The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-26


From the Tribune
win not American farmers give earnest heed
to the following facts and figures, showing their
interest in maintaining such a tariff on foreign
manufactures as win build up and secure to
them profitable aud enduring home market2-
The Cambria Pennsylvania) Iron Works paid
in three years, for salaries, wages, and contract
work, as follows;-
1860. S9NO5S 81
1854 3gg 690 6S
lbbb. ,...,,.,..... BOB o5O24
These figures are taken from the returns made
to the Internal Revenue Commissioners. Nearly
every dollar OF those three immense sums was
expended tor the support of single laborers and
laborers with families. See how large portion
OF the money went directly to tarmerJ. The Su-
perntendent Of the Works in his reply to the
inteTogatorfs OF the Commissioners, saVs:-
The population sustained by the operations of
our company, consume annually aO0ut 20O0 head
OF beet cattle, 5000 head of sheep, and the pro-
duct OF not less than 1000 head of hogs. Our
whole consumption OF wheat flour is about
10000 barrUlt. Johnstown is one of the best
markets In the country Tor all kinds OF food.
Large quantities OF the more perishable kinds,
such as Garden vegetables, butter, eggs, fruits,
etc., are brought IRON Pittsburg and other
Western markets, as the production OF the sur
rounding country is unable to supply our
demand.
No wonder is it that farming land within two
miles OF the Cambria Iron Works is worth from
$3.50 10 S3UO per acre, without improvements
And yet this same land, il the works we're wiped
out by British free trade, would not be worth
a cent more than the average value OF similar
Pennsylvania land Tor agricultural purposes,
which is twenty dollars Der acre. Such is the
testimony of one of the most intelligent men in
Pennsy lvania, whose character will give credit
to his statements wherever he is known. He
also bears witness 10 the fact, which true econo-
msts would ant cipate, that the direct influence
OF the works, in making quick aud profitable
market for farm products and enhancing the
value of the soil, is felt for fifty miles all around
Johnstown
What volume of teaching, farmers, there is
in these figures and facts The benedcent in-
fuence OF the Cambria Iron Works is, to
greater or less degree, the influence OF every one
of the 750 iron-produclng establishments now
struggling Tor lie in the United States. Each
and all are convenient markets Tor the sale, al
constantly angmentng prices, OF every product
of the soil, and in which the capital invested in
the farm doubles, trebles, and quadruples, by
silent growth that is sure, and yet taxes not the
farmers care nor his toll. AgrlculturistS there
is no other class OF men in this country so di-
rectly or SO largely interested in tainng the
life and increasing the prosperity OF our iron
works as you are. And you should feel that the
British importers and their purchased journals,
who labor TO destroy American domestic trade
and enthrone British free trade on its runs, and
who seek to drive you from your near and pro-
itable home market to the tar-off and almost
worthless foreign market, are your deadliesJ
enemies, who insult YOUR Understandings with
their sophistry, while they plan your ruin with
their selfshness.