Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-09-24


the equal freedom and private rights of
every other person. The pay due TO the
wage worker every night for his days
labor, is in every sense Just MS much CAPT
tai as the thousands that have been before
accumulated by himself or some other
person. aud he has precisely the same in
terest in it and in its protection by law.
and its increase, rs have the holders of all
other property. The power to earn money
by work is also most substantial capital
but like other capital, it can only be made
productive 10y being put to use i'm some
advantageous way. The true mission,
therefore. Of Il community, or "A nation
that loves Justice and desires peace and
the general welfare, is to so adjust and
harmonic its producing and industrial
operations as to fluid the best uses for both
its accumulated capital, whether in lands,
personal things, or money and the work
ing power of its citizens. Neither can
prosper without the other, while the ad-
justcd cooperation of both is sure i'm "A
country of great and varied natural re
sources like ours, to result in the steady
increase of the wealth and happiness of
all its people, excepting the small pro
portion who fail to prosper through their
own fault or misfortune.
Among the problems, then, of the farm.
er, the manufacturer, the artisan and the
wage worker (and perhaps the most i'm
poltant of any is that of diversifvinp
employmeuts, so that every natural re-
source of the country shall Ice drawn
upon, and the accumulated stock of pro
perty of every kind utilized, and ali its
working force employed at remunprating
prices. Aside from the mere subsistence
OF the farmer aud his family, there will
be no benefit in abundant crops unless he
can sell his surplus to some one who is
able to pay fair price for it, But no one
can 50 buy unless in the end, when the
products of the earth and the shop, come
to the consumers of them, they are able
to take and pay for them. TOdo this they
must earn the means, not by raising or
making the same things, but by produc-
ing other things that in their turn are
wanted 10y those who do not produce
them This familiar and commonplace
statement illustrates, | think, the whole
theory Of the productive and industrial
prosperity of nations. If all the able
bodied men in the United States devoted
themselves to farming there would be
comparatively nobody to buy the products
OF the farm, and if in like manner al
were to make clothes there would be no
body to buy; aud 50 of wagons. shoes and
indeed every species of the productions of
labor or kill. II Is perfectly clear then,
that the farmer is necessary to the manu-
lacturer and to the miner and the labOrer,
and in equal degree they each and ali are
necessary to him and that the co orlna-
ton and cooperation OF all Tor the wei
fare of all by the utmost diversity of pro
duclion aud employment, and by observ-
ing the just relations Of prices among ALL
are Indispensable to the progress and pros
perty of the community. To attain these
beneicent ends as nearly rs possible, hu-
man experience has shown, think, that
in country of varied and abundant natu-
raj resources, fertile lands, wide varia
tious of latitude and climate, mines of all
metals, Goals, forests, water-power a conn
try free from legal monOpules, ana bound
by its national aud state constitutions to
equal taxation and the security of equal
personal rights,-home markets and home
consumption are the sure and only con
slant reliance. Undoubtedly foreign mar
<etS are extremely desirable for the sale
of the surplus productions of everything
that cannot in the ordinary course of
things be consumed at home but Tor Il
country situated as ours is, they cannot be
relied upon with any safety as the princi
pal avenues of reaching having consum
trs of our productions.
II may he considered maxim, in tha