Exhibition—Annual Addresses. 
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the people, and instead of sending them a thousand miles away 
to be made up into needful articles, in cities where the expense of 
living is much greater tnan it is here, sound policy demands that 
they be manufactured at home. 
As a wool growing state, Wisconsin holds a prominent position, 
but in this respect it is capable of doing far more than it does at 
present. The quantity of wool might easily be doubled, or even 
quadrupled, and the amount produced should be manufactured in 
the state. Along our numerous rivers should be heard the rattle 
of the spindle and the click of the shuttle. 
Cotton, likewise, could be manufactured here with profit. It 
might be brought up the Mississippi at a moderate expense, and 
water and peat would furnish the power for manufacturing. Other 
materials besides those specified abound in the state, and large 
amounts of materials not produced here could be brought from 
neighboring states, and from the seaboard, for less than is now paid 
for transporting the manufactured articles. There are two other 
facts which should not be overlooked. One is the intelligence of 
the laboring people of Wisconsin. Scarcely in any other section 
of the country is elementary education so general, so nearly uni¬ 
versal, or common schools so flourishing. 
The other fact is that our climate is salubrious, so that congre¬ 
gating people in villages, or in large working establishments is 
entirely safe. 
An active member of the state says, in a letter on this subject, 
“we can make. Wisconsin the New England of the Mississippi val¬ 
ley.” More than this, I would add, we can make Wisconsin New 
England with a western expansion. 
INCREASING THE VARIETY OF INDUSTRIES BY ESTABLISHING MAN¬ 
UFACTORIES, WOULD PRODUCE MANY BENEFICIAL RESULTS. 
One of the most obvious, would be to give employment to a 
much larger number of persons. Agriculture can be prosecuted 
but a part of the year, and by a portion of the people. The brief 
summer is a period of severe pressure, but there are portions of 
the year in which a part of every farm-gang finds but little to do, 
and the inmates of the home pass the hours and days to little 
profit. 
