Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-12-18
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1875.


In which the occupations OF It's lnnaDl-
tants are the most diversified Why is
this? 1t il because in these countries all
laborers. no matter what their occupation
can find constant employment and at
good wages. A casual glance will show.
that the great need of this country is a
greater diversity Of industry. Where farm
ing operations are carried on exclusively.
the demand for labor is for that kind of
work. Where numbering is the principal
business, the call is for still another class
Of men, although the difference is not as
great in these, as in many classes of en-
ployment. These two branches of indus
try, although very important themselves,
are the principal ones in this country.
The growth of the country demands that
there shall be other industries established,
that employment can be given to much
larger class individuals. Let us Illustrate
this point. suppose that in this commu-
nifty, as there is very superior water pow
er, that some enterprising individual
should erect mill for the manufacture of
a certain class of our timber into pulp,
that is used for the manufacture of paper.
There would be an immediate change in
the condition of affairs. The population
of the village would increase dozen or
more families at once, for the workmen
employed must come from where
such an industry has been carried on.
Others would go in the woods to prepare
the material. One class of business gives
employment to other classes, and thus all
are benefited. The class of laborers in
troduced are entirely new and would not
interfere in the least with those already
here, but are positively benefit to them,
by creating an additional market for the
products of the soil. Suppose also that a
blast furnace be erected here. There
would follow at once large increase of
population, an entirely different class of
individuals. There would be largely in
creased demand for the products of the
soil greatly stimulating their production.
The same effect could be seen in the estab-
lishment of a tannery or a dry dock.
Manufacturer and farmer, producer and
consumer are brought into close relation
ship and each is mutual benefit to the
other. Every increase in manufacturing
industry and diversity of employment in
any region becomes a positive benefit to
the laborer as well as the capitalist, to
every inhabitant of the region, to the
Turner. as well as to the laborer who re-
ceives the employment. To those who are
skeptical regarding the benefits conferred
upon place by the introduction of man
,factures, the history Joliet, ILL.,, will offer
some strong arguments against their
doubts. The land upon which the Joliet
iron and steel works now stands was
twice sold for taxes within twenty years,
with lapse of title in each case, so little
was the present or prospective va lue of
the ground. The first iron rail was roll
ed at this works in July 1870, and by
May, 1872, the population of the. city of
Joliet had doubled, and the value of real
estate throughout the city and vicinity
had quadruplel. What is true of Joliet,
would be true Of this place, of any other
place which lacks diversified industry.
The reciprocal advantages which accrue
TO farmers al d to manufactures by be-
ing brougt together are thus exhibited by
Adam Smith, i'm his famous workon .'The
Wealth of NatiOns:n .- ,y,,o eeif
An INLAND country, naturally fertile and easily
cultivated, produces great surplus of provi-
sions beyond w hat is necessary for maintaining
the culrivators; and on account of the expense
of land carriage. and incOnveniency of river
navigation, it may frequently be difficult to send
this surplus abroad. Abundance, therefore, rem
ders provisions cheap, and encourages great
number of workmen to settle in the neighbor-
hooa, who find that their industry can there
procure them N re of the necessaries and con-
venience5 of life than in other places. They
work mp the materials of manufacture v hich
the land produces, and exchange their finished
work, or, What Is the same thing, the price Of it,
for more materials and provisions. They gics
pal,se the surplus part OF the rude produce by
Saving the expense Of carrying ii to the caterside TO
sonse distant maykt and they furnish the cultiva-
tors with something in exchange tor 1t, that is
either useful or agreeable to them, upon easier
terms than they could have obtained it before.
The eultiuaors get better price for their snrplas pro
dsee, and can purchase cheaper other eonusniences
sclfch they haze occasion for. They are thus both
eneourageu and enabled to increase this surplus
produce W further Improvement and better
cultivation of the land !; and the fertility of the
land has giren birth to the manufacture the progress
of the reacts npon the land, and increases
still further its fertility. The manufacturers first
supply the neighborhood, and afterward, as their
work improves and refines, more distant mar
kets. For though neither the rude produce, nor eren
the coarse manufact,re, could, without as greates
difficulty, support the expense Of considerable land
carriage, the refined and improved manufacture easily
may. In small TX it frequently contains the
price of great quantity of the raw produce.
A piece of fine cloth, for example, contains in it
the price, not only OF eighty pounds of wool, but
sometimes of several Thousand weight Of corn,
the maintenance of the different wo king people.
and of their immediate employer The corn
which could with difficulty hare been carried abroad
in its osr shape is in this virtually exported
in that of the complete nnactre, and may easily be
rent to the rsmotest corners Of the 'oorld. 81
He says further on this subject: q
The greater the number and revenue Of the in
habitants of the town, the more extensive Is the
IN arket which it affords to those OF the country;
and tie more extensive that market, 1T is always
the more advantageous to great number. The
corn " hich grows within mile of the town,
sells there for the same price with that which
comes from twenty miles distance. But the
price OF the latter must, generally, not only pay
the expense of raising it and bringing it TO mar
ket, hut ford, too the ordinary profits Of asri-