300 INDIAN CORN. 



riage, a silk gown for the wife, a suit of clothes for 

 the little boy, and a new dress for the baby. 



Without assuming to determine the true limit of 

 government policy in fostering the various industrial 

 pursuits, it is certainly much to be desired nay, in- 

 finitely important to the highest good of this nation 

 that the manufacturing interest should keep pace 

 more nearly with the onward march of agriculture. 

 When these go forward with a uniform and parallel 

 progress, mutually aiding and enriching each other, 

 and scattering their useful and valuable products 

 broadcast through the land, the highest condition of 

 material prosperity for the whole country is then ful- 

 filled. 



On a comparative view of these great interests, it 

 is perfectly clear that every public measure adopted 

 in favor of the manufacturer promotes indirectly, and 

 probably in the long run to an equal extent, the pros- 

 perity not only of the farmer but of every other class 

 in the community ; and any line of policy calculated 

 to bring these two producing classes into closer prox- 

 imity, is a benefit to consumers of every class. It not 

 only tends to increase the supply of their products, 

 but the result is a general and pervading diffusion of 

 these needful and useful commodities, with much less 

 of the expensive intervention of railroads and steam- 

 ers. Thus to the consumer the cost of such products 

 is diminished by all the difference of the expense of 

 transportation, while he also derives a further advan- 

 tage in the facility of procuring them with prompt- 

 ness and certainty. 



