, 1859-02-04
WHAT ARE WE GOING no MAKE =

length prevents us from giving It in full to the
readers of tho Herald:
What arc we going to makeI First, we are
going to finish up, and carry out into oil dcsir-
able species, our great idea of an iron slave, the
illustrious Man Friday Of modern civilization
Whether We put water, air, or ether into his
aorta, as the medium Of converting heat into
force, we shall at last have safe subject, avail.
able for all sorts Of drudgcry, that will do the
work Of man without eating more than half as
much weight Of coal as a man eats Of bread and
meat. Next, carrying into all departments of
human industry, in its perfect development this
new creature, which has already, as mere in
FAINT, made so stupendous change in some Of
them, we shall make the human millions all mas
tcrs, from being nearly all slaves We shall
mako both idlcncss and poverty nearly impos-
sible, Human labor, as a general thing, is a
positive pleasure only when the hand and brain
work in concert Hence, the more you increase
wcll-deyised and efficient machinery, which re-
quircs and rewards intelligent oversight and
ski(ul direction, the more you increase the lcve
Of labor, We have already manufacturing com
munities so well supplied with tasks for brains
and hands, that everybody works, or would do
so but for Gree and her seductive hOllOw-ware.
We are beginning to push machinery into agri-
culture, where it will have still greater scope.
With the means We now have, in the enormous
ly increased production Of iron, our almost ON
nipresent and omnipOtent machine-shops, our
railroads leading everywhere, another century,
or perhaps half Of it, will sec every arabic rood
Of the earth and every rood that can be made
arabic, plOwed, sowed, and the crops harvest
ed by iron horses, iron oxen, or iron men, under
the free and intelligent supervision Of people
who know how to feed, drive, doctor, and make
the most Of them.
One island, which would hardly be missed
from the map Of the world, so small that its riy-
ers all fall into the So mere brooks, with not
more than one-thirteenlh as much coal as we
have in the United States and perhaps not one.
hundrcdth as much iron ore, by the use Of
steam driven machipcry produces as much iron
and perhaps weaves as much cloth yearly as all
the rest Of the world. If Il does not the latter,
1t would do it If it could tipd enough Of the raw
material and paying customers, But agricul-
turc, which supplies the raw material, though il
is the first and most universal form Of human
labor, lags behind the worlds present manulac-
turing power. One cause of the late, and per-
haps Of the previous commercial revulSion, was
this disprOpOrtion, The more rapid enlarge
ment Of manufacturing industry, multiplied in
power by its machinery, caused the raw mate
rial to rise in price and the manufactured article
to fall, till the operations could not be supported
from the profits at the same time that contracts
were fulfilled with capitalists. Manufactures
must pause till agriculture oyertakcs. Steam,
machinery applied to agriculture Is the only thing
that can. correct this disprOpOrtion, and this is
what we arc going to make, The world is not
to be much longer dependent for its cotton on
the compulsory labor Of the Dark Ages, nor for
its FAX and corn on the blistcrcd Gpee hands or
Overworked cattle, The labOrcr, in either see
ton Of our country, will be transformed into an
ingenious gentleman or lady, comfortably mount
ed on migratory steam-euliyator to direct its
gigantic energies, ,-or, at least occasionally 50
occupied. Under this system, it must bc plain
enough, to all persons prOphetieaIly inclined,
that the Northern valleys will greatly multiply
their products, while the Southern eotton-hclds
will whiten with heavier crops than human chat
telisn ever produced, and the mountains Of both
latitudes, now hardly notched with civilization,
will roll down the wool Of sheep in clouds
Finally, with impOrtantand fruitful mechanical