New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-14
smeup. Of power ct all TO be cOmpsrsd with mat o.

smg..so v, PVss" sos;,v Of fuel within our reach
kc;pg practically as unlimited as Is tne an
Il undeIlts large portion oI b;in ,bro,ghot The
'"ko' ~" ~ W. II 40 much abounds as, IN great
,s;o,,,y oe eases 10 be wholly valueless. 3D. 700
.sf AZ material Of which stean-enghes are eon'-
VIZ" '"e "' the supplies Of which are boundleSs
Poseo-uon q xaiting only for the moment when we
s%su Ss,,rmine to appropriate them TO our use, ana
.x nnire wealth. To what extent IL might De 40
sn~nred is shown by the fact tnat u sngIe huhdfeu
ascq'sp5 men, in Britain, furnish power equal to
toous1 IN s,Hv times The muscular force Of tae
IL, GdrN male population Of he Union
To produce, among ourselves, the same enecI, y =,
,sonred only that we adopt the same measures that
have there resulted in such wonderful increase Vi
toyce. and thus do arrive at the great fact that oy
eans of the proper direction OF the abors OF te one
hupdredth part OF the adult population Oi Tue
The power or wealth Of the whole might, IN Drlel
pericd be twenty times increased-edCh anu ever!
ppersop we're the whole equally divided, being mus
supplied with twenty slaves empnyeI IN iuIlsL ;
fuel and food clothing and lodging, while consuming
NO part WI atsoever OF the products OF their aoor
The treasures Of nature boundless III extent, the
earth peinc great reservoir OF wealth. ana power
recurring for their full development only the carrying
- fl efscct the iden expressed by the magic word
ASSOCIATIONS That sach II the TACT l. seen III every
case in which, because OF local circumstances, our
PEOPLE find themselves enabled 10 cohpe ther enorts
e. me accomplishment of some common object
6oubnaop of action furnishes TO every resident Of
New-York, Phiadelphis, or Boston, slave employed
m supplying him with water, or with light, at a cost
with what it would be he obliged TO live and Ia
kor alone a. did the emigTants of the days of William
Penn Combined effort enables us TO pass from the
shores Of the Atlantic to the banks of the Mississippi
~ fewer hours and al les5 expense, than but a few
wears since were required for going from New Ork
TO Washington. To such effort it is due that every
child is supplied with instruction, such ns would be
wholly unaitainable by the solitary settler. COmbina
ton II effort furnishes Bibles at price small as 10
place them within the reach of the poorest person IN
the Union; and it supplies, for two cents, better
newspaper than could, but few years since, have
been purchased at any price. To combination II Is
due that the man of New-Orleens commitment
on the instant with bis friend in Philadelpha-thu
annihia!ng both time and space.
Look where we may, Mr.. President we find new
proofs Of the advantage to be derived from associa
ton; and yet men are everywhere seen flying from
their homes, and leaving behind them wives and
children parents and reatives-each one seeming de-
sirous as far possible, TO be compelled TO roll his
own log build his house. and cultivate his lonely
field and thus deprive himself of all the benefit neces
ssry resulting from combination with his fellow men.
In the passage to his solitude, be traYerses immense
plains Astounding in the fuel by whose consumption he
would so much increase his wealth and pOwer-pre-
ferring apparently, TO cont TO confine himself to
the use Of his arm, when by calling nature TO- ms aid
be might be enabled to substitute the qualities OF his
head for those Of his and pass from the labors Of
the OK to those Of THE MAN.
In no country Of the world is there great a volun-
tary waste Of power as in these United states: In
waste takes place, but in Of these is there even
petense that the people direct their own course Of ac
ton. Here the reverse is the case, every man being
supposed to constitute portion of the government,
and TO aid in directing lis action as to enable him
and his neghbors most TO profit by the gifts of Provl
dence yet here il is that men are most disposed to
separate themselves, each and every one from each
and every other-thus forfeiting ell the advantages
that are elsewhere to result from the substitution
If the natural forces for those of the human arm The
waters Of Niagara capable of doing the work OF mil.
hons OF men, are allowed to waste and the coal
fields Of Illinois that, with the slightest effort might
be made to perform q hundred times more labor than
is now performed by all the people of the Union are
held in almost light esteem as would be smllar
quantity OF gravel VI Of sand. 80
Domestic commerce tends to the development oil the
treasures of the earthto the utilization OF every par
tice Of the matter OF which our planet Is composed
TO the development of human p0wer-to dmnution IN
the value Of the commodities required for the support
Of man-and TO augmentation in his own value, ana 10
that Of the land upon which he Is placed Al every
stage of ITS progress, local centers acquire larger
attractive power-the mill the mine, the furnace, the
rolling mill and the grist and cotton nails, becoming
the places of exchange and thus diminishing the ne
cessy for resODg to the trading cities OF the world
The man whose labOrs have been gwen TO the pro
ducton of wheat is thus enabled to exchange directly
with neighbor who converts wheat into -four, ana
spother who has changed coal INTO iron; with
one who has converted wool into cloth, and another
who has made rags into paper-at once econohlZiig
the cost Of transportation, and obtaining the 'eecV
ual commerce required for enabling INN 10 pass rom
the cultivation Of the poor to that of the richer SOILS
ton-tending everywhere TO prevent the creation OF
local centers and thus to Increase the necessity for
resortingto the great central cities OF the world Every
stage of Ills progress toward power IS therefore, at
tended by an increase in the tax of transportation and
a diminution in the power of man-wh constantly III
ceasing exhaustion of the soil requiring resort to new
lands 10 be in their turn exhausted.
According to an eminent French economist. this
country it, like Poland, specially dedicated 10 agrcul-
fure TO the exclusion of manufactures. Sach, too,
having been the opinion Of some OF those persons who
most have influenced the action of the central Gov
erument the result is in an universal lmpoverisi.
ment OF the soil and of its owners, because OF the
enormous tax of transportation to which they have
been subjected. According to these gentlemen, the
raising OF raw produce is the chief pursuit OF man, and
yet, small reflection could be required tor satisfying
them that the raising Of wheat was hut one cf the
steps toward the making of Bread and that the raising
Of cotton was but stage in the process of producing
coth-clOth and bread, and lot wheat and wool beng
the commodities required for his use. Men perish of
cold where trees abound because of the absence
OF the saw or the AK and other go naked though
surrounded 10y plants yielding cotton because OF their
distance from the spinuing,lenny and the loom. Man
il placed this earth 10 subject the forces ot nature
70 hs serycc-coinpellng her TO WELD the commodities
required for his use and in exchange for the smallest
possible amount OF human effort. That that object
may be accomplished, lie is required To combine his
efforts with those Of his ellow-menthe farmer, the
miller and the baker, uniting for the production VI
bread the shepherd, the spinner, and the weaver
uniting for the production Of cloth. The more perfect
that ulion the eSs the waste of labor in tranpora-
ton and in eecting exchanges, and the greater the
power 10 improve the land already occupied, while
lending the work OF cultivation the richer soils
n now being done in France, Denmark, Germany,
and other of the advancing countries IN Europe. The
kes the power of combination the greater is the tend
sncy 10 exhaustion Of the soil k seen TO be the case
In Poland and Ireland Turkey and Portugal, Jamaica
and India, and every other country that like the
United States, gives itself almost exclusively, to the
work Of scratching the earth. or all the raw material