Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1866-05-03

Total woolens, as shown ...... ss7. .1s2 ols
Total wool in same time. ....... 10 56g OH
Total wool and woollens. Sl33. SCI 96s
Or say 1925, 100000 in currency.
Here are the facts in round numbers
for four years ending June so, 1865 ::
Wool, imported pounds ..... 251 900 600
Shoddy, imported, pounds. - 900, 600
Canadian, free, pounds. ........ lo,5Q0, 600
Being Of the value of $i5, 900, 900.
fit be urged that this protection
will advance the price Of cloth, the
answer is, it will protect the people
from the inpositions of shoddy and
foreign staples far inferior to our own
The strength aud durability of our
wool was subjected to test by the
Army and Navy in the wearing Of
twenty-five million garments made from
a domestic staple in single year,
and hy the authority OF the office OF
the Quartermastcr General i'm charge
of these supplies, we have the testimo-
ny officially: 1T has been demon
strated that Ameaican Army cloths
are much stronger than those in use
in the armies of Europe" Homemade
shawls and ilannels are more durable,
and the latter cheaper than those i'm
ported and when the service of the
garment is considered, the increas-
ed first cost is no fatal objection. \
large class using the home loom or
who make exchanges with the neigh
boring factory are unaffected by high
er prices, while the grain raiser finds
at the folds of the shepherd better
corn market than at the railroad OF by
the lakes or the Mississippi. 1t is to-
day i'll the wool-growing districts
twenty per cent. higher than III the
near cities, as tue pricescurrent will
demonstrate. An expansion OF this
interest furnishes new demand for
mechanical labor, multiplies commodi-
ties, increases the ability of the conn-
try to buy, stimulates the erection of
manufactures, and gives value to the
lands of which there are: hundreds of
millions of acres producing the nutri-
cious grasses which have seemingly
no further use than TO light up the
| heavens with autumnal fires grander
| than the aurora borealis. Untimbered
and distant from railways they can
have but nominal value; simply held
for grain raising are worth 10 more by
| the acre than was real estate in Sodom.
Let me not fail TO mention that by
the flocks We reiuvenate the fields,
wasted and skinned by the expectation
of wheat and the burning Of the straw,
aud prepare for the. cultivation of do
nestle grasses. Encouragement, too,
is offered to an all-the-year-round en-
ploynpnt, consisting mainly iii little
attentions which can be bestowed by
| the child and the man unsulted to Sc
we're labor, in contrast with grain
growing, which involves few months
of severe toll /; and then the practice OF
giving up of robust manhood TO idle
ness and squandering, conditions
which may be fifty represented 10y ia
ther and sons when the former had re.
turned from western visit, asking
his sons what they had done, to gain
the reply, " We have picked up the
apples and made the cider" And
what else ?" 1--WE have, with the
neighbors, drank up the cider"
Ii seem to push these arguments,
my apology is. want 10 policy which
shall be for the moral disgust and pc.
cuniary loss of tho great agricultural
masses. 1t is no worthy ambition te
aspire to he the granary of the world
Egypt Of old enjoyed that presmmenee
but her Delta that brought forth th,
crop, and the Nile and the sea to heal
il away to opulent cities, did not main
tain there the pre6minence OF virtue
science, and the arts. Germany onl,
threw off her vassa!age when she Ell