The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-08-21
The Farmer and Manufacturer.

The Farmer and Manufacturer.
The greater the number of arti
ficers and manufacturers there ar
in any one country or communit,
the better will be the home marke
for the rude produce of the land
1t is 8 well-established axiom o
the worlds experience that the bet
ter the home market can be made
and the more that can be saved u
the producer in the item of trans
portation, the more successful cal
the farmer ply his avocation. In ;
recent issue of the Nashville Amer
lean we find a very able and in
structive article upon this subject
showing that there is no class o
our industrial population whc
| should be more inclined to en-
courage the erection of manufac
turing establishments in the soutt
! than the farmer. This idea ha:
frequently suggested itself to US
and the benefits that may thus be
derived by the farmer are plain tt
see. According to the American
Alexander Hamilton expressed the
same idea when, regarding the for
eign demand for our agricultural
surplus as too uncertain of reliance,
he proposed to substitute the home
market. In other words, he desired
certain market in our own coun
try which we would control, to an
uncertain one in other countries
which we could not control. He
held, therefore, .''tO secure a mar
ket there is no other expedient than
to promote manufacturing estab
lIshments," on the ground that
manufacturers, who constitute the
most numerous class after the cul
tivators of the land, are for that
reason the principal consumers of
the surplus of their labor. Il should
not be forgotten that by manufac-
turers is meant not those merely
who furnish the capital to msnutac
ture, bat those rho furnish the la
bor. All are manufacturers, jus,
as much as the field hand, as well
as the landed proprietor, is farm
er. Both capital and labor are uni
ted in a common cause and are in
one to another.
The articles to which we have re
ferred in the American quotes very
largely from George Busil Dixwell,
who, in recently issued review OF
economic sophisms, makes
II pointed illustration of this fact,
in which he states that farmer
ought to be quite as good a ju ige
as college professor. Mr.. Dix
well, according to the America.
assumes that in twenty-five years
the population of the United States
will be double-it will be one hun
dred million--capable, if all
were employed in agriculture, of
producing food aud raw materials
for two hundred aud fifty to three
hundred million people. No whe e
on this planet is to be fou d the re
quisIte number of purchasers.
Great Britain with its population
of thirty millions of people used to
be dependent upon foreign food.
but she is now planting corn on
her Indian possessions, and other
foreign countries are trying to raise
their own food. But TO Mr.. Dix
wells illustration. In twenty five
years the population of the whole
country will be doubled; that of the
now less settled portions say the
southern states will be increased
four or five fold. Now let the farm
er in this section consider whether
he would prefer the increase of the
to be mostly ia mers or
mostly people who buv and do no'
produce farm products. 1t will
Jake him loog to make up his mind |
and his judgment will be worth a.
much as that of all The political
in Europe and America
His judgment will agree with the
nature and deliberate opinion of III
he great American statesmen. The
more he thinks of it, if he gives it
houghJ at all, the farmer of the
,oIth will conclude that it is better
or his interest that in the increase
If population, the greatest increase
hall be, not of farmers, but of man
who shall be con sumers
If the products of his labor, and
lot competitive producers and non
It is therefore the in
crest of the farmer, of all classes to
manufactures and rail
oads, and to welcome foreign capi
al and labor which accompanies
hem.-Columbus Enquirer-Sun.