The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-08
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FACTS FOR FARMERS AND LA.
BOB n8.

HOREn8.
We make couple Of brief extracts from
the speech Of Senator Cattell Of New Jersey,
which we commend to the considerate at en-
ton of our readers.
The FIRST extract shows from actual expe
rience aud observation the benefit of manu-
features, in furnishing home market, and
increasing the value of the farmers land
Twenty years ago last autum embarked
in the trade in breadstutfs in the city of Phil
adelphia At that time, and for some sue
ceeding years, the entire volume Of my bust
ness was made up of consignments of agri-
cultural products from the valleys Of the
Susquehanna, the Juniata. and the isehigh. j
have not the figures at command. but am
sure | speak within bounds when say that
my house aud the tonr or five others doing
business from the same points mast have re-
ceived from this quarter four to FIVE millions
bushels ofcereals per anuum. Philadelphia
is still the natural market for the surplus of
this territory, but for some years past there
have not been consignments enough received
from that entire section to realize commits
sons sufficient 10 pay the salary OF a receiving
clerk Do you esk, has production fallen off
| answer. no; on the contrary, it has increas
been dotted with furnaces, FORCES and rolling
mills, and saw mills. and factories, and work
shops, filled with operatives; and the con-
sumner of agricultural products has been
brought to the farmer doors. He now finds
reader market for has products at home at
prices equal to to those ruling on the sea.
board, Of which he avails himself, and thus
saves all the cost Of transportation and fac
forage, equal at average prices to about TWEEN
ty per cent. Nay. more, sir, my own firm
has frequently within the past few years sold
and shipped TO the milers in one of these
valleys, that in which the iron interests has
been most developed, the Lehigh, wheat
drawn from Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Iowa, to supply the de6cieccy in the con
sumptive want. AID these products of the
prares OF the West were sold, too, at a price
far in access Of what could have been realized
by expectation TO any country on the face Of
the globe, AZ q consequence Of this state of
things land has risen in value through all
TINS section, and farms that could have been
bought fifteen or twenty years ago atforty or
fifty dollars per acre, are now salesble at one
hundred and fifty or two hundred dollars per
acre. Villages have grownto be towns, and
towns have grown to be cities; agriculture
and manufactures have clasped hands, and
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mir. President. have already trespassed
too long on the indulgence Of the Senate. A
word Of two more aud | have done Sir.
speak to-aay ia benaii Oh the American ia
borer, the hardy sons of toll, the bone and
sinew Of our nation. II is their cause /
plead, and | covet for them the best gifts
viii h the nation can bestow. Look over this
broad land aud see millions of humble yet
happy homes of your industrial classes.
where the fire burns brightly on the hearth,
and where connubial, parental and tlial at
lection reign.
"Amid all that is great and glorious in our
land, single out the fact that our sous Of
toll ere lessef .el, Uc.Ger clotnel, better
lodged, better paid, and better taught than
those of any other nation on the face OF the
earth, and proclaim II as the brightest jewel
in our crown OF glory.
I" 1t is the boast of England that her
cheaper labor will always enable her to pro-
duce 50 chesply to defy competition. God
grant that cheap labor in the English sense
may never be the boast of this nation. Tn
der our form 81 government the laborer ney
er can tie aad never ought to be reduced 10
the condition of'ihose in other lands, who
are content to toll on while others think for
them ard govern them, without .eren "a
mach Is ~ ASPIRATION Ton better condition.
he wotAlngMen ol var land make ara Ia
make Presidents. Congresses, and legisla-
lures and the elevation Of the masses social
IT, intellectually and morally, IS a necessity
4 ypu would perpetuate the institutions c.
the hvpupiie.
\ Il there Senator within the sound oi
my Vote ~ho would reduce the la80Ier 81
Gus e@aB IS 81 the leyei OF the pauper laDor>
er II kurpptg NJ. 10 There sas once !,
Glass q u.en in these halls who might h-s-
oon>en,ea to this Under their peculiar
institution" now happily gone forever, labor
was degraded BY chains and letters, and the
bold announcement was made that I" capital
should nwn Is owu labor. hey resisted
unto b4od the higher civilization ~hict
taught the sublime truths OF the universal
brotherhood Of nau aud the right of ali mer
TO the inst rewards Of their labor.
:. The coutlict Is ended, and God he prais
ed. the right has triumphed; and having thu
elevated four million human beings from
chains and slavery 10 freedom and TO man
hood. let us address ourselves to the work o
stimulating the industrial energies OF the na
ton so that free labor shall lind its wonte'
employment and receive its just reward.