The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-03-15

The array OF figures excited tnlS CotlIient
from our Agricultural Department "lhe
falling off in wheat and -four is remarkable, :
and indicates the low prices in Great Britain
With such decreased export trade as isl
seen in this table, let farmers beware OF
credits at the stores. Individual and ma
tionai economy were never more demanded
than now" ''i 'f'-1
Something very different from personal
economy is demanded; and department.
of the Government whose salaries printing
bills and ex penses. bleed out of US annually
over $3.50. 900, should be excited to some
| thing deeper, wiser and more statesmanlike,
than screaming over sixpences, by this ex-
hibit of our agricultural exports.
When will American farmers learn that
the British market is totally vaIueless to
them for the steady consumption OF their
surplus food? When will they learn that
the English buy of US only when they are
compelled to buy--that they never take our
grain if they can buy it elsewhere cheaper
that our harvest-felds are only their out
lying reservoirs to draw food from, when
I the nearer and cheaper food of France, Bel
GUM and Russia fails Of supply? When
| will they learn that to farm in America for
a foreign market is to farm upon the expec-
tation of bad weather in Europe and the
hope of short crops there, and is therefore
gambling of the meanest and most deprav-
ing influence? When will they learn that
the nation which exports it's agricultural
products exports its soil-that the exporta-
ton of manure in the form of breadstuffs
will sooner Or later pass the country which
thus sins against Gods law of farming,
through Gods court of bankruptcy.
When will they acquire the wisdom to
shut against themselves the door Of this
foreign market, in which they play with
loaded dice against the weather, their crops
being the stakes-to shut it forever, by
opening permanent American home mar
ket in which labor and land will forever
rise in value and the cheapening of i'm
proved machinery perfected skill and accu
mulating competitive wealth 1t is very
simple thing to do this. They have but tt
say to Congress, Establish OH American
soil the manufactures in payment for which
we are constantly shipping our grain to Eu
rope, but seldom find paying market. We
have got tired of building bridge four thou
sand miles long to move our corn and wheat
over. We have got tired of being used tt
make up deficiencies in European harvests
welcomed when wanted, turned away ALSO
lutely when not needed, or skinned if deal
with. Hereafter we are determined to sci
S at our own doors. To this this end do 20,
q shift our market, if you please, from Grea
+ Britain to the United States by permanent
+, ly establishing American industry"
If the farmers of the West don't shift
their market from Europe to America, am
don't demand such legislation as will Civ
= them steady prices and high prices for thei
grain, they will rapidly decline to povert,
9 which cannot sustain the taxation tn,
Shareholders rebellion has loaded them with
and have left in hand any wages for thei
Q labor and rent for their land. Raisin,
= wheat at so cents bushel and corn at |
can have but one end-auction sales for un
. paid county, State and Government taxes
l. reputation and social Reorganization.
= general system of manufacturing, made per
j. manent by high and enduring tariff, wi
avert this end and enrich every farmer i
i America. And nothing else will.
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