Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-04-12

produce and manufactures above those OF our ncgh-
bors, we deprive ourselves Of business and give II to
them. What benefit is 1t 10 me that get $50 per
day on work for a farmer who charges me Is cents
per ishel for potatoes which he sells TO The starch
maker for a York shilling? Should not rather be
the gamer by calling the work 81, and buying my po
tatoes for what he sells them TO othefsl
Not only IS labor too high, but we do not economist
IN It's use Every thing we make costs us too much
labor. This is n far greater and far more common
evil than the other. We all that the artists
OF Massachusetts and Connecticut produce things
cheaper than we But do we know all the why's
and wherefores? We know, indeed that labor is
some lower there, and that they have certain meth
DDS of doing things by which they make saving of
time, or economist in The of labor but we have
never thought of reducing TO practice what little we
know of their plans of doing business By subd-
vision OF labor they save much. One man does not
do every thing there as he does here; consequently
tina. which he does DO is done quicker and better -
Then all he does he gels the cash for when done
no waiting or taking barter-and the consequence is
he is better paid with less wages.
who among us is benefited by our barter and
credit system, that is driving all business worth hav-
ing out OF the state, and forcing our young men by
thousands TO seek home at the West! The mer-
chant perhaps sells goo's at higher prices than
he could for ready pays but then he enough poorer
paid to countcrbaancc it ALL while all we buy of him
costs us more than it ought, and not paying when
we buy we are all so great fools to buy more than
we ought. Where one man is benefited by this state
of things, one hundred are injured by it, lhave no kind
doubt.
Let us inquire n moment now the present ite VI
things is affecting or population. Under the age OF
twenty, Vermont has an excess of male, but between
that age and forty here are II 600 more females than
males. The laws Of nature have not been changer.
This Inequality is of her work. Where, then,
are those II 600 men in the prime ollie? Two out
of every seven of our young men have emlgraed-
have gone out from their mountain homes, To make
glad the solitary places of the far west-to labor and
live and rear heir children on the fields OF ONO the
pracs of Illinois, by the fnr-ofi streams of Wscon-
sin and Iowa. But tn calculation YOU will observe,
includes none of those who have taken families with
them,-who had set mp their no sehold gods in Their
| native valIics and! vet have removed even them
Vermont is doubt 20 900 families not persons, but
fnmies-noore for the emigration of the las, twenty
| years-l00O families n year! What dram upon the
population Of small state lie Is spirit Of
enterprise that has sent all these young men out from
among us? Not ALL For Massachusetts has GER
Iainv MS much Of that quality WEI and no snch
disparity OF sexes exists IN her population to show mat
her sons have not stayed at home. But the truth is
we had no employment to offer them that was either
respectable or profitable and they sought it elsewhere.
What avenue is now open in Vermont TO young man
Of common ambition, unless he have the advantages
of wealth or wealthy friends Absolutely none at
all. No young man is so mad as to hope to pay for
n farm with what he can make oft that farm, ms was
easily done in the days our fathers. What better en-
couragement is there for mechanic No employer
can afford TO pay lourneyman such pay as he can
afford 10 take and the consequence is tina, every man
almost who does not engrae,l his own boss doing a
I little business on his own account& trying 10 live on
lne OaT'tT he is ODnc0 10 take linus, l0stdU
subdvldng the labor, and concentrating the business
so rs 10 make every thing as cheaply as possible we
subdvlde the business, and increase the expense OF
production by all the paraphernalla of hundred shops
where there should be but ten.
While this system has been pursued that has drain
ed orr state Of over 600 Of her population annually,
we have all the while indirectly employed not less
than 5000 foreign artists, and have sent Oft not
less than million and half Of dollars annually 10
support them, and have had IN our pay corps of 100
merchants at home, whose duty it has been TO ran.
sack the earth for the latest made folly, and cater 10
our morbid appees for the latest fashions Of France
and England. Thus cutting our throat> with both
hands-ti!ling the West with the choicest of our IONS
to Guido us in agriculture and at the same time send
ING off all the money raise 10 pay foreign
workmen, and 10 support the manufacturers Of other
states and other countries
Wehnve said something of the comparative respect
ability of trade and labor. Let rs now glance for n
moment at their respective results on the pu lie pros
pcrtv and inquire which cOnduceS most 10 the hanpl-
ness of mankind. We will take for an example of the
one, the making of glass carried on IN this place
by, am proud 10 saw, two of our own members
Messrs. SMITH IL WILKINS, with the investment of a
capital of $4,000, give constant employment TO forty
men, aud produce annually S35 900 worth Of an art
Gle of which the outlay for foreign materials Is SINAI
while all their productions have cash value, and
either bring that amount of money into the state OF
save our paving We need but visit the vicinity
of their works. witness the lourshng appearance o
every thing around count up the multitude OF iamlIlc:
that are directly or indirectly supported IN comfort by
we can the amount of money paid 10 our farmers io
the necessars life, which here find a market Il
form some estimate of how mrch the wise nvestmen
of SIS 600 may do for the good of mankind IN general
and of Buriin gtOn in particular. Then, on the 9th
/ er hand, have merchants with as large capital
and probably doing as great an annual amour, of u
slness and NAV be with great advantage L
themselves, But does such an one furnish employ
I ment for much labor, or feed as many hunrr,
: children. or furnish q market for as much produce
= To find employment for n man-to give him an op
, poriuniy TO live honestly and IN comfort by his IN
dusrry or to buy and use the produce he has sed
1 is a very different thing from furnishing him will
gew-gaws, or taking the cash some body else ha
enabled him TO earn, and sending It out of the stat
: TO come back no more.
A.; In the manufacture of musical instruments OF al
e expensive character few individuals in this tow
C have made progress of which we may well be proud
t And il is high time that different feeling was enter
j. tanned bv purchasers of these artc les So far MS me
Y chanca excellence is concerned, the planoforte
Il made here, and believe the organs also, will hca
Il comparison with any others On the subject of ton
: and musical merit, | am no connolssenr
+ although l. for my part, cannot see
s Why such a contrast there should be,
= 'Twxt tweedle dun and tweedle dee,
: vet, | can very well understand the difference be
:, tween sending the price OF such an article 10 nos'o
- or New York, and thus withdrawing from Two
- eight hundred dollars from hecrculang cash oil IN
y neighborhood and paying out that amount oil none
to circulate through all the arteries OF trade ana BUS
= ness among our selves. =.
=, Although but 40 men are directly employed IN IN
&c glass business in this village have no doubt tina
). including women and children, a population oil .
y least 200 souls derive their subsistence nom I'M
source; and that the farmers of the county receN
not less than ten thousand dollals per annum Ia
70 produce thus consumed. Now doubt II the Who'll
!, trade Of this place ful nshes employment for NOR
" industry or makes market for more produce, To
! home come consumption. Farmers well unuefs AN
= the difference between selling fodder ABROAD ana nav
- e il consumed on the farm; and Is there not quit
u as much difference between selling produce out OF tn
u state supposng we could find a market not gultet
y and having il consumed al home by busy and IN
y dusirious populaonl
, Encourage by all fair means the agriculture OF III
tate-let her produce all she can, but at the sam
y time let The public mind be reused, if possible, TO III
II necessity of depending on something else than ayr
cultural products for export and let us rs fast as pos
ST lie begin TO make Mdt something. Let us beglr
o each man for himse with The determination that Il
T. will make some lhing-thai he will munster I
t. some one want of mankind and do II as cheaply an
e as well as any lodv else and not rest I'LL he has SUI
ceeded and when he has done So let HIM then con
n 10 think the products of his labor to be north som
e thing.
d. ! had rather be the inventor of the simples, IN
I'd provement in the really useful arts of every day HI
IN Than to have gained The glory OF any mere col
W queror,
" "From Macedono's madman to the Swede''