Editing Report on Manufactures (section)

===Industrial subsidies===
Hamilton reasoned that bounties ([[subsidies]]) to industry, which would rely on funds raised by moderate tariffs, would be the best means of growing manufacturing without decreasing the supply or increasing the prices of goods. Such encouragement by direct support would make American enterprise competitive and independent along with the nation as a whole. In part subsidies would be used for the following:

* Encourage the nation's spirit of enterprise, innovation, and invention.
* Support [[internal improvements]], including roads and canals to increase and to encourage domestic commerce.
* Grow the infant nation to a manufacturing power that would be independent of control by foreign powers by relying on their goods for domestic, especially defense supplies.