Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-04-07
From TIE Iowa State Register.
iowa Need, ana Opportunities.

The chief wealth of Iowa is the ex-
traorlinary. universal richness of lis
soil, and it is one of the most impera-
tive duties which this generation OF
Iowans owes to posterlty, to transmit
that soil to its children in tall bearing
luxuriance But that TRANSMISSION
cannot be made and at the same time
export large bulks of grain and other
agricultural productions. Every bush
Tel OF wheat we send off to kngland
carries with it certain amount OF the
grain producing power OF the prairies
OF Iowa, and though an expectation OF
millions OF bushels from our vast State
would not be perceivable, ye,,"contin-
ual dropping wears away the stone,R
and Iowa legislators and citizens
should now take measures to prevent
that frs. appearance OF ialpoverish-
mcnt which inevitably soon succeeds
to heavy expectation of grain from ev
cry soil, without regard to primeval
fatness. And the most polite, states
man.like way of preventing the expor-
tation OF our grain to tar Oft consumers.
is to induce those consumers to come
nearer to us, and to exchange here,
upon our ground, their labors, their
manufactures, ana their ingeuuitics,
for our materials and our provis ons.
We are in the center of great field
for enterprise and commercial adven-
ture-a great State OF inconparably
luyuriant soil, wholesome climate, and
useful variety Of producticns-sur-
rounded by great rich States that more
or less lean upon 1t as the central post
of western wealth aud civilization, and
it behooves the first generations of the
citizens of this great central State to
SO shape the policy of her government
that future cpeoples shall have no cause
to complain that selfish earelessness al
lowed it to drift into secondary value
and Importance.
State population is State wealth. and
he is benctactor to Iowa who IN
duces one more well intentioned man,
woman or child to settle within the
Iowa borders. Our people are now
mostly farmers, merchants, lawyers,
doctors and ministers, and the most
necessary mechanics; but we want a
greater variety of industries introduced
all among our towns and vlliises.
We wan. hatters, and sioemakers,
and glovers, and comb-makers, and
brush makers, and soap-makers, and
toy-makers and thousand and one
other makers of the innumerab!e small
wares and manufactures which we
now exchange wheat and meat Tor in
the pent up shops OF New England; and
Old England, ana France, and Bel
GUM and Germany.
We want to school the laborers that
are employed in those shops, that here
in Iowa is material for them to work
upon, provisions enough for them
selves and their families to live upon,
market enough for the fabrics they
shall produce, tree schools Tor their
children to be educated in, and free
field for them to commence lifc in at
ter they are educated; a field so free
that rich mans son stands just as
good chance rs poor mans, a
Catholics just as good MS a Prostes-
tant's, 4 foreigners jus, as good as ma
tive's, a white mans just as good as i
black mans, and not one shadow bet
tor. We want to instil into their
minds the great Invaluable facts, that
Iowa is free from political prescription,
religious intolerance. .trades-union ty-
ranny, malarious visitation and taxa
tion encumbrance; that here, a lahorer
may secure a fair days wages tor
fair days labor, and liberty to spend
or to hoard it according to the die:
tates OF his own ingenuity or stupidity
that it is not scarity OF employ ment
tnat prevents any from acquiring
riches, but rather the inability 10 fol
low persistly that employment for
which each man is best fitted, in rcsls-
tancc to the many others that call him.
Manufacturers entice the laborer, trade
calls tho manufacturer, transportation