Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-02-23
From the New York Tribune.
Iowa Farmers Importing Wheat from
Europe.

Europe.
Iowa wheat-grUwcr! do realize the
frightiul waste and marvellous FOLLY of
your trade with England. You send
grain to u market 300 miles off, taxed
from point to point along the Whole line
with railroad freight, warehouse charges,
canal tolls, brokers' commissions, ship
ment over the ocean, and the successive
charges in England of getting your
property to the mouths OF splnners and
weavers, whom 1t is your Joy to feed.
What pay do you get? Back comes to
you cloth, loaded at every step OF its
journey to Iowa with the same eXac-
tons and expenses that ied upon your
wheat outwardbound. Ii reaches your
farm. What il that cloth? Why, 1t is
your wheat, the SELF sanre wheat you
sent away-or it Is an equal amount Of
French, Russian or Belgian wheat
What then have you done? You, Il
farmer, have actually imported grain
over a costly circle of ranspogtation
5000 miles long. For every yard of
cloth, every package of hardware, every
bar OF iron mportcd rom En- sland rep
resents English wheat by cultivation or
purchase, quintupled in value 10y man
uiacturing processes.
Friends in Iowa, you cnaf stand this
unequal swap OF raw food for manuiac-
tured food with the British, even i'm the
years OF their worst harvests. In the
fruitful years, when they don't want
your wheat, but demand gold of you for
the cloth, iron and hardware their Free
Trade lying and coaXing has got you
into the habit of buying, the Liverpool
market Is the grave OF your prosperity.
BE persuaded to establish manu- actures
Iyax l..,rI 81, 4
this Immediately. stick to IL and work
at it as the principle of your salvation.
Establish them as near to you as YOU
can. Uphold them wherever establish
ell on your country's soil Demand of
your Government to give you perman-
ent American Home Market. Order
your Congressnen to insist that the
policy of the country shall he so shaped
that this market shall not only always
be open to you, but shall, by the law of
industrial develOpH ent, be moved near
er and nearer to your farms every year.
British Free Trade is expressly design.
ed to enslave you to British manu.ac-
turers-and the lot Of the Slave, be he
white or black, African or American, is
poverty and dependence.
RELIGIOUS MEETINGs.--Ther religious
ecllik WHICH we aiIuueu 10 last week
as pervading this community, is rapid
ly Increasing and extending. Public
preaching and prayer meetings are held
nightly in every church and place of
worship in Waterloo. The Presbyteri-
ans hold their meetings every evening
in Russelfs Hall; the other societies in
their Churches and Halls. The Con
gregationalists have Il morning prayer
meeting n. los O'Clock in the basement
o. their church. The religious interest
il ROT confined tD any class a..e or ,.oa-
d!tiop, but Is universal, and ia mani
testing itself ID alm.,f every household
in town Wftes{Do Courier, 3th
A keen custom house official at Calais
met woman crossing a bridge VIII, a
bundle III her arms. What have Won
there" he demanded. She hesitafed.
stanimered, and then said . nothing du-
TABLE" He insisted ou seeing ii, she
resisted, n struggle enstied, at last she
yielded and placed the bundle in his
arms, saying, " take it then. and m uch
good may IL do you" Then she return
ed to st. stephen, whilst he made for
the light to examine the treasure, which,
proved to be an infant few tlays DID,
The mother remains undiscovered and
the child remains on the hands Of the
official.