The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-09-12

)rlSe the business "buz" began, and :
rom the moment the monumental
of Slngerly's mill reached its
apex dates the commencement of the
period of business revival in Elkton
Since that the town has grown more in
one year than in any previous decade
and there is to- day abroad throughout
its limits wider business spirit of i'm
provement and enterprise than ever
known in its previous history.
This much does Elkton owe to the
local investment of a single manufac-
turing capitalist.
And why?
Simply for the reason that there has
been noticeable increase in the pro-
duCtive industries of the town. 1t
consumes more farm products. and the
farmers adjacent to it have better
home market for their products.
1t needs more houses for its in
creased population, and the carpenters
and mechanics are in demand, who,
finding certain employment, earn more
wages, and have more money to pay to
the farmers for his needed products.
So this class, and every other class of
mechanics, feel the impulse, and are
helped to more wages, which they in
turn pay to the storekeeper, the shoe
maker, the baker and the farmer, for
they all must at last fall back upon him
for bread.
For the common prosperity then, the
true principle is to make home mar
ket for our agricultural classes, and in
crease the mechanical and producing
classes by fostering manufacturing en-
terprises at home. This is the true
American idea. Protection to home
industries. 1t is republican, because it
is American.
In recent address to the farmers of
Saratoga county, New York, Senator
Warner Miller put very forcibly the
cause of protection of American in
dustries, as it affects the farmer and
mechanic. cit is" said he, zone of
the great safeguards Of our republican
form of government that SO large
number of the citizens are landholders,
and are directly interested in honest
government. The farming class is the
most trustworthy in emergencies, as was
found to be the case in our late war
when the regiments of farmer boys did
the best fighting, because they were
fighting for their homes.
agriculture is yet in its infancy.
Though science has found out a way of
making butter, l believe that in the
long run the COW will come out ahead.
The railroads and the canals have made
great deal of our agricultural pros
perity. This is the reason why the
balance of trade with foreign countries
in the last year shows 100000, 900 in
our favor. Too much Importance cam
not be laid on the manufacturing in
terests of the country as identified
with the agricultural interests. Where
there are factories there are large fami-
lies to be fed, and home market is
created. This, as it saves cost of
transportation, is much more desirable
than foreign market. The value of
your land is thereby increased. To-
day we have scattered over the Middle
States and New England manufacture
ing population that consumes all the
agricultural produce of those States,
and in some cases there is not enough
produce. The manufacturing interests
of the country, according to the last
census, amounted to five thousand mil
lions of dollars. By comparison, we
find that throughout the country the
price of land and farm products keeps
pace with the growth of manufactures
Only per cent. of this countrys man
ufactures are found south of the Poto-
mac. Compare North Carolina and
Massachusetts, two typical States, and
we find that land in the former State
sells for less than $40 an acre, and in
Massachusetts, at 500. Compare New
York and Virginia. A hundred years
ago they were equal but to-day we
have six millions of people against Vir-
ginia's million and a-half Compare
Illinois and Iowa and we find that
the manufacturers of the former
State furnish a home market, while
Iowa has to send her surplus East
ward-even to Europe-and SO the
Iowa farmer makes less than the Illinois
farmer. Nor are the interests of farm
ers and manufacturers antagonistic.
The foreign consumption of our pro-
ducts amounts only to about per
cent, aside from cotton and tobacco.
1t is obviously of the greatest interest
to both classes to foster our home mar
ket. The interests of these two great
classes are bound together, and he is a
public enemy who tries to stir up ami
mostly between the mechanic and the
farmer"
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