The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-10-04

industry. Mind you, I am not advocat.
ing advantage Of manufacture over sgri-
culture. but the advantage of both to.
gether, over agriculture alone. My be.
lief is, as others have well said, that they
are not antagonistic. bat interwined and
dependent upon each other that each
helps the other; and that in no way can
our agricultural interests be more aided
than by increasing our manufacturing in
dustry. Agriculture gives to manufact-
ures food and raw material-manufact
ures furnish to agriculture fabrics and
home market. It is only by their har-
monious action side by side, that States
have attained the highest degree of inde-
pendence. wealth and power. This is no
new theory. 1t has been the doctrine of
all the brightest names of our history,
from Washington and Hamilton Of the
earlier day to Clay and Webster of the
later period. As illustrative Of the ad.
vantage Of uniting manufacture with ag-
riculture have referred to New Hamp-
shire, the State nearest like our own, and
yet wherever difference exists in natural
advantage they are all largely in favor of
Vermont. By comparing the two States
we have seen the general aggregate ad.
vantage Of manufactures to New Hamp.
shire. How much superior its agricul-
ture is ON account of its manufactures, to
what it would have been had New Hamp
shire pursued the same course as Yer
mont. we can not know. That it Is inn
mensely superior no one can doubt. Sta
tistics show that in garden products New
Hampshire produces more than three
times az much an Vermont. This, OF
course, results from the increased demand
created by her manufacturing towns.-
This fact suggests one'direct advantage of
manufactures to agriculture, where they
exist together 1t removes the cost Of
transportation, the great obstacle to hu-
man improvement Where the farmer
and the artisan are side by side, little is
lost in the transfer Of their commodities.
Separate them and each loses the cost of
transportation. The improved lands Of
Massachusetts,poor as they are, are worth
more than fifty dollars per acre, while the
rich lands of Kansas will average less
than ten dollars per acre; but transfer
the manufactures of Massachusetts, to
Kansas, and what then would be the price
Of their respective lands 2 Deprived Of
her manufactures, and commerce, Massa-
cbusetts would exist only in her glorious
history. The manufactures of Massa-
chusetts give the value to Massachusetts
farms. Need you further illustrations of
the advantage Of placing the consumer by
the side Of the producer7 Then turn
over the pages of history. and you will
6pd the proposition demonstrated, that
that nation which shall become the work.
shop Of the world. will become the mis-.
tress Of the world. The clear vision of
tho LIST Napoleon, was scarcely ever bet.
ter illustrated than when he said at St.
Helena, "Great Britain conquered me
not with her sword but with her spin.
dies; with her spindles she subsidized all
Europe, and here am." by fostering
manufacturing industry. she gained the
lead in manufactures, and nearly every
nation to which she has since had free &C.
cess with her fabrics. has receded in
power, wealth aud civilization. What
are Portugal, Turkey and India to-day,
in comparison with what they were q cen.
tury ago. and before the free importation
of English fabrics crushed the manufact.
uring industry OF those nations. Driven
by English manufactures to become moth.
ing but tillers Of the soil, they have ended
in poverty. slavery, and national degre.
dation. On the other hand the leading
nations Of the Continent, France, Russia
the German confederation, Denmark,
Switzerland, by following British prece.
dent, in protecting and encouraging man
utacturiug industry, have attained pow.
er. wealth, independence, civilization, that
rivals even that Of England herself
Within half century, Russia was scarce.
ly anything but an agricultural people,
and every laborer a serf. With the
building up of her manufactures under
the system Of encouragement and protec-
ton, inaugurated BY Count Nesselrode in
1924, she haA advanced in civilization,
until every serf is now freeman, her
wealth almost fabulous, and her power
we'll nigh irresistible Switzerland, small
mountainous, cold. sterile. but full Of
skilled artisans, is wealthy md enlight-
ened. aud free and independent. On the
other hand, Portugal, fertile. salubrious,
luxuriant, but supplied almost entirely by
foreign waters, Is poor and thriftless and
dependent.
Fellow citizens, there is scarcely limit
to these teachings Of history to show that
a state oaiy reaches the highest attaina-
Bile prosperity and civilization when ag-
riculture and manufacture march hand in
hand. And he is no true son Of Yer
mont who is satisfied with anything less.
With the education, ingenuity and skill
Of our people, is it not strange specta.
Gle to see the timber stripped from these
mountains, upon every slope Of which is
abundant water power, and transported
to New Hampshire, to Massachusetts,, to
Connecticut, to New York, aud the sons Of
Vermont sent along with it to msnufac.
ture it, by the aid in many cases. of steam
power into carriages, and furniture, and
farm tools to be brought back to Vermont
for our usef Is it not strange spectacle
to see our wool going to other States u
be made into cloth to be sent back fol
J our wear. and we paying the enhanced
price resulting from the double transpor
tation. and the profits that make the deal
ers rich through whose hands it passes
Why send our sons aud daughters to op
crate the looms and spindles Of Manches
ter and Lowell when we can have Man
chester and Lowell within our own Dor,
: dersr Why send our butter and cheese
oar potatoes and beef through Boston tc
, Lawrence and Lynn. to feed Vermonteri
making prints and boots for US there