Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-04-26
RUIZ AND HE AID.
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1866.
, o,r Manufacturing Interest.

,o,ime, within the past few mouths, or
bais exceedingly prone 10 be captious
ar the sake OF differing from Others.
The Record quotes approyiugly from
,re Of the series OF articles which we
have written on the absolute necessity
Of more attention to the manufacturing
interest. in order To promote the growth
and prosperity ns the State, or even to
preserve what influence the STATE now
has in the nation, and then proceeds to
remark. among other things:
oBut manufacturing is TO. all. judy
ino from the tone OF the HERALp tor
few weeks past il might seem the editor
tbought SO but We would not 60 to
that extreme For, rich As Vermont is
in agricultural resources, aud poor As
she is in manufactures, still If these re-
sources were more thSoughiy developed,
the farms better cultivated, the stock
better bred, and the general ruu OF our
agricultural labor better systcmatized
aud more iudiciously applied the result
would We opine be very beneficial, and
have strong tendency TO abolish those
evidences of decay which many OF our
towns exhibit Make it the rule and
not the exception that every farm is
highly cultivated all stock well bred,
aud an induCement is created for Young
men to stay at home farming will again
be made generally profitable, and the
State will begin To thrive anew.
Aud when there is added to this a
larger manufacturing interest, "a new
aud vigorous impetus is given TO bust
ness, new markets for our produce are
created, immigration instead Of em gra
ton is encouraged, multitudeS of latent
energies developed, and the prosperity
of the Commonwealth greatly enhanced.
Why do not Vermont capitalists see it 2"
Judging from the tone Of the HER
AID" &C. ut might seem the editor
thought So" And then, again it might
~ot seem that the editor thought so
The editor Of the Record is not remark
ably lucid He says " manufacturing is
rof al" and then straightway proceeds
to say that it might seem from the tone
OF the HERALD that we thought So Well,
Mr.. Record we did think 80, decidedly
that is, we thought manufacturing is
not all that is necessary, and the words
and meaning Of all our articles on the
subject under consideration went to es-
tablish that the agricultural interests
were highly important, and that because
they were important, we argued the ne
cessity of more attention to manulactur-
ing. But from other remarks OF the
Record, its editor evidently intends to
say that it might seem from the tone Of
the HERALD that we thought manufaC-
turing is all that is necessary.
Our friend is apparently az anxious to
avoid extremes as was the young man
who wrote his mother that he was "a
Christian butnotan ultra one, and labors
along to prove that if people will only
improve their farms, take better care of
their stock, better systematic labor, &C.,
"the result would be very beneficial
Very likely it would, and Mrs Mudlaw,
who thought little salt improved but
ter, and that sugar and other things,
such az would be more agreeable to the
tastes of the eaters, would be pepper in
gradients in making pudding, would
no doubt agree with the editor of the
Record.
But seriously the Record bcgs the
question. The very improvements it
recommends, can not be SO well secured
without the manufacturing stimulus
BY building up large consuming popu'
lation by the side Of the agricultural
producers. the farmer will have a strong
motive for making the needed improve
ments mentioned by the Record. Occca
sionaly we find fancy farmer But
remuneration is the great incentive, ar
ter all and when the farmer is sure tina
all he can raise will find q ready demanC
near home, he will be more likely to i'm
prove and increase his means of prOduC
ton. As it is, he has little Involvement
IN Vermont. As general thing, few
fine horses and sheep, fair crop of ma
pie sugar, but one not meeting half thu
demand for home consumption, and suct
agricultural productions as may satlsi,
the wants of quiet, stay-at,home pop
ulatiOn, are all we can boast of. An(
yet, such is the fertility Of our soil, tina
many of our agricultural products eX
coed in amount those Of most othe
States, taking into account the exten
Of our territory, &c.
Now we contend that more manufaC
turing enterprise is necessary to Undue
better and more extensive cultivatiO
Of our farms, aud more extensive stock
raising-that without more of this er
terprise, it is utterly impossible to attai
that high and thorough cultivation {
our soil that is desirable. We mus
have the population, and this we ca
only have by diversity Of labor
our water privileges were today as we
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