The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-12-09

market; and they furnish the c%ultivators
with something in exchange for it, that
is either useful or agreeable to them, up
on easier terms than they could have OBJ
tanned it before. The cultivators get o
better price for their surplus produce,
and can purchase cheaper other conven-
fences which they have occasion for.
They are thus both encouraged and en-
abled to increase this surplus produce by
a further improvement and better cult
walton of the land; and rs the fertility OF
the land has given birth to the manufac-
ture, SO the progress of the manufacture
reacts upon the land, and increases still
further its fertility. The manufacturers
first supply the neighborhood, and after
| ward, as tEeir work improves and rchnes,
more distant markets. For though Meth
or the rude produce, o even the coarse
manufacture, could, without the greatest
difficulty, support the expense OF a con-
siderable land carriage, the refined and
improved manufacture easily may. In
a small bulk it frequently contains the
price of a great quantity of the raw pro-
duce. A piece of fine cloth, for example,
contains in it the price, not only OF eighty
pounds of wool, but sometimes OF sew
eral thousand weight of corn, the main
tenance of the different working people,
and of their immediate employers. The
corn which could with difficulty have
been carried abroad in its own shane, is
in this manner virtually exported in that
Of the complete manufacture, and may
easily be sent to the remotest corners of
the world.
He says further On the subject:
The greater the number and revenue
of the inhabitants of the town, the more
extensive the market which it affords to
those of the country; and the more ex-
tensive that market, 1t is always the
more advantageous to a great num-
Der. The corn which grows within
a mile of the town, sells there for
the same price vita that which
GENES from twenty mites distance.
But the price of the latter must, generally,
not only pay the expenses of raising it
and bringing it to market, but afford.
too, the ordinary profits of agriculture to
t.e farmer. The proprietor and c~ultiva-
tors Of the country, therefore, which
lies in the neightorhood of the town,
over and above the ordinary profits of
agriculture, gain, in the price of what
they sell, the whole value of the carriage
of the like produce that is brought from
more distant parts; and they save, be-
sides, the whole value of this carriage
in the price of what they buy. Compare
the cultivation CT the lands in the neigh
borhood of any considerable town, with
that of those which lie at some distance
from it, and you will easily satisfy your
self how much the country is benefited
by the m of the town.
These views are in perfect accordance
with the facts. Nor is this alt. In the
case we have supposed above, the water
power that was worth but a few hundred
dollars, in its neglected and idle state, is
now rated by the thousands. Agricul.
doubled, trebled, or quadrupled in value,
and are more easily sold than ever before.
Farmers are making money a great deal
more rapidly than they did under the old
condition of affairs. With this increase
of purchasing power come enlarged de-
sires for the comforts aud retinements of
of life. The cabin gives pace to the
mansion. The barn grows in size and is
more convenient in If angement and
more tasteful in appearance. There is a
greater demand for carpets, for house
hold furniture, for agricultural machinery,
for hooks, for pianos, for improved
breeds of horses, cattle, and sheep. More
attention is paid to the orchard and TO
the vegetable garden, whose produce
find a market where none was before.
Fences are kept in better repair, and the
Ieighboriiood roads in better condition.
The soil receives more manure, and ad-
vances in fertility. All this affords to
the laborer various kinds of employment
which did not previously exist, and in
creases his opportunities. not only to
earn a liberal subsistence, but also to lay
by something for the purchase CT Il home.
Such are the benefits which flow from
diversified industry, whose strongest ally
is a protective tariff, that stands at the
elbow of every laboring man in this coun-
try, tt help him 20 better wages, to a
more independent condition, and to a
higher development of his faculties
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