The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-16

cultured the harvssts something sharp.
er than the American ak hath hewed
down our forests; something heavier
than the American hammer hath built
our cities. He who walked Gennesaret
hath traveTsea our lakes. He who
helped Simon Pster, with his net'hath
blessed our fisheries He who plucked
the ears of corn, rubbing them in his
hands, hath helped gather oHr harvests.
He who planned aud defended Jerusa-
lem hath built our cities. He who tar
ried at Bethany bath set all around ns
the villages. Not ships keel but He
helped TO set it, or wheels tire bat he
helped to forge ii, or buck wheat bios
som but He grew 1t or robins wing
but He tinged il. Praise the dnanciers,
praise the farmers, praise the archi-
tects, praise the mechanics, praise the
manufacturers, praise the industrious
heads and hands and hearts and feet
but, above all, praise the Lord for His
goodness, and for his wonderful works
to the children of me-.
And now for the perOration OF my SER
mon. Sometimes public speakers close
with a poetic stanza, sometimes with
sublime imagery; bnt my peroration will
be such as you never heard, for the rea
son rat it never before could have been
made-a perOration not of rhetorical
figures, bnt of business figures. Yet to
every man wno loves his country aud
the prosperity Of his family it will be as
sublime a. John Milton. Indeed, 1t is
" Paradise Regained."
This year IN this country there has
been corn produced to the amount of
1000 600 600 bushels: nominal value,
$500 600 600. give only the larger fly
ures, and | give III 'm deliberately, that
friends'if they wish, may take them,
since | have them from undisputed
authority. Corn produced, 200 600 600
bu, htls; nominal value 5000 900 600.
Wheat, 800 600 600 bushels; nominal
value 5000 OOOOOO. The cotton crop in
1860 3 600 00J bales; over 6 900 600 bales
this year, or 2 700 100000 poundsj value,
$500 600 900 The rice crop in 1865,
worth only $3.50 900 but in 1880 worth
81 500 900 0ur annual product of petro
leum, 15 600 900 barrels Sixteen mil
lion swine slaughtered for the market.
Exports of pork beef lard and bacon to
the value OF $87 7l9 600. Fresh meats
and live stock exported to the value of
500, 1856 000 Breadstuff5 exported to the
value OF $279. III 900. Cotton, petroleum
and tobacco exported to the value Of
$745,697 900 The foreign consumption
of cotton for the wear it is estimated,
will be about 5000 900 bales. OF this
total amount. about 1000 900 bales are
expected from India, Egypt, Brazil, Peru
and Turkey, and the rem aiming 900 900
bales will be wanted from the United
States. The South can afford to let poll.
tics go and attend to cotton. Hark to
the three last corn crops. l do not he
Ieve Won have noticed them. In 1873
l 1856, 900 900 bushels; in 1879 544 00O,-
600 bushels; in 1880, 1000 900 600 bush.
eIs. There never WAS sucn story told
IA this. Let it be told for the glory of
he great God of the harvest. The ex.
port of corn is now ahout 100 600 600
bushels in grain, and 100 100000 bushels
more in the for, of pork, &c TIE
wheat crop in 1879-a vear of prosperity
unprecedented-waI AS 900 600 bushels;
in 1880 500 900 600 bushels. what, think
you, are we coming to in abundance
when l tell YOU that only part of the
continent yields any thingP When the
Northern Pacific Railroad gets through,
all these resources will be multiplied.
Mr. D4rymple, of Dakota Territory, has
a farm Of fifty Thousand acres. Ia har.
vest time he has one hundred and fifty
machine rea ers aud binders going al
the same time. The different divisions
of his farm are connected by telephone.
Thirty steam threshing machines going
at the same tine. Men in corps, like
an army, Hi7 farm this year has yielded
four hundred aud thirty two thousand
bushels wheat or nine hundred car.
loads Mr. Granda's farm has twenty.
five thousand acres. Mr.. Cass' farm
fifteen thousand, Mr.. Cneney's farm tif
t en- thousand, Mr.. WIlliams's farm fif
teen thousand. TIE product of all those
regions is oaly limited by the means of
transportation to market. All the world
our debtor, and to be more 80. The pur.
chase of American railroad securities
will keep the tide of gold stronger and
stronger this way, Besides this for.
eign population Of more elevated kind
than has ever come to this country
nultitudes of them averaging $500 to
81 900 in their possession. Four hum
dred and fifty five thousand four hun
dred and ninety-dve immigrants this
year and not TO exhaust but to enrich
the country. If any man has been in
Great Britain within the last two years,
he finds out that style If person is
coming to this country-a style of emf
grafton that has never been equaled.
Last Sabbath morning, last Sabbath
night, l shook hands with men at the
tojt of this platform who are on their
way from Eng and to the Far West,
there to earn their fortunes. Four hun
dred ald fly thousand tour hundred
and ninety five immigrants Now let
all financial and political croskers go
into their rat. holes, and all grateful men
and women to dnnerl