Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-02-19

In order o examine this let us consicSr
the United states or the popular imperson'
s,lon thereof, Uncle Sam, in the grain mfr
ke, a. Liverpool. At homo he has divided
The business between three Of his sons, tie
merchant. the master Of transportation and
the farmer These three supply him with
the commodities which lie Offers for sale
lie sells .. the highest marke, price, and
sends lack the proceeds TO be divided
among them On such terms as they may
agree upon among themselves Now the
popular reasoner says, and says truly, that
it 10 entirely immaterial to the old gentle
man wha, these terms may be. Whether
in this division the merchant by superior
sagscity may gain Al advantage over his
two brothers or not. All that the o.d gen
tcmso has to say is ooh well It IL sil ia the
family, who cares whether Sam. ION OF
Ha ~ owns it, Tho estate Of Unee sam
stands credited with 90 much, and from thss
draw my per cenium. II Sam the ines>
chant can make Harry the farmer oei'sve
that the opening Of the New York ana
Canada canals, and of not less than hve
trunk railroads between the East and
West has rendered the navigation OF the
Mississippi . matter of secondary impor>
tsnce and that the waters Of the Missis>
sippi run through or over or under tropi
cal sea, destructive Of most Of his articles Of
export, and that the road from Rock Island
or any other roin. on the Mississippi river
by Chicago or New York, to Liverpool,
| Havre, Bremen or Hamburg is 5000 miles
shorter than by New Orleans, or that the
Mississippi river runs through malarious
climate Stunned by every Northerner for at
least one half the year, and therefore not to
be nayigated during that period-if finally
he can make IIarrys cousin, tho miner at
Galcna. believe that he, Sam, will need Gil
the Galena lead for hone consumption to be
converted into soft sawder in Chicago and
New Yo,k-if be can do this. as like enough
he may try this is matter oil no concern
whatever with Uncle Samuel provided 1t
does uot result in the national aggregate, to
. waste of labor in furnishing him with the
wheat. But il in consequence OF such reps
resentatlons, Harry, the farmer, cultivates
two acres of land to raise twenty five bush
els Of wheat, when the same mightbe raised
ON one acre, aud If Tom, the master Of trans
por.ation, employs 500 30 Of labor, when
he might deliver the twenty five bushels toI
3l7 90 in the Liverpool market, then the
question stands entirely different; for thii
loss il q loss TO the family not gain tc
the merchant Of this locality ut the expense
of the merchant Of another locality but Of
fec,s the amount that Uncle Sam has to Of
fer in the market, aud the old saying thai
what il one mans loss 10 another mans gair
applies no longer between members OF thu
same family, but to the United States a!
seller in . foreign market, and its competit
ors in that market and reads thus: What
is the loss OF the United States 10 the gair
Of Russia. A proposition. the considera
ton Of which We humbly submit, belong
! pre- -emincntly to the General Government
and not to the States, much less to the in
; dividual citizens in their private capacity
for however il may reason itself out Of it
duty in this respect it cannot escape Lev
much older and more general than any Q
its own creating the law Of commerce bear
ing date with tie law Of gravitation and up
proved by the Same authority.
We as scrt, then, that as seller Of sur
plus commodities in a foreign market, tn
amount OF labor expended in placing thos
commodities in that market is not matte
: of indifference, to the individual farmer. q
: the contrary. JUS, as tho financial prosperit
Of the latter depends precisely upoa thi
amount, and the proportion it bears to th
= labor expended in producing the crop, S
|, that the financial prosperity of the natio
(. will depend upon the judicious application
of it's industry at h me and it's economics
: conversion in foreign markets. And is thi
!, . matter for the individual citizen in hi
!, private capacity, or matter that concern
= the State, or does it concern the Gener'
= Government as the representative Of the NJ
u ,iont low is the national Indebtedness
e See report Of Chicago Board Of Trade.
(Cenciuded on the third pdgc)