The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-04-26
Grand Total
$S7,7S2.9ls
$S7.7S2,9lS
5.569,044

! Totsl woolsns, as shown, 81. 1872 ,9l>
Total wool, i'll same time, 45. .569, ,O44
| Total wool and woolens,
lin gold) Sl32, ,351 SO.
Or say S225, ,Ooo, 900 in currency.
Here are the facts i'm round numbers for
four years ending June 80, 1855:
Wool, imported, pounds, $1,000, ,OCC
! Sloddy, imported, pounds 1900, ,oVU
Canadian, free pounds, ~, 500, ,0UU
Being sfthe value OF S45, 900, 900.
II it be urged that this protection will
advance the price of cloth, the answer is,
ii will protect the people from the in1posi-
tions OF shoddy and foreign staples far in
ferior to our own. The strength and dura-
bility OF our wool WIS subjected TO test
by the Army and Navy in tho wearing OF
twenty-five millions garments made from
domestic staple a single year, and by
the authority of the Office OF the Quarter
master General in charge of these supplies,
been demonstrated that American Army
cloths are much stronger than those in use
in the armies OF Europe" Homemade
shawls and flannels are more durable, ana
the latter cheaper than those imported, and
" hen the service OF the garment Is consid-
cred. the increased first cost il no fatal OBJ
lection. A large class using the home loom
or who make exchanges with the neigh
boring factory are unaffected by higher
prices. while. the grain raiser finds at the
folds OF the shepherd a better corn market
than at the railroad or by the lakes or The
| Mississippi. 1t in to-day in the wool
growing districts twenty per cent. higher
| than i'm the near cities, IA the prices-cur-
rent will demonstrate. An expansion ol
| this interest furnishes a new demand for
mechanical labor, multiplies commodities,
increases the ability OF the country TO buy,
stimulates the erection of manufactures,
and gives value to the lands, of which there
are hundreds of millions of acres produc
ing the nutritious grasses which have
seemingly no further use than to light uT
! the heavens with autunnal fires grnndei
than the aurora boreaiis. Cnti,nbered anc
distant from railways they can have but 9
nominal value; simply held for grain rails
iIns are worth no more 10y the acre thar
was real estate in Sodom.
Let me not fail to mention that by tht
9ock we rejuvenate the fields, wasted ano
SKINNED by the exportntion Of wheat anc
the burning of the straw, and prepare fol
the cultivation of domestic grasses. En-
co,iragement, too, is offered TO an all-th,
wear round employment, consisting main
~ i'm little attentions which can be- bestow
ed by the man and child unsuited to SO
we're labor. in contrast with grain-growin,
which involves a few months Of severe toll
and then the practice of giving up of ro
bust manhood to idleness and squander
ing, conditions which may ne fifty repre-
sented by father and sons when the forme
his sons what they had done, to gain tn
reply, . We have picked up the apples AM
made the cider" And what else ?"-
".,e have, with the neighbOrs, drank VI
. the cider"
II seem to push these arguments, m.
apology is, ] want no policy which sha'
be for the moral disgust and pecuniary los
of the great agricultural masses. 1t is n
worthy ambition to aspire to be the gran
airy Of the world. Egypt of old enjoye
that pre-eminence, but her Delta that bro
: forth the crop, and the Nile and the sea
bear il away to opulent cities, did not main
tain there the pre-eminence Of virtu'
science and the arts. Germany only thre'
of her vassalage when she encouraged tn
growth Of animals rather than grain, an
encouraged manufactures.
The flocks Of the State OF Iowa have In
creased more than six hundred per cen
fer the last FIVE years, and those OF tn
Northwest for the same period at the rat
Of three hundred per cent Iowa has on
i and half million, and the new Northwes
an investment of forty millions In tn
wool interest, which can readily and Mt a
early day be increased to hundred mi
lions with proper encouragement, whic
shall not be detrimental 10 any interes
rather contributing to national honor an
, wealth.
sHoppY. ~ -......
Having shown the just claims Of II
wool-grower, and that protectien to hi
involves national Independence and II
welfare Of all our industries, pause tor
moment 10 make alluaion to that artic
inimical to our protection and the create