Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-10
TUESDAY MORNING. Aug. 10, 1869.
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cultural work we have to spend that
and sometimes more in the mechanical
works that We have to buy from the
people of the North. That is about as
clear way to state that pro- s e %
occurs to us at present, ano if we will
look iato it closely we will see the utter
impossibility of ever advancing our
material interests as long as that state
Of affairs is allowed to continue. The
remedy for it is SO easy and SO simple
that it is almost unnecessary to state it
here, as we have so often stated it be :
fore. 1t is to do our own manufacture
ing at home. 1t would really appear
that its great simplicity alone prevents
our people from taking hold of and car
rying it out. 81 fiji @tG If q
Under the present arrangement, the
balance Of trade is always against the
South. and as long as that continues to
be so, we may make as much fuss and
hub-bub in our newspapers as we
please, but we are not getting ahead
one step; for it takes all and more than
all we make from agriculture to pay the
Northern manufacturer for what we gel
from him. -li fai"-H ~ U
The articles embraced in the house.
hold department Of our people consume
probably one half of what our crops
come to when sold, while our imported
clothing, shoes, hats and bonnets con.
sumo one quarter, and the gew-gaws,
jimcracks, notions and tr ansportation tc
and fro sweep off the balance. So We
go. Now, if we want to secure mate.
rial prosperity for our people, and build
up our wealth and power, we must stop
this foolishness; and the quicker VIC
stop it the better. -
There is no article we import f.; :.
the North that cannot be manu- ,ctutg,.
in any city in the South by our ow me-
ehanics and artisans. The COUNT is
full of inventions and machinery fol
manufacturing everything in ,ise by
mankind and if we will Oily deter
mine to economist properly VIC will get
these inventions and machines here al
the South and get our own people tc
work them; and when we manifest an
unmistakable determination to do this,
we will find many of those who work
their machines North at present, be.
cause the North is now sought as the
market, will bring them and their CAPT.
tai South to carry on their works. ei
Our folks are famous for drawing up
Resolutions on paper. This evidence
of an enterprising spirit was bequeathed
them by their ancestors, who did the
Resolutions of '98 and 80. We are
decidedly great on comprehending Tie
hair-splitting part of political discus.
sions. We can rip the CUTS out o.
theory. But come down TO the founda.
tion of politics, to the simplest part Of
politics-to the practice of politics, in
reality--and we are at sea without rud-
der or compass. We went for principle,
while the Northerner went for principal
and interest both. He got what he
went for and left us the empty bag tc
hold. Our statesmen wanted to
every pauper in this country &, q Eu'
rope cotton for their shirts at six ,nts 8
yard, and 10 order to do SO impoverish.
ed the whole South. This was making
labor cheap to everybody but ourselves
and all we imported from elsewhere we
had to pay large profit on, besides the
price of transportation. Now let us
COZ tinue to carry out their idea if we
wish to continue in poverty but if we
do not, if We wish to secure the profits
of our labor, let US set our own idle
people to work to make everything we
at present import that can be made by
man or machine, and we will see the
effects of the change speedily. The
want OF proper economy is what is
hurting the South now and has hurt
her all along. Let us learn economy at
once by doing our own manufacturing
at home. a.tt-t sl'f l