their eyes and prevent their US
ing the resources at their command, the,
; must be on their gurrd against some mel
d who were so friendly to them. The peopl
10 east had no corn, they procured it from to
west; no coal, they bought it in Pennsylva
MIA they had no wool, iJ was raised by tn
d farmers who in part were the consumers O
their raw produces manufactured east VIVA
{ was the reason then they coEid not manufae
h ture here? Was il becaue the art of manu-
featuring died ssout few degrees west-it wa