The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-10-23


necessity Of preserving due aud exact proportion be.
tween the several depsrtmens order that all the cant
tai ADD !abor Of the society may be employed and EN-
poyed in the most advantageous manner Hospital and
labor be employ ed N either department they
must De dehoent IN the others II the class of producers
81 raw produce be 80 enlarged in comparison with the
otAer classes that the provisions supplied exceed what
se whole society can consume, and the materials
nishs exceed Whist the class can make
up and dispose OF for and consumpon aerang
aud loss must necessarily capital aud
must necessarily iell into disuse lleness There
be falling on OF production and OF profits those
FURNISH raw produce insist manufacturing in part for
Themselves that the same persons no produce wool
VI IRON, OF the IKE, insist making up for use ana
consumption TO this extent division OF labor is given
demand which existed for production in the manufac
turing class is diminished which in turn must be driven
10 give up div ion OF labor equal extent and sup
ply It's own raw produce. In short the whole society
must be arrested in its prosperity and brown backward
towards rude and primitive state of social existence
The effect produced in the society by disturbance OF the
oiniustry may be illustrated by the effect which would
follow in small way from any arrangement the pro
sines Ii three men are required 10 make the heads of
pms as fast as one Will point them great injury would
aTss tais rrSporton o. labor in pin mandatory
ply similar illustration. II several gines 70 play
INFO and through each other at fire, and No is
structed or SO manned as to food No the other
hand fails to give iull supply either case there is
loss oeuergy and efficiency the direction of the
OBJECT be accomplished and all from the want OF due
proportion in the distribution of power But let us pro
coed now to oresk up the isolation OF imaginary
cety and give it foreign commercial relations
suppose that manufactures to the of one halt the
consumption OF the society be introduced from abroad
ana that these are paid for with half of the rude pro
ance supplied by The society-what is the effect Why
csaly that while the clsss Of agrcultusts miners &c
mgn' os iuly and proftsbly employed before one
tire nall oil the class OF manufacturers be
OF employ we go still further and suppose tn al man.
utactures are brought in from foreign country on &C
count their supposed superiority and
20 supply tho whole demand OF the society aud paid for
ny the raw provisions and materials which before
supplied to the home manufacturers the effect will be so
UGH the more striking The whole class of manufac
turers must De trosen and scattered aud where shall
Iney go they are to be employed in production at
all they must join the producers of rude produce, who
ny the superstition, before the accession oil individual
IRON that quarter able to furnish all the surplus pro-
VISIONS and materials for which any demand market
exists For the sake of brevy and simplicity in the
supposed let the agricultural class taken represent
rug the entire class OF those who furnish rude produce
then, the manufacturing class be broken up and COM
PEELED to- DIN the agriculturists shall have call
ed an exclusively agricultural country How shall its ca
pa and industry be employed7 It from foreign
country all It's manufactures and merely on the re-
cproca privilege of furnishing 10 that country the same
amount oil provisions and materials which it formerly
supplied TO its manufacturers 1t is evident all ia
cvn capital and industry can no longer be emnloxad
a" lhis arrangements and that nothing ort OF the pr
Nege OF supplying TO the foreign country the whole
consumption OF provisions and materials in that coun.
Try or az least whole supplies which all the capital
sni industry applied agriculture in the same coun.
try can produce will re.establish its prosperity That
lndeed would not do IT. for there many reasons
merely agricultural country, with the best and
steadest markets abroad for whole surplus produce
can never grow rich as the same country might if it
divided Its force in due proportion between agriculture
commerce. derla
mat the country which has not capital sufficient for
oil these three purposes has arrived that degree
Of oPulence for which seems naturally destined"
And Will take the liberty to add, that the country
which does not employ what capital it has more or
less in due proportion between these three pursuits
wii be found always TO be very far from employin
II In the most advantageous manner @The revenue of
trading and manufacturing country" says Smith, |
must other things being equal always be much greater
III an that OF without trade and manufacturers If
we suppose the case OF two nations trading exclusively
with each other the one wholly agricultural and the
bdt wit fa,-lx
divided between the two the forming in a manner
one community for economical purposes having the
three great of iustry due pro and
harmony; here should have the agricultural country
under the most favorab relations could possibly be
established for it, and yet is that would be
very Tar from condition of envabe prosperity. The diff
terence In the cost OF carrying the produce of
oi the respective countries te marke-au which
each must pay for itsefwould alone be sufficient
press as agricultural country aud leave far behind
the other In the race. Besides this small quantity of
manufactured produce, q quote again from smith, mr.
cna'es great quantity OF rude produce trading end
manufacturing country, therefore, naturally purchases
with small part OF Its manufactured produce great part
OF the rude produce of other Countries while on the con-
rary country without trade and manufactures gene.
rally oDliSed TO purchase at the ofa
Its rude produce small part OF the manufactured
proiucs Of other countries" II plain enough that in
tucn an International arrangement ha supposed
We sg icuural country would have but hard bargain
But plain enough also that country would make
bargain ol that sort for ITSELF hard would be: and
t1at diversity OF employ ment the three great de-
par nens OF industry often mentioned necessary
oil 20 give energy and ciency 10 human labor that
diversity must be secured at home, and there
maintained in that due proportion the depart
hents oy which alone the whole industrial power of
lhs society can DE brought out and applied. We have |
only to look about u.s. and take the world az we find IT,
Every country in fact supports these three departments
OF INDUSTRY In some degree proportion and did not
do 30 should stand alone respect We ar, iny
ted 10 look TO our SOIL and conne much to agr
this effect while colonies He warned us against
dverng any considerable part our capital into man
must Se towards
every country Is agricultural England, who most
then and most anxious that should be
altogether agricultural, and take manufactures from
her-Englsnd is herself the best agriculturis in the
world In ordinary times she raises provisions from her
territory and much oft still lying waste and IN
cultivated, almost enough for the subsistence OF her
throng'ng population She requires and will require
comparatively very little any time beyond what she
produces laws laws and Of thu little she
VIII not take much of bee she las nearer neigh.
DC poTs, whs are cheaper producers than And
as nave sai1 every country is agricultural There
the soil OF every country and the first thing tina, every
people does Is TO cultivde it, The soil ofthe earth is
sacred gii and it would be insult. to the boun,iful
majesty OF Heaven to neglect its cultivation 1t is the
bosom OF our common mother and the children to whom
- oneieo reiusingFo draw its nourhment them.
selves, would merit execraton Every nation repeat
docs and Will cultiva the soil own territory and
,urai products No nation IN UGniumptpn o. asrsu
on another Tor food Holland her soil from the ocean
m aense cost and sacrifice rather than look abroad
ner cesssry supplies IT, then, make agricul.
,ure our chief employment who will show us a market
,OL our surplus prodnce1 Three ffths of the appro.
rcsted soil Of the United States, occupied by four
htns oil the free population, produces neither pro.
VISIONS nor materials which will be taken by any TO-
naon IN the world, or by all together except in
very limited Quantities In ls40 of the grains and bread
produce in the United States after all that DON
AZ nome IN necessary subsistence and all that
nauuactured fed cattle and after ali that was
sent aoroad-and this much-hsro must have re-
tne1 surplus which as II could not be cold
oeen wasted and 600 of ali sorts
equal an measure twothirds of the entire quantity
OF gram annually produced in England. The whole an
nua value bread stu except rice ex ported 10 all
the world scarcely exceeds SIS 900 900. There is no
omeuy 10 nnding those abroad who will supply with
we al
our productive energies upon fields who il there
anro 80 70 tase ell the surplus agricultural produce which
wecsn furnish II we could End such we should still
nave the worst OF the bagain 1t takes great quaint
OF ru1eprodace,we must remember TO purchase very
smsi quantity OF manufactured producer The annual
value OF the nusctnres OF the Unte States at the pre-
seat time produced aud med home not including