The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-01-13
Powerful Perioration.

Rev. T. Dewitt Taimase closed his
sermon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle on
Thanksgiving Day with the following
perioration of business figures, far
more powerful and eloquent than all
the rhetorical figures OF the most clo-
quent orators:
This year in this country there has
been carn produced to the amount of
2.O0O,O 100000 bushels; nominal valne,
$500 100000. / give only the larger
figures, and l give them deliberately,
that friends, it they wish, may take
them, since l have them from undia-
puted authority. Whsst produced,
SOC, 100000 bushels; nominal value,
S6OO00O,OO0. The cotton crop in 1860
100000 bsles; over 5000 900 bales
this year, or 2, OO.OOO, 600 pounds: val
ne, $300,O0O,OOO. The rice crop in
1865 worth only $3.50, 600, but in 1880,
worth S., 100000 Our annual product
of petroleum, Is, ,00O,0O barrels. Six
teen million swino slaughtered for the
market. Exports of pork, beef, lard
aud bacon to tho value Of $S7, 49, 600.
Fresh meats xnd live stock exported
to the value OF $50 796, 600. Breadstuffs
exported to the value OF S279, III, 900.
Cotton, petroleum and tobacco export
ed TO the value of $745 697, ,OUO. The
foreign consumption OF cotton for the
year, it is estimated, will be about g.
100000 bales. OF this total amount,
about ], ,OOO, 600 bales are expected from
India, Egypt, Brazil, Peru aud Turkey,
and the remaining 100000 bales will
hA 1ranfoA ha Int
The South can afford to let politics go
and attend to cotton. Hark to the
three last corn crops. l do not believe
1,SSS,OOO bushels; in 1879, l,544.OO0
bushels, in 1880, 2,O00,OOO bushels.
There never was such = story told as
this. Let it be tcld for the glory OF
the great God of the harvest. The
export of corn is now about LOG .O0O,-
600 bushels in grain, and 100. 100000
bashels moro in the form Of pork, &c.
Tho wheat crop in 1S79-a year of
prosperity unprecedented-wa 49,.
600, 900 bushels. What, think y ycu, are
We coming to in abundance, when l
tell you that only q part of the conti-
nent yields anything? When the
Northern Pacific Railroad gets through
all these resources will be multiplied.
Mr., Dalrymple, OF Dakota Territory.
has farm of $4,000 acres. In harvest
time be has $50 machine reapers and
binders going at the Same time. The
different divisions OF his farm are con-
nected by telephone. Thirty steam
thrsshing machines going at the same
time Mon in corps, like an army.
His farm this year mas yielded 432. 600
bushels of wheat, or 800 car ioads.
Mr.. Granda's farm has 25.0O0 acres !;
Mr.. Cas- farm, $4,000; Mr. Cheney's
farm, Is 600; Mr.. Williams farin, 15,
900. The product of all those regions
is only limited by the means of trans
portation to market. All the world
our debtor, and to se more SO. The
purchase of American railroad securi-
ties will keep the tide of gold strong
er and stronger this way. Besides
this, foreign population of more
elevated kind than has ever come 10
this country multitsdes of them av
eraging $500 to 81, 600 in their posses
sion. 455, ,495 immigrants this year,
and not to exhaust but 10 enrich the
country. Ii any man has been in
q eat Britain within the last two years
he finds out that style OF person is
coming to this country style OF en-
igra.ion that has never been equaled.
Last Sabbath morning, last Sabbsth
night, | shook hands with men at the
foot OF this platform whoare on their
way from England TO the Far West,
thars 10 earn thslr fortunes. 45O, O,495
immigrants Now. let all financial
aud political croakers so into their
rat-holes, and all grateful men and
women to dinnerl