Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-06-28
BRANDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE %, 1887.

e with every degree of rapidity To the
/, II gratlhcatlon of this desire, as of every
l. other, there is limit permanently assign,
: ed by our Creator; and when this limit is
T. transgressed, we plunge ourselves into ca
lamlty, and, as in any other case, suffer
the consequences Of violation of law
: under which We have been placed by our
!, Maker.
; God intends that men should grow rich
by adding something to the means of hu,
, man happiness; and, just in proportion to
the amount which we ourselves have thus
ADDED, IS the amount of our lawful gain
He who produces corn, or wool, or COT
ton, or iron, or tabrcates or prepares them
for the purposes Of human convenience a.;
or ne who transports them from places
where they are less wanted to places
where they are more wanted; or be ho
exchanges them for the parties by whom
they are produced or he who devotes his
tune and his abilities Of any sort to the
accomplishment of valuable result, adds
something to the means of happiness Of
the whole; and for his labor, and skill, and
capital, in performing this service, he is
entitled to fair remuneration. This re-
Enumeration is his means of accumulation.
The greater his skill and the more diIgent
his lndustry,th greater will be the amount
of benefit which he will confer upon the
community, and the larger is the recon-
pense to which he is entitled. The stricler
his trugaIity, and the more rigid his self
government, the less will be his expendi-
ture, and the larger his annual nett rev.
enue. To all the results of his labor,
and skill, and frugality, he is fully and
fairly entitled and the more he thus ben
efits himself, the better it is for him, and
the better is for his neighbor.
1t is manifest that he who accumulates
on these principles is acting in obedience
to the laws under which he is constituted,
laws which he can understand, and which
he knows to to be invariable He who
restricts his desires within the limit which
these laws prescribe, will be- free from un,
necessary anxiety; he will be delivered
from all temptation to coveting, envy, and
over-reaching. Every one relying upon
himself and the resources of his own in
dustry, enjoying his own gains and leav-
ing every one else to the enjoyment Of
theirs, and the industry Of every one be-
ing thus BEAUTIFULLY stimulated and pro-
ductively exerted, the condition both of
the individual and of the whole commu-
nifty must be improving in the most rapid
manner that the present constitution OF
things permits.
But let us now imagine another CASE
Suppose every man to become dissatisfied
: with the rate of accumulation to which |
now allude; and that forsaking his reli-
ance upon the actual productiveness oil
his own skill and industry, he should be-
take himself to ascertaining in what man
e ner he might, without fraud, anticipate
the gains of his neighbor. If my neigh
: Dor hold cotton, or wheat, or iron, or land
| which | conceive will rise in value sup.
S pose me to purchase not that | may use it
y or improve it, or increase it's value by my
S own labor, but merely that | may secure
! to myself, instead of allowing to him, the
t benefit of the change. Let this desire
S become universal and then let the circu.
d lating medium be extended sufficiently tc
;. afford the necessary facilities for indulg
II ing it, and there must ensue an extraor'
: binary rise OF prices, not proceeding from
any dlmlnution of products or any in
IT crease of consumers, or the discovery O
|, any new value in the products themselves
q but solely from the passionate anticipa
u tons OF men concerning the future, an(
q their intense desire to overreach each 9th
er. This rise Of prices will, Of course
yield enormous profits. Enormous profit
n lead to enormous expenditure. The de
re mand for every object, either Of luxury o
T. convenience, is immense. All kinds Q
business arc prosperous beyond any for
y mer example. 1t seems as though me
Or had found out some new mode of accumu
X Iation, and God had never said to tn
IN swelling waves Of human desire, thus ia
p shalt thou 60 and no farther
All this is the appearance. But if W
p strip off the appearance, and examine tn
n naked reality, it will be found that thi
in mode of acquisition is deceptive in its re
re suits, and corrupting in its tendencies
lis 1t will at once occur to any dispasslor
Of ate observer that, by all this process, ther
n is no real addition to the riches Of tn
re community. Neither the buying nor tn
w selling of property, nor the asking for
ed more or less, adds anything to its amour
k or to its value. He who raises busht
ed more Of wheat than existed before, hs
ar made the world by so much the richer
IT. he who raises none, but SKIS two piece
es. of paper for his wheat, intsead Of on
Oh surely is no richer, nor has he enriche
| at all the community. Hence it is eV
all dent that, Notwithstanding all this bust
Of and all this rapid change of ownershl
air there exists just as much as is actual
in produced, and no more. There Is Ju
The the same amount for the whole, and II