The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-11-20

war the cotton crops reached their
height, at about 100000 of bales,
though that was reached only three
times, in what is called the most pros
porous period of the South. After
the war the crops were for a time
comparatively small; but in this year
Q673) the crop is 100000 bales!
Six years ago it was two millions of
bales. Again, Louisiana had fallen
very much in the crops of sugar; but
now, the accounts from there say the
sugar crop is large, and the planters
from their holes. But to the present
point. The export of our produce is
increasing at most rapid rate, and
it must go on while we have pound
or bushel of anything to send. 1
looked over the exports of New York
last week, and found that 100000
bushels of wheat, $4,000 bushels of
corn, and 10000 barrels of petroleum
had left New York in one day. and,
happily, the ships from Europe were
coming in empty. The empty head
ed political economists of the free
trade school say you cannot export
when you do not import. I rather
think a man that is starving will give
his money and diamonds (if he has
any to buy bread, whether you i'm
port anything or not. The nonsense
of that argument was exploded by
the civil war John G. Calhoun,
Hamilton IS. c., and others of that
school had penetrated the South with
this miserable stuff, until the South
exploded, and its ruins are the test
of that political dogma. Our follies
have filed the purse of Europe; but
for one year we shall stop that folly.
We shall feed Europe, aud in that
feeding find the remedy for our fnan
cial follies.
3. OUR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
Hereis our grand success. You may
talk of your political economy; your
financial theories; your railroads and
grangers; but it is labor which creates
wealth. 1t is labor only which will
bring you out of difficulties, and it is
the God given law that you shall live
by labor or you are not worthy to live.
''Labor vincit omnia."
Now, here comes another of our
grand successes. Never on earth
did nation progress in industry as
ours has in the last twenty years, and
the future, for at least one genera
alton, will be like the past. Now, let
us take a few striking facts. Take
iron for one thing:
Tons
Iron produced in 1860. =. 100000
Iron produced in 1873. 100000
Ten years had doubled the product
of iron in this country, and the iron
manufacture is leaving Great Britain
to come to America Of that fact
there is no doubt Weare exporting
locomotives, sewing machines, agri-
cultural implements, and many other
manufactures ma le out of iron.
Four years ago pig iron was in Gin
cinnati $22 per ton, and to-day S44,
notwithstanding this prodigious in
crease in the production. The pro-
luction will go on until we make more
IRON than all Europe.
A little while ago we heard means
over the loss of shipbuilding, and we
were told it was the tariff, which had
no more to do with it than with the
last spring chickens. Now, every
ship yard in New England is alive.
I saw a shipof 1000 tons just launch
ed at Newburyport, whose masts 80
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feet in length came from Northern
Maine, and that was one among
many. And we shall build ships for
Europe soon, until we make our coun
try the great center of advancing in
lustry, as it is of freedom and hap
piness. We now exportiron plates for
the ships built on the Clyde. We shall
soon build the greatest part of the
shipping of the world. Where mind
is free, there will be the greatest in
vention. Where coal and iron are
cheap, there will be the greatest
manufacturers. When I described,
in the GAZETTE, the wonderful coal
and iron mines of Southern Ohio, /
described for the future wealth be-
yond the dreams of avarice. I describ-
ed the heart of a vast industry. !
described the elements of a power
greater than that of all human inven-
ton; and that power belongs to the
working man. Then let him look up.
Let him feel, even in the lowliness of
any present condition, that God has
given to him the power of the earth.
and let him be worthy of it. We
hear of tens of thousands of laboring
men thrown out of employment by
the reckless gambling of men whom
the world calls respectable. But let
them bide their time In a few
months every furnace, mill, and work
shop in the country will seek their
labor. Men can't grow millionaires
without the laborer, and they must
have him at any price. They will re
duce his wages to-day, but they will
raise them tomorrow. Next summer
money will be abundant Labor will
) be in demand, and the country will
rise like giant refreshed, and these
petty troubles will all be brushed
} away. For the present let the work
men be patient, the Christian CHART
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