The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-06-01
TIE KEY TO PROSPERITY

ManulaCLuEIus
r;od. are among the greatest creators
g w.al,b Subtract the price PAID
-. raw material they work up from
-. v.,ae of the product of their indus
go and we find that the large differ
,,ce il value actually created by
ishor. The creative power, labor, holds
the reins, although capital is another
thing required "to make tne mare go.
labor with its hundred hands. skins
off the cream of the proceeds, capital
takes the remainder.
NO GRIEvoUs MONOPOLY
l. created, many are afforded compe-
tence. and but seldom fortunes are
made for the few. Manufacturing
towns are the most prosperous in the
world. Here we always find the most
general well.doisg. Their wealth is
not repr sseAted to any great extent by
O favored few, but lies scattered among
the masses of the population. Such a
town has substantial and lasting
character; its property values are not
speculative, bat actual and permanent !;
it is not feeder--a sponge, whose only
object appears to be to absorb the sur
rounding country; it creates its own
wealth. It's business is conducted on a
cash basis, its traders and merchants all
enjoy healthful and lasting pros
perity. 1t disburses its wealth through
ont the country tributary to 1t, and
BRINGS PROSPERITY
To the hundreds of farm houses whose
occupants are producers for its markets.
Every town and city in the United
bilious to become q manufacturing CEN
tire. Most of them can hold out some
inducements to the projectors Of man
ufacturing enterprises. aud few of
them are prominently adapted to their
purpose Yet many flower is des-
tined to to bloom unseen; may Mi
cawber has been possessed of talents
which. if turned TO practical account
would have realized their possessor .
fortune. As with individuals. so with
towns and cities the
GOLDEN THREAD OF OPPORTUNITY
Is at sometime in their history hung
within their reach; there is tide in
the affairs OF men, which, "if taken at
the flood leads on TO fortune. The bur
den of our prayer has always been that
good fortune might send along little
army of capitalists to start our city on
the high road to prosperity by estab-
fishing manufactures among US. Now
there isn't non manufacturing city in
the whole broad domain of the Union
but has been craving for the same thing
ever since it first budded into existence
The difference between those that are
now languishing for the want of man
ufacturing enterprises, and those al
ready grown wealthy from them, is
that the latter have gone ahead reso-
lutely and accomplished for themselves
what the former who have always stu
pidly adheared to
TIE FABIAN POLICY
lave waited for the never looming cap
italist to do for them. Take the great
manufacturing towns of the country
those immense hives of industry ana
repositories of wealth. and to whom do
they owe their distinction. To the cap
italist who CHANGED To drop into their
midst, and build up their fortunes like
Aladdins palace. In single night! 1t
will Le found that they do not. They
are the offspring of their own industry.
Labor within them has grown into cap
ital by the slow yet sure process of ac-
cumulation. These manufactures
were, rs general thing, started without
much capital. Take Lynn for instance.
the greatest boot and shoe manufactur-
ing town of the Union, and the repre-
sentative of immense wealth. and we
find that her colossal manufacturing
establishments had q very obscure ORR
gin. While the city was yet
AN OBSCURE VILLAGE
A few disciples of st. Crispin dubbed
together in different parts of the town.
and commenced manufacturing boots
and shoes IN small way. From these
cooperative beginnings of years ago
have sprang the great factories OF the
present. There Is no branch of manu-
featuring enterprise to which Seattle is
is so pre-eminently adapted ss this.
Thousands of dollars are sent away
from Puget Sound every year for boots
and shoes. large portion of which
might be retained in this city IN giving
profitable employment to hundreds of
industrious mechanics. We are con-
tinually shipping hides away to be
worked up into boots and shoes for this
market. Why not make them st home
We need not be deluded by the idea
that capitalists are to come here and
open factories for us. We must open
them for ourselves. We have sufficient
capital ahead available to tho crafts in
this city to make beginning Only CO.
operative effort among them is needed.