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days being known as market days, those whose business it is to buy 
will as surely resort. The advantage to all incalculable, for such days 
being known as market days—and they would, I think, be great days— 
buyers and visitors from Milwaukee, Chicago, and beyond, desiring to 
buy largely, would gather together to get where it is to be got, as well 
as would the sellers congregate where buyers come. Reciprocally they 
would meet, the bond being the interest of each. Nor need these markets 
be confined to grain, or corn, or hay—butter, eggs, poultry, might all be 
exhibited, each seller with his grain or corn in a two bushel bag, repre¬ 
senting his wagon load, and in another department baskets of butter and 
eggs, and poultry ranged along the railing of the square of the Capitol. 
No time should be lost, I think, in putting these suggestions into a rule ; 
let it be publicly enacted by law of the Legislature, limiting the duration 
of such markets to two hours or three, say from 10 to 12 o’clock of the 
market day. 
The Exchange in London, where the merchants of the world meet to 
transact business as important as the councils of Downing Street, or 
Washington, is limited to arf hour, at the termination of which time the 
officers turn every one out, civilly of course. 
Better than the open street, would be a building large enough to ac¬ 
commodate all; and in such case a small payment by the sellers would be 
willingly paid to defray the interest on the expenditure. In such an erec¬ 
tion, stalls or benches*might be constructed for the sale of agricultural 
and garden produce, subject to a small rent charge, and forming for the 
two market days of the week a horticultural bazaar. Should the gov¬ 
ernment not like the responsibility of the undertaking, no better invest¬ 
ment of money could be made, or speculation entered into, than to erect 
a building for a market, with inside stores which could be occupied on other 
days besides. No one’s interest could be injured by such an institution. 
The only one that at all appears is that of the respectable store keeper’s; 
but how could it injure them ? they are open to perpetual competition, 
and this would not add to it, whereas it would most certainly increase 
the business of the town; and on the days in question give to each store 
and tavern keeper a “field day,” and nothing in my opinion would so in¬ 
evitably improve the value of the property of such town, as that of its in¬ 
stituting public markets on specific days. But I forbear to enlarge—it 
