The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-05-18
THE NORTHWEST INDEBTED TO
PROTECTION.

In consequence Of the encouragement Civ
en- to the growth and manufacture of wool
under the several Tariff Laws enacted by
Congress, since the Republican party came
into power, sheep have greatly increased in
number, and improved in quality, and wooden
manufactures have rapidly sprung up all
over the Northwest At the present time
there are nearly as many millions OF money
invested in wool growing and wooden manu-
facture, in the Northwest, as there were
thousands few years ago, and the bust
ness in beth it's branches is still expanding
and increasing.
The sheep raising creates demand for
farming lands in the West, and enhances
their price and il serves to Diversity the pur>
suits Of those engaged in agriculture, and
thus promotes the development ofthe resour-
ces Of the country. While the manuiacto>
ries established attracts capital to our State
for investment. and furnish employment to
skilled mechanics, and thus give US home
demand for agricultural products, and re-
tains amongst rs the profit Of the process OF
manufacture, and saves the people of our
State the cost of transporting the food for
the manufacturers, and the raw material to
be manufactured, TO the East or to Europe.
Had it not been for the protection thus
furnished by law 70 our own wool growers
and manufacturers, we should not now be in
the enjoyment of the many advantages and
IrnoERo Hcustpv he h,,s
Farmers and manufacturers would not have
engaged IN il, to any extent, IN the North
west. because it would not have proved pro
fitable. There is no sense in denying thi,
patent fact; and therefore the entire benefits
already experienced, and the still create
ones still in prospect. resulting from WOO
growing and wool manufacturing in ID,
Northwest, must be credited to this protee
tive policy, which encouraged and fosiered
and still sustains the business.
To what amount in dollars and cents tn
tariff is entitled to credit directly from ID
West for this one item, statistics might posi-
bly, exhibit, but they woulduttsrlv fail to sho'
1.-THE Of the indirect benefits flowing fror
that source. We owe very great deal c
capital invested in many other kinds Of busi
ness, as well as that invested in the woole
business, to this same source. Ii was ID
entering wedge to much Of the deyeopmer
Of the industrial interests Of our State; an
il hasbeen the means Of bringing into OF
State, from The East, good class OF india
trious. intelligent, well to do farmers an
manufacturers. And this influence. is n,
confined by any means to those who ha,
opened sheep farms and erected WOODEN maj
ufaclories, but extends to their ueighbors n
friends, who have come with them, or 70
lowed after them, to engage in other kinds
pursuits in their vicinity
We all recognize the benefits Of Oversize
agricultural development, as we'll as Of loo
home manufactures, and we should al sec
the most efectual means to secure aud pr
mote these desirable objects Expeuent
has shown, and our own personal observi
ton verihes the fact beyond anything but Il
most captions cavil, that the protective pol
cy has had that effect, aud is now having tn
effect upon the sheep raising and woolc
manufacturing business of the North Ses
And such being its admitted and undenisb
effect upon these interests, why may we n
fairly infer that its judcious application
other branches of industry will have sin
lar favorable effect in their behalf ALSO