Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1891-12-25
DIVERSIFIED HOMO
PRODUCTION.


supply Of its wants. Which should
we adept!
According to, the policy thus de-
veloped, there are two courses open
to nation for the supplying of its
wants. On the one hand, It may
.eon6ne itself to producing, in larger
quantity than its people need some
commodities of general or universal
demand, and exchanging with other
countries its surplus of those commo-
dities for such others as it may require
but does not itself produce. On the
other hand, it may determine, SO far
as soil and climate permit, to supply
all its own wants.
Whatever may he deemed the
wiser policy for small countries cap
able of exceptional development in
few industries, but with limited ma
tural resources, who is there that can
doubt the proper policy for nation
Of continental proportions, possess
ing every variety Of climate, control
ing every character Of soil, and en-
joying in unexampled degree and di-
versity the bounties and benefactions
of nature! And especially who can
doubt the proper policy for such a
nation when it possesses numerous
and versatile population? The peo-
pie of the United States already
number 65,ooo,ooo, They inhabit a
vast domain extending from the
Efrozen zone to the tropics. Imperial
Rome, at the height of its spendor,
comprising all the civilized world,
did not possess greater variety or
affluence of natural conditions. The
energy of our people is unexcelled,
their ingenuity unequaled. What ar
ticle of importance to civilization can
they not produce or soon learn to
produce for themselves?
At the rate of increase hitherto
shown. our population in thirty years
will number 100000. In sixty
years, or within the lifetime of men
now born, it will number e5o,ooo,-
900.
What momenteus consequences dc
not these figures import? What fa1
reaching results DO they not imply;
How shall the infinitely varying
capacities of this vast; population
find suitable occupation? Wha
economic policy will best subservt
the interest OF all and secure fo
them the highest fern Of industrial
educational, social and political de
velopement?
In order to secure to this country
such abundance and variety of indus
tries as shall constantly occupy, il
the highest degree of efficiency, :
large and alert population, and te
maintain such industries indefinitely
as population increases, contene
that it is necessary for us to supply
our own wants to the fullest exten,
that the climate, soil and physicaI
conformation of our country will per.
nit, and to seek in foreign countries
only such articles as cannot be pro-
duced here without greater expendi.
ture of physical and mental force
than is expended in the production
of like articles elsewhere.
Without the widest diversity of oc.
equations among people their max.
imum power cannot be realized.
This complet diversifcation of in.
dustries cannot coexist with the fret
admission to this country of the pro
duct of ill-paid labor Of other lands
Men differ widely in their taste
and aptitudes: The occupation tina
may be suitable and enjoyable fo1
one may be unsuitable or repugnan
: to another. The word that woule
draw from one man his highest pos
! sible effort would lender another in
different and inert. 1t only whe,
men follow the occupations for which
! they are by nature and dispositio,
adapted, that they enter with zes
upon their daily labor, and contri