Address. * 



looks upon his profits as small, and from year to year he finds no 

 great accumulation of capital as the result of his labor. As he goes 

 abroad, he finds often that the merchant, trader or market man, who 

 deals in the commodity he has produced with so much care and in- 

 dustry, has added gain to gain until he is, or makes a show of opu- 

 lence and wealth. He sees the manufacturer or artisan making large 

 accumulations of property, building up villages and towns, and 

 through these means exercising great influence on public affairs, con- 

 trolling circumstances for further advancement, and as he fears to his 

 injury. Without wisely attempting to take advantage of such a 

 state of facts for his own good, or tracing the results he sees back to 

 their cause and there seeking a solution of what is to him an en- 

 igma ; without noticing the speculative character which all trade, and 

 much of our manufacturing industry has assumed, he is prone to 

 conclude that his own pursuit does not realize its fair share of the 

 profit of production, that his crops do more to enrich middle men 

 than himself. That the mechanic and manufacturer receive more, 

 proportionally for the products of their labor necessary to supply his 

 wants, than they are willing to give him for his commodities, and 

 seeing no remedy for the supposed unfair distribution of the general 

 business profits, he changes his occupation to obtain it, or if unable 

 to do this, he is soured and looks with jealousy on his apparently 

 more thrifty neighbor. 



The enterprising artisan or manufacturer, thoroughly absorbed in 

 his business, and in consequence of the abundant means of commu- 

 nication, able to draw supplies from a variety of sources, looking for 

 the selling market which will pay him the highest present price, and 

 the place where his supplies can be obtained the cheapest, and at the 

 same time eager to open new avenues of trade, and to bring Govern- 

 ment aid to specially protect and facilitate his operations ; is in his 

 hot pursuit of what he deems his present interest, apt to discard the 

 interests of other pursuits, or look upon them as antagonistic or 

 unimportant. 



In contradistinction to these notions, I look upon the real perma- 

 nent interest of agriculture, manufactures and mechanic arts, as one 

 and identical. The success, prosperity and healthy growth of one, 

 conducive to the success of all ; and the permanent depression of one 



