Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-03-07
Railroads assd the West.

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Does Not Pay" the Chicago lnter-Ocean dis
cusses the disadvantages ofthe western states
/, as compared with the eastern, and charges
the very decided difference in the compara-
tive prosperity OF tile sections entirely To- the
high railroad reighjs.s4 lias sseemss to- us a.
! singular iniseofCeption. Whatever ffiag,ssn
the sins Of the great railroad. they have cer-s
! fainly proved an enormous benefit instead Of
! an injury, to the agricultural west. Or in the
too great encouragement they have afforded
that richly endowed region to depend almost
wholly upon distant markets. The Inter-
Ocail points to The fact that In Rhode slsland
the amount Of. wealth pr capsy9
Increased from $775 to ST, 1856 II in 1870, while
IN illinois the average had reached only 1858, go
ana III Ohio only $s3s.64 per. capita in 1875
These being two of the richest and best
1 agricultural. states in the union, such large
disproportion between their average wealth
PEE head and that Of''tlie barren little state OF
I Rhode fsland' is naturally considered res
hlafkaDie. The explanation, however, is
simple enough, and is to be found in the tact
that Rhode Island, like Pennylya,lia: has
an almost perfected system of diversified
| industries. The farmers receive at their
doors the very highest price for their produce
which ispad anywhere i'm the country, Tha
IN nufactures, on the other hand, !, make d
surplus, which has to be sent to other parts
OF the country, hnI that surplus is in the.
form OF goods representing a large amount of
labor, and therefore a large value In. pre-
portion to their weight and bulk; and etsoifsi
quenslY is marketed at very small percent
| age ofexpence for transportation But the
Wes1 because its fertile praires are SO we'll
| aaafsed to agriculture, has devoted itsseher-
gles aud Labor to that business almost exclu-
EsiYely, neglecting to establish manufactures.
! TO aay considerable extent. Hence the farm
ers constitute the great majority of the pop-
| ulatlon, and being unable to sell their grail,
hogs, cattle and potatoes to one another ares
Obliged to send it to the seaboard sfatns and
across the ocean to Europe. But under anv
system, Transportation, it must cost heayi-
Fiy 70 carry such crude commodities from
one thousand to four thousand miles, and
Eour Westernfriends need expect nothing else
Doubtless railroad freights are too high and
undoubtedly system Of water communiea-
tlon would greatly diminish the cost of trans,
portatlon; bur it must always be unsatisfac-
tory and IN the long run losing business
for the farmers in the Mississippi valley to-
seek market for their coarser products east
sof the Alleghanies, UNTIL the industries ,of
tnat valley can be better diversified. and'
increasing mills. factories, furnaces and
mlres create a home demand, let til EN- grow
less corn and wheat, and turn more OF thnarrs
attention to such crops as fax, sugar .baets.
sorghum cane. and the plants from which,
the essential oils are obtained The refined
products of these and other like crops are so
much more valuable in proportion to their
Dulk than grain and flour that the cost Of ex.;
porting would not proyeia heary.tax.e ts5s's.!F
g a superficial study of the subject might
make lC seem to be best for the east thar the
west should ALWAYS remain purely agricul-,
tural region, so that it should afford cheant
1000 Ior our operatives and be even depend
ent upon our mills for manufactured eoods.y
bal experience shows that the wealth and
prosperity OF each section are best promoted
by whatever enriches the others. Our coun-
try IS now great fndivisible unit, and the.
interests of the various parts are in a largef
sense identical. The exclusive agricultural
system which. exhausted and Impoverished
the south reflected its, mi uriops effects even
upon the north, ai1d SO, If tile now FERTILE
lands OF the Mississippi valley should be de-
pieted by the always exhaustive system Of
shipping away what is virtually the soil
Itself IN the form of crude products, ahe mani
east would be the first to feel the s
depressing effects Upon trade of every kind.
we cannot afford to let the west grow poor
lhongh being exclusively agricultural any
better than can the west itself afford to pur-
sue so ruinousa policy.
The JEws.-Two thousand of the thirty
thousand Jews In London.have embraced the
,hrlstlan religion. and are worthy members,
IF the different churches. In Berlin. two
'iousand OF eighteen thousand have been con-
1erfed There were, about three years ago,
wenty-eight professors at the uniyersitx
Who had been converted from Judaism. The
otal number of Jews in Europe amounts to
hree million four hundred and tllirty-one
thousand and seven hundred of whom twenty.
housand have embraced the Christian relI-
sion. In the Episcopal Church in England
here are hundred clergymsn who were
'orn Jews. There is at present great revi-.
al among the Jews Poland. Among the con-
erts is former rtbbi who is now laboring
cry successfully for the spread of the gospel
mong the children Of Abraham.
kossUTH.-Kossuth, the remarkable orator
nd reforner, lives an exile in Turin, in pow
rty and seclusion, though each year elected
the Hungarian Par Iliament, and with hosts
{ friends calling him baek.te Hungary. He
as grown very gray and oldIooking, it Is