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certainly, but we are continually being called to new duties out- 

 side our special business. 



I urge home manufactures, because the nearer home things are 

 made the nearer right they will be made. Panics are organized, 

 and the wheels of industry are stopped when the world becomes 

 too full of manufactured rubbish, catch-penny trifles, and things 

 we foolishly continue making, reckoning without our host, while 

 distant consumers have set their hearts upon something else. 



In conclusion, I would advise farmers to study mechanical arts 

 as the proper supplement and outgrowth of their natural studies. 

 Quite as earnestly I would recommend mechanics to study agri- 

 culture as the natural safeguard and remedy for a too artificial 

 life. The natural enemies and enslavers of agriculture, mechanics, 

 would disconnect both, in order to weaken and control both. 



Mr. HiNMAN. Before Mr. Olcott leaves, I would like to ask 

 him one question. If I understood him correctly, his objec- 

 tion to the flowage law is, that a corporation doing private 

 business may take private property for its uses, and that this 

 is not in accordance with the general law, that the public is 

 entitled to certain rights over and above any private individ- 

 ual. There is a principle laid down in the law of all nations, 

 that the public in general are entitled to certain rights ; that 

 what the public demand as for their benefit, they may take 

 from a private individual. Now, do I understand your objec- 

 tion to the fiowage law to be, that you object to that principle 

 of the common law entirely, or do you claim that when a cor- 

 poration takes land under that law for manufacturing pur- 

 poses they are not taking it for the public benefit, but for 

 their own private benefit ? 



Mr. Olcott. I did not object, in the paper I read, to the 

 right of the public to take private property. 



Mr. HiNMAN. The point I wanted to get at was whether 

 you consider that a private corporation taking property for 

 manufacturing purposes is not taking it for public use ? 



Mr. Olcott. That would depend upon circumstances alto- 

 gether. If they wanted to start a hotel or a grocery store, it 

 might be a matter of some public convenience, but we should 

 hesitate about letting them have it. 



