254 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



life. Some say natioi;is, like individuals, always occupy that spot 

 and are always choosing right or wrong. 



New England, however, is bound to feel the influence of the 

 West during the next twenty-five years in another way. Tariffs 

 and railroads, which raade a difference in the East during the last 

 quarter of a century, are now to aid in abating that difference by 

 the production of finished as well as crude goods at the West. 



Farmers from the West have visited their ancestral hill-side 

 homes in the East and seen how old New England farm frugality 

 is rendered nugatory, and manufactures have become debauching 

 in their tendency by the misappropriation of Western wealth float- 

 ing in sickening miasm through our putrid streams into the sea. 



The waste from factory villages puts even the slack ways of the 

 most careless Western farmers to the blush. The shelled, wheat of 

 their heading machines may feed wild pigeons and chickens, but 

 it poisons nobody's air and pollutes nobody's water. 



Hence it happens, to the intense pecuniary interest of unprofita- 

 ble Yankee spindles, and unsanitary water-powers, that the first 

 great economic combination of mechanics with agriculture since 

 the fetid odors of family' dye-pots were first concentrated under 

 one wasteful thumb, has been made in the far West, upon the 

 soil of an ''impoverished prairie." 



I refer to the new manufacturing city of Pullman — a city of 

 16,000 people. There we find the rejected raw materials of our 

 "social evil" made the corner-stone of the builder. There we 

 read of a big outlay of capital in house-drainage, paying ten per 

 cent, in garden stuff upon the investment. There the husband- 

 man takes his place as guardian over the fundamental health and 

 wealth of society. There we see the distributive wash-hand-basin 

 of the vigilant Puritan matron of the olden time transformed, by 

 glorious mechanical apotheosis, into the ceaseless beating of mighty 

 distributive steam engines! The experiment is a ticklish one, 

 however, as those who know most about it will admit. Let us 

 pray for the city of Pullman! 



Our "new theology," when sufficiently familiar with earthly 

 facts and actual means of grace, will presently be making us 

 delightful pictures of millennial industry and peace. When houses, 

 built with wise hands, shall no longer be whited sepulchres. 

 When we shall quit taxing our incomes to produce business for 

 the undertaker. When the cooler airs of a summer evening shall 



