The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-27
WHOLE NO 952
From the Penn Monthly.
The Farmers, 1HfstlOD.

ing, some think, for the organization OF a new
political party, while others are active IN per-
verting ii to the interests OF the free-traders.
These last are particularly active and at Chi
cago, where some OF the papers have mania
on this subject, there is food OF defamation.
ostensibly leveled at the wrongs the farmers
suffer through the protective features OF the
tariff.
No doubt the farmers DC suffer very serious
losses through the cost O, getting 70 market.
1t is result inseparable from the greater tact
Of having their market at distance, and it ia
a law OF all markets that those who have crude
products to sell must pay the cost OF exchang-
ing them for money and goods wherever the
money and 8oods are to be found. When the
market is in England and not nearer, the Iii
nois farmer must bear the cost OF sending to
England. say 1000 miles at lesst. When the
market is at New York he has 5000 miles less
of transportation to pay for. and some chance
to get paying prices. Now why cannot little
reason be applied to the case, and better re-
suit limited at of creating consuming market
in the cities Of Illinois? This is 80 obvious d
truth, and 20 clear as a mode OF reher, that it
seems incredible that the farmers fall to zee IT.
All through the West the demand for manufac-
tured goods is enormous, and so well sustained
it's his demand that production could scarcely
go amiss IN supplying it. Every form Of text
tile fabrlcs every form OF manufactured meta!s,
plain goods and fancy goods, necessaries and
luxunes alike, are eagerly sought add almost
recklessy consumed by all classes in the West.
10 fha i,,at IA ,,a
dustries which exist at the East aud in England
and to establish them successfully IN field
from which they could never stterWard be
driven. Now is the time for the grangos to
signalze their organization by bringing Eng
| land to their presence and 10 thor feet, by
transpanting the industries by Which their
necessary merchandise liz prepared FOR them 70
the warteI-power and steam-power ct the grow
ing Western cities.
Instead Of being an argument FOR tree trade,
this revolt Of the grapges is the most compact
and overwhelming of demonstrations that free
trade IL impossible without rum At tho pres
ent time perhaps one-fourth OF tho surplus OF
Western grain and provsion-growInS goes out
of the country to lind a market liz Europe,
! lalf the entire production is consumed in the
United States. in sections more or less remote
| from the state OF origin. Three or youT times
the amount exported s alrea6y coDsu1ned at
home, and in other States than those OF pro-
ductlon but the baleful shadow Of tho foreign
market does much to damage Snd embarrass
the home markets or the East. suppose the
present enormous consumption OF tho manu-
featuring States OF the East dirniIisbed one
/ half or one-third, as it would surely be " the
protective features of the tariff wero repealed
Where then would be the relief Of tire farmer?
Suppose the only competitors IN tho market to
buy corn, flour or meat were fore,Go buyers-
where would the price be, and what would be
| left to the farmer after the railroad wss paid ?
| Relief is only to be had by bringing con-
sumers to the farmers door, Mahe Chicago,
perverse as 1t is, manufacturing city. Build
| in hundred interior towns duplicates OF the
factories and workshops OF the East, and emu
late the fixed and triumphantly sucoessful pol
! icy which has made the Eastern c,lies great.
Aid the enterprising man who proposes to es-
tabsh manufactures by every meane IN your
power, and assure that so far as possible the
! National policy shall be sustained by WHICH
alone lie can resist foreign competition.
! Organize for a sensible and practical busi-
ness purpose, and by such organization
you can remove exactons that are oner-
ous and annoying, il any such exist on the
part of the railroads but do no: permit your
self to be handed over to political schemegs, or
to free trade theorists. The railroads VIII con-
fer service on the West if they iDcte home
development. Magnificent industries IN wood,
cotton, IRON and copper may as easily be started
| In Illinois as in Philadelphia. Here these in
dustries make 5iG0, 900, 600 worth Q! exchange
able products yearly, and, ss a consequence, all
classes are prosperous. ard all markets are
| good.
The railroads are badly managed, 1t IL quite
likely, but Will not the farmers manage better
than anybody has yet suggested TO them oy
creating markets at their own dooIs, and by
exchanging products at the lowest minimum
of cost II they will, they need never regret
the movement they made, nor even the mis-
takes into which they NAV he led By tue ne"
infusion Of energy that incites them TO action.
4 JuDICIoUs BESEFACroR. The toUe9e
Courant printed at New Haven. Conn, has
the following: ave know OF no man who is
doing better work in quiet way for Western
colleges than the Hon. Pbilo Parsons, OF De-
troit. It Is but short time since he presented
Michigan University with the celebrated iau
library Recently he presented the same col
lege with complete set OF the '' Encyclopedia
NIethodioue." Olivet College, Michigan. has ro-
caivea n number Of his benefsctlone. One OF
its professors every month receiyes h's salary
from him. Il is not Nir. Parsons way TO give
4 large amount at once and make large
splurre about It, but rather to seek out the
present urgent needs of a weak college and
be,p II in the tlmo Of its need. Mas many
such noble men be raised up
Ex-Governor Enos T, Throop, who was in
Congress under the speakershp OF 'Henry
Cuev (1a1g-1eO \ and succeeded Martin Van