The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-10-12

there be q way devised by the inge
nuity of man to grow more Rrofita
bly, wheat and corn that method
should be employed. If it is JUS
as cheap and far more profitable to
raise choice breeds of stock than il
lie to bring to The market the inferi'
or scrub, one would suppose thu
farmer would manifest q cores
ponding iaterest in the science Of
stock breeding. If one-half Of his
industry is consumed in transport
ing his products to market, would
il not be profitable for the producer
togive the subject thong htful study
and il possible devise q remedy,
MyJpersonsl experience has been
very limited It is true, but have
yetto receive single voluntary
communication upon the subject OF
the development of our material in.
teresis, while there has been q most
lavish correspondence relating al
most exclusively to the federal pat
ronage. The question of cheap
transportati0n is OF The frat impor-
tance to every interest of tho state,
aud especially to agriculture. Yet
fear onr farmers and business men
devote 70 ttoo little consideration.
The seVenty-six millions of bushels
of corn you produced in 1875,
brought you but sixteen millions OF
dollars; but the same number Of
bushels, raised the same year, in the
state OF Massachusetts,, Rhode Is
iand, Connecticut, New York and
Pennsylvania rewarded its produc-
ers with fifty millions of dollars.
Your twelve millions of bushels of
wheat Of TINT year were worth to
you but eleven millions OF dollars
whereas the same number of BUSH
els, produced the same season, by
the states of Maryland, Delaware,
New Jersey and New York real
lied the producers sixteen millions
of dollars. Your loss in the two
crops mentioned in that year was
thirty eight millions of dollars.
How many years will it take, at q
loss of fifty millions of dollars per
year, to move US to action respect
ing this subject? 1t may be impes-
sible to avoid the whole of this
great annual loss, but it is quite
possible to save q large part of it.
Much can be done yet in the way
OF cheapening transportation aud
much more in the way of judicious
consumption. Nearly one-half can
be saved by putting your corn into
beef and pork, and it will be 8
proud day for Kansas when every
farmer shall feed his entire crop OF
corn instead of selling pound.
If our government should seri-
ously consider the expediency OF
appropriaiing half the sum we thus
loose in one year stimulating lines
Of steamships to carry cheaply our
products into the markets of the
world, some of US would get
hoarse with bowling against subsi-
dies, although this policy on the
part of England and other great
powers, practiced for years, has ex-
cluded US from a foreign trade, for
the need of which every industry
we have 10 suffering. 1t is worthy
of profound consideration whether
congress may not by judicious leg
isletion augment our foreign trade.
Labor is unemployed because of the
| absence of a market for our pro-
auctions. If the government car
adopt q policy that will secure such
q market, we shall find ample en-
ployment for our skilled labor, now
and for all future time. Almost
every foreign land offers US 8 mar
ket for our industrial products, but
the fact is we as government have
neglected our foreign trade. The
difficulty does not lie in our inabil-
ity to produce as good an article as
cheaply as our sister nations who
have a monopoly of very much OF
this trade. Silk manufacturing
Paris is buying our silk fabrics
CutlerY-making Sheffield is buying
our cutlery. CottOn-making Man.
chester is buying our cotton goods
and we are supplying arms and mu.
| nitions of war to some of the great
est foreign powers and we are sell
ing abroad some railway rolling
tstock, but all this is the feeble etfor
of private enterprise, unaided by
the federal government, aud it il
simply impossible that unaided pri-
vate enterprise can compete with
the subsidized enterprise of othel
nations. England, France, Austria
Prussia, and other foreign powers
nourish lavishlv,S judiclonsiy and
zealOusly foreign market for theiI
1 productions, and thereby every
part of the civilized world is made
to contrihntc.rm Employment for theil
laboribg millions. These powerful
lnations have immense subsidized
lines of steamers carrying theil
goods into every partof the popu
lated earth, and unassisted enter
prise has found it impossible to car
ry our products low enough to en-
able us to market them beside TIT
products of snch foreign countries
Let England withdraw her patron
age from her vast carrying trad,
and her labor will be pauperizeC
and her mines and factories viii
lapse into deathless inactivity. Ga
Igovernment will mud it useless tt
inquire how it is that England cal
get her raw cotton within three
hundred miles Of the West Indies
take it to her factories and then eel
the manu- factnred article in the
West India market, having trans
Iported it eight thousand miles, TO
less than we can cell the same arti
Gle in the same market, having blu
two thousand miles of transports
ton. If we can connect ourselves
with the markets of the world b.
the came means, and thereby secure
the same cheapness of transporta
ton, the superiority of very many
of our fabrics, and the unsurpassed
genius and enterprise of our PEG
pie will enable rs to compete will
any other nation among men, ant
place as at the very front of com
mercial, industrial and maFatimt
powers. ] do not pretend to suf
ficient wisdom to affirm that, on
government should in this respec
adopt the policy OF the other great
nations have mentioned, but / MAJ
at least be pardoned for saying thai
our struggling industries and oul
distressed labor appeal with irresist
able force for serious consideration
of any subject that promises then
the needed relief, and possibly oul
craftsmanship could be exerteC
quite as happily in establishing in
d ustrial activity as in the discussion
of irredeemable mistakes of q wei
meaning and patriotic president
, There is q needless supply of partiZal