Year: 1871

| factories, but of art, literature and


learning. Her medical schools have


long been famous and her libraries,


and mechanic and other institutes at


test a wise and intelligent provision
for the future of an increasing pOpula-


ton.


CONCLUSION.


These are some of the things l saw


at Saginaw and on the way there, and


the lesson they teach is that only by


diVersihcation of pursuit, by manu-


factures and mechanical and agricul-


tural industries can communities hope


to thrive and successfully compete


with others. / found the towns as


self-reliant as the country because


they rendered to the farmer, in eX-


change for his products, the


work of their hands, made from


raw material, the difference in


price of which IS compared with the


manufactured article, remains with
the mechanic and manufacturer as a
permanent addition to the capital of
his community. Saginaw, only twelve
years,old Counting the years of its eX-
traOrdinary grOWth) does not rest sat
isfied with her salt and lumber manu-.
factories, but already begins to plain
her lumber, to make sashes, doors and
blinds, because her people realize that
every hour of additional labor upon it
increases its value and the amount Of
permanent PrOGt which it yields.
They are doing this just as the people
of the South should manufacture their
cotton, and so secure much OF the
immense profit that accrues befJre the
raw cotton of our fields reaches the
consumers of the world. Political
and commercial independence is the
watch word of the northwest. Her
people are impatient of Eastern con-
troll and manipulation. l found a
growing feeling against Eastern cor
morant politicians, and an eager de-
sire to be free of the equally
cormOrant New England man.
ufactures, who the people feel direct
the legislation of Congress for their
own benefit. found a strong desire,
an increasing clamOr for change in
public affairs, a change in the admin
istratiOn of the government. l lis
tened to expressions Of impatience at
Grants mismanagement, from Re-
publicans as well as Democrats, and l
heard honest expressions Of 8 desire
that Congress and the several Legis-
latures, that the politicians and the
newspaper editors should devote their
time and talents less to the manufac-
tured and suspected troubles at the
South and more to such legislation as
will insure to them increased facilities
for a groWth,that is the most eXtraordi-
nary record of human effort. They
want reduction of taxes, are opposed
to more than a revenue tariff COM
mensUrate with the maintenance of
the Government and its proper sup
port, and l believe anything
like an earnest, consistent,
steady effort must inure to the
ascendancy of the Democratic party.
All the leading men of the country
passed expressed themselves in friend
ly terms Of the Southern people, and
the desire for amity, for a close union,
for good feeling and return to strict
ly Constitutional ways was almost
universal. Fears were expressed in
regard to the mania for railroad COM
binations. Many thought that in
time the railroads of the country
would be owned by three or four giant
corporations and that these would so
control the local and general legisla-
tion of the country as to be able to
dictate to towns and cities, to make
and unmake communities and 80 be-
come not only the arbiters of the des-
TIMES, but the masters of the people
To coUnteract this, it is thought that
in most of the States immediate legis-
latiOn will be forced by the people,
restricting these corporations and set
ting limit to their mOnOpOlies.


1 cannot close this necessarily brief
account of a trip, that will remain to
me bright and ever-present mem
ory, without expressing my thanks for
that made it the most de-
lightiul experience of my life, result
ing in friendships to endure so long as
1 live, and, as hope, to prove typical
of lasting friendship between the
sections, j, M, x,