The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-02-25


1.-THE necessity OF extending our
Commerce has become supreme"
These are wise men after the pat
tern OF Simon Sieggs.
Our whole foreign trade IS t,r0 per
cent. as compared with our domestic,
which is ninety eight per cent.
And yet there are n,e1, (save the
mark), who are dying because our
government will not give its whole
energies to furnishing money for
the fr0 per cent. and let the ninety
eight per cent perish for want OF SUI
ficient money to do the vast business
at home.
These "rampantr oarers," are she'd
dingbarrels Of tears over the t,c0 per
cent. but not q tear for the Ninety
eight.
o! wisdom, be silent.
O! reason, be dumb.
Now for q little sense.
Ask one Of these fellows
"TThat is COnlnle7'ces'
"WhAt is that thing that you say
must be extended- extended to for
eign countries2"
sLet us know exactly what you
want extended"
And they are as ignorant on the
subject OF Commerce as q legislator
is on the question Of justice.
II you urge them to give you
definition OF Commerce. they are
as wholly disqualified for the task as
is the Secretary OF the Treasury to
tell the truth on the silver question.
Their vorbosity Of speech Is only
equalled by their inanity OF sense.
Our foreign Commerce should be At
tended to as wise policy.
But our home trade must be nur-
tured and cared for, with our whole
strength, in order to the highest hap
piness Of the people.
To neglect our home Commerce Is
to court the death OF the Republic.
What is Commerce?
Those who tall learnedly about
extending" 1t, fail to give iefnit-
ion Of it.
Those who say the extension Of
our Commerce Is q necessity" are
wholly lacking, In clear definitions,
as to what they want.
Commerce." with them is gen.
eral term and they ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
~ explain, even to 2 boy, what they
are talking about.
So all the way from Legislative
Halls, down to the hustings, there
is much noise, little sense and less
truth on this question.
We ask for definitions.
Let us hear from the people.
We give ours and from it argue.
"ComMerce"-The traffic in and
carrying from one place to another,
the products Of human labor and
human genius-derived from nature.
He who loads his wagon at his
barn with wheat, and draws it to the
warehouse, Is part Of Commerce.
For he is carrying from one place
to another the products Of labor.
The rule Is illimitable.
To create" Commerce. foreign and
domestic-t,c0 things are essential.
l. Change Of title to the product.
2. Change OF place Of the:product.
To extend Commerce" tau0 things
are necessary:
l. To increase the change Of title.
2. To increase the change OF place
To do this, t,c0 other things are
needed:
l. some medium" by which title
in products can be changed.
2. Some medium" by which the
product itself can be moved.
Traffic is merely changing title.
The merchant selling goods is but
changing title-and the more title he
can put out OF himself into his Gus
toner, the better the days business.
There are two ways Of changing
title.
l. By barter.
2. BY money.
Credit is but elongated change OF
title, on nSa,sce to be closed by bar
ter or money, ia the future.
These positions being true-it fol-
lows:
l. That, there must be sufficiency
OF the medium" to BEAUTIFULLY ex-
change all the titles that need to be
changed.
2. That there must be sufficiency
OF the medium" to healthfulIy move
to the places required, all products
that need moving.
The sequence to this is:
In the rightful exchange OF title
and carrying from place to place the
products OF labor, to the extent re-
quired by the diversified wants of
mankind, are the material interests
OF the race, most fully assured.
While to disturb these great euui-
ties OF life is to become u murderer.
Before we illustrate these, let Us
state some maxims.
l. Mans highest duty-religious
and secular-is:
To make OF himself the best intel
lectual, moral and physical being
possible.
2. To do this he must be fed.
clothed and sheltered,
Hence, that he may accomplish
these high duties which he owes to
the church (the religious forcej and
to the State (the governmental force)
AO HuSI nave A1CC dCCGSS 10 nature.
There must be, therefore, the
change Of title Of products and the
chang6 Of place OF products.
And 1t follows-somni est-that in
exact proportion to the change Of
title in products and the change Of
place Of products, is the happiness
OF man advanced or retarded.
Neither the form of government,
the age OF the world, nor the relig.
ious belief, In the least degree, e.
fects these center truths, In the life
Of man.
Labor was the first, the great gift
to man.
Capital is the fruit.
Bearing these elementary princi-
pies in mind, let HIS amplify:
Let US for the medium by which
title is changed, substitute, dollar"
And let US for the medium" by
which the product is moved, substi
tuto "car."