That is where we now are in rearts absorbed the energies of the people. Production was confined spect to some of the leading manufactures of the civilized worldsubstantially to these forms of labor. Whatever was required by the cotton fabrics. iron. agricultural implements. boots and shoes. and emigrant or even byhis descendants for manyyears beyond the simpler others. commodities was necessarily imported from the old countries where In some portions of our country the imperative need of markets manufacturing capital and skilled labor were concentrated. abroad is extremely. even painfully. apparent. The power of proIt is obvious that a country must first be subdued by the rifle. ax. and duction has far outrun home consumption. but the transfer of capital plow. that is to say. cleared of wild beasts and wild men. its forests and skill to other pursuits in our own country or by expatriation ia felled. and its soil broken and upturned to the sun and to the for- destructive and practiCally an impossibility in the business life of any tilizing embrace of the air. before it can become the home of more single generation of employers and laborers. ao that the naked truth intricate employments. But gradually these rudimentary industries now is that upon the development of a foreign trade are the prosbecame firmly established and their excess of production was the perity and happiness of the American people dependent for many purchasing power by which the ireasing wants of prosperity were years.
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