Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-09-11
NO s.
manifest Destny; OF Ia lsortawez..
Farm aad Faoto y Eatr. al Allies.

In the West we are so accus;omad
to the transit Of grain and proy;sioos
50 dependent on distant markets that
many suppose we have not the natural
capacity for any variety OF pursuit ON
large scale, but that farming mus. be
the great occupation, and we must
mainly depend on other REGIONS for our
manufactures. Not to undesrate tbo
vocation Of the tiilers of the soil hnt
TO show wherein lies their highest pros.
peiIty, would we correct this mistake
no country in the wolld-aot even
GREAT Britain, which aspiies to be the
worlds granary-- has such conditions
1or success in varied industry of farm
and mill and factory as the Northwest
aha some other parts Of our Union.
" hat are these conditions?
dans fo6readth OF rich land for abun.
I'd. Fuel a.
accessible. ,e ahupd.r+ al
I'd. Skill, energy and -
labor. u
4th. Capital.
Great Britain has the second and
fourth, and cheap labor also. but lacks
the first. By admirable farming she
partly makes up the deficiency, but
with her narrow domain. want of farm
work for due share of Ter workers.
and wealth in few hands, the depress-
ed condition OF many Of her people is
inevitable. Yet her vast coal and iron
beds are magnets, drawing the gold OF
Australia ana California, with resist
| less force, into the Golfers of London
bankers. The word over, it viii be
found that agricultural nations do not
ga IN wealth, power, and progressive
civilization prmancntly, and that manu-
featuring nations, with no room for
large agriculture, gan wealth IN few
hands, but the people do not reach com
petence or culture.
We have wealth Of soil 10 feed many
millions more, and give employment to
intelligent owners and tiIieis thereof.
coal and iron in quantities. unequaled.
in quality hardly equaled. in almos; ey
cry State, copper, lead tin, dc. abound,
and the world has no such acce. ,ibie
stores of mineral wealth and idcl
amidst such breadth of rich land. Six II
and energy are here, capital gains and
Will gravltate 10 us, as we are alive 10
manifest destiny labor is here. aud
we can bring laborers over the ocean
feed them mere, far better than 10
do 1t abroad, and take back the com
and food we send in The shape OF inn
ported tools and c.oths, mtaas / eight.
waste, commissions, and the drain O.
gram growing constituents IRON our
soil.
In 1860, the eleven Northwestern
States sent to England and the manu-
featuring countries OF Europe only
sl2,oUo,00O wo.th of grain and food,
which 100000 emigfints work king here,
would have CONSUMED; but We bought
of them some sG5,00o.000 worth OF
their goods. No wonder. they want us
to be the worlds granaiy." for it pays
them. The same year the East erl and
o-h.r States OF or country took
si9t,v9o,0J0 of our products, or ffycea
tsnss Is mHch as these European manu-
featuring people.
SO great is our home trade beside
our foreign, but we want a large mar
ket still nearer, to be Independent, and
can have it. Let us open every means
OF transit for our supplies, but let us be
alive to our great natural advania res,
and thus build up that varied industry
which is ever the means Of wealth and
culture, growth, power, and vide
spread benefit to the people, With the
vast and varied manufactures FOR which
nature has bounteously given abundau;
resources, We can have great maraet
at home. and use our own Goa! 20 smelt
and shape the products of our mines
and weave the fabrics for which raw
material will come from our farms and
herds.
In the minds OF some persons, man.
ufac;urer isa ''monopolist, eraitily liv-
ing on the hard toll of the poor farmer,
and any encouragement given that hat
ed class is trowned upon. Factory
owner or farmer may be mean or may
be manly, but the business of either is
useful and honorable, and so far from
there being antagonism, they are nat
ural allies, closely linked by the bonds
of mutual dependence.
Invest $io,0Jo.0oo in manufactures
in our city, and the value AMI profit OF
every farmer for miles would be III
creased, but these factories could not
live unless the farmers prospercd.-
Whatever the influence the taxes and
tariffs may have on our industry, is felt
for good or i'll West as well as East,
and in all these things the building up,
in common prosperity, OF all classes OF
workers on the 'live and let live prin-
ciple, should be the aim of broad legis-
la;ion and enlightened public opinion.
Let us keep an e, single to our man
itest destiny" here in the West, and
have wit and energy enoughto use the
gifts OF nature SO lich and abundant in
our midst.-Gatlingtoa Xauleye.