Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29
HOME MANUFACTURERS.

The EAGLE has always been persist
ent and consistent advocate of home
manufactures, and the word "home" has
with us two Specifications: First. as
against foreign countries. Second, as
against every other state and city III the
union. We mean by this that American
manufactures should be SO fostered, en-
couraged and promoted by wise legisla-
ton that everything which our people
needs that can profitably be produced in
this country with the aid of tariffisuffi-
cient to secure to our artisans the Amer
lean rate of wages, should be produced
here. We mean also that every state
and every principal city should have its
own manufactures, and III certain lines
especially adapted to farmers needs,
every country town, so far and so fast
as possible. We want to see half Of our
people from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
from the Gulf Of Mexico to the British
possessions, engaged in manufactures
and commerce, and the other half en-
gagged in feeding them.
We want to hear the buzz OF wheels,
the hum of machinery and the clatter of
the anvil, and see the furnace and forge
lights everywhere possible. We want to
see the forces of the dinner pail keep an
even pace with the plow, the cultiyator,
the mower and reaper.
1t is all possible and it will all come if
the wise craftsmanship the Republican
party prevails in the future as it has IN
the past. The Omaha World-Herald
said the other day, in regard to the
cotton mill at Kearney, Neb.:
But there is no very good reason why
cotton should be taken from Mississippi
to Connecticut to be made into cotton
goods and shipped out to Nebraska when
one-third of the mileage would bring it
from Mississippi to the kearney cotton
mill direct.
That is and has always been precisely
our position. But is there any better
reason why cotton should be taken from
to Manchester, England, to
be made into cotton goods and shipped
back to Nebraska or Kansas: Is there
any better reason why our wheat
and corn should be sent abroad
to feed the thousands of people
who manufacture the things we
need, when it could feed the people who
make these things in our own country?
The shrewd business sense OF our peo-
pie led TO the large withdrawal of the
packing business from Chicago and its
location in Omaha, Kansas City and
500 miles nearer TO the points
of seock production. The corn product
of Nebraska. Kansas and Iowa is enough
to make a man dizzy. Putting corn in
to steers and hogs. killing them here and
sending the manufactured product to
the east, is better than the old way of
sending the live animals there by one
train and corn by another. We can
raise beef here, we should
make meats foot oil here, we
should calcine bones here, we should
use up the whole steer and the whole
hog here, and send the finished product
10 market instead OF the crude.
But we should do more. We raise
250. 000.0 900 bushels of corn in Kansas.
We cannot feed II ali vet 10 cattle and
hogs. \ good deal of it is consumed in
that way, but we should have starch
and glucose factory. In Peoria, H..
Oswego and Glen Cove, \. Y, besides
other eastern points. are extensive starch
factories, and in Peoria large glucose
factories. Corn is worth here about %
cents. In Peoria about 3 cents. In
New York - TO - cents. If at these
prices for corn as those eastern points
starch factories can be successfully con-
Quoted. why not here? But could there
be mistake in establishing factory to
utilize in every possible way the 250, 000,-
600 bushels of corn produced in the
state? Leavenworth has 4 glucose fac
tory Why should we not build one.
and also starch factory: