The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1865-09-26
The Importance Of Manufactures

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The effect of Manufactures in ssiINls;
latingi Agriculture is ably pointed out
by Mr.. Kennedy, late Superintendent
of the census in the official volume of
statistics. Mr.. Kennedy says:
"To enter upon any discussion re-
specting the relative Importance of in
terests which hold such intimate rela-
tions, with such indispensable depend
ent reciprocally rs agriculture and
manufactures, the one augmenting the
prosperity of the other, neither flour
ing with the other languishing, would
be preftless. 70 every observer the
fact is evident that lands enhance in
value in proportion to the capital eS-
pended in manufactures, and that neg
ligence and barrenness disappear in
proximity to riches and population
The poor acre, with its rocks and tan
gled thickcts, become transformed, by
the presence Of the factory of iron
works, into productive garden of
greater value than fourfold its quantity
of the most fertile valley distant from
the avenues to market. In truth, farm
ing lands anywhere, fertile as they may
be, would possess but little value were
it not for the consumption of their sur
plus produce either as food to sustain
commercial and manufacturing popu-
lation, or as raw materials in the arts
and manufactures and other things be-
ing equal, it will be found that the pri-
ces of lands and the value of their
products vary in proportion to the cost
of transporting the latter to their place
of consumption. These prices are not
controlled so much by DISTANCE rs by
the cost of carriage, as we sec illustra-
ted in the effects of railroads and other
means of conyeyaIce, WHICH delivered
at profit to the producer those az ticlc 8
which, transported by ordinary means,
would cost more than the crop in mar
ket, and this results from the enhanced
worth of products occasioned by in
creased consumption, and the return
freight in articles of manufacture, a
process constituting the greater por-
tion of commerce.
"Thc system of agriculture, as pur-
sued at present, with its labor saving
machinery, could no more continue
without the aid of the mechanic arts,
than it would pay without the absorp
tion Of its products by manufactures,
or than manufactures could thrive in
depcndcnily of tho products OF agrI.
culture or the consumption Of meghan-
ical productions by the farmer, and so
inseparably are they identified in inter-
est, that with the spindle at rest, and
the anvil deasing to ring, the ploY must
inevitably stop n Ep' fqsF0~'
"That the success of our manufac-
tures and of all dependent thereon is,
to considerable degree, due to the
wisdom of our laws, Which favor the
importation of raw products we cannot
raise, and tax whatever compctcs our
own industry, is evident from care
fill study of the progress of our indus,
trial 'intercsts, and leads to the eoH{cll.ql-
sion that the true the2fy fer oHir CONN
trymcp to cherish and our legislators
to act upon, is that which faciliates the
importation of every raw material up
on WHICH profit may be maae on its
re-exportatiop 3s q manpiacture to for
cigners, relying.n all ordinary times on
foreign luxuries and suel hot their raw
mSttrials and manufactures MS can
readily be produced by ourselves. ="