Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-01-28
MISSOURI IMMIGRATION.
Henry Clay Dean Tells How to Make
{ is State Queen of the Continent.

He says: Let Millions OF Sphdies
Make Murmurlng Music-Let Fur.
naces Light up-Cease Being Il Cali
Pasture for Illinois"
In recent issue OF the Globe Dem
oerat appeared lengthy article from
the pen of Hon. Henry Clay Dean, I'M
der the above caption. We give our
readers few of his best points. hoping
that our citizens will read. ponder and
awake from their lethargy:
The period of extensive manufacture
ing to keep pace with our sister States
has arrived for Missouri We have
passed the age Of the sylvan dei,ics
the hunter by profession must 90
farther West. The 5, ttlcmen. of oui
land. and the destiny Of our population
will no longer admit of the immense
herds OF cattle which now Craze on the
public lands of Texas and the Western
frontier. Stock raising hereafter must
be generally confined to the lands own
ed By the herdsman. Hencciorth WE
must establish manufactures To en-
nance the value and support the increas-
ing agricultural interests Of the State
This will bring a market to our doors
for everything we have to sell. which
will save the expense of transportation
increase the price and bring the produc-
er and consumer face to face: will unite
capital and labor in common interest,
increase their mutual profits and secure
their cooperation in the general pro-
duction for the market of the world.
MISSOURI MIST. IN sELF-DEFENsE.
extend her manufacturing interest to
utilize her strength. vigOr and youth.
Our virgin forests. of marvellous wealth,
are being despoiled Of their most valu-
able timber to enrich strangers. These
forests ought to he wrought into furni-
ture, machinery, and wooden imple-
ments by the hands of our skilled work
men.
Our lead, zinc and minor metals
should be refined by workmen among
us, who can share with us the legitl-
mate gain. Wool growers and grow
ers of fruit can find room to engage in
their vocations by the unfailing
streams of clear water of southern
Missouri, and establish manufactures
where the workmen may have homes
of their own to enjoy Of the wealth
they produce for others. The hea thy
salubrious climate and mild tempera-
ture of the southern and western bor-
der of the State will amply repay cap
ital invested in cotton mills, where the
cotton grows, where there need be no
transportation of the raw material. or
of the food for the workmen. With
her climate, soil, mineral and timber,
her agricultural and pastoral resour-
ces, she is equal to the production of
everything to which the hand OF indus
try, energy and enterprise may be APP
piled.
Why should Missouri send her
stock cattle to be fattened in Illinois,
and then sell the corn with which they
should be fattened to the elevators of
Chicago and New York, exhausting
its value in transportation Why
should we sell our most valuable TIM
Der ut ruinous prices to manufacture
crs one thousand miles away, then
buy it back in furniture at exhorbltant
rates. when we have the ready means
of manufacturing the same article 3
Not for ourselves, but for others who
could buy Of US cheaper, and add the
workmen and their families to our
population, and their production to
our wealth. Why should Missouri
send off the profits of her immense
pastoral and agricultural products to
build up mammoth manufactures In
the neighboring States who subsidize
our wealth and lay as under perpetual
tribute for farm machinery and other
articles which we could manufacture
without possible competition, which is
true of all our agricultural implements!
1t is reproach to our enterprise and
energy to longer continue to buy
nails from Pittsburg and Wheeling
whilst St. Louis refreshes herself under
the shadow of the Iron .dountain.
Mr.. Dean. after giving various sta.
,,st;cal tables, in regard to Missouri
and her sister States for the decades
1920 to 1870. says.
In 1870 Missouri entered the census
lists with population OF l.!2l,295.
ranking as the fifth State in the Union,
having IN this decade passed MasSachu-
setts. Indiana and Virginia, Illinois be-
ing the fourth State. crowdlng ONO
closely on the census table. This Won
derful growth of the State Is but the be-
of the future which til, people
had in their hands to shape. The fu-
ture of Missouri depends entirely upon
her enterprise in building up a system
of manufactures upon which she has
scarcely entered as compared with her
capacity. .,,.:,.
he says: -,
ambition, energy and enterprise OF Mis-
souri, to take her true position IN the
I MON and to be what nature has IN
tended her to he. the great central State
# ihe Government. To reach her des-
tiny she must not be the calf pasture OF
M the commission warehouse OF the
States to rob and M
poverish her own people. Let us INIT
ate the example of Peter the Great, VINO
invited the skilled workmen OF the
world to people and improve his country.
,et millions of spindles make their muir
muring music beside :he cotton-'lelcs
eft our bluegrass fields be covered
with herds of sheep by the side Of the
WOODEN manufactures. Let oar tur-
naces light up the iron mountains with
Their fire. The busy creative industries
If which Missouri is capable, defy all