Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-07-22

are not addicted to the toot-rot, and
many other maladies, which 50 often
prevail on the cold, damp clay soil OF
New York, Ohio, and other Eastern
States. Thus, with proper care and
facilities, wool growing can be brought
to the highest standard of success Ill
this State, and to an extent sufficient to
stpply any demand for home manutac-
ture which might be desiredthc field
is ample to keep the supply equal to
the demand, however extensively
capital might augment the latter.
Just as fine quality Of raw mate
rial can be produced in Iowa, rs in
New York, or Vermont; hence all that
is necessary to furnish any market
with as fine and superior quality Of
woolen fabrics is the proper mills and
skilled operatives. With all these ad-
vantages possessed by Iowa, there is
no reason why capitalists should not
turn their attention mtherward and
take advantage OF them no,c as it GER
talnly will be done at no distant day.
There IS no reason why Iowa cannot
why she should not supply Chicago,
st. Louis, and other towns in the w est
with wooden manufactures, as excel
lent IN variety and quality ae Massa-
chusetts or Rhode Island. / venture
the assertion that there is no State IN
the Union with richer, or more cxten
! sive agricultural resources than Iowa.
Her ability, therefore, to supply any
| demand which an extensive manutac-
turing interest might require, would
Dc exhaustless; and thus the agricultu-
raj products of the State would find a
much larger hoaee consumption.
In the manufacture OF cotton fabrics
the surplus corn, beef, and pork OF the
State would find ready and profitable
sale in the cotton States, with cheap
transportation down the river, or be
exchanged for cotton. And thus, too,
Iowa might supply largely the West
ern market with cotton goods as ex
cclent and as cheap as New England.
Now, word as to the facilities and
means to operate mills extensively and
economically in Iowa. While the va
rious rivers coursing their way through
the length and breadth of the State do
not tumble and foam down rocky
ledges and cascades, and from noun
tain to valley, as they do in the New
England and many other States, yet
most of them furnish excellent and ex
tensiye power the year round, as have
already been tested on the Cedar,
Iowa, Des Moines and other rivers, in
operating extensive wooden mills and
other manufacturing establishments.
But, while we have extensive and
ample water powers, we have also in
exnaustable beds of coal undertaking
a vast scope OF Iowa soil, which can
be procured Tor making steam power
at a moderate expense.
Community OF labor, if may so ex-
press myself, properly diversified, is
the true economy OF community,
State or nation. The agricultural,
manufacturing, mechanical, and all
other productive branches OF labor,
should keep pace, orc with the other.
The manufacturing and mechanical ar
tlsans OF community, or State, should
be consumers of the products of the
agrioulturist, of such community or
State, and so otee cersa, as far as may
be, and preserve fair equilibrium OF
interests and pursuits. Beyond this,
the products OF all classes of industry
should procure, by way Of exchange,
what such community Of labor cannot
produce.
And thus, conclude, that if Iowa
can produce as good wheat, corn, beef
and pork as Illinois, Ohio, or New
York, and can manufacture as good
cotton and wooden fabrics, rs Massa-
chusetts, Rhodeslsland or Pennsylva-
MIA, she should stand on equal terms
with these older States in the market.
In other words, merit should govern,
and not repatatton alone.
Iowa has the resources, and the ia
cilitles to compete with the best. She
is yet young. Let capitalists turn their
attention to her ample fields-develop
them, and become richly rewarded