Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-11-08
LETTER FROM ILLINOIS.
Turner, ILL. Oct. %, 1880.

the West are really united by strong
bond of common interest. AS the new
West opens up, the old West takes on
the habitual industries of the East.
And these new industries of the West
are not sapping the older ones of the
East either. For your cotton mills,
wooden factories and boot and shoe in
tcrests, we have no competition but
our manufactures are the development
Of our own peculiar needs. The demand
for bridges, railroad equipments, min
ing machinery, lumber, furniture, ETC.,
grows with the West.
The secretary of the Chicago Board
of Trade has just completed canvass
of the city for the statistics of her man
ufactories. He reports the total num-
Der of manufactures in the city and
suburbs of Chicago at 1852, employing
1l3,507 persons, and requiring capi-
tai of $8O.692,lO2. The product of
the year ending last May amounted to.
$253, ,405,69l. Some of the larger
items of this production are: Slaugh-
tering and meat packing, S8l, 9,070;
mems clothing SIT ,423, ,6o7 +; iron works,
rolled, cast, and wrought, Sl5,673,-
624; bridges and railroad rolling stock
and repairing, s8,O3o,398; planning
mills, sash, door, and box making, S.
8l,281; furniture $7,188,278; job |
printing, book binding and publishing,
81, ,126,577 linseed oil, white lead,
lead pipe, etc. 1926, ,l44; lard oil
oleomargarine, stearine, etc. $685.
500; rectifying and compounding spir-
its, s5,O25, ,22O.
During a recent visit to Rockford.
, one of our beautiful cities of about A.
| 900 inhabitants, your correspondent
visited nearly all the factories of that
thriving burg In passing from shop to
shop,-the extensive "foot- power ma
chinery works of W. F. and John
Barnes. N. G. Thompson's plow factory
and the bolt factories, woven wire works,
paper mills etc., ETC., where hundreds of
men were busy, and hundreds of wheels
were humming, the conviction that the
city's very existence depended upon its
manufactures. Afterwards a ride
through the beautiful streets, in view of
the comfortable, and often elegant
houses of these workmen, enforced
thought of the superior condition of the
artizans and mechanics of America.
Our industries are developing more than
business prosperity and consequent COM
Portable homes: but are of such char
acter as to develop intelligence, and
provide for the schooling of brain-pow-
er. DR.. Edwards, well-known and OBJ
serving editor, of Chicago, said to me
in conversation, that the intelligent
faces and we'll shaped heads, to be seen
in the works of w. T. and John Barnes,
would not suffer when put in compari-
son with the Congress of the United
States, and in only one establishment
had he seen their superiors in this re-
spect-that of Smith and Wessen.
These rapidly increasing industries of
the West are bringing the East and
Vest into closer fellowship, and will
make their political interests one. To
show how fully your leader, above re-
ferred to, is in sympathy with this
growing spirit of the West, l quote from
a non-political Chicago paper:
''The industrial parade in Chicago on
the afternoon of Oct. 23rd, was unexpect-
number from L, 900 to Is, 900 were in line
either on foot or in vehicles of various
sorts, bearing banners and devices all de-
nunciatory of free trade, and approving
|
trades simulated the plying of their voca-
tions, and some twenty brass bands were
in line. The procession occupied about
an hour in passing single point
The intense interest in the present
political canvass is like unto that of
1860. Many of our older and wiser
men feel that we are truly passing a
great crisis. The Rock River Confer
ence (Dr. Fowler, of the Grant inter-
) view belongs to that body,) of the Meth
odist Episcopal church. was in session
when the returns came in from the Oc-
, tober elections. Wednesday morning a
messenger came in quietly and handed
dispatch to the secretary of the Con-
, ference, announcing that Indiana had
gone Republican by from 1000 to 5000
: majority. and gained at least two con-
0 gressmen, while the Legislature was Re-
publican on joint ballot. When the
' secretary read the dispatch scene oc-
: CURED that beggars description. The
!, spontaneous outburst of applause was
. deafening and long continued. Some
!, of the old men shouted '.Amen!" and
: 'Glory to God !" others wept, and then
e the entire body-one man alone excepted
n sang heartily, praise God from whom
. all blessings fow.'' Then the white
t head of the venerable DIR. Hitchcock
+ was seen rising above the congregation,
e and taking the platform, said he came
:, forward to make an explanation. '.lt