Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-02-14

The amount Of -four manufactured during
that year was valued at 100000 900. Of
which $l5.44s,507 worth was exported. -
Indian meal 20 the value Of $9i2, os5 was
also exported. BY these figures it will be
seen that the ngricu',urists Of this country
are not entirely dependent on the foreign
market Tor the sale Of their products. Each
interest we build Up in the county adds to
tho consuming population in lie locality. D.
To this fact We owe a large share a the
prosperity 10 our farmers.
No people on earth understand this fact
better than our Western men. This ac-
counts Tor the multiplicity Of manufactures
which arc sprlnging up among us. They
create market Cor our home products. and
in SO doing. give us . thriving population.
full Of industry and energy. Agricultntcs
and manufactures are twin civilizcrs Of the
world. Their mission is together. Il 10 =
mistaken idea to assert that the great West,
or any other portion Of our nation should
devote itself exclusively to the cultivation
q the soil. By giving the fuel and the wa
r.powers, nature marked out system Of
mixed pursuits, whereby our citizens could
make themselves generally useful and pros>
porous. If the idea is followed out, We
make home market Tor the consumption OF
. large majority Of our agricultural products
and creates a wealth otherwise unattainsble,
The table quoted above indicates that the
main part Of the immense amount Of
grain sent forward TO tho scaborrd
10 consumed in the Atlantic States.
Reason tells US that this grain is
not used for food entirely, and that the ma
jority Of It enters into the various manuiAc
turing purpo sea OF The day On the assump.
ton then, that large share Of the Western
grain might DO used to as good advantage
in the Yves, as in the East i, the same de
partmcn,s OF industry, our shrcwd business
men should see the necessity Of filing the
West with manufactures Of all the articles
produced in the East In this way capital
and popuiat Oh would seek the Wet Our
farmers would find home market for their
product-, aud the producers OF the West.
crn States would find themselves greatly
bcttcrcd in condition, while their landed
estates would be incrcasin in value, because
Of the variety of interests located among
them.
\ lew years ago our wagons were
brought from the East. We now make
them in almost every town in the West. A
shor, time since. aud our wooden goods
were made some where outside Of Illinois. -
The hundred wooden mills now in the State
give evidence eat our people can be sup
piled. mostly Mt home. The raising Of s,r-
ghum and the erection Of beet sugar manu-.
factories, are working wonders in the line
OF sweets. In few years. wc shall have
our scores Of cotton mills working in COM
petition with those Of the East. All Of these
things help form u ma,ae, for our farm pro
duets, and saves the Western people the
cost OF double transportation on what they
ship East and take goods f,r in return. Is
II not FOR our interest, then, to build up n
home market rather than scnd our products
e. the Atlantic States, and take theirs in re.
return The presumption is that we had
better draw hitler the population and the
machinery than 10 drive them away from
us: that We woulJ be- The ,-,,ners hv h,;o,.
ing New England tact, talent and energy TO
the West, than to rcpel it, The time is not
far distant when our people will see this
m.ttcr in the same light.