Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-08-17

template. Let any one sum up the
amount of wearing, soul-kill
ing, unproductive industry which this
country annually produces, and he
will be amazed. The world has never
seen anything like it. And the
whole system is so delusive. A man
whose lifelong work finds him a
bankrupt, consoles himself with the
reflection that he has been at least ''de
voted to business" And what does
this business, of late years, amount
to? On the one hand, it shows a
few clerks, a family, and porter
sustained. On the other, alife passed
in making articles, perhaps of neces-
sity, dearer for the poor. So long
as their number was limited in pro-
portion to the number of inhabitants
in the country, those who filled in
termediate, brokering positions be-
tween the manufacturer and retailer,
were of real advantage, when the IA
cilities did not exist which we now
have of effecting transfers between
the first and last parties. AS they
increase, the enormous amount OF
jobbing now done must fall away 1t
is in opposition to sound princi-
pie which is now gaining ground rap
idly.
The same thing is true of Europe
as of A merica-of Londo On as of Gin
cinnati. Everywhere we find agita-
ton, whose object is TO cheaper
goods, and do away with the non
producing classes. In the Middle
Ages there were very few producers,
and vast proportion of men main
tanned by those who were occupied
in the various processes Of profitable
or capital producing labor. Every
new advance since then has tended to
increase the number of producers
The more the world get together
and the easier they find it to get to
first sources, the more they will OBJ
ject to high prices. Probably the
day may arrive when all business in
our large cities will consist of direct
purchase from the producers fol
ready money, and sales shall cease tc
be made upon precarious credit, un
der the delusIve hope that the risl
may be run for the sake of the largt
profits, and that enormous class who
increase the price without adding
anything to thevalue of the articles
. will turn their attention and industry
into channels of production.
In England and .Ireland, and per
haps in other portions of Europe
they have regular smarket days,
where the farmer, with the product
of his farm; the mechanic, with tn
evidences of his handicraft; tn
housewife, with the fruits of her in
dustry; in short, where the producer
in whatever line, meets the consumer
exhibits his wares, and for the time
plays the role of the merchant. Th
days are fixed and notorious, and tn
consumer goes there with a perfec
assurance of finding for sale sue
things as his wants demand, and i
, first hands, without the interventio
of middle men of merchants, who's
profits would be direct tax upO
the one or the other-frequentl
both. Time and long experienc
F have demonstrated the wisdom Q
this arrangement. The reunion
are not only economical in ther OF
erations in the savings of the profit
which must otherwise go to the SUI
port of the middle men; but they a
ford opportunities of social enjoy
y ment as well as useful intercourse {
, persons engaged in the same calling
e thereby disseminating useful inform
alton and valuable experiments, tent
ing directly to the increase of know
edge among the denizens of the rur
f districts. Among the many beaut
' full systems in English farm life, "
know of none more worthy of bein
transferred to our shores. and put
! active operation by our people tha
this. With the large portion {
. English and Irish emigrants scattere
throughout our country, it is ma
ter of surprise that this enterpri:
has not already been inaugurate
Our rural population can no mo-
r afford to pay an unnecessary tax
middle men, than can the farmers
the old world and hence we tru
that the time is not far distant whe
= the exchange, or sale, of commod
r ties from nelghbor to neighbor wi
be carried on at the monthly or
monthly fairs of the neighborhoo
" A Mrs MurClock of Eldorado. Kanss