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AMERICAN ECONOMY—ITS FUTURE.
Horace Greeley, on taking tlie chair, as
President of the American Institute, on
the 20th ult,, delivered a characteristic,
and, in many respects, well considered ad
dress upon this subject. He commenced
with an earnest advocacy of the Protective
System, as shaped-by the statesmen and po
litical economists of the last generation, such
as Henry Clay, Hezekiah Niles, and Walter
Forward. “ I hold," he said, “ that the
world is this day at least One Billion of
I tollars richer for- American inventions and
discoveries which owe their existence to
the partial; grudging, capricious Protection
which Congress has accorded to our manu
facturing industry. Who can estimate the
value to mankind of the yet incomplete
century of American Inventions commenc
ing with the cotton gin ? The reaper and
mower, the telegraph, the railroad, the sew
ing-machine, the power press—what would
the world be without them? Which of
them owes its origin to any country which
has systematically refused or neglected to
protect its own manufactures? Let Egypt
and Arabia, let India and China, produce
the contributions which they, during the
last century, have made to human efficiency
in the field of industrial production, and
we will see whether'our policy or its oppo
site most conduces to human progress and
prosperity. Had the policy which looks to
making ours a purely agricultural nation —
to exporting its-timber, its cotton, its food,
and importing its wares and fabrics —been
uniformly ascendant here, we" might have
shown as beggarly an account of contribu
tions to human.efficiency as they do. And,
had our workshops remained in Europe, we
might be still plowing with a clumsy, in
effective implement, composed of wotfd and
iron, instead of the steel plow of the present
day.
“Yet we are still at the beginning of our
course. I hail the steam plow as a benefi
cent and not distant contribution of Me
chanics to the progress and efficiency of
agriculture. Say, if you will, that all steam
plows, as yet, have been failures —I will
not dispute you—l only insist that they
are such failures as herald and prepare for
a grand, benignant success."
Of the agricultural capabilities of the
country, Mr. Greeley said: —“ Our agricul
ture is yet rudimental —I might say, semi
barbarous. Hitherto, its progress has been
rather in machinery than in processes or in
average results. Whoever has observantly
traversed Europe must know that her aver
age tillage is far superior to ours, and her
crops larger than ours. Lombardy, Bel
gium, Holjand, Switzerland, Great Britain,
produce far larger average orops per acre
than this country does. It is established
by statistics that, whereas the average
wheat crop of the British Isles is twice as
large per acre it was in 1800, the wheat
crop ot so much of our country as was then
under cultivation is but half as much as it
was sixty years ago. New England, for
merly produced all the wheat she required;
now, she produces less than a tithe of her
consumption, and nine-tenths of her farmers
do not grow wheat at all? The rents on the
manor ot Rensselaerwyck, skirting our own
Hudson river, were formerly payable mainly
in wheat; now, but.few of the farms grow
any wheat, and many if not most of them
refuse to produce it. I know no other
country that once grew wheat' luxuriantly,
and now fails to produce it; and the differ
ence must be a result of our heedless and
exhausting cultivation, which calls loudly
for reform. Any farm that ever produced
wheat should stand ready to produce it still;
and he is a poor farmer who, having pro
duced a good crop of this staple one year,
cannot produce a better crop of wheat next
year. If the last crop has exhausted the
land of some element or property required
to perfeot wheat, soience should tell us how
most readily and cheaply to replace that
element, and this is what we mean by scien
tific farming.
u Framers, like other men —more than
most other men —need a knowledge of na
ture and her unohanging laws. It is the
glory of our age that suoh men as Lipbig
devote their talents and acquirements to
teaching them. London was lor many
years the home of an Italian named Mechi,
who made and sold cheap razor-strops.
Having grown rich in this calling, M.
Hechi removed to the country and bought
or hired a large farm, where he resolved to
give a fair trial to the most advanced theo
ries of chemists and geologists who essayed
to shed light on agriculture. He has done
so for some twenty years, and with signal
success. His orops are the largest m all
England, and his profits correspond with
them. As a sample of his methods—all his
abundant fertilizers, whether purchased or
made on the farm, are converted into liquids
and diffused over his fields by means o
pumos and pipes. In this way, they are
not only far more effective, but they are
applied just when the growing plants need
either sustenanoe or moisture; and ye ,
am assured, the composting and distribution
of his fertilizers costs M. Mechi but a penny
per load. And this is one result, like many
others, of his fidelity to the conviotion
that the best way of doing anything is, m
the long run, the most profitable. Who
ever has journeyed through Upper Itay .
the valley of the Po—must have had his
attention arrested by the general preva
lence of irrigation. Most of the land you
see is irrigated; and nearly all of this pro
duces immensely. Probably, the water
systematically applied to the surface more
than doubles the natual crop. Who ever
saw extensive and systematic irrigation on
the Atlantio slope of this continent i Xet
we have millions of acres far more easily
irrigated than Lombardy, and whose irri
gation could be quite as profitably resorted
to. When will it be ?"
Mr, Greeley proceeded to speak ot tne
mineral resources of vthe couptry a 8 a vast
and exceedingly important field ior the
labors of the Institute. He spoke also of
the importance that the Institute should
erect for itself an edifice, worthy of its
character and history, and there possess and
preserve a oomplete collection of agricultu
ral implements-past as well as present
showing the progress made from age to age
and from year to year. It won e
structive to compare the plows and scythes
of the last two oenturies With those of our
fathers and with our own; the mere com- i
parison might sugeest some of the improve
ments of the future. He would also have
there maintained,*not an annual, but a per
petual fair —that is a continuous exhibition
of implements, machines, inventions, &c.
Such an exhibition would afford a place of
evening resort for our mechanics and ap
prentices, which could not fail to prove in
structive and profitable.
« Our country,” he added, 11 eminently
needs the general diffusion of useful, prac
tical knowledge —such knowledge as it. is
our aim to dispense. When we consider
what such knowledge has already achieved
—how localities like that whereon Salt Lake
City now stands, which, a few years since,
would not grow a peck of grain to the acre,
do now, by the aid of irrigation, produce
in abundance every grain and fruit of the
temperate zone—when we reflect that there
are hundreds of such places still lyiDg
waste and useless, and that all our national
industry is equally infantile or chaotic, we
must feel that the dissemination of useful
knowledge is among the noblest achieve
-1 ments of man.
“Within one hundred miles there lie
hundreds of thousands of acres of deep,
rich soil that have contributed very little
as yet to the comfort of man. Sea-side
marshes, inland swamps and bogs, the sandy
plains of New Jersey and Long Island —all
or most of these may be profitably wrested
irom chaos and made subservient to man’s
subsistence and enjoyment by scientific and
systematic effort. They now breed but
pestilence and noisome insects; they will
yet afford employment and sustenance to
many thousands of men.
“ Recent events have opened the Southern
States to settlement and cultivation by free
labor. A vast, genial, naturally fertile re
gion, proffers rare opportunities for the cul
tivation of the grape, the production ot silk,
and many other industries hitherto confined
to the Old World. Doubtless a few years
will witness vast improvement in that quar
ter.
“ We are an agricultural people, yet we
import immensely of the products of foreign
agriculture —of the products of climates
and soils essentially like our own. We
are to-day buying extensively of Europe
silks which we might produce at home for
less than we give for them in Europe; wines
which we might make for half their foreign
cost; while we send to China and Japan
for teas that the growers produce for a
sixth, and we might for a third of the prices
we now pay for them. If we naturalize the
tea plant only, we shall save thereby to our
country many millions per annum. Let us
at least resolutely attempt it.
“ I would like to say more of the prospec
tive development of our mineral wealth.
Having traversed the great mountain chains
and high plains and valleys of our con
tinent, I feel sure that their treasures of
gold and silver exceed all estimate, all cal
culation. I quite understand that gold and
silver, like iron or coal, must be-paid for—
that he that digs them from the earth pays
usually quite as much as though he ob
tained them by farming or trade; and yet
I feel that our country is richer for her
mines, precisely as she is for her soil. They
furnish employment for labor, and create
markets-'for every other department-of- in
dustry. As yet, I presume, all the gold
and silver dug from the Rocky Mountains
have cost all they are worth; but the Pa
cific Railroad will reduce the cost of their
production one-half, while opening vast
markets for the food and fabrics of our
older States.”
Ijtieutife.
CHOLERA.
From the concluding article of a very
valuable series in the New York Tribune
on this topic, we make the following ex-
tracts :
Cholera is strictly an epidemic, existing
by force of a mysterious poison diffused
through the atmosphere. Whether the
influences which produce this poison are
“telluric,” “ electro-magnetic,” or “animal
cular,” we know no better now than we did
fifty years ago.
Cholera moves in th,e form of a volume,
or field (of greater or less extent) of such
poisoned air. Its rate of progress is com
paratively uniform, and its track not more
eccentric than may he accounted for by the
influence of prevailing winds..
As soon as it reaches any given place, all
the persons residing in, arriving at, or
passing through that place, who may be
predisposed by certain conditions herein
before stated, become the select objects of
its attack, however widely they may be
scattered, and without regard to their pos
sibilities of communicating with each other;
it is sufficient that they are included in the
oholeratic atmosphere.
Cholera is never brought —it comes. If
passengers sailing from a port of France,
where the epidemic prevails, arrive in an
American port, whither it has not yet come,
bringing with them the germs of the disease
alive in their own systems, those germs
will not grow and spread in the new and
healthy air, but will whither and die out for
want of their natural pabulum —the chol
eratic atmostphere.
But if that atmosphere accompanies
them, then the germs will flourish and be
propagated. This is why the cholera did
not extend to London in 1831, or in New
York in 1848, “ although it had been in
troduced, And persons had been exposed to
its infection.” The cases had been brought,
but the epidemic had not arrived. On the
Other'hand, “it spread like wildfire in Paris,
in 1832,” because the epidemic brought its
own cases along with it. But the presence
of the choleratie atmosphere is an essential
condition of the spread of cholera With
out it, a few isolated oaseß oi aggravated
cholera morbus, in individuals rendered
peculiarly susceptible and sympathetic by
their local and personal accidents, are the
worst that need be feared, and we e leve
that such examples of cholera morbus, oc
curring during the prevalence of an actual
epidemic, constitute a large proportion ol
the whole number of cases counted as true
cholera Upo® a prepared neverous system,
it is most natural that the fiercer disease
should beget its kind, eveu though the
progeny may be of weaker powers.
THE INFLUENCE OF FEAU.
If thing oonld .onto «““»
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY/ MARCH 22, 1866.
ous it would be the enervating influence of
panic—as when, wanting a contagion of its
own, it rides on the contagion of fear. For
fear diminishes the nervous power, de
presses and enfeebles the action of the
heart, detracts the blood from extreme ves
sels, and deranges the secretions.
“ The tendency of fear,” says Dr. Brig
ham, “is to produce and spread spasmodic
complaints, and to become epidemic during
great public calamities. It not only dis
poses a person to be affected by a contagi
ous disease, but actually produces a disease,
and symptoms similar to the premonitory
symptoms of cholera.” He calls attention
to the fact, that a person whose mind is
constantly on the alert to detect some symp
toms of the stomach or bowels, who. anxi
ously watches the effect of everything he
eats or drinks upon the organs of digestion,
will he very certain to create in them a
morbid sensibility, which will be followed
by indigestion, diarrhoea, or other derange
ment ; and suggests that there is great rea
son to apprehend that many, very many
cases of cholera, if not produced by fear
alone, are aggravated by it to a dangerous
degree; and cases of 41 common cholera
are transformed through the influence of
fear, into the malignant and fatal. “At
the present alarming time, no duty of medi
cal men, and of all those who have influence
over the faith of others as regards the epi
demic, seems more imperative than that
they should steadily endeavor to quiet pub
lic alarm, and constantly abstain from
creating any fear about the prevalence of
the disease, and its contagious nature.
Hundreds will die of common cholera if they
are qot assured, and made to believe", that
the disease which effects them is not the
cholera which their fears suggest. In such
cases every look, and question, and action
of a physician is very important. He has
it in his 1 ppwer, not only to endanger the
lives of the sufferers, but to spread around
a far more dangerous contagion than that
of cholera —the contagion of fear; to drive
from the bed of sickness the anxious rela-
tivea and useful attendants, palsy the hand
of charity, and create in those who are]
obliged to attend upon the sick a disposi-1
tion to a disease closely allied to, if not
identical with, malignant cholera; for the
passion of fear falls in and unites with the
disease, and attacks and paralyzes the same
organs.
A man was once journey in the interior
of Turkey, when he met the Pestilence.’
“ Where are you from'?” he asked. “ Form
killing 2000 people in Smyrna,” replied
the Pestilence. “ That’s a lie,” said the
man, “ I lfnow that you have killed 6000
there.” “ No,” said the Pestilence, “ I
killed 2000, and Fear killed 4000.” , •
Adults exhibit a much more lively sus
ceptibility to cholera than ohildren, the
apprehensions of the latter not being so
easily excited. It has been observed that
the little ones enjoy a remarkable exemp
tion from the disease; and its attacks are
to be looked for, for the most part, among
the more intelligent children of five or six
years and upward, who have derived from
what they have heard or read a depressing
anxiety respecting it —as of some invisible,
mysterious, and fearful calamity, which is
stealing upon them and those who are dear
to.them. In children, fear, like other.pas-,
sions, is soon effaced) but it is also more
sudden and powerful in them, and far more
likely to operate dangerously upon their
delicate and susceptible nervous organiza
tions when, by their intelligence and im
agination, they are in a condition to enter
tain it.
HINTS TO THE SANITARY BOARDS
l)r. Lefevre observes that the epidemic
cholera, on its first invasion, baffles a]J at
tempts to conquer it; but that it gradually'
loses its intensity, and “ towards its decline
becomes as tractable as other disorders of
the alimentary canal.” Many other obser
vers have particularly noted that the deaths
are everywhere most numerous, in propor
tion to the whole number attacked at the
commencement of an invasion.
In crowded, filthy, and ill-ventilated
places, where the exciting causes are
actively combined against the health of all |
who are exposed to the influence, the dis
ease takes an apparently infectious charac
ter, tending still further to propagate it,
and aggravate the alarm.
The following remarks of a late writer
are especially worthy of attention
“ Excesses and extremes of all kinds pre
dispose to cholera. Excessive filth does
so. So does excessive bathing, with a view
to extreme cleanliness; for it reduces the
heat of the body, and debilitates the sys
tem. The inordinate use of either animal
or vegetable food is a predisposing cause.
But so, emphatically, is fasting or abstin
ence, especially as regards animal food.
The fearful mortality from cholera in Paris,
in 1832, occurred during the fasting in
Lent. Nothing like it, occurred at any
other period. In a part of Louisiana where
nearly all the people ai o Roman Catholic,
the mortality in a cholera epidemic was
quadrupled during and after a three days
fast.”
What is the danger of the Trichinae -to
the human body ? More than two deceni
ums have elapsed since their discovery.
The first cases of disease and death by them,
of which we have proof, occurred in the
year 1815. The survivor himself related
the story, and it is ODe curiously interesting
to the least curious of readers. -It exempli
fied also how, even though the infestation
may have been so serious as to nearly prove
'fatal, and to have proved fatal to others who
ate of the same meat with the surviving or
cured case, yet it may end by the Trichinae ]
becoming so closely confined by an adven- j
titious shell they are powerless to do further
injury to the patient, except what conse
quence survives in chronic form.
This process, however, does not occur m
less than three months, and- in such in
stances the disease is called “cured. In
this case, in the summer of 1863, a person
was being operated on for a tumor of the
neck by a German surgeon. During
operation the bared muscles were observe
to be abundantly supplied with the c ara
teristic sheila or cysts of Trichinae,
patient related, in reply to a qu
whether he had ever been very sic ’
in the year 1815,frith.*•%5»n of
bers of a commission lor the y
schools, he ate a meal of ham, sausage,
THE TRICHINJE DISEASE.
cheese, etc., at an inn. All who ate of
these provisions soon after fell sick and
died, except the relator himself. Suspicion
fell upon the inn-keeper. A judicial inves
tigation was held, but without result—pre
cisely as it would be now if we had not that
knowledge of the Trichinae we possess. And
in this case the survivor might have gone
to his death and yet nothing have ever been
known, in his particular case, of the infes
tation by Trichinae, which had proved fatal
to his six associates, had it not been for the
knowledge science had furnished many
years at'fer that fatal meat was eaten. Simi
lar instances of our coming, many years'
, after, to an understanding of the causes of
death of like character, and which other
wise were with more or less confidence at
tributed to superstitious causes, might be
cited, but another will suffice.
In June, 1851, in the neighborhood of
Hamburg, several well persons having eaten
ham, fell sick. Three of them died, and
others vjere long in a critical state. A ju
dicial investigation was held without satis
faction. Ham poisoning was supposed, but
long afterward it was shown that the symp
toms and other circumstances pertaining to
the sickness and death of these people, were
precisely similar with those subsequently
ascertained to be Trichinae infestation.
In the district of Madgeburg the cases of
this disease spread over a period of four
years. Since the year 1859, a whole series
of epidemics of this disease have been ob
served. They occurred at Plauen, Calbe
on Salle, Quedlenburg, Burg near Madge
burg, Weimar, and Hetdstadt near Eisle
ben, and other places.
If we come to inquire why it is that these
epidemies have not occurred in other coun
tries as in Germany, we learn that it iB be
cause the flesh of the pig is so much more
largely used as food in Germany-than else
where. This animal is slaughtered in im
mense numbers. In Berlin the yearly con
sumption is 100,0001 There exists in Ger
many, moreover, a habit of eating bits of
uncooked lean pig’s flesh, and in some of
the epidemics, as well as in single cases,
where butchers were infected, it was ascer
tained that they ate not merely of the saus
ages, but that most of them were in the
habit of eating a little of the uncooked
meat at the time of cutting it, as well as
that which adheres to the knife in cutting, j
Again, the only security against infesta
tion if pork is eaten, is either to find, by a
careful iexamination with the microscope,
that thd flesh' is free from Trichinae, or
that the flesh has been thoroughly coohed
by heat. v The investigations which have
been made on this point disclose that the
meat is almost never cooked sufficiently to
kill the Trichinae If we wish to avoid in
festatio lwe must never eat mio pork; for
in Buri: a great num Wr of cases of .disease
and de: th were occasioned by people eating
raw me rt on bread for breakfast, In boil-
ing, rotsting, frying, or smoking, more or 1
less of ;he meat may remain nearly raw.
The gri latest danger is from ham, and if
used itlshould be thoroughly boiled.. It is
certain ,that a Trichinae exposed to the boil
ing poipt invariably dies. But it is equally
ceftaiuithat frequently this temperature is
not reached in boiling and roasting, or, if it
is, not the whole of the meat is exposed to
it. £bis is certainly the case when large
pieces are boiled or roasted, and even cut in
slices not unfrequently the inner parts are
half or wholly raw. The parts are yet,
when exposed, found to be soft and reddish.
There dan be no doubt that in such oases
the inner part of the meat has not been
reached by a killing temperature. Hence,
it is obrious that by such boiling, roasting
or frvins, the danger is not prevented. —
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