Year: 1867

TafQe0S, Hne IfulIS anu OUT lotS lOf Tie
convenience of those living in town
And one acre near large city planted
in berries or any fine fruit will yield as
much as several cultivated in or
dinary crops. Take one acre of good
corn ground near large town where
man can sell his corn at 81 90 per bush
el on an average and suppose that said
acre will produce Is bushels of corn on
an average the corn would probably
after the cost of cultivation was taken
out pay the interest on some Z or 8
hundred dollars, while the same acre
lying in some locality when he could
not obtain more than 10 cents per bush


ell would barely pay for cultivation
In the first case the land would be worth
from 800 to $500 for corn, while in the
latter case it is extremely doubtful


whether it has any real value. Land


in the east poor, flinty worn out noles
is selling to day, for several times as


much per acre, as our extraordinary


fertile fields in the west. Why so p


In the east you have factories, large ci-


ties have sprung up, and they have a
good market at their own DOORS
Give the west as good a matket and
their lands are worth double the price


Of the eastern. Protect all Il IS IS of
labor, and soon you will invite capital
lists into your midst who will establish
large manufacturing houses, furnish you
with market, and in few years the
competition that would follow, will Sc


cure you cheap goods vastly cheaper
than you can ever otherwise obtain
Just 30 long as your goods and wares
are made in the east and Europe you


must pay three or four profits, small
| croft, to each man who has had the


handling, besides the frieghts of the


raw material from west to the east, to


get it worked up and back again to the
consumer in the west, which would all
be avoided if you made your wares at
home. "Money mickels macks a muck
ell" Again, you not only ship the raw


material east to get it worked, but you


ship the provisions along to feed the


workman, while they are doing the la


Dor, then ship back your wares. This


is all wrong, and attended with vast
deal of unnecessary expense, and the
western consumer must foot the whole


bill. Ifyou made your own goods,yo
would avoid that useless drain. Itwas


high protective tariff that built our
| factories in the east, and if we had one
now, with the assurance that it would


not be disturbed for series of years,


we would have them in the west. Eu-


ropeans would ship their mills and cash
to us and make our goods, right where


the material is raised, and buy their
bread and meat direct from the farmer
they would get it fresh and sweet from
the pens and fields, and at first cost
| without the expense of transportation.
We want a good, judicious tariff. We


want some assurance that it shall not


be disturbed for a series of years.
One that looks to the protection of all


classes of industry. We have nothing
to fear from high prices in consequence


as competition will regulate that. Let


us quit the folly OF trying, one branch


Of industry, to over reach others, but


extend helping hand to all classes of
labor. Labor will have to pay our debt


and if Europe will persist in seeking a
market with US, compel them to bear
liberal share ofthe burthen. If we,


as people, are notable for any one
thing, it is for having no settled policy.


This ought to be so no longer. Our
people are enterprising, and industri-


Gus, but we never know what to do, or
how far we dare venture in any enter


prise, where legislation can anywise in
terfeie with results. But the time is at


hand, when our country will be oppress-
ed by general stagnation in business.


Our manufacturing industry parallized
and our specie extracted from our cof-
fers-if Congress does not come to the


rescue Our debt was contracted with


labor at $500 per day, And if it is


kept up by protecting it, to about that
figure, until the debt is paid, it can be


paid as easily as one fourth of the


amount could be, with labor at so cts.


In the mean time the progress of the


country will not be checked. We will
not only keep the capital, that we have


on hand, but it will accumulate As it
accumulates it will seek investments in


government bonds calling them in
from Europe, and the interest that we
pay on them will be kept at home
But on the contrary, ifgovernment COM


pels us to pay revenue, sufficient to


meet our dues, and suffers Europe to


come into our markets, and break down


our labor, our specie will soon depart.


Our bonds win go to Europe to be


cashed at heavy shave, the interest


an those bonds will constantly be sent