New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-11-06

taDt points following the settlement Of
country is equally ruinous, for indebtedne ~,
and, in time, more or less insolvency ensue
and to prevent this the manufacture Of goods
requiring more capital and skill come in
Thus we see in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and
Illinois, manufactures have increased with each
years growth, and great variety of articles for
daily use are now produced within their own
borders. In those sections where the soil il
best, and where mental activity, as a conse-
quence, is greatest, more varied productions
succeed AT Elgin, the new style of American
watches are made at Joliet, great variety Of
perfumery, and in Chicago jewelry, fine list
of fancy articles. Money paid in Boston and
New-York for beef from Illinois has been in
vested, so soon as it could be spared, in build
ing wooden factories flax works, machines shops,
and furnaces, which are laying the foundation
for a market for beef at home. The progress
of manufactures has been in proportion TO
growth and to the lapse of time, and they CORE
spond in order to successive geologic periods.
The attempt of England to supply America
with manufactured goods must FAIL The dead
weight attached to the transportation OF goods,
and of the course and heavy products which
pay for them, alone will break it down; noI
can their cheap labor, which brutalizes, and
which is intended tc brutalize us, save them
for it contains within itself every element OF
decay. The whole scheme is an experiment,
for never before has one civilized nation at
tempted to manufacture for another civilized
nation. The distance to which goods can be
transported proftably, either from one country
to another, or within the boundaries of either,
is limited The trade between Europe and
America, to be healthful and permanent, must
be in commodities produced by the help Of
natural advantages not common to both. If
this law is respected, there will be fair profits,
and the increasing population will make this
trade enormous But this is only on the con-
dition that the population of the two CONT
nents be more equally balanced and Europe
will receive great advantages from still sending
us labOrers and man ufacturers.
In the West, the child is born which will live
TO see cotton come directly out of the MissS-
sippi, and wool directly from the farmers
barn, to be woven on looms made from tho
ores of Missouri and Lake Superior iron. Sim
ultaneOusly, the wearing apparel OF people.
with reconstructed ambition, will be woven
on looms run by streams pouring from the
Cumberland Mountains into North Carolina,
Virginia, Georgia, and Tennessee. For the
good of whole country, when developed,
only particular goods should be landed on
our shores to cross the waters of the Hudson
and the Susquchanna, and the main traffic for
New England should be, not with the West
but with the islands and countries reached
by sea. Even now, articles worth many
millions, which formerly were produced in New
England, are sent to the lower Mississippi, to
the Plains, and over the Rocky Mountains from
the workshops, the furnaces and factories OF
the three great cities of the West. Nor IS it
Western, it is New-England men who control
this trade, and who have gone West to be
near their customers, the same as British manu-
facturers are crossing the ocean to be nearer
theirs. When the natural advantages and tho
soil of the States of the Mississippi Valley shall
be developed equally with the State of New
York. their population will be about as follows: