The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-02-08
Advantages Derived by tine
Community from Manafac-
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Advantages Derived by tine
Community from Manafac.
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No estimate of the results and ef-
fects Of manufacturing is complete that
does not take into account the advan-
tages derived therefrom generally by
the community. II is a maDy-sided
subject, and well worth consideration
all round. While the establishment of
single msnufactory sets the wheels of
other industries in motion to an extent
that is almost marvellous, the benefits to
the community generally of a number
Of such establishments are manifold,
reaching beyond business into politics,
morals aud education We do not mean
that a town should be devoted to maa-
ufacturing exclusively. The most pros
porous community is that which affords
the most diversified employment, Free
mont is fair sample ofall western towns,
in its wants and in its prospects. They
allrun to shop-keeping, out of proportion
10 other kinds of business; Now, shop
keeping,-by which is meant the sell
ing of all sorts of commodities to sup
ply the endless and not absolutely ne
cessary wants of the back, the stomach,
and the eye,-operates as pump on
the resources of community; it is a
constant drawing out without returning
anything, comparatively speaking, to
keep the fountain supplied. Or to use
another illustration7-where shop-keeP-
ing is the main business it is the shut
tie-coek that sends the wealth of its VI
cinity, in the shape of produce, flying
abroad and bringing back Perishable
articles in return. Manufacturing is
therefore needed as a help to Agrcul-
ture in creating wealth. Plant this
western country with manufactures. and
in another generation no territory of
equal ares in the babitable globe could
show a people, as rich, as strong, as well
educated as ours would be. /
,oa The money employed in manufactur-
ing is kept in circulation at home. 1t
passes through countless hands and
paws off untold Indebtedness and does
incalculable good in the "home circle
before it finds its way to the great "mon-
ey eenters" ofcommerce. With manufac-
turing comes an increase of population.
The effect upon this town Of the estab-
,ishment of four or Eve manufactures
giving employment to twenty-five or
fifty hands, each. would be apparent in
the increased thrift Of every branch OF
business, and be felt in every part OF
society. The population is increased
not SO much by the actual number of
operatives, as by accesions to other
trades, professions and pursuits. This
would work revolution in everything.
More churches would be hailt; school
houses would be enlarged and increased
in number; the market for produce
would be improved; the price Of real
estate would be enhanced !; the public
burdens of taxatiea aud charitable con-
tributions would be lighteped by being
distributed. among large number;
employments would be multiplied and
diversified to the extent that there
would be something remunerative fol
every body to do. Atown 50 fortunate
as to secure fair proportion OF manu-
featuring, would grow more and more
eosnnopoiitan in its makeup. A stimu-
lus would be given to all healthfuf en-
terprises and entertainments, such a
public libraries, lectures, and literary
and benevolent societies. In a business
aspect, it would put of the crossroads
countyy-store style, of vending calicoe'
and candy, patent-medicines and hard
ware from the same counter. Separate
stocks, specialties in trade-advanta
zeous alike to dealer and customer
would be the rule. Competition would
be sharp, it is true, but the consuming
public would be the gamers.
There is no royal road to prosperity
for a town, any more than there is
royalroad TO learning for an individual.
The end can be reached only by care
full and constant observance of well
settled rules and principles. Growth
and thrift follow surely the footsteps o
productive labor. Without such labol
there can be no permanent progress
All this is generalization, but it is still
capable of practical application; anc
we close by repeating, that If a tow
would take hold Of the right end o
prosperity, it should go to manufactur
ing.
The first really favorable sction or
the part of Congress to stop the ruinou'
policy of Mr.. McCulloch in rapidly with