The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-23
Manufactures in the West.

From the ". Y. Tribune.
We rejoice to learn that the Woollen Manu-
facturers of the Northwestern States will hold
an Exposition Of their products at Chicago on
the 4th, 9th, and 9th days Of August next, anu
that building, now nearly completed, which
affords 40 600 square feet of space, has been
Secured for the purpose. On the 18TH instant,
thirty-pine manufacturers had entered LOO
lots of goods for exposition and nearly q
hundred manufacturers Of wOollen fabrics in
The Northwest had Joined the Association. A
Trade Sale will be held on the last day of the
Exposition. Though intended primarily to
display the growth and progress OF wOoleu
manufactures in the Northwest, the woolleu
fabrics of other sections win be admitted.
The rapid growth Of manufactures in the
West is q theme Of general satisfaction. Eabu-
cation should always tend to that quarter
where food is most abundant and cheap; and
that is the valley of the Mississippi. Wool is
and must be produced at less cost in the
Northwest than elsewhere in our country, the
prairies OF Texas excepted, Where food and
wool are cheap, while the population is intel
ligent and energetic, wOgleu manufactures
should thrive aud SO they do. The child is
born who will see Minneapolis the seat of the
most extensive manufacture of substantial
Voolen fabrics on his continent.
We rejoice at the growth Of manufactures
in the West for economic aud also for political
reasons. 1t assumes prosperity TO the West
ana harmony TO our whole country. Our
baser demagogues are always seeking TO fan
the embers Of sectional Jealousy, even while
affecting TO d-p.ore the existence of that iea-
lousy; and they play upon the tariff question
10 this end, TD,y habitualy assume that
manufactures are exclusively Eastern, while
agriculture is Western, and that urotectiOn to
home industry taxes the West for the benefit
of the East. Ask them why Henry Clay and
Andrew Jackson advocated the encouragement
Of manufactures hy protection in order to
secure certain and Iemuuelati-a markets to
the farmer, and they are silent, OF revert 20
The old slang about 'blOated monopolists,'
f'taxing the many to enrich the few,' etc.
The most decidedly, unqualitedly protective
Tariff ever framed in this country, all things
considered, was that of 1888, which was fash
Toned and passed by a Jackson Democratic
Congress. The Democratic delegations from
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kentucky,
were nearly unanimous in its support. They
passed that Tariff expressly to provide markets
for their constituents agricultural products,
by calling into existence new manufactures.
And the result showed the wisdom of their
policy. This country never before grew so
rapidly in population, production and wealth,
rs under the iuluepCe Of that "Back Tarih'
New England has her factories built her
capital massed, her labor collected. The West
is behind i'll these respects; but her abundant
and cheap food, her cLeaply produced wool,
her immense beds of coal and of iron ores,
and her vicinity to those mining regions which
are certain to afford vast and eager market
for substantial. serviceable fabrics, afford i'm
mense coupt pterbalancipg advantages which she
is found to improve. We hope within ten
years to chronicle Western expositions-not
only of fabrics, but Of metals and wares also
which will far exceed any ye. held in Boston
or New York.