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lect the lights of the present day, if we shall refuse to be governed by the 

 present improvements, and shall continue to push our rich soil without sys- 

 tem, we shall likewise soon have barren and waste fields. 



Gentlemen of the Wayne County Agricultural Society, an apology is due, 

 for the very desultory manner in which I have addressed you. Being my first 

 visit to this part of the State, my object was to see and examine for myself, 

 the labor, industry and skill of your people. Ypur exhibition to-day, in ma- 

 ny things, is equal to some of the State Fairs. Who could have expected 

 such an array of mechanical skill and labor, from mechanics that haul their 

 coal, coke, iron, and steel, sixty miles by land carriage; yet you are success- 

 fully competing with your sister cities and States, who are more favorably 

 situated. Your success shows what skill, industry, and energy will do among 

 our people. The articles of grain, stock, carriages, wagons, threshing ma- 

 chines and other farming implements, are equal to anything that can be ex- 

 hibited in this valley. You, yourselves, had no idea of what was in your 

 county until you witnessed this extensive collection now before us. 



You are demonstrating the doctrine laid down by Mr. Jefferson — the great 

 benefits of placing the manufacturer and consumer side by side. This is the 

 true doctrine. To accomplish this in Indiana we want two things, capital and 

 labor. These we shall have, whenever the great elements of our wealth are 

 known abroad. We want — must have, a full, perfect, and practical geographi- 

 cal and topographical survey of the State, that the elements of our wealth 

 shall be known and read by all men, our coal, iron, salt, timber, soil, marble, 

 stone-quarries, water power, <fec. 



To this we should add a bureau of statistics, that the present condition of 

 our growing State, and its advancement from year to year, should be ofiicially 

 known and published, in all things. 



There is less known abroad, this day, of Indiana, in her great elements of 

 wealth, than any other State in the Union of her age and position. 



I have no doubt that the surplus of Indiana this year, in the leading arti- 

 cles of pork, wheat, corn, cattle, and grass, is not less than $25,000,000. 



I trust the time will soon come, when the labor of the State, in agriculture, 

 manufactures, mechanics, her full history in detail, debts created or paid, the 

 number of children attending school and not in attendance, a full practical 

 annual statistical report of the whole State will be made a permanent part of 

 our domestic policy. 



