The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-02-20

-'s.We do not do it, Are you sure Of that I
Read the following from the New York Fri
6une, and then weigh the matter for yourself,
with the logic of facts. Isn't it all trsef
" But It's vicious reasoning, and you tax the
producer to maintain New England manufac-
turers.,' Have the manufactures at home
them And if you do not, can you not trans
port goods cheaper for one thousand miles
than you can for that one thousand miles
and an additional four thousand miles of
ocean transit? Isn't consumption increased
by the support of manufactures? Isn't
money thereby kept in the country Doesn't
England, in the years Of her full harvests,
take your gold instead Of your wheat as pay
for her goods; and in her seasons of scant
harvests, won't she have to purchase your
wheat any how? And if you do not take her
goods at her rates in payment will she not
have to give you gold at your own rates for
your wheat2 Ay, there are suudry whole
some reflections that will occur to you upon
consideration of this subject.
Iowa wheat-groweri do realize the fright
full waste and marvellous folly of your trade
with England. You send grain to a market
1890 miles off, taxed from point to point
along the whole line with railroad freight,
warehouse charges, propeller freight, insur.
ance, elevator charges, canal tolls, brokers'
commissions, shipment over the ocean, and
the successive charges in England of getting
your property to the mouths of the spinners
and wesyers, whom it is your JOY to feed
What LAY do you get? Back comes to you
cloth, loaded at every step of its journey to
Iowa with the same exactions and expenses
that fed upon your wheat outward bound. It
reaches your farm. What is that CLOTH Why,
it is your wheat, the selfsame whea. you sent
away-or it is an equal amount of French,
Russian or Belgian wheat What then have
you done2 You, a farmer, have actually
imported grain over a costly circle Of trans
portahon $500 miles long. For every yard |
bar Of iron imported from England. repre- |
sents English wheat by cultivation or pur- |
chase, quintupled In value by manufacturing |
processes.
Friends in Iowa, you can't stand this une- |
quail swap of raw food FOR manufactured food
with the British, even in the years Of their
worst harvests- In the fruitful years, when |
they don't want your wheat, but demand gold |
of you for your CLOTH iron and hardware, |
their Free Trade lying and coaxing has got
you into the habit of buying, the Liverpool
market is the grave of your prosperity. Be |
persuaded to establish manufactures in your
neighborhood. If you can't do this irnmedi- |
ately, stick to it and work at it as the princi-
pie OF your salvation. Establish them as
near to you as you can. Uphold them wher
ever established on your eouatrys soil. De
mand of your Government TO give you a per-
manent American Home Market. Order your
Congressman to insist that the policy of the |
country shall be so shaped that this market |
shall not only be open always to you but
shall, by the law of industrial development,
be moved nearer and nearer to your farms
every year. British Free Trade is expressly
designed to enslave you TO British manufac
turers-and the lot of the Slave, be he white /
or black, African or American, is poverty and
dapeudepee 1853 - ~ /