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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...of tier territory are made up of glaciers, lakes, rocks, and barren or snow-capped mountains, and although thriving manufacturing villages have grown up suddenly at Bale, Lucerne, Zurich, Neuchatel, Geneva, Vaud, Bern, and other centres, few of her most sterile districts have declined in population, as have so many of the mountain towns of New England. The people cling to their native soil. They love the country, however stern it may be. Many kinds of skilled handicraft are carried on successfully far away from the large manufacturing centres--such as straw-plaiting, an endless variety of wood-carving, embroidery, chasing in gold and silver, and the manufacture of various articles of bijoutry. The stock costs but little, but these fabrics command high prices, by reason of the beauty of their design and the skill shown in their execution. The motto of old John Adams--that the ownership of land is essential to individual self-respect and thrift, and to national dignity and prosperity--should be cherished in America as fully as in Switzerland. The system of tenement should give place to homesteads. Laborers of every grade should be encouraged in the purchase or erection of houses. They have then new motives to industry.and economy--to lay up something, if possible, every month. Such a community would give little encouragement to the Internationals to preach the gospel of idleness or agrarianism. This is already the policy of some of our leading manufacturers, who furnish to their permanent bands special facilities for procuring homesteads. It is fortunate that so many of our adopted citizens, especially the Irish and Germans, invest their spare earnings in homesteads and land. Id any community the landowner has given bonds to society for good behavior. Owning ...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1236305787
- ISBN 13 9781236305787
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages720
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