Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-10-11

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sociated societies for this year, of |
having the addresses delivered in the |
evening land in place where the au-
dience can listen without distraction,
makes it practicable for a speaker to
ask you to consider attentively some
topics that, although outside of the
direct and immediate domain of farm
ing, manufacturing and the mechan-
ic arts, which combine to make up al
most entirely the sum of the produc-
ton and wealth of a country, ARE new
ertheless essential elements in the
great social problem of promoting the
tue prosperity of each and all the
members of all the producing classes
of our country.
In these classes | do not include
those who make it their business to
SOW discord and stimulate dissensions
between those who have acquired
property who have saved nothing and
can subsist only by the employments
of daily labor, and between whom it
is necessary to the welfare of both
there should exist kind feeling and
cooperation at all times. The free
dom which every one so much prizes
for himself can only be real and last
ing while it is so exercised as not to
invade the equal freedom and private
rights of every person. The pay due
to the wage worker every night for
his days labor is in every sense just
as much capital as the thousands that
have been before accumulated by
himself or some other person, and he
has precisely the same interest in it
and its protection by law, and its in
crease, as have the holders of all 9TH
er property. The power to earn mon
ey by work is almost as substantial
as capital, but like other capital, it
can only be made productive by being
put to use in some advantageous way.
The true mission, therefore, of COM
munity or nation that loves justice
and desires peace and the general
welfare is to so adjust and harmonic
it's producing and industrial opera
tions as to find the best uses for both
it's accumulated capital, whether in
lands, personal things or money, and
the working power of its citizens.
Neither can prosper without the 9TH
er, while the adjusted cooperation of
both is sure, in country of great
and varied natural resources like
ours, to result in the steady increase
of the wealth and happiness Of all its
people, excepting the small proper
ton who fail to prosper through their
own fault or misfortune.
Among the problems, then, of the
farmer, the manufacturer, the artisan
and the wage worker (and perhaps
the most important of any is that
of diversifying productions, manu-
factures and industrial employments,
so that every natural resource of the
country shall be drawn upon, and the
accumulated stock of property of ev-
cry kind utilized, and all it's working
force employed at remunerative
prices. Aside from the mere sub
sistence of the farmer and his family,
there will be no benefit in abundant
crops unless he can sell his surplus
to some one who is able TO pay a fair
price for it, But no one can so buy
unless in the end, when the products
of the earth and the shops come to
the consumers of them, they are able
to take and pay for them. To dc
this they must earn the means, not by
making or raising the same things
but by producing other things that
ia their turn, are wanted to those who
do not produce them. This familiar
and commonplace statement illus.
trates, [ think, the whole theory O1
the productive and industrial pros
perity of nations. If all the able.
bodied men in the United States de-
voted themselves to farming there
would be comparatively nobody te
buy the products of the farm, and il
in like manner all were to make
clothes there would be nobody to
. buy; and so of wagons, shoes, an6
: indeed every species of the produc
tions Of labor or skill. 1t is perfectly
clear, then, that the farmer is neces
sary to the manufacturer and to tht
miner and the laborer, and in equa
degree they each and all are necessa
: ry to him and that the coordination
, and cooperation of all for the welfare
l of all by the utmost diversity of pro
ductlon and employment, and by OBJ
serving the just relations of price!
among all, are indispensable to th'
progress and prosperity of the com
| munity. To attain these benifcen
ends as nearly as possible, human
: experience has shown, think, tina
e in country of varied and abundan
; natural resources lands, wide
variations of latitude and climate
mines of all metals, Goals, forests
, water power, country free from lie
E gal monopolies, and bound by its ma
: tional and state constitutions TO equa
taxation and the security of equa
personal rights,-home markets ant
: home consumption are the sure an6
only constant reliance. Undoahtedl.
foreign markets are extremely desira
BILE for the sale of the surplus pro
auctions of everything that cannot
d in the ordinary course of things, b.