Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-12
How 60 Develop the wealth of TIE N
NUMBER III.

NUMBER III.
That agriculture and manufactures are
mutual aids TO each other is demonstrated
by everyday observatissis- This idea o.
placing the agricultnralist beside the manu-
faeturer was practically tested in the set
Element known as Harmony, in Pennsyl-
vania. This neighborhood bound itself to
live within themselves. They forbid any
article being brought into their neighbor-
hood which could be manufactured or
grown there. They we're miniature nation
Of themselves, ard wealth and prosperity,
education and the fine arts under this sys-
TEN Of home culture and home manufac-
ture, soon elevated them far above sur
rounding neighborhoods.
Between the years 1850 and 1855 there
were in active operation in the counties
of Montgomery, Stewart, and Dick
son, from forty TO fifty forges and
furnaces. A large number Of opera
tives were employed and a vast amount
of money disbursed in those local
ltltb. was LuOEC SuSICJciul III
those counties then than ever before.
Every chicken, every pound of butter,
every bushel of corn, every bale of hay and
every pound of bacon was sold to these
manufacturers at the highest market price.
The farmer was enriched by having mar
ket furnished for his surplus produce.
Those furnaces and FORCES have long been
silent. Those farmers are still there, but
they have NO, market for their produce,
and by having no market they have be-
come less thrifty and industrious, and the
taxable property of those counties has
largely decreased.
Alexander Hamilton, the most accurate
and profound political economist America
has ever produced, says in his report as
Secretary ofthe Treasury, Dec. 5,l791, shat
manufacturing establishments not only &C.
casion a positive augmentation of the
produce and revenue of society, but that
they contribute essentially, to render them
greater than they could possibly be with
out such establishments" heterogeneous
adduced by this great statesman to prove
this proposition are, the division of labor;
the extension of the use of machinery; adj
ditional employment to classes of the COM
munity not ordinarily engaged in business
the promotion of emigration from foreign
countries; the creating in some instances a
new, and securing in all, more certain
and steady demand for the surplus produce
of the soil.
All Of these arguments are elaborated
with the irresistible force of his subtle in
tellect Hesays in the close of his argu.
ment, "that the aggregate prosperity of
agriculture and the aggregate prosperity of
manufactures are intimately blended" A
home market is always preferable to for
eign one, because it is always more re-
reliable, and not subject to such
fluctuations To secure such a mar
ket, there is no other expedient than
to promote manufacturing establishments.
Manufacturers, who constitute, next to the
farmers, the most numerous class, are for
that reason the principal consumers of the
productions of the soil. The Introduction
of manufactures would give employment
to large portion of our population now
comparatively idle. 1t is a matter of fact
that women and children, who otherwise
would be comparatively idle, do the great
est part of the labor in the large manufac-
turing establishments of the North, while
1t is computed that in England four-sev-
enths of the operatives are women and
children. Thus it will be seen that large
manufacturing establishment, which would
add its hundreds of thousands of dollars to
the taxable property of the State, might be
carried on in every county in the State by
the women and children, and by this means
making no perceptible reduction of those
engaged in agriculture
1t is fact which will startle our rustic
population, but nevertheless true, that the
proportion of crime is less in maniac
turing than an agricultural country. This
is accounted for on the ground that there is
more idleness in an agricultural than
manufacturing country, and as idleness is the
parent of crime, hence there is more crime
where there is more idleness. 1t has been
asserted by experienced manufacturers that
FIVE TO six adults, with the aid of children,
will manage a cotton mandatory of two
Thousand spindles. Having demonstrated
the proposition that the hope of Tennessee
is her manufacturing interests, and that
agriculture and manufactures~are mutual
aids to each other, we propose in the next
article to show how We can inaugurate
system of manufactures in this State.