Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1874 — Value of Manufactories. [ARTICLE]

Value of Manufactories.

■* Any one who has kept the ruu of the newspapers published in the States ot Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa and Indiana for the last six months, cannot but be struck ■with the almost universal desire throughout thosp States to aid in the building up of manufacturing enterprises. No articles are copied so freely and commented oil more intelligently than those bearing upon the subject of manufactories. The editors of local journals are constantly drawing comparisons b?r tween their own d and other towns in which such industries constitute a main feature of the business, and at the same time there has seldom been such comparison made in an invidious or envious spirit, but rather to stimulate a just apprecia-1 tion of the benefits of diversified j industry. In many enterprising towns, like Des Moines, Dubuque, Clinton, Council Bluffs, Rockford and a dozen others which n might be mentioned, manufacturer’s aid societies'llave been formed to extend pecuniary inducements to such persons as will locate in such cities establishments for the manufacture of useful implements and goods.— la other plqpes, like Kokoma and Freeport, the people came forward and, with a commendable spirit, >

are ready to subscribe totbe capital stofck ot‘ button factories, watch factories, and other similar enterprises which shall furnish employment for its citizens, and bring consumers to the corn cribs and wheat bips of the prodneers. This spirit is not the outbreak of a momentary desire ta build up the respetive places where it is exhibited, but it is the result of a desire for independence of the East for the goods which can be as profitably made at the West. The desire to reduce the evils of excessive rates of transportation is shown Ih the determination to transport less, and the folly of employing hands in Holyoke, Mass., to make the p iper, men in Lynn to make the boots, spinners in Lawrence to make the yarn used at the West, ! and then sending our corn, beef, ! and pork there to feed the workmen ; while so engaged, Is now under- : stood. If this popular feeling I should be sustained, the next census I will show such an advarice in the | manufacturing ac .ievments of the West as will startle the entire country. —lnter Ocean.