Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-02-29

GARDEN md orchard products iO0fOl5
Various articles not enumerated l5i0j3
Is iGa97i
Home manu- hctutes Qp5J3j
Product VI manufactures, mining, and The
mechanic arts exclusive OF taw material 65 2sO 37i
s365lo7s
Deduct interest at per cent on no cas- So
invested IN manufactures, farms, aud i'm
PIGMENTS ll73atH
7iW2A5l
This amount yields an average Of
seventy-two dollars, against forty
dollars in Wisconsin and forty-four
IN Ohio.
If we disregard the interest ac-
count, Massachusetts exhibits an
average return upon all her inhabit-
ants Of eighty-three dollars
We have then this general result:
Computing interest on the capital
invested, we find the production IN
Wisconsin to be forty dollars, in ONO
torty-iour dollars, in Illinois SIXTY
seven and half dollars, IN Vermont
seventy dollars, and in Massachusetts
seventy-two dollars, to each person.
! we omit the item of interest, the
average production is forly-six dol
lars in Wisconsin, iihy-six in Ohio,
seventy-fve IN Illinois, eighly-lhree
in Vermont and eighty-lhree in Mas
sachusetts.
1t is not assumed that these statis-
tics are accurate and comp lele in all
their particulars; but they are sulii-
cienily so TO give confidence 10 the
genera result. The prices named
may tie high, but 1t will appear by
comparison that they are favorable
10 the West. Interest is computed
al six per cent, which is consdera-
bly, below the actual interest in Ohio
and Illinois. Again, have enumer-
0ted only the products OF the land
and the products of manufactures
and the mechanic arts, although Mas
sachusetts had, in 1850, 10, sos men
employed in navigation and the fish
erles, while Ohio had only 4, 100, HI
mos GA, Wisconsin Sc and Yer
mont l59.
If we divide the entire agrlculur-
al production of each State among
the men employed in that depart
ment of labor regardless of the lleu
OF interest, we have the following re-
suit; In Wisconsin PSI dollars, IN
OHIO 1903 dollars, in Massachusetts
, 800 dollars, IN Illinois $50 dollars
and 10 Vermont 462 dollas To each
man. Let II not, however, be hastl-
ly assumed that labor upon the luud
is better rewarded in Vermont thar
IN OHIO there is no probability tha'
such is the fact. These apparent.
ly strange results mus, be expalncc
in some other way.
The theory which presented il
the first part of this address, that
large plains. unless subject to strong
external influences, are not favorable
10 an active, vigorous, progressive
civilization, is not a theory OF IN,
own, nor by any means II new lheo
~; but the statistical ,llusIrator
which | have Iald before YOU, was
suggested by a remark OF sirang.
er, whom | met IN a railway car, tina
! the inhabitants of Caledonia coun-
~, Vermont, produced more thar
any other equal population on The
globe. This seems to be an exag
gerated statement, and feel bound
in Justice 10 my unknown collocutor
To give you the result of an analysis
of the industrial power of that coun
: ~ upon the plan heretofore pursued
1t had, in 1850, "A population o
23,595. Adopting the prices before
6 named for Vermont, and charging
/ interest upon the capital employed
its net product would be seventy
( three dollars Tor each person aus
emitting interest, II would be eighty
six dollars thus placing the county
somewhat above The average OF III,
State. For the purpose OF compar
{ ison, will give you the result of 1
similar analysis OF the county o
Worcester, Mass.
By the census oil 1850, Worceste
had 1870, 1872 Inhabitants. lis agu
cultural and manufacturing products
allowing interest on the caplul IN
vested, aud excluding raw materials
amount to $685., AS, or seventy.
SIX dollars for each person, agalns
seventy. three dollars IN the count,
ol Caledonia ; aud omilllng the item
, of interest, we have eighty-sx in
Caledonia, against ninety-one in
, Worcester.
Now these facts, SO favorable to
New England, do not by any mean,
> lead TO the conclusion that labor is
| better rewarded here than in tn,
! West, bu, that we are, as a people
: more industrious. Industry with u
, is matter OF necessity; with them 1
4, is "a matter Of convenience, or even
> of pleasure. /, is not likely thu
they have greater proportion o
/ oilers, but that the mass are not Sc
; diligeni as are the same classes viii
as. Men may indeed doubt whether
llhis necessity for labor is hlessin