The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-12-09

point, because even now, there Is an I'm.
mense amount of surplus labor among that
class of people found all over the world who
will neither dig in the soil or cook IN the
kitchen, but desire most to herd together in
large crowds, and who are yet industrious
people, and willing to labor when in voca-
ton which suits them. But there is another
and more importent reason why manufac-
turing establishment here upon any naviga-
BILE Point could not prove failure, if man.
aged with common prudence. 1t is simply
this, that we have an empire to trade with
right within the circle of our own arms.
This whole immense rich valley of the Mis-
sissippi, from this point to the Gulf of
Mexico, would certainly purchase of us if
we could furnish goods and wares as cheap
as other States. Once fairly in operation
we can do so at rates less than any other of
the States. But, again, we are to have
almost an empire at home, and in the three
or four States to be added north and west
of US, whose trade we cannot fail to have.
1t is but few years before our own State
will contain a million of inhabitants 1t
has proved true in the States of the East,
to my certain knowledge, that unless there
has been an NECESSARY disprOportion in
prices or other reason with very limited
application, the inhabitants of each State
have made their purchases from mills exist
lug within the State, and l think it cannot
be doubted by any one who hears ME, that
if mills were placed upon. these falls which
are now within our hearing, with sufficient
capacity to supply this State, and the whole
valley of the Mississippi, with the various
kinds of manufactured articles which are
known in trade, the proprietors would at
once find themselves taken by the hand and
enabled to do safer and more profitable
business than any other establishment or
establishments of the kind in the country.
In making this remark, l refer to cotton
and wooden goods that have world wide
sale, and in which capitalists may invest
any reasonable amount, under favorable cir
cmstances, without fear that their goods
will die upon their hands. 1t is almost of
equal interest that small establishments
should be put into operation requiring but
small investments. The interest of the
State is. that we should not buy, but that
the habits Of our own people should be to
sell when possible. 1t is not unknown to
any of you, that we have bought too much,
and sold too little, and that the balance of
trade has been so far against US that there
is a less amount of circulating medium, in
our midst, than perhaps any man in my
presence, has ever known before, at any 9th
er time or place. There is nothing surpris-
ing in this. When man has expended all
his money and lost his credit by spending it,
he will not be likely to to obtain much more
without change Of his method of doing
business. When people have performed
the same act, the same consequences are like
ly to follow. Such is about as near the
condition of our people at the present time,
as language would probably express it. But
l was proceeding to say, that the time has
already arrived when the people ofthe State
should urge on, encourage and patronize
every description of business which will
save the paying of money beyond her own
Little mills in the State of Massachusetts
long ways into the interior, on little streams
and little falls, and doing what would seem
to be little business, have for years been
building up towns, making their proprietors
rich, and helping to make their whole State
prosperous. At some places they make but
tons, and in some places they are making
buckles; in others they make tacks and in
others screws; all small articles, and yet all
of these small things and thousands more are
manufactured in immense quantities in these
unpretending mills, the sale of which ex-
tends to greater or less extent, over the
habitable globe, and assists and has assisted
in making that State by far the weathiest
State in the Union, in proportion to the
number of acres included within its terrific
ry. The precedent is good one for us to
follow. Wei have little water falls in almost
every part of the State amply sufficient for
the purposes that 1 have suggested. do
not refer to st. Anthony, or other great
falls. 1 speak of those small streams, which,
when appropriated with skill, will do the
work of a aozen or twenty men, and which
are always ready to perform their services.
in season or out of season. This is the great
value OF safe water power here and 10 all
places which are covered with industrial
inhabitants. They charge you nothing for
meat, drink or clothing. They charge you
nothing for engineers, or fuel. They charge
you nothing for repairs, for they never ex.
plOde or wear out. This is the secret why
so many men have set down upon little
humble falls of water in the East, in the
manufacture of some humble article and in a
few years of patient labor have made ample
fortunes.
1t need not be said that the rapid in
crease of population in this State has no
precedent unless it is in the State of Cali
fornia their hopes were based upon gold,
here we base our hopes upon country of
rich farms, large proportion of which are
made ready to our hands. In addition to
these we offer the inducements of healthy
and pleasant climate, which must furnish
attractions to the people of every State of
our Union, and unless some error of our
own shall have the effect to prevent emigra-
ton, there is no. reason why we should not
continue to have it to our State for years
to come in ratio quite or nearly equal to
that of years past.
How important then is it, that we should
encourage h me industry in every branch
which is possible, and afford to each citizen
the means Of an honest substance. This
will yield US wealth and strength and rea-
son for an honorable pride.
L have not spoken of our immense water
power at St. Anthony, Sank Rapids, Little
Falls the ST CrOiv and other nnints in the