The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1873-04-03

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their corn bring 49, . higbef pg6ce 1t
their doors. 70 IL shinkisg man, two
means Of accomplishing this object arc
evident One, tassing their grain into
cattle and hogs; The Other. building up
manufactures among themselves, thus
creating largo food-consuming popula-
ton, who are not food producers. Both
of these means are good, bat for the per-
manent welfare Of the country, the later
is the best; yet, while giving it the pre-
ference, it need not b followed to the
exclusion of the other, for manufactur.
ing population arc - much consumers
Of meat 20 Of bread and als0 the erec-
ton of manufactures in the west is not
likely to lessen the manufacturing in the
east, or the demand for food beyond the
capibalit,cs of tho immediate neighbor-
hood of the factories to produce. There
is no part Of our vast country where
corn can be produced so cheaply As on
the rich plains of Nebraska and Kansas,
the fats of Missouri, the Platte, or the
Neosho hence the planters on those
lands can make more from that crop
than any other. At the same time there
is no part of country but the south which
will grow cotton, and there arc special
lands on which it grows at such profit
- to exclude the idea cf any other crop
such special lands - are adapted to il
peculiarly, and when planting thereon
the owner can better afford to buy corn
than to raise it. The west can send this
corn to them, and should receive their
cotton in exchange. These lands Of the
south will thus be enabled to raise more
cotton and the west more corn. In the
cool, bracing climate Of the west the cot
ton can be manufactured with as
equal readiness - in New England. If
Lowell canafford to haul corn from Iowa
and Nebraska, and cotton from Missis-
sippi, we can see no reason Why Nebras-
ka and Iowa cannot affOHd TO haul cotton
from the low swamp lands of the south.
1t is rs cold in winter in Lowell a. in
Nebraska, Iowa or Kansas, and the city
Of spindles has no advantage of good
locations over those States either in sum-
mer climate or hcalthfullness. The
great rivers which connect the west and
the sunny south indicate sufficiently
the interchange of commodities which
nature has destined should be made. II
every water power in Nebraska Iowa,
Kansas and Missouri is employed in
driving spindles and looms, and around
them gather the living beings who must
tend and direct the machinery, there
will be found i I each one of those States
u market for all tho grain they now pro-
ducc, and the craving, east will demand
all the increase brought forth by the
constant immigration. And while arg-
ing these views We do not believe that
the building of manufactures in the
west will al all inju,e those IN the New
England States. Of all our great cotton
product not one forth Of it is consumed
within our own borders, and ut the same
time we import millions Of dollars
worth of cotton goods. The quantity
which yearly passes westward through
the State Of Nebraska, If manufactured
within her borders, would soon make
her one of the first States of the Union.
Hence, without stopping the process of
converting corr into pork and beef, We
would also turn some OF it into cotton,
and manufacture that cotton into yarns
and cloths, in sight Of tho land where
the cotton is produced. No country can
become permanently wealthy which is
not, in par,, at least . manufacturing re-
gion.
We have briefly presented only
ono view of this important matter. The
vast plains of Laramie and Wyoming,
the mountains of Colorado, Idaho and
Montana invite the production Of sheep
and with them is opened to the enter
prising manufacturer another means of
employing the loom and spindle. And
VIC might go still further, and speak Of
agricultural implements and machinery.
Each and every character Of manufac-
ture can DO made to aid in giving fa-
vorable solution TO the question which
now worries the mind of the western
planters: What shall do! Will it pay
10 raise corn any longer !-Nep York