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STATE AGPJCULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
If to the foregoing figures, which only very partially repre¬ 
sent our leading commercial city, we were able to add such 
as would likewise convey some idea of the business done by 
Eacine, Kenosha, Port Washington, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, 
Two Eivers and Green Bav, as well as of the lars:e amount of 
transactions of the many flourishing towns which line the Mis¬ 
sissippi river, all the way from the rich and productive Yalley 
of St. Croix on the north to Dunleith on the south, we are con¬ 
fident that the grand aggregate would be one of which the 
youthful state of Wisconsin, only now in her twentieth year, 
would have just reason to be proud. 
OEGAKIZED AGENCIES. 
The present age, so full of practical teachings of great use to 
mankind, has taught no lesson more thoroughly than the value 
of organization as a primary condition of success in every great 
enterprise, whether material, social, or political. It is equally 
true that, in learning this lesson and turning it to practical ac¬ 
count, the American people have shown themselves to be 
more apt scholars than any other people on the globe. It is 
natural that they should be, for a cardinal principal in the 
policy of a democratic government is to interfere as little as 
possible with the personal freedom and individual activities of 
the people—to guide and encourage always, but to direct and 
govern only where there is a manifest need of such aid on their 
part; in which respect it differs most essentially from a des¬ 
potic government like those of France and Eussia, where all 
measures of public interest not only originate with the Impe- 
perial head, but are organized under his immediate direction 
and carried into practical operation by officers of his appoint¬ 
ment. 
It is needless to say that the history of the past hundred 
years fully vindicates the wisdom of the American policy, and 
that the truest and best minds in every enlightened country 
are certainly and inevitably coming, one by one, to a recog¬ 
nition of its superiority. 
