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

million bsshels Of corn il found in ex
cess OF home demand The much pri-
xcd gsain market in Europe has be.
zone OF less value than that Of the
City of Washington during one session
M Congress, aud the actual export the
last year was not more than the con-
sumption Of McClcllan's army while
ditching by the banks Of the Chicka.
hominy. We're railroad and shipping
charges reduced to the rates before
the war, fenr.fifths of the surplus
grain product would not pay for trans.
portation to the hest market. Added
10 other rivals, Russia has just be.
come powerful and successful compc.
titor in the grain markets of Europe
Her people are industrious aud skill.
ful. Wheat is Indigenous to hun
drea million Of her acres which have
Just been brought forth from isolation.
The main railroad line connecting Bal
ia and the great port Of Odessa is open
ID, and the immense landed estates of
the mobiles, the interests Of sixty mill
ion people, and the pride Of the most
sagacious ruler Of Europe, who has
announced the policy Of national pro.
lection, all conspire to establish the
conclusion that foreign demand for
the cereals Of the West is to be deter.
mined by blight or famine PRICES.
| admit the necessity Of cheaper out !
let's I; that there may be wcl-foundcd
complaints Of extortion I; aud am not
blinded to the fact that our prairie
States arc designated in nature as the
favored seat Of agriculture on this
continent and the crowding Of our
granarics to meet the demand occa-
STONED by short crops in other coun.
tries, at rcmunerative prices, is wise
economy. But such an awaiting for
others calamities nourishes the spirit
of the wrcckers on the coast who are
moved 10 pray for storms and ship.
wrecks. Such is not the mission of
our people. They ask no thrift
which is Dependent, on others misfor-
tunes, nor policy of negations, but
rising to the grandeur Of a people /,
founding and moulding the industries
and policies Of the great central States K
of continent. they have. in a meas ,
urc, the power Of determining their
own social and financial destiny. For
ono, | accept the policy Of the gentle
man from Chicago, [Mr. WENTWORTH,
who, in the carly days OF congressional
life, was rcputcd to have sent TO his I
constituents tons of frcc.trade spec ches,
and who now writes them:
I've want home consumption Home
manufactures will furnish this. Illinois must j..
and shall be manufacturing State. II it re.
quires legislation to effect this. then the legis-
lation must he had.
Then will our home markets be our best
protection against the oppressive transit COM
hinations. Then shall We have home mechan
ie~. happy in their competence. for our bright
exemplars in peace aud our sure defenders in
WAT. Then shall We have laborers, intelligent,
respected. and well paid, glorying in coun.
Try which protects her sons against the pau
per labor Of the Old World"
Most confidently may the State If
Iowa aspire 10 such destiny. Our
national currency has caused money
to bear y less interest. Her railway
sys,cm reaches the motive power Of
her MODEST rivers, and rich heritage
"f cnal.frlds far excclling those of
Great Britain, where cheap bread,
homesteads, and healthful breczcs
welcome enterprise, labor, aud capital.
To these favoring conditions for pros
perity there the focks have increased
Tor FIVE years in q ratio unprecedented,
aud the manufacturing woollen capital
IF the State is doubled in two years,
and under that law of this century
which attracts it to the coal measures
We can anticipate greater success.
And here in a pleasing depression,
would mention the circumstances Of
the closing Of the last mandatory of
that F" stock-on-hand" article in the
fourth district of Iowa by the putting
out Of the fires of mammoth distil.
Icry in the city of .Oskaloosa. aud the
future occupancy OF the establishment,
modelled, by woollen machinery, rest
ing Ivy cxhaustlcss coal deposits, its
influence TO be set over against the
agents of social degradation and vice
esteemed as an enterprise bringing
comfort, wealth, SECRETARY blessings,
agricultural development, and the ac.
ceptcd omen of higher civilization
which like beacon lit upon hill, af-
ter diffusing warmth and blessings
around, tinges the distant horizon
with it's glow.
Mr.. Chairman, there is Gods charter
in nature for the growth, culture, and
power Of our northwestern prairie
States. And this is the era which in.
vitcs a cultivation Of our resources
aud the Inauguration of q domestic
policy which shall be permanent
and prnmotive Of a diversified indus
try. The world has no such lakes Tor
c,inmerce. and not u young city has
80 proudly. during the ages. sat at
cago. Our rivers have no rivals as
the great channels Of trade. nor was
there ever q palmer designation IN .
nature that the opulent and now free /.
Mound City," almost 10 the shadow !,
of the mountains OF minerals. shall be-
the hume Of ten thousand sons cf Vul
can, to create economical exchanges
which shall mir gle the merry life-cur.
rents Of enterprise and bring develop I
mcnt to our lands and increased re. a
sources 10y diversity st labor. I
Our soil is unincn,4bered with for
rsts aud rocks, which have in the elder :.
States taxed for their rennval the en- \
orgies Of q generation. In richness |
it is only surpassed hy the Delta OF Q
the Nile. and is traversed by railways
which reach coal deposits equal TO the
want Of a dense p,psla,ion for untold
ages. Each year Of war has advanc-
cd our people decade in moral hero
ism and intelligent conviction. They
will cheerlully meet the burden Of tax. a
es, but spurn foreign Vaccinations q
and free-tradc economists as alike in. ,
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