The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-10-13
FOR THE JEFFERsoNIAN.
The Resources of Monroe.

County, and We propose in brief man
ner. TO give our views upon the sutject
The policy for Monroe, as for all other
counties. to adopt, is to bring all the
money possible into the County and to
keep it there. That was an excellent
piece of advice which the dying father
gave to bis son. AMY SOP, said he, "eet
all the money you can, and hold on to 'rlat
you gel" This is the true secret of sue
cess. Tue man who pays out more than
he receives, will always be poor, and that
community can never prosper whose i'm
ports are greater than its productions
The same system Of industry aud eeono-
my, which is necessary to make an indl-
vidual rich, is necessary to make county
prosperous. II we would prosper as a
county. we must export more than We I'M
port, We mast produce more than we con-
>ums. Now the question for US to. con-
slider is, how can we increase our resour.
ces what means shall we adopt, by
which our money may be kept circulating
among ourselves, instead of being carried
out of the county to pay for the articles
that We bring into it. for home eonsumP
ton. The answer is plain. Go to man
ufacturing for ourselves. Make the arti.
ces ourselves, which We pay others to
make for US. We can do it as well as
any one else. We have water power
in this very Stroudsburg as good as any
in the country, and better than that which
has been the making of hundred New
England towns.
For instance, iD the single article OF
Boots and Shoes, probably ten thousand
dollars at least, are paid out of the coun.
ty every year, which night just as well
be kept among US. Why do not some OF
our capitalists take hold of the matte; it
would pay. We would guarantee, divi-
dend of ten per cent. the first year. We
are credibly informed by gentle n an who
has had several years experience in the
business, that boo: and shoe factory
could be started here. with capital Of
Eve thousand dollars. There are hun
dred boys and grown men in this town
alone, who are without employment, six
months in the year, at least, except per
haps an occasional job of saving and cut
ting wood By the establishing of boot
and shoe factory at this place, these could
all be furnished with steady employ yment,
during the whole year, by which they
could earn from So to So per week, and
perhaps more. Not only these, but a
great proportion of the fem ale population
of the county, who are Dot iu afflueut cir
cumstances, might be furnished with hon.
orablc labor, in binding shoes, by which
after little instruction, they could great
ly increase their income, with probably
less severe labor than that to which they
are more accustomed. By discreet di-
rection of this labor in manufacturing
such articles of boots and shoes as The
country trade dem ands, all that trade
which now goes to tie cities from tbi,
county and adjoining ones might be
brought here. and all that money which
is DOW annually exported from US, nigh
be retained in circulation here.
There are hundreds of towns in the
New England States. whose natural ad
vantsges do net exceed, if they equal
those of Stroutsburg; that have teen
built up entirely by such manufactures
by cotton factories and by boot and
shoe factories, and BY other similsl
branches of industry. Some of these
towns, which DOW number fifteen or twen.
ty thousand inhabitants, were not many
years ago, mere homlets. The town o.
Linn io Massachusetts, for example, has
been built up entirely by the boot and shoe
trade; out of population, We believe, o.
about 6,000, 10000 are engaged in the
1 manufacture Of boots and shoes. Beside'
these, thousands of women throughout al
the Eastern States are employed in the
light and easy labor of binding shoes fol
the Linn msnufacturers;-an employ
uent which they attend to at bone, il
their own families, by their own 6residel
at their own leisure. and the cash is paid
according to What they have done, a,
soon as the work is returned This is
Infinitely better employment. and better
paid, than much of the drudgery that il
done By the female population Of Penn
sylsania.
Now there is not the shadow of rea
son Why manufacture which is so emf