The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-05

that paper, to which we refer, an incentive N
to peace. With such immense power Of "
production as they demonstrate now exists s.
in the Southern States, all that is needed to o
insure a change from poverty to wealth, is p
diversity of labor; and nothing will secure e
that intelligent diversity which creates t
wealth, so certainly or speedily, as the '
cessation of political outrage, prescription, h
and reaetionary agitation. T34FA r
An able and earnest writer upon 1.-THE
Relations of Diversified Industry to Civili- =
,zation," has well said that ssto complete
the development of mans power over the
forces of matter, no single kind of labor !
will sufiee-neither agricultural, mechanic,
scientific, nor manufacturing. All can
perceive and understand not only that Dir
versified. industry lies at the bottom OF
normal progress, but why it holds that
fundamental situation. 1t is the mighty
source of all material development. The
more intelligent, skilled, experienced, pre-
ductive, prosperous it is, the better for the
inhabitants and the State, and higher and |
nODlor Will NC Iilc dilCilOdiiO SiNAiANA,' /
Hence the interests of labor and of the
laborer should be the chief concern OF
craftsmanship; for whatever shackles,
s cripples, undermines, or prostrates them,
is retrogressive in tendency and force, and
a strongly detrimental to society. Upon the
= ! place in the governmental structure assigned
# to the industrial element, depends the value
e of the resulting civil and political institu-
= TONS" ~ 49,
$. Here is the simple solution of the appa-
: rent anomaly: That although Savannah
: exports more than twice as much as Phila-
:. delphia, - the country from which Savannah
III draws her supply of agricultural products
h for shipment, is cursed with poverty, igno-
le rance and disorder. There is not diversity
to of labor to manufacture the vast product
ry into more valuable commodity than the
az raw material. and the cost of production,
which is expended in cultivation of cotton,
re- SO nearly balances the market value, thai
the profit is insufficient to create wealth
and thus better the condition Of planter ano
laborer. This reacts upon the merchan
, and banker, for the margin of profit is 81
ny small that the laborer must confine his pur
10 chascs to absolute necessaries, and tn
ho planter does not accumulate wealth suffi
Gent to render him independent of bad sea
mo sons or glutted markets. Georgia, how
'he ever, is moving in the right direction, b.
to establishing manufactures, diversifying IL
'oi dustry, and if free trade theories are kept OF
we of practice the World may be disappointed
'crs but Georgia will become wealthy, and hi
be people contentcd and prosperous. NDive
per- sified industry is everywhere INTO be tt
ing fruitful parent of utilitarian investigation
cen philosophical experiments, scientific disco
% cries, mechanical Developments, inventiN
20 ingenuity and serviceable improvement
rms Its peculiar province is to enlarge the sphe
pom of mental activity, creating a demand TO
the and calling into exercise the latent powe
of intellect, to make men more skillful, e
pert, and useful in the various kinds
s sys,. work by which they are to earn the
, sns, bread, and to supply those cogent instr
.atis- mentalities by which they are enabled
ed Ito to make it 90 far and taste well when earned
n l the Experiments in diversified indust
ID to which have been made in Virginia, confil
orted ~, -, a. q 49,, ,.o,, !, .,;+;o,,, 81 rro
CISCO the truth OF the apoVe postum. =
a a.Id away the Tredegar works and the otf
. fair manufacturing enterprises from Richmo
No 10 and Manchester, and what increase in OIL
fair ing, on the tobacco and corn exchane
striy- would supply an equivalent ? The m
Gal f1ofriar IF tsprn
min mechanics" would stand aghast at the c
own temptation of such q calamity. On
diversified industry depends the fortune
Eve even the wealthiest among us /; as it pr
!, The pers they will prosper, as it is cramped
u;tb discouraged they will suffer. .i
thot The effect of the absence Of diversi
,ao.i industry is clear even to the most ordin
,,r.,od or most prejudiced understanding; it is
,f ,be parent IN the politico-economical histor
,uo,,t- every country and State in which it
IT. been neglected,or rejected. Want of it
:, perses population over vast areas, and
!, H. minishes the power Of association and c
bination. Under these circumstances,
,o,,,ros itation of industry to cultivation Of la
dependence usurps the place OF self-rella
..oa :. the tax of transportation to distant
! poI- ket leaves a ineagrc reward to the HON
: borer; land accumulates more and mo
ss4 500 the hands of the few; and the growing
1854 dency is to make the rich richer and
'459,9i5 poor poorer. A slovenly and rpro
Iobile, agriculture comes into vogue; IL
hairless farms degenerate into impoverished est
d are: there is progressive decrease in the 9
,sss, sSs tity and quality of staple crops; and
,Sss', 2s4 eial disturbances and distresses are
o7e'di easily precpitated and more widely
u .wo Populoo. education languishes, and
go whole social structure is disorganized
utleii imperilled. With the laborer his "batt
' ~ VI life,n instead of struggle onward
I, yss upward, becomes a mere struggle for
lnohey ence; while with the lord Of the soil
'''' = whole efforts are directed to strengths
,o,so his own position by curtailing the pol
, - rights of the laborer and appropriate
80 himself all the laborer produces owe
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