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u'ity at the West where manufactures are as vel
| in their infancy These States raise from the soil
but little which could be exported to any foreign
| country.


| But it is said that in the new States at the West
| they have few manufactures, and the cutvators OF
| the soil have there no interest IN common with the
mechanic or manufacturer | deny it; and claim
that their interest in the permanent establishment,
and continuance of the system is most decided and
| manifest, and in variety of ways.


| Time will not allow me, sir, to present. fully and
atlengh, the importance to the grain-growing States
of the West Of those engaged in mechanical pur-
suits. Who have been the consumers of the west
ern products Where have they heretofore found q
market for their surplus producis' Has ii been
abroad The whole amount of agricultural produc
tons of this country exported during the year, to
all the nations Of the globe, with the exception OF
rice, cotton, and tobacco, shown by the annual
report of the Secretary Of the Treasury on COM
merce and navigation, was SIG 10000
| What has been the amount consumed at home'
There are Of course no precise data by which you
can ascertain within n dollar or million of dollars.
But sir any man can form some estimate from
well known and ascertaned facts on this subject
In Massachusetts, in the year ending April /,
Is45 there were l52 766 hands employed in mechan
zeal and manufacturing labor And as far as can
be gathered from The census Of 1910, in the whole
country there we're 79l ,749 persons 80 employed
And if to these you add the large numbers directly
dependant upon them and others indirectly connect
ed with them, engaged in the transportation, or the
sale Of their goods and in other ways withdrawn
from agricultural labor, thereby added to the list of
consumers some opinion may be formed Of the value
Of this home market II is not confined to the
wheat and corn Of the West, but there are annually
imported into New England, from the West large
Quantities Of sailed provisions, hams, lard, butter
and even hay and numerous smaller articles.
Compare the amount Of the agricultural produo-