The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-03-27
Iron Gate and West IRON Gate


Iron Gate and West Iron Gate.
The Farmers Alliance Cooperative
Manufacturing Company has determined
to establish their headquarters at Iron
Gate. They will have plant costing
$5O,000, and will operate large number
of hands in the manufacture of farming
implements and all sorts of useful artl-
cles. They have purchased $4,000 worth
of building lots from Iron Gate and
West Iron Gate and will erect buildings
for the use of their employees. Their
operations will be very extensive, de
handing the employment of large num-
beers of laborers and skilled workmen.
Soon they will have their own organ
and assume national proportions in the
scope of their territory and their work.
They operate now in Virginia, West Viz
ginia, Maryland and North Carolina.
Negotiations are pending for iron
works, foundry and bridge works at Iron
Gate and West Iron Gate. The e. q o.
have matured plans for a fine depot, and
Harry Frazier, Esq, Superintendent OF
Maintenance of Way will be at Iron Gate
next week to look after the work.
Parties are now on the ground from
Huntington, W. Va, arranging for ma
chine shops and q steel plant.
The rolling mill will be in operation in
a few days.
Monday night last the "Luster Manu-
featuring Company" was organized and
all the stock placed in Il few hours. The
officers are as follows: e. O.. Luster,
President and General Manager; w. T.
McCue, Vice President; N. T. Haskins,
Secretary and Treasurer. Directors
! Hon. Jacob Yost 0. Hieman, j. G. Car
penter, George x. Anderson, W. j. Per
~, r. G. James The object of the
company is the manufacture of curry
combs and general timing and manu-
featuring business.
This is good enough for one day and
big work, too. The establishment of
such works, by good men, assures the
success of both Iron Gate and West
Iron Gate, and makes the stock of these
companies first class investments. The
stock of West Iron Gate will be taken in
on the purchase of OTIS at $3.50 per share.
A large force of hands are now at work
clearing up the land, and the lots will be
offered for sale just as soon as the engi-
neers can get the work ready.
But the evil lies too deep to be reached by
such superficial remedy as this Let the Re
publican party extend the protective principle
to farm products as far as they can do SO, and
two stubborn difficulties will still remain to
prices of the home market are determined by
the prices at which the surplus products are
I sold i'll the foreign market; and i'll the second
place, the farmer will still have to buy the vari-
GUS articles which he needs, at the same extor-
tionate rates. In consequence of these facts,
the discomfort of the agricultural classes VIII
continue until there is a radical change in the
economic policy of the government and this
umph of the Democratic party.-Ricim0nd
Times.
The policy of protection is to prevent
the markets of Europe from determine
ing the price of farm products in this
country. Diversity industries; develop
our natural resources, and thus create
consumption commensurate with pro-
duction, and there would be no surplus
to send off With unrestricted commerce
between the States, and our material
resources developed, diversified indus
tries would be established, and the de
mand created in Industrial districts for
what the farming districts produce.
! When a market could be created in our
own country for our own products, there
can be no wisdom or craftsmanship in
the policy that proposes to contribute
to the success OF similar industries
abroad. We have territory and resour-
ces enough to make empires within an
empire to take the place of foreign ma
tions, with which to interchange our
varied products. The inventive genius
and labor and capital of our own coun-
try should be dedicated to the advance
ment, strength, wealth and independ-
ence of our own nation, commercially
and industrlally, as well as politically,
and there is no soundness in the policy
that does not work to that end. Our
motto should be, as to manufactures
and all other forms of industry, America
for America nation self-sustaining in
every respect and prolific enough in her
own resources to produce and consume,
until the perfection of government is
reached.
The farmer pays less for what he bnys
now. under the protective policy, than
he did under 'revenue only laws. So
Il, 1,c 10
markets with the cheap field labor of
India and Australia, the price he gets
for his surplus in this market, will, to a
degree, be regulated by the quotations
there. This can be prevented by Great
ing home market for his surplus, in
the development of our natural resour-
ces and establishing diversified indus
tries We now buy foreign manufactured
products to the amount of $500, 900
annually, for which We have the raw ma
terial at home. We import $53, 900, 900
of wooden fabrics, which ought to be
manufactured here We buy in foreign
markets Sa6, 100000 worth Of linen, and
ga 600, 900 worth of iron and steel, which
ought to be turned out by American
industries operated by American labor.
We purchase $40, OO0,0 worth of chem
icals, drugs, dyes and medicines from
foreign countries, when we should man
ufacture them ourselves. We ship our
cotton from the field, across the ocean,
and buy $50, 900, 900 worth of the finer fab
RIGS made from this same raw material,
turned out from English and German
factories. There is nothing American
in such policy, and it will never be
arrested until our tariff duties are so
regulated as to make it possible for our
people to establish the industries that
will yield the desired products.
1t is an offense to the inventive genius,
the patriotism, the national pride of
the United States to contemplate these
conditions. There is nothing that we
use, to the production of which our re-
sources are adapted. that should not be
made in American factories and work
shops by American labor, and for the