The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-16

world to obtain with the same expenditure OF
force million times more of products in 9
single season than he could have produced il
ne had held the pillow for 80 years.
The numberless inventions OF the present
era. and. Tor Illustration. we simply cite the
steam-engine and the threshing and har-
vesting machines, have empowered the farm
ing communities not only to multiply manifold
their productions with the same expenditure OF
labor, but have also enabled them to dispose OF
their surplus produce at profit, and to receive
as an equivalent therefor such additional luxu-
RES as they NAV advantageously select. In
reflection to establish the conviction that the
inventor and man OF science are bestowing
blessings upon mankind, though they may not
toll in the field, of equal value OF those OF the
| husbandman.
A team has run away, and farmer who has
been thrown from the wagon has broken his
limbs. A sympathizing crowd of neighbors
gather about him, and what is their first
thought ? A horse for a messenger Let hum
be swift as Sheridan's charger, 70 call surgeon
80 that the mangled limbs may be set, and the
life saved. Ii is true, in the course OF time,
when the patient is once more hale and hearty,
he may forget to pay that surgeon, and he may
again rail against those classes Of society who
toll but with their hands, but he owes his life
to that physicians skill, nevertheless.
Again, death hath set its seal upon the brow
of beloved child, and we are brought face to
face with that awful chasm tina; hes between
time and eternity. The form OF our loved one
is about to be placed beyond our sight forever.
1t is then we take counsel with the minister OF
the Gospel, tue representative OF that Word
which IN that solemn hour proclaims II am
the life and the resurrection" Then the minis
ter is needed. though he may be scoffed at in
times Of prosperity and health.
What can crude toll achieve when performed
by man of ignorance? Did not the system Of
slavery In,poverish the land IN which that igno-
rant labor was employed can the farmer do
without the teacher? Can he see his little ones
grow up unable to plan and calculate, and TO
invest with profit the proceeds OF their
labor? Then we must have the teacher: and
we cannot have him with the requisite compe-
versty and the seminary
We care not how much the farmer NAV toll
in his field, or how hard the mechanic nav
labor IN his shop, If the laws do not protect
and guarantee him the proceeds OF his labor,
his industry has been in vain. Thus, for the
eaouritv ~ civil AVID, I,
science Of jurisprudence is all essential. and
the lawyer, not the pettifogger, but the real
jurst, ID a necessary. useful. and beneficial
member of civilized society.
The newspaper which announces the state OF
the markets, and gives information Of drouths
and floods so that the farmer may be enabled
to secure the full advantage of the times. is also
essential, 4 family paper, which is the herald
Of both JOY and sorrow, and which, by instruct
ing the youth, keeps them out Of bad society,
is paying its way thousand fold. We venture
TO assert that no family can either become or
remain prosperous that is deprived of Its news
paper. Real estate and all other descriptions
Of property would deprecia.e II an organized
county should permit it's local papers to Ian
gush or to die. In fact, we know OF no class
of men who pay their way so fully as the con-
ductors OF the 5000 local weekly journals in
the nlted States.
Powerful nations alone are respected. What
makes it more desirable to be citizen OF the
United States than citizen OF Mexico or ven-
ezuela 1t is because the American citizen Is
a member Of Republic OF 10000, 900 inseIli-
gent men, who know their rights and. know
ing them, dare maintain them. Without
military or naval power we would De at the
mercy OF other nations. to be plundered and
ravaged. Quite recently our flag was insulted.
American citizens were shot without due pro-
cess Of law and at once the entire people look
ed to the army and navy to right this insult
Thus, scientifically trained army and navy off,
GERS, with schools of military science. are AZ
essential to the welfare OF the farmer al the
farmer Is TO these institutions
Then there is the miner, who tolls in the
bowels OF the earth, far remote from the gen.
ial light OF the SUD- in the damp cold atmos-
phere OF the deep. Iron, coal and copper are
the result of his hard labor and OF the engin-
eering skill which makes mining possible. Does
any one pretend that the farmer without the
iron pillow or without the iron machine could
work to any advantage
All persons necessarily engaged in the trans
portation Of produce and goods-the engineer
that is in charge OF the locomotive. as well as
the telegraph operator that announces that
the way Is clear, are az essential to the
achievements and comforts OF society as the
farmer
We do not claim that all these grand diyis-
ions Of society are numerically well adjusted,
nor that the members thereof are alike useful.
There are poor lawyers aud DOCTORS as well as
poor farmers but the classes themselves are
essential to the attainment OF the highest de-
gree Of comfort because it is this organiza-
ton OF forces which enables the least expendi-
ture Of labor to obtain the greatest amount of
results.
Ag-iculturlsts are necessary somewhere in
the world, but they are not essential to any
one country thereof. England, to-day, by set
ting Its millions Of spindles at work, and its
thousands Of steam-engines. that toll with the
concentrated power OF millions of human
hands. and which is importing moiety OF it's