Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-07-25

of butter, about proportionate to the IN
crease in the number of COWS, until, as
compared with the wages paid to farm
laborer it is made at loss. The rem
edy in part is to turn industry into 9th
er channels. We talk about inviting
immigration. But what shall immi-
grants do? We have slate and grapite
and marble and few products that we
can dispose of to advantage. But the
bringing Of labor will render it necessa-
ry to bring capital to utilize labor. In
almost every department of manufac-
lures for which Vermont offers any spe-
cial facilities, there is full market and
profits are fine. If we bring in agri-
cultural laborers and further develope
our farms we only increase products
out of proportion TO consumption, and
this will tend to lower prices still far
ther. As matters now are, one pro-
ducer can supply several consumers, but
these consumers must have something
with which to pay producers or these
latter might as well lie idle. In order
to take what the producers furnish the
consumers must have employment and
a market for what they produce. In
other words there must be an inter-
change of products among all classes
of producers and in such a way as to
keep up a just balance between them.
The matter of supply and demand is an
exceedingly difficult one to adjust. 1t
belongs to political economy and there
are about as many theories of political
economy as there are writers on the
general subject. These matters cannot
be considered with reference to one
State independent of other States, or
one country Independent of other coun-
tries. The tendency is, with so much
machinery, to produce in all directions
more than can be readily consumed
When we look at the matteron the side
of labor and see how many are strug-
Cling for positions, how low wages are
in many departments of labor, and how
many women are crowding into the oc-
cupations Of men, and that the struggle
for existence is becoming closer, we
say there are too many people in the
State or the country or in the world at
large, and that war is needed to thin
them or open market for the products
of labor. When we look at our re-
sources, and the possibilities of produc-
ton and the facilities reproducing and
the crowding upon the markets in eve
ry direction, we say there are not peo-
pie enough. The fact is, when one in
dividual prospers beyond measure, it is
reasonable to presume that some other
Individual or individuals will fail to OBJ
tain what properly belongs to them.-
Upon the supposition that there is just
about enough in the country to meet
the needs of each individual, if there
falls to any one more than he needs
some other one or more must receive
less. The same is true If upon care
ful reckoning and adjustment the am
cunt rises above the necessities of each.
We question not the propriety or legal
ity of the principle of unequal distribu-
ton. The fact is what concerns U.S.
But applying the principle to States, is
not Vermont as well as each of the 9TH
er States seeking to increase the wealth
of individuals in building up its mate
rial prosperity without reference to how
it may affect other States! We do not
say this is not all right as States as
well as individuals must look out for
themselves. Those who are seeking
to advance our interests have no evil
or unfair designs against others. The
West and the South are inviting capital
and labor Tor the purpose of increasing
their wealth. Each section of the
country seeks to build itself up and asks
not how it shall fare with other sections.
Vermont has suffered a constant drain
in labor and capital, and this to such
an extent as to affect its relative pros
perity. That it may regain portion
Of what has slipped from it and check
the drain upon it we need to make the
best exhibit possible Of our advantages
and offer such inducements as will at