Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-03-07
The Moth or our Unthrlft.

ish, in book form, an extended ex
nibit OF the Manufacturing Resourc.
IS OF Iowa, with a condensed state
ment OF the present condition OF the
different branches OF our industry,
by a Statement. show
ing the superior and almost ex.
resources as yet undov elop.
ed. The work, as designed, is to be
edited by Mr.. H. S. Hyatt, late edi.
tor OF the Clinton Herald-a gentle.
man amply competent and in all re.
spects fitted for making it what it
should be-reliable, compact, com.
prehensive, well written. and dressed
in attractive form. Elsewhere we
publish extracts from many of the
leading papers OF the State endorsing
the proposition. Indeed there is no
dissent from the conclusion that this
is a work imperatively demanded by
the bes. interests OF Iowa, nor from
the general agreement that the SOON
err it is done the better.
Iowa is q most inviting field for
capital. 1t is more inviting, presents
more advantages to capitalists, than
the capital OF the country has been
brought to see. The design OF this
movement is to lay our rich fields
open to view, and prove to men OF
money that here are superior induc-
ments for investment. Our State is
now upon an era in which she must
develop all her resources and powers,
and, from those now undeveloped,
gain new life and greater impetus, or
come to a halt and stand still, while
other States, with fewer resources
but more energy and thrift. march by
her to achieve the higher rank and
greater wealth which belong to
Iowa, and will be gained by Iowa il
her people will only lead her fol ward
to the station which is naturally her
own. We have run a remarkable
career, and attained to proud and en-
viable position in the list of Agricul-
tural States. Generous as our soil is,
in yielding a bountecus wealth at the
touch Of the pillow, It repays the farm
ers no more literally for his labor
than the manufacturer would be re
warded fer his, il he would but wise.
Iy use the superior location and re-
sources he here would find.
We have stood the drain OF all the
money we make flowing to the East
as long as the State can stand it.
The policy has all the while kept us
poor; henceforth it will tend still
more powerfully toward making us
both poor and weak. The great
deal We raise; over and above what
we consume, we send abroad to en-.
rich outside capitalists and manufac'
turers. Our surplus grain goes to
eastern mills to be to!led, in heavy
and ruinous 1.-THE. Indeed VIC are
tolled ruinously in getting it to the
foreign mill, ruinously tolled at the
mill, and then again tolled still more
in the transit of the mer-
chandise which comes back to US IL
consum,nation OF the dicker We
send New England a bushel 81 wheat
ought to be consumed at
the railroad Eaii Of il
for carrying it, then give the eastern
halt Of the portion left
for his profits on the article We buy
with the forth OF tie bushel OF grain
left. Whitfield down to such light
proportions, the railroads condescena
to bring the result-whatever it may
be-back to us on the thirds. In
other words, we beg the New sEng-
land manufacturer to take ore bush.
el OF wheat and give us handful Of
shoe pegs, or ask him to accept all
the wheat one of our farmers raises
ia a year-wbich ought to be worth
five hundred do!lars-and give him a
reaper tor it,-which should not be
worth, and could be made in Iowa,
with large profit tor, one hundred
dollars. Iowa Courts are TO day and
have been tor two years, largely oc
,upied in collecting OF Iowa farmers,
under the hammer, an extyrtionate
amount for inferior machinery.
Thousands of farmers have not raised
IN two years, selling the gram at the
best prices they can get, wheat
enough to pay for the reaper which
cut the grain. The reaper maker
must have. not only all the wheat
farmers have raised, bu: most OF their
corn aud stock, and often times a
, slice off their farms.
To be sure the Eastern manufac-
.urers are not, perhaps, III the sense
81 commercial morality: to be blamed
ior selling poor articles at double
prices. SO long as lo~a farmers will
buy OF them. just 50 long, OF course,
hey will sell. And just SO long as
our State continues in its present
Of Indifference, just SO long
will the easter manufacturer be able
% stay in the East, and make Iowa
come to him, and pay the bill for
1t costs his hands more to
i've in New England than it would
a Iowa, but he orders their food FROM
Iowa and makes Iowa pay for it. He
8 fifteen hundred miles from his GUS
.omers, but he makes them come to
lin, and pay the cost. He has the
iowa man skin his OK for him, and
'end him the skin, charges prepaid,
md then he takes the whole hide for
himself making the tail up into shoe
trings, which he sends, at the Iowa
mans expense, back TO the Iowa
nan as payment tor the hide. If the
Iawk-Eye will skin him a whole
lrove OF cattle, he may be kind
.nough to send him back a pair OF
BOOTS.
This may be stating serious case
but we all know it is Sc
ious still. We do not grumble at
lie Yankee factory-rnan. He mere
v speculatcs on our unthrift. He il
hrewd at our expense. We do not
blame HIM. 1t remains for US to
,row more sensible, establish home
huy of them. foster