Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-07-13
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MISCELLANEOUS.
The Factoryan and ti,e Farna.

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BUY at once all the land you are like
ly to want for, the moment your factory
is established, real estate will rise in price,
all around you from % to so per cent"
Such is the advice given by the Virginia
State Agent of Immigration to a gentle
man proposing to undertake the culture
and manufacture of Silk in>that State
/. That such advance of price is not altogeth-'
or speculative, but is based on actual en-
hancement of valGe, is a matter we'll un-
derstood, and one that has been plainly
illustrated by political economists from
Adam Smith 10 the best authorities of our
own day. The introduction of manufac-
lures into agricultural communities brings
together the essential elements of wealth.
producing enterprise, establishing the
shortest circuit of communication. This.
is In accordance not only with the laws Of
political economy but of that higher or
der whereby Nature conducts the com
merce of the material world. The farmer
and manufactures each nave needs which.
the other supplies and to bring the two
into such close connection that exchanges
can be made with the least possible cost,
lisa saving that must commend itselftothe
dullest mind. If our grain can be barter
cd for clbth made within sight of the
field where it grew, that is plainly a bet
ter deal than sending the same grain to
Liverpool to pay for fabrics woven in
i Yorkshire.
Tie factory adds value to the farm by
affording a home market. A home mark
ct saves the charges, risks, and waste of
lnp1 narr;aoa tho nro6fo- of IptorvanInn
traders, and interest on delayed returns,
and gives merchantable worth to products
that will not pay such charges. Better
still, a home market is sure market, little
subject to the fluctuations incident to for
eign demand. Regular home consump-
ton steadies prices, drives out speculation.
and gives to intelligen. ~forethought a ba-
sis for reasonable calculation.
When on the rightside of the road, ad-
vantage favors us at every turn. We go
Within current and all movement is in
our dire 5tion every incident of tho way
is a help; go the progress ofmapufactures,
side by side with agriculture. beside the
gain we have cited, brings diversity of
pursuits, stimulates industry and inven-
ton, raises the standard of intelligence,
attracts desirable immigration, and pro-
NOTES III MANY ways the welfare of the
community. We consider the prospect of
the isainediate future most hopeful in
that it promises the cotemporaneous de-
velopmsnt of these two great interests in
our new territory. Our Pacific Rail-
roads, penetrating the wilderness in adj
vance otiimmigration, make it possible to
occupy tIhe new lands with all the arts of
civilization, In simultaneous movement.
Tho serr,am of tho locomotive is a death
signal 10 the pioneer of the Leather
stocking type, more fateful than the war
hoop of'the savage. The simple virtues
aud roughsehivdlry of Cooper's hero are
passing away ifosever. and the class of
asrain-tarnfars'who followed the pioneer,
are a%ssunae, must 70 How him STILL Our
n~neFeuient westward has been character
nzcG by a rade tsocit :ty STRUGGLING with the
ha-Gsaips of sem b Irbarous life at first
derpUrred of'every /comfoct-later, obtain
ing eyrn soareilu1 uries, out shipping off,
&C, pay tdr tkea', shs very cream of the
Eol, leayiTgSSattf after State exhausted
eff their corn asI id wf.eat-producing ele-
l,nents. 1TheSSduth, TOO, under Slavery,
was subjeetede-o a va steful system of ag-
raiculturegale was stripped of fertility by
I the -eEport'6t :. few staple products. We
can now heTa to do better than all this.
THE fputh, "a well as the West. has still
, vast areis If virgin soil. Thanks mainly
f, to faciiiass of trar spoftation afforded by
..Oursrapiely extend ing railroads, the set
! tt.emetto of these I ew lands will be made
rundezz more Der .efcent order. Organic
characterization, 'pening farms with one
'hand, building factories with the other;
l~1lsnsIng produce r and consumer, the far
,lner and the manufacturer, side by side
I oh;s is the pot ent agent now inaugurating
,tl,e better plan of immigration, and de-
>seioping. we trust, a higher form of civil
Uation.
1T will cost you a bushel Of wheat to
send another to New York market" was
the observation lately made toa Mime
sofa c~olonist. ave don't propose to send
our wheat to New York." was the conf
lent reply !; I'VE are putting up mills to
grind or wheat for home consumption"
In .hat sentence We hear the keynote of
American progress.-N. Y. Iritane.