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trader, and of the transporter, is found, as it ever has 

 been, between the producer and consumer, and is in 

 exact ratio with the amount of the consumption, the 

 producers themselves becoming the greatest consum- 

 ers. The greater the amount that the producers are 

 enabled to consume of their own products, the larger 

 the bulk of trade, and the greater the profits. It is 

 in the tolling of the products as they pass through 

 the various hands between the producers and the con- 

 sumers that is found the contributions that sustain all 

 the classes of society that are not immediately engaged 

 in productive pursuits, and serves to distribute the 

 benefits of abundant production among all. As a 

 consequence it follows that the greater the amount 

 that is brought into consumption, the more liberal 

 will be every class of contribution, and the greater the 

 amount of comfort derived from their own products by 

 the immediate producers themselves. 



Therefore the greatest want of trade, as well as of 

 society, is the adoption of a means that will bring all 

 the now idle, and the partially employed, into con- 

 stant employment, and thus not only make them 

 active producers, but consumers also. The labor 

 required to supply the wants of society must be dis- 

 tributed among all its members, that all may partake 

 of its blessings ; and the great advances that have 

 been made in the use of mechanical forces in produc- 

 tion must be directed to lessening the toils of the 

 workingman, and the increase of his comfort. In this 

 way the Divine purpose which has enabled man to 

 chain the lightnings to his car, and to compel the 

 coal and the iron of the earth's crust, and the vapors 



