The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-07-31

1880 $40, 81 ,O0G, 70
1860. ............-..~....... 0,O40,O40,OU5
Total increase. twenty years. o3,052,O5 ,160
Average yearly increase. 151.0O2,600
l. The actual Increase In tho twenty years
after 1860 was the same as for the ten years
before. Tho yearly increase dropped from
LOIS to 2la per cent.
In these twenty years the population more
than doubled.
2. The average value Of our improved land
was Gil per acre In 1850 and SO In 1850, an
increase IN the ten years OF IS. or 45 per
cent?, In the decade. Its value was e10 per
acre in 1850. m increase OF o In twenty
high tartr years, or per cent. each decade.
Before 1850 the annual increase In value per
acre was SO cents Since 1860 1t has been
only - cents yearly.
3. The total acreage In farms at the three
different periods was as Follows:
1850. 1860. 1850.
203. 500. Ola 4o7. 212. SIS 5s6. 0sl. ss5
Increase. .. ia. .924 l2s. 500. 297
Yearly inc..... l1.365. 1872 Gas. l6s
With all the enormous railroad expansion
ard opening up OF new territory between
1860 and 1850 farming had ceased to pay and
fewer people went into 1t.
In 1850 the acreage was 1877 per inhabi-
tant in 1860 It increased TO 800; IN 1880 It
decreased to 1O.7.
4. The average value OF each farm In 1850
was e2,25S: In 1860 1t was 03.25l; In
1880 It was $500. The Increase between
1850 and 1860 was G993. The decrease be-
tween 1860 and 1850 was 06S2.
The ororono v0la,o OF forSsn Ia mar tn
habitant In 1850 was ol42. 1t Increased TO
o2I1 In 1860 and declined TO o2O3 in 1880.
9. In New Jersey, which since 1860 has be-
come merely the kttchen-garden for her own
cities, New York, Brooklyn and Philadelphia
her 2,O96, 2D7 acres having a population Of
nearly 5000, 900 to feed-the value OF her I'm
proved farm land has declined since 1850. In
the ten years before 1860 It increased In
value o21, or from 0O8 TO o03 per acre. II
1850 It was worth only s0l per acre.
The yearly increase In the value OF New
England's farms before 1850 was 0IO, 305, 629
Since 1860 It mas been 05,2l8.bs9.
These facts are taken from tho United
States Census OF 1850. Their full significance
viii be understood more clearly by bearing In
mind few everyday truths.
!. All that the people Of tho United States
eat, wear and use must be provided by theil
own labor. What they eat Is provided by the
farmer what they wear and use Is provided
by our factories and mills-by the mill
owners.
2. All that the people eat can be and ID pro
vided by our farmers; but all that they veal
and use is not provided BY the mill-owners
part Of It is provided by our farmers, in ex
change for their surplus.
3. In 1850 the farmers numbered 1870, 403
OF these 5,773,OOS were working to supply
the American market with what It wantet
| TO eat, and ], 1897 ,485 were working to suppl,
| the American market with what wa,
needed for wear and use-clothing, iron
and the like. or the 8e.213,A coz.
564 worth Of farm products raised that yea
only u ,666. 02l ,s61 could be profltabiy dis
posed OF or were needed here, leaving sur
plus Of o546.47O,s03. which bad TO be ex
ported-exchanged abroad for manufacture,
prcducts-and brought back here for final sal
TO their countrymen.
4. When their surplus farm products wer
sent abroad for exchange into something thei
countrymen wanted they had to import tn
payment. Nothing is permitted to come Int
this country except through the Custom
House. When their payment passed througl
the Custom-House all OF It which would inter
fere with the mills and factories was taxed Il
per cent. average, and the whole was take
20 pei. cent.
5. This tax Is levied to protect the Amerl
can mill-owner from the competition OF tn
American farmer. The II 500 protected mill
owners and the 1897, 4s5 farmers are fight
Ing one another for the .home market" e
manufactured goods-the mill-owners to re
II all, the farmers for o share OF It. II til
mill-owners gain It all, tho 1897 ,4s6 farmer
must abandon their land and flnd other wOrl
The tax IL not levied to keep out the fol-
Ieigner. He cannot come here, except a. q
immigrant, and then he Is welcomed. II
sends nothing here except In payment for gu
i farm eitrnlus hacausn wa have nothing olo