Address. 11 



cost of the manufacturer, transported to our state from great dis- 

 tances, to receive their change of form and value, and then carried 

 back over the same line of transit to a market, and the consumers at 

 each end of the line are heavily taxed to support the great army who 

 do the work of transportation. For years I have been iearful that 

 the manufacturer would, in balancing his accounts, conclude that the 

 advantages of seaboard markets here, would not counterbalance the 

 cost of transporting his supplies and products, and change his pres- 

 ent location, for one where food was cheap and near at hand, and the 

 raw material was produced near the manufactory. That he would 

 carry his machinery, his operatives, their dependents and attendant 

 population, to the South and West, where water power exists in 

 abundance, cheap and unoccupied along the great lines of transpor- 

 tation, where immense fields of the cereal grains, and rich and bound- 

 less pasturage furnish the great staples in abundance, and with little 

 cost of transporting, and where the raw material for nearly every 

 kind of manufacture can be obtained more easily than here. That 

 they do not do it, or do it to only a limite'd extent, that they search 

 every nook and corner of the land for more water power, husbanding 

 all our available resources of this kind, building immense reservoirs 

 at great cost for supply in emergencies, damming our navigable 

 streams, and finally substituting steam for water power, which has 

 to be created by coal transported from beneath the mountain ranges 

 of Pennsylvania, proves that they find here some counterbalancing 

 advantages, and as their works and investments are of a permanent 

 character, that the day is distant when the farmer will mourn their 

 loss, and of the market created by this rich, thriving population. I 

 have stated the opinion, that as a question of policy and future in- 

 terest, to despise, or neglect to foster our manufacturing industry, 

 for the purpose of creating a home market for the products of our 

 soil, rather than send them abroad for a market at our own great 

 expense and cost, would be the ruin of our agricultural, and, ulti- 

 mately, of our state and national prosperity. From the first settle- 

 ment of our country, the soil has been extolled as one of marvelous 

 fertility. It has become second nature to our people to speak of 

 owning a boundless extent of territory, of exhaustless capacity to 

 produce crops, with poor cultivation and little or no manure. Of our 



