The Russellville Democrat., 1877-01-11

DcitcNcs dic tO DC COHSiucISu. These are:
 I 1st The direct personal ad- vantages accruing to each indi- vidual of the community, and es- pecially to the farmer, from the influx of population.
 l 2d. The part to be taken by legislation In the inducement of immigration. And,
 l 3d. The necessity, in strict Fly business point of view, of COM BINEp ACTION on the pant of the states of the Mississippi Valley, to secure those advantages, in this regard which nature has pro vided for their benefit
 VALUE, TO THE COMMUNITY, OF THE
 INDIVIDUAL IMMIGRANT. I First, then-very briefy,-of the immediate practical advan tage to individual citizens, of the procurement of immigration. l If each human being produced only so much as is indispensable to his own support, the rest of the community would derive from hns addition to it's number no material benefit beyond that of convenience. But the accu- nulated wealth of all the world is no mere than the surplus product of the labor of present and pre- ceding generations; and under merle stitut ons, this wealth is so rapidly diffused that the surplus of every mans labor may practically be consider cred as constituting common fund; prize to be divided among the most industrious and energetic. Now, very moderate calculations find the value, to the community in which he lives, of each male laborer to be $l, 300; that of each woman $750, an aver age of $l, ,125 for each individual. If question be entertained upon this poidt, it will be sufficient to remind the doubter.. that if an inn migrant family of five persons, in the first year of it's settlement, produce improvements, including the clearing and fencing of land, the erection of a home and the in crease of domesticated stock, to the value of $16S.75, it will, rough ly assuming the average duration of human life at 338 years, have contributed to the common re- sources at the full rate of our es- timate.
 1 Calculating upon this basis, the value to the United States, of the immig ration of 1873, alone (the last year the statistics of which are accessible to us at present, J was no less than $475,3l2, 300; that of the entiro immigration from the organization of the gov ernmcnt to that date, $l0,020,5l5- 622. And this without including either the amount of personal property brought into the coun- try, or the lncalculable and for ever increasing value of the labor of the decendants of of the immi- grant.
 But this statement by no means fully represents the advantage directly accruing from immigra- tion.
 INCREASE OF POPULATION MEANS
 HOME MARKETS.
 Increase of population meaus home markets. In the nature of things 'as population becomes more dense, there arises divis- ion of labor. Opportunities of investment attract capital, and no investme 1t is better assured than that intended to supply a well settled section of country with the manufacures required for it's own use. The farmer finds at hIs own door the consumers of his crops. So finding the ahso- lute waste of transportation (and all cost oi transportation Is waste is saved. If his corn, hls wheat, his cotton, has to be shipped to the Atlantic coast,or to Europe, the price of shipment is deducted from his pay. What ever part of that price is paid by the foreign consumer, the foreign consumer adds to the price of his manufac tures; and the farmer has to pay it in the end.
 The practical effect, then, of the f home market afforded by abund , ant population is at once to raise the price of agricuitura. products and to decrease the cost of manu factured articles; and, however divided, the net gain is just that of the expense of transportation saved. No farmer ever used In dian corn for fuel as has been i, not unfrcquently the case in the ' west, where a fourishing manu featuring population, immediate ly surrounding him, stood read, to consume the products which their own avocations forbade , them to raise. Or if distant r. transportation for the farmers . productions there must be, ther
 the railway fellows in the tracl f of population, affords the market
 and cuts down the expense of car Q riage. In it's track spring III : prosperity and comfort.
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