Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-29

highly ornamental and beautiful to the
eye, yet do nothing toward sustaining
the teeming millions who live upon the
Island. Their rents are very high, for
you know the farmers do not own these
lands. Abut the MOBILES who. rent them
ost - very high rates. consequently
hey must produce well. in order TO
enablethe ffmer to pay hisrents and
obtain Yer himself and family living.
You often see women working in the
field. This looks strange to an Amer
can, bat whether or not it is not health
ief xhd 6ettsF thsa the drudge of
housekeeping, 1 Eillleave to those who
reflect upon these matters to deter
niseO RT THuT
! IA Plougking. 1 notice the farmers
ID dfiSe their horses abreast, but
singly. wAetiHr there be two or more
In this ~sy the horses do not tread up
on the ground all ploughed. A boy
rides the bfsnost horse thus enabling
the man holding the plough to pay his
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ploughed and narrowed, the ground is
rolled sDythat the clods are broken up
very fne, and the broad fields become
smooth sad level as the floor. On the
whole it seems to me, that England pre-
sents the very perfection of cultivation.
So beautiful indeed is the prospect all
along the line of the road, and SO en-
chanting to the eye, that we never
ceased gazing from one window of the
car or the other, and some member of
the party was constantly exclaiming:
'aOh, look there; isn't that lovely?"
"Oh, how beautiful" "What an en-
chanting landscape" &C., DC, SO that
with looking, we were engaged all the
time, aad hardly stopped long enough
to give the daily papers a hurried
glance.
At Wolverhampton, we came into
the region Of the iron business, and
from there to beyond Birmingham, We
were enveloped in clouds of smoke, and
beheld on every hand high chimneys,
from which belched forth fame and
smoke, Illuminating the skies at night
with thousands of fires, and shutting
out the ight Of the sun by day. had
no idea of the extent of this region be-
fore seeing, and could hardly believe
my own eyes when 1 passed through.
] think we were over an hour in going
by these iron furnaces, which thickly
studded over the ground, employing
millions of persons in their various
branches, aud making iron enough to
glut the markets of the world. Well
could l understand why England
wanted free trade with us, and how
much she would rejoice to see our man
'ufacturing establishments, furnaces,
rolling mills and foundries, broken
down, that she might supply US with
those manufactures which we should
make ourselves, and thus render us in
dependent of all the world. And as
little could l appreciate the short
sighted policy of those in our own
midst, who, sedueed by the specious
sophisms of free trade, in order to car
ry it out practically. are willing to
sacrifice our own laborers and skilled
artizans, and destroy those works from
which SO many now derive a comforta
BILE living. 1t seems to me, could they,
as did l. witness these immense devel-
opments of the iron interests of Eng
land, they would, on their return home,
be more than willing to cooperate with
our own people in their endeavors to
develop the iron and the other manu-
featuring interests of America, and to
this extent at least, render us inde-
pendent of the world at large. Free
trade may be very good to old countries
and thickly populated regions, where
laborers receive miserable pittance
for = days work, but it lily answers
for a new country, where laborers are
freemen, and where all classes desire
to see them fairly remunerated for their
toll and labor.
Yours, N.