The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-04-26

our granaries to meet the demand occ,
! stoned by short crops in other countries,
remunerative prices, is wise economy
But such an awaiting for others calam
ties nourishes the spirit of wreckers on I'll
coast who are moved to pray for storm
, and ship-wrecks. Such is not the missio
of our people. They ask no thrift whic
; is dependent on others misfo-tunes, nor
policy Of negations, but risingto to the gran
deur of u people founding and Inolding tn
Industries and politics of the great centra
States of a continent, they have, in meas
ure, I 10 power Of determining their ow
social and financial destiny. For one,
accept the policy Of the gentleman from
Chicago, [Mr. Wentworth. j who, i'm tn
early days of congressional life, was re
puted to have sent to his constituents ton
of acknowledgements, and who now write
them:
"We want home consumption. Hom
manufactures WILL fa,fnish this. Illinoi
must and shall be a nianu facturing State
If it requires Legislation tSeffect this, ther
the legislation must be had.
"Then will our home market be our bes
protection against the oppressive transi
combinations. Then shall we have HON,
mechanics, happy in their competence, fol
our bright exemplars i'm peace and on,
sure defenders in war. Then shall w,
have laborers, intelligent, respected, ant
well paid, glorying in a country which
protects her sons against the pauper labor
of the Old World"
! Most confidently may the State of lows
aspire to such a destiny. Our national
currency has caused money to bear a less
interest. Her railway system reaches the
motive power of her noblest rivers, and a
rich heritage of coal fields far excellinp
those Of Great Britain, where cheap bread
| and homesteads, and healthful breezes wei
come enterprise, labor, and capitai. To
these favoring conditions for prosperity
there the flocks have increased for five
years In ratio Unprecedented, and the
manufacturing woolen capital of the State
is doubled in two wears, and under the
law of this century which attracts it to the
coal measures we can anticipate greater
success.
And here is pleasing depression, wo'd
mention the circumstance of the closing of
the last mandatory of that "stock- k-on-
hand" article in the fourth district in Iowa
by the putting out of the fires of MANI
moth distiilery in the city of Oskaloosa,
and the future occupancy Of the establish
ment, remodled, by WOODEN machinery,
-esting by exhaustless coal deposits, its
intiuenc to be set over against the agents
Of social degradation and vice; esteemed rs
an enterprise. agricultural development,
and the accepted omen of a higher civili-
zation which like beacon lit upon hill.
after ditfusing warmth, and blessings a
round, tinges the distant horizon with it.
glow. #......... -,-.
Mr.. Chairman, there is n Gods charter
in nature for the growth, Culture, and pow
of our northwestern prairie States. And
donsste sas Is hef policy sdr ssih &hit slar
nent and promotive ofa diversified indus
try. ... .... .-,.
The world has no such lakes for COM
merce, and not n young city has so proud
ly, during the ages, sat at the gate OF com
merce queen as Chicago. Our rivers
have no rivals as the great channels of
trade, nor was there ever palmer designa-
tion in nature that the opulent and now
free "Mound City," almost in the shadow
of the mountains of minerals, shall be the
home of ten thousand sons OF Vulcan. to
create economical exchanges which shall
mingle the merry life currents OF enter
prise and bring development to our lands
and increased resources by a diversity O.
labor. .##
Our soil Is unencumbered with forests
and rorks, which have in the older States
taxed for their removal the energies of a
generation. In richness 1t Is only shrpass'
ed by the Delta Of the Nile. and is traVers-
ed by railways which reach coal deposits
equal to the wants ofa dense population
for untold ages.
Each year,ofwar has advanced our people
n decad in moral heroism and intelligent
convection. They will cheerfully meet the
burden of taxes, but spurn foreign mach
nations and free trade economists as alike
inilnical to the occupancy of their lands
now vacant, their social interests, and an
honorable discharge of national obliga-
tions.
He shall he my Gamaliel and political
economis who speaks like Mr.. Speaker,
[Mr. Colfax, j thus:
"N0w that the war for the Union has
closed, blessed arewe witha nation vast in
its area from ocean to ocean, with the very
parallels of latitude In which Is found
three quarters of the worlds population,
nearly all the highest phases of civilization
abounding in all kinds of mineral wealth
with unequaled agricultural resources,
with boundless water power, with An IN
dustrious population, with American en-
ergy and American enterprise, our future,
il our legislation is wise, will be more bril-,
liant than the most glorious annals of our
past
In this most critical of our financial his
tory, would cling 10 our opportunities
and leave nothing to the too late friendship
of rival nations in the forming of treaties
and adjustment OF tariffs.
Our industry is weary Of foreign as
saults, changes, and blind trusting to ma
ture and providence. s. -.
The plain philosophy Of an incident in
history shall be my guide. 1t is related
that at nightfall AS Mohamned and his at
tendant were crossing the desert and wea-
ry prepared their camp, companion-ns
doubt free trade trust-in- Provibencs phi
losopher-was overheard to say, II viii
loose my camel and commit him to God.
Mohammed, who shall be my Mentor, chi
ded his friend, '~rie your cssnsel, and thel
commit him to- God"