The world's opportunities and how to use them . labor-saving machinery is being con-stantly introduced, by means of which one factory operative ormechanic is able to do the work which formerly required thelabor of many persons; hence a smaller proportion of hands isrequired to supply the demand for manufactured articles; and,although the cheapening of such productions largely increasesthe demand for them, it does not proportionally increase thenumber of workmen. And, moreover, a much larger proportionthan formerly of emigrants engage in agriculture. Labor-savingmachinery is, indeed, largely an
The world's opportunities and how to use them . labor-saving machinery is being con-stantly introduced, by means of which one factory operative ormechanic is able to do the work which formerly required thelabor of many persons; hence a smaller proportion of hands isrequired to supply the demand for manufactured articles; and,although the cheapening of such productions largely increasesthe demand for them, it does not proportionally increase thenumber of workmen. And, moreover, a much larger proportionthan formerly of emigrants engage in agriculture. Labor-savingmachinery is, indeed, largely and increasingly introduced intoagriculture, but not to the same relative extent as into manu-factures. A few years ago the majority of emigrants fromEurope remained in and about the cities; now more than halfof them make no stay at the ports where they land, but go atonce to the West, and become farmers or farm laborers. Be-sides all this, in most manufactures we have to compete in ourown markets with Europe. In the products of agriculture we r.
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