Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-03-11

! What motives then, let me ask, are
here furnished to embark in this busness2
Will not our farmers awake to their true
interests? would not persuade any
farmer if | could, TO give up his whole
farm to the silk business, the friends of
the silk culture do not desire to see any of
the present products of our soil diminish
ed. we wish to enrich our nation by add
ing another to the list Of her products
without affecting any that now exist. Let
the farmer put few acres of some hill
side, or unproductive part of his farm in
Morus Muticaulls, and thus add to his
income few hundred dollars in wav in
which he will scarcely perceive the cost.
Let his daughters, one after another. if he
has daughters, have the avails Of the co.
coonery in successive years, if these
awaits are not absolutely needed in the
{ family. | am persuaded that bv The
avails of silk, produced even on small
scale, many of our farmers who are now
in debt, whose farms are morraged 10
half of their value, and who in coDse-
quence of this are able to do liuIe more
than live, will not only be free from debt,
but will in turn have their money at in
tereSt, and what has been proudly said of
Old Mansfield, IN Connecticut, NAV be
said of them. Every daughter in the
| family of adult years will also have her
hundred or more dollars at interest, the
avals Of her own labor in the cocoonerv.
would most earnestly call upon null
titudes who are engaged in no agriculrur-
al pursuits; who in Consequence of the
great revulsion in the times, are ENGAGED
in no regular business; many who are
depending on the precarious results of
speculation In its thousand forms, let these
abandon the uncertainties of speculation.
the excess of which has almost ruined
our country, and which if successful to
them, adds nothing to the wealth of the
nation. Let all who are thrown out of
business by the pressure of the times: all
who are waiting for more propitious times
IN which to commence business: let NIL
@1t such emblrk immediately in the silk
culture. Let them occupy lands now
uncutivated aud idle, and thus secure for
themselves stream of wealth, certain as
the How Of the tides. A stream that will !
deepen and widen, on whose bosom thew
will be borne, safely and surely, if not
rapidly to aff1uence and fortune.
Let fathers, whose lands in our older |
States are worn out and whose enterpriz.
ing sons are disposed to leave kindred and
home for the far west, stock their worn
out farms with Morus Multicaulis. and
thus make it more profitable tor their sons
TO remain at home than go to the west.
But consideration which commcnds
this subject to every patriot, philanthro-
plst, and christian, is the great benefits |
which are to flow from its general intro
duction to the poor and dependent portion |
OF our community.
Even in our own happy country, there
IS large class of individuals, who so far
from adding anything to the industry and
wealth of the nation, are unable to sup
port themselves for want of suitable en-
ployment. These are INDECENT females
and children, and the long list of the aged
and inirm.
The numerous labor-saving machines,
the production of the present inventive
age introduced into almost every depart
ment of life, has thrown out of en- loy-
ment vast numbers of industrious and
Vlrtuous poor. How many worthy moth
ers OF orphan children are constrained
to ply the needle through anxious days
and almost sleepless nights. to keep those
children from the alms-house, while they
are unable from the want of employment
suited to their tender years, to do anything
to assist their afectionate mothers? How
many females and children obtain scan
ty and precarious subsistence by picking
berries of various sorts for few weeks,
for our city markets, who during the re-
mainder of the year must continue in the
lowest poverty or absolute want. Who
must spend their winters in the poor
house, or live on the charity of the be-
nevoIent, and all this for the want of
suitable employment. One Of the most
crying evils of the age is the inadequate !
which female labor receives.
This arises mainly from want of proper
objects on which to bestow that labor
Indeed the secret Of rendering any labor
and insuring for it an adequate ..
and equitable reward, consists in apply
ing it to objects not only valuable in them
selves, and suited to the ability of those
who perform it, but which are capable Of
being made the means of increasing
wealth. Now let philanthropy exhaust
itself and where can it find an object that
will secure to female labor such reward
as the production of slk2 Nature seems !,
almost to have designed the production of
silk for female hands The whole work
from the feeding of the worm, 10 the pro-
duction of the most beautiful and delicate
fabric, can be performed by them, and in
the whole process their labor is as valua.
bic as the most athletic male