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order to afford something of a realization of this picture, our own me- 

 chanics and manufacturers need the friendly interest, the fostering care 

 of our own communities, and not to be regarded with jealousy or neg- 

 lect. The agricultural and mechanical interests of the country, should 

 feel that their interests are mutual ; that the general prosperity of the 

 country, in which all have a common interest, is dependent in a good 

 degree upon the mutual confidence and good Avill of all interests. The 

 incipient attempts at the introduction of new branches of manufacture, 

 should be regarded everywhere with favor, and preference given to home 

 productions. Is it not safe to say, that whatever retains the means of 

 the country in the country, multiplies its capital, and strengthens the 

 sinews of general enterprise and prosperity ? 



A State, after all, is but a great family, and the improvement and thrift 

 of the different industrial interests are for the benefit of the whole. An 

 enlisfhtened view should lead the farmer to encourao^e home mechanics and 

 manufacturers — to wish for their prosperity — to bear with imperfect begin- 

 nings, and sustain and encourage to improvement. The mechanic and 

 the manufacturer, and the merchant, and the capitalist, should endeavor 

 to conduct their pursuits on such principles as will conduce, as far as pos- 

 sible, to the benefit of the farming interests — to the advancement of the 

 communities in which they live, and of the whole country ; at the same 

 time that each interest reaps its own proper emolument and reward. 

 Let these principles prevail in Wisconsin, and we shall see, with the anti- 

 cipated improvement in financial matters, "the increase of money in the 

 State, manufactories arising, and the increase and prosperity of all the 

 essential pursuits of industry. 



From the views presented, it is not difficult to deduce the relation which 

 our mechanical and manufacturing: interests "should and do sustain to 

 the State Agricultural Society." Were Agricultural Associations insti- 

 tuted for the benefit of the farmer alone, even then the dependence, in a 

 State like ours, of every other interest, in a great degree, upon the pros- 

 perity of the agricultural interest, should lead every other calling, indus- 

 trial or professional, to aid in the upbuilding of such associations — to 

 encourage and help sustain agricultural publications, as well as every- 

 thing that is calculated to improve and advance the interests of agricul- 

 ture. But Agricultural Associations are every where founded upon the 

 principle of the intimate relations of all the industrial pursuits, which. I 

 have argued, xipon the principle that these pursuits have a blended in- 



