Nebraska advertiser., 1869-12-02

One of our subscribers from Gage
county writes US that he has now beer
on his homestead peafiy two years
that during that time be has worked
hard breaking up the ground, hedging
In the same, planting out timber, fruit
trees, &C. ; that he has worn out all
the clothes he brought with him
that he has several hundred bushels
Of corn cribed mp; several ere Of
grain in the stack, potatoes and other
root crops in the sellar, all which are
so far from market that they are not
available for the purpose Of supplying
his wants in the clothing and news
paper line. He says: 1.-THE inquiry
comes up with terrible force to my
troubled mind: What am I to do?
the clothing / must have and the
Advertiser / want; credit you wont
take and the gFeenbacks 1 can't get,
so please discontinue if you mWst.p
We presume the case Of this family is
simply the story of countless others,
plenty to eat but nothing to wear.
Merchants write us that their stocks
are low and their capital is in the
hands of farmers in the shape Of goods
sold and not paid for. The cause for
all our woes is that we are not self
sustaining. The State is drained Of its
corn, wheat, cattle, hogs, sheep, horses
and greenbacks to pay for what we
should grow within our own borders.
There is no sense in a State so well
adapted to the growth Of wool for ev-
cry farmer to buy stocking yarn,
1iannels and cassimeres from New
England; in a State so admirably
fitted for grazing and fattening beef,
the curing and tanning of hides that
every man, woman and child should
wear eastern made shoes made from
our own hides, tanned in eastern cities
by eastern men. Induce these manu-
facturers to come into your midst
work up your wool into cloth, your
hides into leather and your leather
into boots and shoes, for which they
can take your grain, your beef and
your pork without the cost Of trans
pOrtation then you and they viii
grow rich and debt be a thing un-
known. Large communities inland
a long distance from cheap and speedy
transportation are bound to suffer,
while all follow but one branch Of in
dustry. 1t is simply idle to say to the
farmers Of our State, buy and feed
stock which can be transported with
little cost, They have not got the
capital. They would do this if they
conld. It will take years of slow
growth to direct matters into this
channel; while all may buy a few
a spinning wheel or a loom,
and by another year ward off much
of the inconvenience of the present.
The great want Of the Westand Of thel
times, is home manufactures. The
raw material may be had in album
dance, living is cheap, the price Of
labor reasonable, water-power album
dant and unoccupied, prices low down
and taxes moderate. Let these in
ducements be thoroughly advertised,
md our word for it, capital will flow
in from the cast and fill up this great
vacuum, and by so doing enrichthem
and us too. Let Gage county
but invest her 500, 600 in developing
her vast water-powers; in wooden
manufactures in tanneries and in
drawing to them mechanics and arti-
sans of the east, and then. she will les
sen her desire for Railroad connection
and induce a corresponding longing
upon the part of Railroad men tOreach
her with the iron horse. In the mean
time, our friend shall read the AdUer-
tiSer.