The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-11-10
NEW ENGLAND.
The Fourth Crime OF New England
Against Western Agriculture.

Against Western Agriculture.
After the destruction of the Southern
market, the spread of She great swine
plague, and the adoption of the monstrous
excise system against high wine, The pco-
pie Of the Western States commenced wool
growing upou q most extensive scale. stock
ing their runs. at very heavy expense.
with the bcst.blood in Europe aud America,
building barns aud sheds, and changing
their former pursuits, adapting their entire
business and capital 20 he enterprise
This was, with them, the commencement OF
this form of production. It was that very
condition ofthings which even general free
trade men believed protection admissible
The protection given to the manufacturers
of woolen goods was create" than mad ever
been eNacted or demanded before in The
history of manufactures anywhere, and
was under prctencc of giving protection.
also, 10 the wool growers; but In the very
same bill the coarse woods. Of which they
manufacture their cloth, (Which is projected
at least one hundred per cent? has an aver
age duty Of but little more than one per
South America to the destruction of wool
growing in the country; is bought by New
! England manufacturers and sold TO the poor
people of the country with an added tariff
of one hundred thefamc stroke
shifting down the wool grower and the
wearer of their manufactures. This final
blow leaves the Western farmer no business
which is not absorbed by New England.
In this connection we reproduce an arti-
Gle from the Sandusky Register. Consider
| ing that il comes from an emincntly Radi-
! cal source, IL should be taken as rather a
marvel in It's way. The Register says:
The West now produces aud sells to the
East the raw material. which the East man
ufactures aud returns to the West for con-
sumption. In this transaction the West
does he hard lcOrk and the East makes he
money-but the fault lies wholly at the door
of the West.
"In the first place, the West pays the
| cost of production, next pays its transpor-
tation to New England, next pays its trans
portation from New England back to the
West, and, lastly, it buys back the manu-
lactured article, paying, in addition 10 the
two sets of transportation charges, the
large profits of the Eastern manufacturers.
Is this the fault of "arrogant New Eng
land?" Not much. All that the great
West has to do in order to escape from the
thraldOm of these purse prond' nabobs is
to do iiS ot1R manufacturing.
''lt is only our lack of enterprise, skill
and foresight that forces us of the Wcsr to
contribute so largely to the prosperity of
the manufacturing States of New England
There is no reason under the sun why fifty
million pounds of wool should be annually
shipped from the West to New England
looms, aud from New England looms back
to the West again. We have every manu-
featuring facility that New England has.
and many that she has not. We have
cheaper fuel, rs good water power and
cheaper rents than New England, and what
we lack in skilled labor our money will
bring from the East.
by doing our own manufacturing, we
shall cut loose from New England In way
which will do us some good. And we
nerer can be truly prosperous UBtH're do his.
Every spindle, every cog-whcel set in
motion at the West is u notification to the
East that we intend, some day, to stand on
our own legs. TO this end let our anti
New England Democratic friends labor,
and we will say, bravov'