Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-02-02
Productive Industries.

Inc retSll dealer Is I'M pOrtant In his
place, SO is the middle man, or COM
mission merchant, the wholesale deal
er also and the importer, while neither
OF these classes are the producers who
make something where nothing was.
The productive industries are mainly
from fisheries, mining, manufacturing
and agricultural.
The fisherman tolls and bullets the
waves of every cline to bring up some
thing from the vast deep which without
his skill and daring would not be avail
able. He produces something to bene
fit his race without taking anything
away. His is t noble calling.
The miner exposes himself to hard
ships and privahons to dig from the
bowels of the earth the various mine
rails used for exchange for various nee
essaries of life, or for the comforts of
his race.
He is producer. Hardy though he
be, aaventurer though he is, he pro-
duces that which adds to- national
wealth.
The manufacturer weaves and COM
bines by his skill, enterprise and CAPT
tai, the various comparatively crude
and worthless commodities and pro
ducts of the world, into implements
and fabrics that add to human COM
fort, or save human strength and labor,
until one man can perform the work of
ten. He is producer, whose products
are the welt of nations greatness
the index of her civilization; especially
are manufacturers the helpmates of
that greatest of all producing agencies
the topmost round in the ladder of a
nations greatness, and also the founda-
ton on which all other industries are
built, and from which they must be
fed.
agriculture, the producer of all other
producers The producer that cannot
die, though it may be crippled, for it
has the everlasting promise "that seed
time and harvest shall continue to the
end of all things"
Manufacturers may be swept away.
Mining may be stopped, fisheries may
be swept from the seas, the importers
ships may he seized, the commission
merchants business ruined, and all
merchants become bankrupt, but the
tillers of the soil must remain and fur
nish the sinews Of strength to man and
beast, or the world is undone.
The one thing that threatens to Grip
pie our agriculture. and make serfs and
bondsmen of the tillers of the soil with
cruel and exacting taskmasters over
them, is ar awful and monstrous giant,
that car devour our fisheries, swallow
our mines, control our manufactures,
and never be satisfied until our civil
government with all our rulers are in
his power-his name is Monopoly, a
creature of the state that claims to be
above the state.
Will the producers of our land, the
owners of the soil, that created the
power that created these monopolies,
stand still, and allow the letters of per-
petual slavery to be put upon them. 1t
will not be long unless these monstrous
monopolies are checked before they can
and will control the entire government
in their interests.
The producing classes not only, out
every citizen that is nourished by them
has an interest in the matter The law
makers can make no laws that compro-
mise the right of producers. 1.-THE laws
unwittingly gave rights that prove dam
gerous, new laws modifying those dan
gerous rights may in justice be made,
and the unsafe laws be repealed. --Prac-
teal Farmer.