The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-07

crush our manufactures, but that some Of their
own people work against them by casting
their lot with us the inducement being our
stability and rapidly increasing wealth. There
is no doubt that these educated, wealthy, and
enterprising Europeans will give much that is
valuable to our society; still, they cannot help
being absorbed; for the power Of digestion in
Anglo American institutions is as irresistible
as IL is wonderful.
A people which adopts the settled policy of
buying articles Of daily use from foreigners
either will remain, or will become, barbarians.
Civilization in nations is indicated by their
drawing manufactures into their midst, and by
their emancipating themselves from foreign
labor and skill. What is true of the traffic be-
tween nations is true also of the traffic between
the different parts of a great nation. The
freight and expenses on many articles taken
from the Eastern States TO the West exceed in
value the original cost. The first settlers ex-
change all the products of the soil they can
spare for building materials, and to make home
comfortable; and much of this trade is at such
a sacrifice that it cannot be permanent.
Therefore, so soon as possible, manufactures
are started, that articles of prime necessity
may be made near home. The trade with
distant points following the settlement of a
country is equally ruinous, for indebtedness,
and, in time, more or less insolvency ensues;
and to prevent this the manufacture of goods
requiring more capital and skill comes in.
Thus we see in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and
Illinois, manufactures have increased with
each years growth, and great variety of ar
ticles for daily use are now produced within
their own borders. In those sections where
the soil is best, and where mental activity, as
consequence, is greatest, more varied pro-
ductions succeed. AT Elgin, the new style of
American watches are made; at Joliet, great
variety Of perfumery; and in Chicago, jewelry
and fine list of fancy articles. Money paid in
Boston and New York for beef from Illinois
has been invested, so soon as it could be
| spared, in building woollen factories flax
works, machine shops, and furnaces, which
are laying the foundation for a market for
| beef at home. The progress of manufactures
has been in proportion to growth, and to the
lapse of time and they correspond in order to
| successive geologic periods.
The attempt of England to supply America
| with manufactured goods must fail. The dead
weight attached to the transportation of goods,
and of the coarse and heavy products which
| pay for them, alone will break it down; nor
can their cheap labor, which brutalzes, and
which is intended to brutalize us, save them;
for it contains within itself every element of
decay. The whole scheme is an experiment;
| for never before has one civilized nation at
tempted to manufacture for another civilized
nation. The distance to which goods can be
transported proftably either from one country
to another, or within the boundaries of either,
is limited. The trade between Europe and
America, to be healthful and permanent, must
be in commodities produced by the help OF
natural advantages not common to both. II
this law is respected, there will be fair profits,
and the increasing population will make this
trade enormous. But this is only on the con-
dition that the population of the two CONT
nents be more equally balanced and Europe
will receive great advantages from still sending
us laborers and manufacturers.
In the West, the child is born which will
live to see cotton come directly out of the Mis-
sissippi, and wool directly from the farmer's 5
barn, to be woven on looms made from the
ores of Missouri and Lake Superior iron
simultaneously, the wearing apparel of a
people, with a reconstructed ambition, will be
woven on looms run by streams pouring from
the Cumberland Mountains into North Caro-.
lima, Virginia, Georgia, and Tennessee. For
the good of a whole country, when developed,
only particular goods should be landed on our
shores to cross the waters of the Hudson and
the Susquehanna, and the main traffic for New
| England should be- not with the West, but
| with the islands and countries reached by sea.
Even now, articles worth many millions, which
formerly were produced in New England, are
sent to the lower Mississippi, to the plains,
and over the Rocky Mountains from the work
shops; the furnaces, and factories of the three
great cities of the West. Nor is it Western,
it is New England men who control this trade,
and who have gone West to be near their Gus.
toners, the same as British manufacturers are
crossing the ocean to be nearer theirs. Wher
the natural advantages and the soil of the
States of the Mississippi valley shall be de-
velOped equally with the State of New York
their population will be about as follows;--
900 Iowa ............6 900 OO
Michigan .......4 100000 Nebraska .......j C00O0
ndiana","......4 000, 900 West Virginia 0J0 00
ninos....-.....8 900 kentucky ......3 coo 0O
Wisconsin .....".3 900 Arkansas-.....2O 600 O0
Minnesota ......,.0 100000
Missouri ri........"G,0 100000 Tota..,."..62 OO0, ,O0
KansaB""..".....S,0 ,000, 900
The great American desert is fading away
A magnificent country is about to be opened
500 miles west of the mouth of the Platte. It il
true that new methods of farming will ha re-