The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1884-07-24

cissivs fscss are hsisrs tssG. They 80
plainly that within The past iveniy lear
years. wealth has nss bees acquired in
oas ssctsos. or by one Interest ~ Tie ~
psnss Of sno,Lsr sestiss or aao.hsr ipts:.
eel They sss that The agricultural sissss
hare nsds even moro rapid progress than
the manufacturing s,sics
TAs farmers see that In 1860 MAssack u.
sea. asd illineis hsd about The sAns
wealth hsireep eight and sine hnnjrsd
million dollars each --and that in 1850
Massachusetts bad sdvascsd 10 twenty |
six handrsd millisDs. while Illiaois had
advanced TO thiuy-ivo hundred millions.
They sss thai Mes Jersey and Ioss we're
Just equal in population in 1860, and that
10 ts.niy ,.ars Il 9 wealth Of Mes jersey
.as Increased by the sum Of eight han
dr.d and fifiy millions Fl dollars, While
the wealth Of Ious was increased by the
sum Of fifteen hundred millions. They
sss that the nine leading agricultural
States Of the West have grown 80 rapidly
ia prosperity that the aggregate addition
70 their wealth siocs 1860 is slmsst ~
great NJ the ~esliL OF the sptirs sountry |
in that year They see that the South.
which is almost exclusively agricultural,
has shared 10 The general prosperity. asd
that having recovered from the loss and |
devastation Of war. las gained go rapidly |
that its total wealth ~ At least the double
OF that which il possessed in 1860. srcius-
i've Of slaves.
In lLese extraordinary Developments.
farmers see the helpful impulse Of home
market. and they see that the financial
aud revenue system. enacted sisos the
Republican party came into power, has
established and constantly expapdsd the
home market They see that even in the
case Of wheat, which is our chief cereal
export, they have sold ia tho average Of
the years since the close Of the war. three
bushels 1t home to one they have sold
abroad, and that in the case OF corn, the
oaly other cereal which we export 10 any
extent, one hundred bushels have been
sold at home 10 three and half exported.
In some years the disparity has been so
great that for every peck Of corn exported
ose hundred bushels have bssn consumed
ia the home market. The farmers see
that in the increasing competition from
the grain fields Of Russia and from the
distsat plains Of India, the growth Of The
home market becomes daily Of greater
concera to them, and that its impairment
would deprecists the value Of every acre
OF tillable land in the Uaisn.
OUR INTERNAL COMMERCE.
Such facts as these touching the growth
and consumption Of cereals at home give
us some slight conception Of the vastness
Of the internal commerce Of the United
States. They suggest also. that in add.
tion 10 the advantages which the American
people enjoy from prots ction against for
sign competition, they enjoy the advantage
sfabsolute free trade over larger area and
with greater population than any other
nation. The Internal commerce Of our
thirty eight states and nine territories is
carried on without let or bindrance,
withoutsx detention or Governmental in.
reference Of any kind whatever 1t
spreads freely over en- area Of three aud
bali million square miles almost equal ]
D extent 10 the whole cent inent Of Eu-
irops. Its profits are enjoyed today BY
fifty six millions Of American freomen,
and from this sDjoyme no monopoly is
created. According to Alexander Hanil.
ton. when he discussed the same subject
10 100. "the internal competition which
takes place does away with everything
like monopoly, and by degrees reduces
the price OF articles to the minimum OF
profit on the capital employed
II 10 i'm possible to point TO single mon
opoly in the United States tIst has been I
created or fostered by the industrial system
which is upheld by the Republican party.
Compared with our foreign commerce
these domestic exchanges are inconceivs
bly, great in amount requiring merely as
oss fundamentally as large . mileage Of
railway as eX,st today in oil the other n.
lions Of the world combined. These inter-
pal exchanges are estimated by the Stats.
.ical Buleau Of the Treasury Department !
10 be annually twenty times Is great in !
amount as our foreign commerce. II is
INTO this vast field Of home trade at once
he creation aad the heritage OF The Amer
can people thst foreign nations are striv.
ng by every device to enter. II Is iuto
his field that the opponents Of our pres G
mt revenue fystcm would freely sdmit
he countries Of Europe countries ints
whose internal trade we could not recipro-
ALLY enter; from which we should bs
gaining nothing III return.
EFFECT upos TIE MECHANIC AND THE LA.
BoRER
A policy OF this kind would he disas-
rous 10 the mechanics aud workingmen
II the United States. Wages are unjustly
educed when AZ industrious man is not
lblc by his earnings to live 10 comfort,
EDUCATE bis children and lay bys sum.
,ient amount for the necessities OF age :,
The reduction Of wages inevitably cense. h
luent upon throwing our home market
'pen TO the world. would deprive them Of
he power TO DO this. II would prove :
yrest calsmity 10 our country II would
,roiuce contiict between the poor and
be rich. aud In the sorrowfuI degradation
4 labor would plAnt the seeds Of public
|suger.
TIE Republican party has steadily
lined TO maintain just relations between Z
abor aud capital guarding with care