The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-04-08
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In common with the other unior
tunates Of this city, who are compel
ed to exc out a -scanty Subsistence on
account Of the pure cussedness, and
general thriftlessness of the people
hereabouts, whose business it is to
raise us something to eat, we think
we have suffered until forbearance
has ceased to be a virtue, and now
fall back on that last resort of sore
heads and hungry animals, and give
vent to our outraged feelings in one
prolonged growl. .saalr i.o sa aiaa
This writer recently went through
the market house at Washington
City, surrounded by country vastly
inferior to this agriculturally, in eve.
~ respect, and there he found in the
utmost profusion big stacks Of fresh,
crisp cabbages; nice, plump, savory
onions; fresh, clean, juicy turnips;
dead loads Of parsneps and carrots
Irish and sweet potatoes till you
couldn'trest; that most desirable and
healthy of all vegetables this season
of the year, to wit: horscradish and
80 on to the end Of the vegetable
chapter, the market was most pro-
tusely supplied, and at prices ranging
less than we have to pay hero, when
by chance you happen to be fortu.
nate enough to stumble on any dried
up, dirty abortions of the vegetable
kingdom, before they have been COB
bled by your famished neighbor at
extortinnato prices - ~
Our country is richer, the soil bet
ter for the production of all these
vegetables; the climate we'll calcula
ted for MISREPRESENTATION through the
winter, with ordinary care, and we
believe the prices all these things
readily bring in this market is high
enough at any time to satisfy the
most avaricious. Then why is it
that the poor despised negroes, who
furnish nine-tcnths of the garden and
field vegetables, and fruits, of the
market Of the capitol of the nation,
keep it constantly supplied with the
most tempting variety of everything
in and out Of season, while we poor
dovils living in ottum va, therailroad
hub of Iowa, surrounded by coun-
try made garden spot by nature,
are confined to hog and iominy, from
our inability to buy vegetables and
fruits in the market?
The answer is easily made, to-wit:
Thriftlessness.
There is no diversity oflabor: eve-
rything is staked on cPrr, hogs and
cattle, and if the formetcrop fails, all
else fails, and the farmer is busted
until another year. EvSy day, the
year round, you will SD The same
identical men on tho cort ter of Mar
ket and Court streets, standing around
from morning to night, with little
crows nest of wood, which they per-
haps finally peddle out for abouts1 so,
when, if thrift and labor has been ex-
pended at home during ,hs proper
season, they should be in ID L market
with a load Of parsrcps, onions, po-
tatocs, cabbages, horssradish, eggs,
butter, apples, &c, &C., and be able to
take homo with them Il twenty-five to
fifty dollars for their m srketinc, in.
stead of the paltry surt the days
dicker on tho load of wodl has bro't
then.
Put these propositiont to these
men, and they will admit h you say
about the profitableness oftliversify.
ing their farm products, SO Is to ena.
bic them to have somethinl to sell
the entire year, but they iii meet
you with the old fogy, foolish reioin-
der, perhaps, that if we go tdraising
these things, everybody else \ Land
directly they will bring us ndprce.
forgetting that our railroads brh g us
competing buyers from all ptrts.
and that the demand from abb,d
after we starving devils get something
to eat, will remain forever great,r
than the supply, if every man i,
Wapello county should turn his firm
into vegetable and fruit gardenl
Men and brethren who follow The
noble calling of farming! how long
shall these things be? We of he
town strive to supply all your reason
able demands we are ever ready to
furnish you wagons, plows, dry goods
groceries, clothing, hats and caps
boots and shoes, jacknives, cork,
screws, bibles, CouR1ERs, and even
whisky (strictly for medicinal purpo.
ses,) in greater or less quantities
equal to the demand, for cash or an.
proved credit. Will you, therefore
go to work AID plant something to
sell, of the various and sundrv yeye.
tables and fruits, which thriveI 50
abundantly in this latitude. SO dbat
we can get our potatoes without
sending to st. Louis after them, And
also enable a man with an appetita
in his stomach, and money in hi,
pocket, to buy when he wants then.
cabbages, onions, chickens, eggs. do.