The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-06-08
it, or take shovel:and dig it out of the

it, or take shovel:and dig it out of the
ground. In California a man turns over
the gravel and picks up bits of gold; in
PENNSYLVANIA men blast out coal; in New
Jersey men raise fruit; in Vermont men
break marble and slate out of the hills;
off the coast men let down lines and
bring up fish. Each of these can sell
his gold; his apples, his coal, slate, mar
BILE, or Goldfish, for money. Each has
found some new wealth that did not ex-
list before, and thus. in turn, these men
grow rich without taking anything from
anyone. This is what is meant when it
is said that all wealth comes out of the
ground. Every summer the farmers
and planters raise millions of bushels OF
corn and millions of pounds of cotton
and tobacco. All this is new wealth out
of the ground, and thus it is that the
country grows richer and richer every
year.
Other men take these vast stores of
corn and cotton and transplant them to
the coast or to foreign countries, or
they feed the coru to cattle and pigs, or
weave the cotton into cloth, and thus
add still more to the value of this wealth.
+ Tne people who buy cattle and the cloth
nav both the farmer and the manufact-
urer, and thus both get money
Now, which Of these great trades are
you going into? Do you mean to dig
money out of the ground in the shape OF
corn, cotton, potatoes, vegetables or
fruit? Do you mean to earn money by
helping to carry these things from one
place to another, or do you mean to
work these things over into new shapes,
and thus make money by adding to
their value?
An apple under tree in New Jersey
orchard is worth, perhaps, cent. Take
it to the Washington Market and 1t is
worth two cents, carry it up town to
retail store and it is worth three cents,
make it up into tart at the CONNECTION
er's and it will bring four cents. Not
one of the four men who handled the
apple got more than q cent. The farmer
had the first cent because the apple came
from tree that grew in the ground; the
expressman cent for carrying it to the
market, and the retail dealer paid these
two cents, and charged the con-
fectioner another cent for bringing it to
him. The confectioner paid the three
cents and charged another cent for
cooking the apple. The person who ate
the tart paid four cents at the end.
This shows the relations OF the great
trades-agriculture,c commerce and manu-
facture. Agriculture includes farming,
planting, gardening and stock raising
| Commerce includes the transportation
of goods from one place to another, and
the exchange of goods, buying and sell
ing. Manufacture includes all the
trades where mel change one thing into
another, make bricks out of clay, shoes
out of leather, everything from carpen
try to weaving, ship building, glass
making, painting Matchmaking. Be
sides these trades are the profession
xherhJas fnsShTads tfe doctors, lawyers,
editors and many others.
You can choose anyone of these you
like. The United States is the richest
country in the world. It is an agricul
tural nation and it produces millions o.
new and real wealth every year. 1t is
vast country, with great rivers and q
long sea coast. All this agricultural
wealth must be moved every year and
vast sums of money will be paid to the
men who can do it. There are forty
millions of people and they want hats
and shoes, furniture, books and tens of
thousands of other things. Never was
there such q chance offered to young
men as here. 1t is big country, and
there is plenty of room for every man
able and willing to work. It may be q
trifle dull in some places, but there are
the farms. the rivers and the railroads
and all this great nation of people.
These things mean business, and some
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chance, and it is the aim of the Press
to take up e&ch trade in turn and to
point out its advantages and dissdvan-
tages, TO show what its prospects are
and to help you, as for IS may be, to
choose the one in which you are most
likely to succeed.