The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-14

ing it, but for the purpose of bringing it
into the benehcient grasp that makes all
things contribute to the welfare Of all with
in his reach. Such is our giant, not like
the hobgoblins children read of in primmcrs.
not like your Jack, the Giant Killer, but a
splendid bene6cient giant. that takes
children in his hand, holds them mp to see
the beauties of the world, and turns to
their mothers and says take whatever toll
ing millions in less happy lands can pro
duce, and Eere is the power to buy it far
cheaper than you can make it. You haye
one competitor; that is
THE ROUTE BY THE ST. LAWRENCE.
And when they speak of ice and snow l
suppose they will hardly vaunt the advan-
tages Of the st. Lawrence route over ours.
You have one competitor lin the world
in the production Of wheat-Russia.
While we have stood still under a bad
policy for the development of our means of
transportation, Russia has rapidly progress.
ed. She has opened canals. She has
opened the mouths of rivers; she has built
vast lines Of railroads, and last year her
production of wheat exceeded that of the
United States.
Stand not still my friends! Be up and
doing. You have the advantage in every
thing except in the density Of your popula-
ton and that propose now to show you
how you shall overcome. When this large
class Of ships, which have referred to, as
necessary to the trade, have been intro
duced, and a regular line running from
Liverpool to New Orleans, then you H.h
receive large body of
IMMIGRANTS
to the Mississippi valley. They will come
here because the man and his wife and
children have large amount Of luggage
and furniture to bring with them, and they
can come cheaper by that route to the
mouth of the Mississippi. From there
steamboats, that carry low freight will
carry themselves and their luggage with
them up the mouth Of the Mississippi even
as high as Fort Benton or st. Paul. They
will carry them cheaper than they can
travel from any of our Atlantic ports by
rail.
Then again there is another popularity
We are blessed people, and l love tc
dwell upon our blessings. Go out of the
mouth of the Mississippi you fall into the
current of the Gulf of Mexico; you drift
with this, free from the freezing cold of the
northeastern coast, until you get opposite
the South Cape of Ireland and there cross
to Liverpool. The warm water Of the gul
stream tempers the air throughout you
voyage until you reach the mild climate o
the south of ireland and England. In re
turning you take the polar stream tina
stream that flows from the polar seas to
wards the south, and you run down the
coast of France and Spain, touching a
one or both countries and taking on the
teemiug population which is seeking som'
foreign land, and bring them round b!
this Polar current until you reach the
Azores, and then you have only from Their
to New Orleans, with the benefit of al
ocean stream. We can have, as it were
all the way down stream; and we brin
) this way emigrants, not only from Bingham
but Germany, from France, from Spain
from Portugal, from Switzerland, and fror
: Italy, and your hills will thus become wine
clad like the hills of the Rhine, and if the
are not as celebrated in song yet they ma
be as celebrated in fruit and wines as 20
haya already shown the capacity of you
Q country to produce them. You, Ike you
s fathers, have been cultivating the virgi
soil. You have not had occasion thus ia
to grapple with those questions for the
o PRESERVATION OF THE FERTILITY o
IS SOILS,
q which in older countries have been a n,
e cessity; but you must come to this. Yo
p must come to ADMINISTRATION ofthe cha
n acter of your soils, the manures whic
e they require, and the additions which al
ID necessary to them. This is the SCI
y ond step. l don't mean that you ha7
u to take that to- day or tomorrow; the ruC
W manner in which we have cultivated OF
Of rich land in the Mississippi valley W
ne answer for awhile, but your children h;
s; as we'll be learning what they do els
a where. For instance, you sometimes col
ne plain that drenching rains tear your Gro
" to pieces. Now, believe me, that is /
at cause you don't pillow deep enough. Y
ne pillow, suppose, on the average, abo
le, four inches; WELL maybe you pillow five
is don't know; in the midland counties
lst England they plough IA or Is, and VIII
ia necessary they put in FIVE horses in
Id pillow. aud each horse will weigh twice
an much as Missouri horse, and they te
En- very deep, Is or Is inches deep; and tn
Dr. there should be learned the discoveries
cir agricultural chemistry as to what is
* qulred in addition to natural soils,
ug day there are fields that have been t
es and three centuries annually cultivate
which Yield more than any acre in t
Is United States. So while have not ask
cir you to grapple three difficult problems