AMERICAN IRON AND THE IRON CITY. IRON MILLS OF JONES & LAUGHLINS PITTSBURGH PA. reach of any Who desire to occupy them. Home and foreign demand creates a good and steady market for all agricultural products. These facts coupled with—until recently—almost entire freedom from the taxation which so burdens European farmers have made the occupation of farming in this country certainly remunerative and one that could be entered upon by comparatively inexperienced men. The ease with which new lands could be obtained to replace those exhausted by a system of drafts without deposits
AMERICAN IRON AND THE IRON CITY. IRON MILLS OF JONES & LAUGHLINS PITTSBURGH PA. reach of any Who desire to occupy them. Home and foreign demand creates a good and steady market for all agricultural products. These facts coupled with—until recently—almost entire freedom from the taxation which so burdens European farmers have made the occupation of farming in this country certainly remunerative and one that could be entered upon by comparatively inexperienced men. The ease with which new lands could be obtained to replace those exhausted by a system of drafts without deposits has made farming almost solely a process of ploughing sowing and reaping to be dis continued in one locality and repeated in another as soon as the reaping was found to be disproportionately easy. From the nature of the case it required no fostering care from the Government. It could and it can for a century to come take care of itself. With the manufacturing interests of the country the case has been far different. A few are indeed accessible to men of small means and involving only a comparatively small amount of skilled labor may be considered as exceptions to the general rule. Of these the manufacture of lumber is a notable example. But manufacturing in general requires large capital of both money and brains in its conduct and skilled and therefore in this country expensive labor in its perform ance. Skilled labor will remain expensive labor in the United States so long as farmers can afford to pay for green hands of the English operative whose only ambition is to stolidly and stupidly perform his daily task and whose highest idea of enjoyment is at its close for a brief hour to smother and drown his feelings of wretchedness in tobacco smoke and beer at a pothouse. We have said the embarrassments to which American man ufacturers have been forced to submit are unnecessary. It will be easy to demonstrate this. They have arisen from corn potion with the cheap labor of Europ
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