Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-20

York City depend upon home indus
tries and home commerce than upon
foreign commerce.
When the city of Baltimore reached
the age of one hundred and fifty years,
she celebrated the event by a process,
sion in which were represented all her
manufacturing and mechanical indus
tries. The residents of that city were
themselves even more astonised than
were strangers by the evidences thus
revealed to them of their own indus
trial resources. A similar exhibition
of the industries Of New York and
Brooklyn, each establishment display
ing upon banner above its exhibit the
value Of annual product and number
of hands employed, would be a much
greater surprise, not only to the people
of those two cities, but to the whole
country. The relations of the agricult-
ural industries Of the surrounding coun.
try to the manufacturing industries OF
those two cities might also be forcibly
illustrated in the procession by a line of
Long Island farm.wagans, loaded with
products Of market gardening sufficient
to supply merely for one day the re-
quirements Of all the people in the
two cities who are either directly or in
directly dependent for the means Of
support upon manufacturing enterprises
and domestic commerce. The entire
exhibition would be an object lesson
worth far more for practical instruction
in the realities of living than volumes
upon political economy.
1t is a matter of interest here to ad.
vert to the fact that the city OF Balti.
more, by an ordinance approved Feb
ruary s, 1881, authorized the abate.
ment of all taxes upon tools, ma
chinery, engines, etc., constituting the
plant of manufacturing establishments
in that city. 1t is stated that this
protective measure, in spite of the
plausible, though Aimsy,' sophism as to
Taxing the many for the benefit Of
the few" met in an especial degree the
approval Of Taxpayers, whose taxes
were thereby increased. a3
The Importance of manufactures to
the internal commerce of the country
is also illustrated in the commercial and
industrial experience of thousand
towns and cities throughout the coun.
try. Twenty five years ago, the cities
Of Mobile, New Orleans, and Calves.
ton largely dominated the trade Of the
States situated South Of the Ohio river
and South Of the State Of Missouri, but
now that trade is mainly controlled by
the cities Of Cincinnati, Louisville, and
st. Louis, and consists largely in the
sale of prducts of the industries Of those
cities. 1t was estimated by the Super.
intendent Of the Cincinnati Chamber Of
Commerce that the total value of the
sales of merchandise at that city
amounted in 1881 to 1854, 1000, 900, Of
which the value Of goods manufactured
in Cincinnati, and there sold, amounted
$150,000,000, and the value Of goods
purchased abroad and sold in the course
of purely distributive commerce
amounted to $l04,00O,00O.
The people of the Western towns and
cities generally have, within the las
fifteen years, been brought to realize
the fact that the trade in the products
of their own industries is much more
reliable and profitable than their job
bling or wholesale trade. Besides, they
have seen that manufactures retain in
city most desirable class. The so
cial advantages afforded by manufac
turing industries, whereby the various
members of families can be held to
gether in a single community, is con
sideration ofvery great importance
This suggests the humanities which at
tach to the encouragement of Ameri
can manufactures view which Ham
ilton clearly had in mind, and which
appeals to the human sympathy. 4
pleasing instance Of the active mani
festation of this spirit is presented ii
the work of the Society of Decorative
Art of New York City, society con