Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-05-26
WHAT THE WORLD OWES TO COMMERCE.

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| we propose in the next place, to glance at the
inloeice OF commerce upon human welfare in null
upiying and cheapening the articles of home pro-
| AUCTION Not only each country. but almost every
uiStflct OF country, possesses its own peculiar adj
'aitaSes Tor some products, and its restitution or
disadvantages in respect to Others 1t is easier for
| Name, Vermont and New Hampshire to buy wheat
WIN butter and cheese, beef and wool than it would
De 10 raise wheat for themselves And having as
certalned this fact they abstain from the attempt at
an enormous misapplication and waste TO obtain
wheat by forcing its growth in an unfavorable soil
and climate And they are left free to expend their
means and apply their industry in the very way
which nature points out. In this way every district
is appropriated to those products to which it is ma
turally adapted. Wheat, that might be raised in
New Hampshire at two dollars per bushel, can be
raised IN Michigan, carried to New Hampshire. and
sold there at one dollar per bushel The lnanulac-
mghttatten his own pork but it can be brought
from abroad, by an exchange of his fabrics at less
than half the expense. The principle here conten-
plated is that most philosophical and benefcent
principle in civilized industry; viz-wise adapta-
ton and division Of labor Houses are built cloth
is manufactured shoes are made blacksmithing is
done, at ten-fold better and cheaper rate than
would be the case if all performed these occupations
each one for himself individually And equally true
is it that different dirtrcs and countries obtain from
each other, by exchange of commodities at a vast
ly cheaper rate, most of the products which their
wants require, than they could do by attempting.
each one to supply himself exclusively by means
Of home production. Britain obtains her raw cot
ton and her sugar by means of her manufactured
fabrics, abundantly cheaper than she could do by
producing them from her own soil even ifproducing
them there were practicable. The cost of making
boots and shoes IN Massachusetts, whence there has
long been an enormous export of these articles to
other States is only about one third as much as tits
IN Illinois and Wisconsin, where the shoemaker
does the work for few of his neighbors merely
The inevitable result of producing for expectation
is, work on an extensive scale, by the most impro
we'd methods, and with all the immense advantages
OF abor-saying machinery, and judicious distribu-
ton and division of labor highly improy ed state
OF the arts of industry. far more systematzed and
wise application of industry, a far greater produc
uvencss Of given amount of industry, and great
ly superior quality OF products and fabrics, are the
natural and certain results, where producing, in
few Well-seleced departments is carried forward on
d grand scale, and with a view to commercial one
rations.
Our next topic Of remark in this connections viii
be the influence of unrestricted commerce to make
universal the knowledge and the benefits of inyen-
tons discoveries, and improvements.