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all and is worthy of its reward, provided it does not take unfair ad- 

 vantage of its position, descend to speculation, thus injuring both 

 producer and consumer. So in a more marked degree our professions, 

 so called, produce nothing of themselves, but are a tax on the pro- 

 ductive labor of others ; but important — indispensable however in a 

 civilized community, having their line of duty to discharge to the 

 community and the State, by the inculcation of correct principles, 

 physical and moral, the education of the people, and thus making 

 productive labor more efficient and valuable, and increasing the sum 

 of human happiness. 



Agriculture, mechanic arts, mining and fishing, are the producing 

 industries, whose annual products drawn from nature's reservoir, are 

 the measure of a nation's income. They support all, are the depend- 

 ence and hope of all, handmaids laboring together for the public 

 weal, between whom there is no antagonism. They are co-workers 

 and mutual aids to success. This fact is clearly seen as we trace 

 society from its primitive to its enlightened state. Though the fun- 

 damental enriching pursuits of mankind are few in number, yet the 

 channels in which human industry seeks to develop itself are as nu- 

 merous as the wants, real and imaginary, the caprices and tastes of 

 the race, of every grade of civilization. In his primitive state, man's 

 wants are few and easily supplied from the earth's natural produc- 

 tion, without systematic labor and with little care and thought. The 

 race, few in number, and roaming at will over territory not circum- 

 scribed by lines of private ownership, their food, animal and vegeta- 

 ble, is of the earth's own providing, and their rude clothing is the 

 skins obtained by the chase. Increased numbers demanded increased 

 supplies of food, which the earth refused to yield unaided by culture. 

 Thus necessity, self-preservation, compelled to regular industry, and 

 man domesticated and reared animals, broke up and cultivated the 

 soil to produce food-yielding plants. The want was supplied, and 

 husbandry inaugurated with its manifold blessing. The aboriginal 

 chief was correct when he said, the earth was not large enough to 

 support a race of meat eaters, for it wandered far, required many 

 moons in which to grow, and its pursuer must live alone. But a 

 race of grain eaters could multiply and live together, for the grain to 

 supply food for many moons was produced by one summer's sun. 



