Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1846-11-21

gcs of skill and science. - CT
These disadvantages nnder which the mass
Of our population labors, might be remedied
10 a great extent--lst, by encouraging the
common school; end, by increasing the va {
riety Of our pursuits; 81, by establishing
manufactures and 4th, by improving our
roads and navigable streams. The common
school would prepare our population 70 APP
ply their labor TO the best advantage, to
make and use the improved machinery OF
the age, and to avail themselves OF the ben
efits Of skill and science in all their opera
tons. An increase in the variety OF our
pursuits, would dismiss the amountot those
articles produced in superabundance, and
increase the amount of those produced on.
lv IN limited quantities or not produced at
al;and would thus enhance the price Of those
which had been produced in superabun.
dance, and diminish the price Of those
which had NOT been produced before or else
not in quantities sufficient 10 supply
the wants and demands of the country;
saving to the country the loss Of exporting
the one and the cost Of importing the other,
and at the same time supplying greater
number of the wants and demands oil our
population, and giving to agreater number
Of persons profitable employment. In no
other mode can the wealth and prosperity
Of our country BIZ so much advanced as by
the establishment Of manufactures. They
would bring into use and profitably employ
a large portion VI our population now grow
ing up in idleness, ignorance and vice, and
give them steady and industrious habits,
and make them useful and meritorious citi.
zens. They can be established on princ-
pies calculated to elevate the mind and NOR
} ais, as much as idleness and vice are cacu
lated to degrade them. They will further
I, improve our condition, by enabling one
person, with the aid of few hundred dol
0 lars invested in the improved machinery, to
: perform the work of hundreds. The wild
o Indian, instead OF spinning with the top,
! would do well to adopt the common wheel
E and the civilized Missourian. instead Of spin
J. ming with the common wheel, would do bet
h ter to adopt the improved machinery OF the
g factories. The difference between ou
n wheel and the top,is less than that between
= the mule and the wheel. We sell our WOO
J. at ten to thirty cents per pound. With
Of mite OF the labor expended in producing tn
Of wool it is spun and wove into cloth, sen
IT back and sold to Us again, perhaps a
~ !, five or ten dollars per pound. Well con
IL Quoted MANUFACTURES must make superio
race Of people; or else 1t is superior rae
II Of people which makes the MANUFACTURES
t. Il the latter be true, the Legislature shout
n foster the common school. 1t would be IN
a favorable to US 10 compare the top and tn
a. wheel, the Indian and the Missouran, an
d. then 10 extend the comparison between tn
e, wheel and the mule, the Missourian, an
p the Eastern manufacturer. BY improvin
ct our roads and navigabIe rivers, we shout
~ =, diminish the expense and increase the taci
of tiles OF sending our products to marke
in and Of bringing back the merchandise RI
rs ceived in exchange. We should also er
ms nance the value OF property and invite "a
~ accession Of population, and thus ,ncreas
~ the wealth of the country and the revs
$. nues Of the government.
s. The best mode of encouraging the common scho
is establish an institution for the preparation {
~ teachers. This can be done on plan that will
", cheap, effective, certain, and very useful on
Sa TO the common schools but to every department
branch Of society If there should be any dsposto
on the part OF the Legislature to act upon this sui
hu ect, the details of a plan would be cheeruly pre-
Cd pared and submitted.
~ To increase the variety Of employments in Of
u country it is only necessary to enlighen the people
W to enable them properly 10 consult their own int
~ ess. This cannot be done in any better mode tina
10 by fostering the common school, the accomplish
i'' ment OF the object depends upon the action
10 Heightened people in their individual capacit
than upon any direct act of the Legislature upon II
subje
he The establishment of manufactures is attend,
ire with its dific To carry them very
'e fully, large investments and superior population
are required. We not without cnpitd, but the hig
,re rate OF interest and the many supposed profitable i
h vestments for money which have hepstofore existed
'P- have prevented the appropriation n funds TO Il
n; erection OF manufacturing establishments. If Il
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