The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-26

injury 70 Ill c-lasses, bit - soon - weshal|
have lane manufacsuring towns In ID paxta
Of the West. III tAis viii b done av1y With
ve sh.ll have . home ma1ket-one has vii
b independent Of values abroad, the price o.
land will be settled according TO demand, and
the profits Of al kinds Of agriculture be IN
creased. 1t is the experience Of al ne.
England farmers a. we'll as OF British aSf1'
culturslists, that wherever manufactures nave
Aonrished, the farmers have grown rcn, ING
all laboring classes have taken an advances
social position. This is not . mere sneofy,
but sn,actual experience, and grows out o.
III. Fundamental and immutAble laws OF ma
ter;sl prosperity. During the past y yeefs
tha South has been forced into mAnuiactur,
;ns and are thereby learning the true secret
~ ;~ndenendence and staple wealth. oul
towns i we'll situated, and possesses all the
reou;.i,e qualifications for being the manu-
l6.ctur;pu centre for the Northwest. "ehass
tired il Sufficient TO know that there our In
~terests lies. What is needed now - acton,
llet not the present Government improve.
ments be completed before We commence. Lex
ma accent the commercial greatness that 10 III
most forced upon our city. We have seen
davenport double in population, in wealth.
and in the importance OF its position as com
pared with other river towns, ana peiieve INC
same thing will be witnessed again-and that
too, in much less time.
We clip the above from the Davenport
| Drmocraf, because every word OF it with the
substitution of Keokuk for Dsyenportis a.
.npl;cable to this point, and its local interests
as to that.
1.-THE Democrat is politically q free trader In
its theories. but when it comes down to busi-
ness and local improvement, it appreciates
the advantage of manufactures, and OF .
home market for tbs farmer.
RAIraoAD TO K~EoKuK.-The Mt. Pleasant
Journal is jubilant over the fact that the
amount necessary to secure the route from
| Mt. Pleasant TO Washington has been sub
scribed. Then il turus its eye southwark,
| and exhorts thus:
siMsn of action, stick to the point. cling
to il, stand to it, freeze to tive mean the
| railroad to Keokuk. We are out Of the brush
on the northern end of the line. Southwark
We now turn our eyes. To K~eokuk-ths rail-
road to keokuk That is the question. Men
of action, men OF enterprise, men OF money,
cram yourselve. jam, chuck full Of railroad.
Press il in you, crowd it in you, squeeze II
in you; wedge it there, tight, clinched and
riveted. Get so full Of railroad that when
you set your foot down you seem to be stand
ing on railroad; thRt when your corns are
tramped on you can think Of nothing bit
railroad. Only t.renty, ice thousdnd dollars
10 put the road in running order to this city.
We have the word from hilbonrne that ii
twenty-five thousand dollars are raised in
this county, the road shall be finished to this
city in one year. That will bring it over the
old route. Whether it goes by Salem, de-
ponds upon what Salem township does in the
way Of subscription, in addition TO the S25,-
600. Salem has the means, and no doubt
| will put il on paper, if size puts forth proper
efforts, and will get the road if she does this,
but we must have S25, 900 outside of Salem.
Twenty i've thousand Ye preachers of the
rospel OF railroads, do ye hear THAR Go out,
ri, out; fill your heads with arguments, and
open your mouths, and let nature caper.
| Preach, exhort, rebuke. There aFes great
| many notorious, financial heatkens around US
that need conversion on this thing Of the
| railroad. After them even into the by
ways, hedges and bitches: after them and
compel them to subscribe. We must have
the twenty. five thousand-must! In preach
ing the gospel of railroads, we will find many
dull, stupid hearers, but don't mind that
hammer /, into them, sledge-hammer fash
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