In proportion, too, as the obstacle is great, and the mineral scarce, inaccessible, and of difficult and distant transportation, in the same proportion will be the number of laborers maintained by the various branches of this industry.
The same reasoning will lead to the proscription of machinery.
Here are men who are at a loss how to dispose of their petroleum.

This is an obstacle which other men set about removing for them by the manufacture of casks.

It is fortunate, say our statesmen, that this obstacle exists, since it occupies a portion of the labor of the nation, and enriches a certain number of our citizens.

But here is presented to us an ingenious machine, which cuts down the oak, squares it, makes it into staves, and, gathering these together, forms them into casks.

The obstacle is thus diminished, and with it the fortunes of the coopers.