The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-04-19


ed values in skilled labor costing but
small per cent. of the value to reach a
market. Hence, in all the northern States
good land beyond the suburbs Of cities is
valued according to its proximity to a high
market, and save for grazing, that market
is only attractive where there is q dense
population, q condition which is not pos.
sible where agricu!tur5 is the chief occu-
patton. ,.... = -h1t2...Fi F"a' r.uU -1
8. It would arrest Immigration. What
is the basis for the prediction that half a
million people from the crowded States Of
the Old World will the present year make
home with us but this, that weI5ay high
er wages than in Europe, and that our
| lands are attractive because their products
find near and ready market? Open the
ports free'to foreign goods, and the cheaper
interest for 'money'ana the long 7fostered
| manufacturing estal5lishIne ats OF the Old
World would put out the firesat ourforges
andelese nine tenth of our cotton and WOOL
en- mills, as the latter were closed not long
since when not yard of oroadclbth was
made. Colossal wealth ard foreign COM
binations would SO far prostrate our me
chanicai interests that operatives would he
compelled to return to the old country or
enter into competition with the farmers,
which would glut the market, and because
of the great distance front the consumer
render we'll nigh valueless the farmers
products. .'- H3e T."a4 7.s" .t .'ua.H
1'EaADDiTIoNAL PROTECTION TO WOOL. 80 q. B..
In establishing the reciprocity treaty
and tariff policy, IT will become the duty of
Congress tn offer proper protection to wool
The Lord Chancellor of England has for
centuries presided in the House of Lords
sitting on IL wool sack, aseat without back.
or arms, being II symboical tradition of
the i'm portanc which that ration has al
ways attached to the wool product. Mar
shall, the eminent writer and agricultur-
ist of the last century. embodied tile senti-
lncnt in the remark, AS an object Of ma
tional attention the coat of the sheep is of
the first importance, and every willful at
tempt to suppiant or dcbase it is an act of
treason against the state: !" Our country
has adopted another policy in u seeming
exhibition of the spirit of the eccentric
John Randolph. founded on the remark
attributed to him, yet never uttered, that
"he would 20 mile to kick a sheep. -
True. that eminent writer and faithful
friend of the flock. Henry $. Randall, l.. l..
~. gave I" 'h'' ooiti'erii 's'''es Noiuhe'
vi couhseio ioi WHICH .iiey ''o' "oi'hs'Hi
behalf of Sheep husbandry and labor. 1t
did not turn them to the enriching, of their
iahos, ,'heoiVersioh'iis Oh 'pcir ihuuSuS,
.he et''a'ciip''uiol' vi r'ce' anu 'ie "hnu
homage paio 10 Nihg lotion WAS ioiloweu
oy reoeii"h. .' rroiii ia'ieii ios"i'S tue
RWoptiv tn retpn bY the snggesidis 81
western economists. that the fleece wasthe
best concentrated product for distant
market and bv the observation of a rural
New Yorker il, Congress that the flock
made surer the wheat harvest: not forget
ting tho honorable chairman of the COM
mfttaa or &yavs ard Means rNIr. Morrill,
who cannot forrot the sweet grasses of the
| nnoor,t,ir ,,osturos aud the Vermont ner
inos s,rn,ssinr all the royal floclZs of Eu-
rome and the getla,nen who pnve good ev-
ide,ca NJ sound American ideos nv arous :
;n,,.. tbn ira, of tbn London Ti,nps in 1861 we
can confidently hone will not forget what
is dino tn q NEGLECTED. interest now.
wo,,ld ;nstit,,tc, M o,nnarison of The
domestic animals ...r ..,...f. '.r...l ..'
Ti,a borea and tbe bullock hold n high,
r,ooo non, tho .p;ma, rocas Swine.
/. tbor,b orro ,,robibitad ne nm article of
| sod for ,,., and aoam.,r. .fit in a berd af-
,er tho s,irit NJ Satan bod,anterd ,bo,o to
bo drownoa IN tho co, b,va their admir-
ers And docs which no FREQ trader in
Conuros nronoses To fax. have in their
worthIessness To the n,mbar of four, mill
ions, Immunity from assessment. eating
ont the nations substance apnuallv,to the
| apoupt ot SEQ 600 oop. ond those with nm.
leashed license. though indulgins their
appetite for mutton at a cost of Il million of
dollars annually. have their admirers and
defenders. would venture more than a
passing word for the animal .behaying
we'll undsr all circumstances" Two CEN
turies apoit was the remarI, of a statesman.
| .sWoo, l. the flower and strepc,b and tho
revenue Of England" A study of the
policies and industries of thai country mn
! TO the or, of the American cotton rin con-
firms tba; oniuiop..and to-day the golden
boofed animal whether regarded as seav-
| enger and cleaner on the hill sides or fer
| tilizer i'm wastes and fields. producer of
! food or material for comfortable clothing.
| employment in the mlll-a staple which di-
versifies trade and spreads the sails of
| commerce-is not appreciated as when the
| Roman Augustus, was possessed of a flock
/ of two hundred thousand by will, and at