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ufacturer is more needed at this moment than in some 

 of our Western and Southern States. 



The farmer is already there, and is doing his werk 

 bravely. He is continually accumulating agricultural 

 products, which, if he had a near-by market, would 

 be synonymous with agricultural wealth. When the 

 manufacturer goes into such a community, he supplies 

 a vacancy that is anxiously awaiting him, and which 

 no one but himself can fill. He finds already there 

 in ample abundance that which he most needs, name- 

 ly, cheap food and a market for his products, and fur- 

 nishes in return the very commodities most essential 

 to the wants and necessities of those around him. 

 Thus the proximity of the two classes results in the 

 highest possible advantage to each, and the inter- 

 change of commodities becomes a mutual benefit and 

 reciprocal wealth. 



The more widely you separate the farmer and 

 manufacturer, the more you impoverish them both. 

 The closer the contact in which you place them, the 

 more you increase and render certain the success and 

 affluence of each. Wherever a manufacturing edifice 

 is reared in the West, the result is a wider home mar- 

 ket for beef and pork, and a rise in the price of corn. 

 The advent of factory operatives into a new agricul- 

 tural region assures coming prosperity to the farmer, 

 and the discordant clatter of machinery that shocks the 

 ears of other men is to him the sweetest of music ; for 

 it starts the long dormant corn from the crib, gives 

 new activity and interest to butter and beef, and in- 

 fallibly prognosticates a new top to the Sunday car- 



