Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-09-30
Let Ms Go On, and Prosper.

my Articles in the N. Y. Tsi6uae.l
Progress is the law of our National
life: arrest it, and the weight of oul
public burdens will crush either oul
solvency or our National integrity,
And, to my mind, while the disso.
luton OF our Union, through the tri.
umphant establishment and recogni.
ton of the Southern Confederacy,
would have been National misfor.
tune, the Reputation of our National
Debt would be a still greater and
more deplorable calamity. Any true
father would much prefer that his
son should become needy bankrupt
rather than rich villain: so would
regard the failure to pay our Public
Debt according to its letter andspirit
as beyond comparison more disas-
trous than division of our country.
We must crush Reputation as we
have discounted Secession. We
must stop the increase of our Euro
pean as we have already stopped the
total increase of our National Debt;
we must begin to reduce and pay of
the former as we have already begun
to reduce and pay off the latter. We
must do this, not by ceasing to con-
struct, and repair, and improve, but
by more fully employing our Labor
in downright Production and by ex-
tending and rendering more efficient
our National Industry. We must
grow more grain, vegetables, and
fruits: we must extend our Manu-
featuring and Mechanical Industry
in order to furnish ample Home
Markets for the thus augmented pro-
duce Of our farmers. Take ten thou
sand people who live from hand to
mouth by occasional fishing or hunt
ing, doing odd jobs of work for others,
having COW per family running in
the road and pig picking up liv-
Ing as he may, with patch of poor
garden by every other shanty, and
gather these same ten thousand into
manufacturing village, set them
steadily at work, and now they will
!, purchase and use twice as much food,
clothing, furniture, &C., as they did
or could before. Thus, every new
furnace or factory built, or old one
started up, insures a large addition
not merely to the National produc-
ton and wealth, but to it's cOnsump-
ton as well.
And this good worlsis now rapidly
proceeding. There is hardly an old
furnace in the Union that has not
increased its capacity and its product
within the last year; whilehundreds
of new ones have been constructed
and set to work, or are now in pro-
cess of construction, in the South, in
the West, and in almost every quar-
ter of the Union. Missouri now
supplies Pig Iron to Pittsburgh, and
is rapidly increasing her production;
Tennessee, old Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, and North Carolina, have put
several new furnaces into blast, and
are preparing to increase the num-
Der; Pennsylvanians have just been
buying Iron mines not only in these
States but even SO far South as Ala
bama; Oregon has been supplying
the San Francisco market with Char
coal Pig of good quality; while
Illinois Ia recent beginner is making
largely at Chicago, and Indiana is
putting up great furnaces at her cap
ital as we'll as near Greencastle, and
boasts the possession of thousands of
square miles of Coal better adapted
to Iron-making than any other in
the known world. She confidently
counts on making Iron at oncecheap-
er and better than the best that Penn
sylvania can exhibit; and, while her
sanguiHe= expectations will probably
be sobered by experience, her effort
will doubtless exert wholesome
influence on the Nations prosperity
and on her own political sanity.
If a thousand new furnaces and
factories, giving employment, direct
ly or Indirectly, to Half Million
persons, were to be put in operation
within the next three years, while
Three or Four Hundred Millions
would thereby be added to our annu-
al product Of Metals and Fabrics,
am confident that our Agricultural
Produce would be increased rather
than diminished in consequence
that more hands would be melted to
grow Vegetables and Fruits for the
new manufacturers than would be
Withdrawn from grain-growing and
cotton-raising; and that the sum total
of the product of those factories and
furnaces would be clear addition to
the wealth of our country and to the
elements Of comfort enjoyed by the
human race.
The Latest Dodge.
A very ingenious trick, by which
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