American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-03
The Corn Policy.

we nave constantly enuedNOfeu 10
impress upon our planters the great
and growing necessity for planting
corn. That necessity has been already
'pihchingly felt; it has forced our soil
taIy staple into the market and has
caused incalculable loss to iiftlivid-
udls. Even to-day-after all the
warning Of past seasons since the
war-uar great agricultural districts
are IMPORTING corn for daily use1
What u commentary is tliis upon
the system which ltais made thp vast
~ productive South the unpaid
drudge-the helpless tool ct the
North x
We have repeated over and over
the plain fact that we can never he
rich-we can never be independent
we can never be anything but
drudges, until we are self-supli0rting.
And we are glad to see thag these
views are now beginning TO lie
constantly agitated and revOlyed by
CTR country incorporates The
Wilcox Nescs has an able article
copied and commented en- by the
Selma Iimes-fully endorsing our
position, and further pointing TO the
great trials to which foreign war
would subject our people. We hard
ly believein the possibility of q foreign
war. The United States government
has sufficient knowledge of it's own
financial weakness to preclude all
idea of this. But there will be a
war internal and confined TO narrow
:. limits, hut nearly as terrible to the
credit of the country as one with
England. Tho war between Gold
and Greenbacks-the war between
Imports and Exports is daily draw.
ing nearer and nearer; and when
that shock of Joined battIe-of which
we have such premonitery rum
blingsEis felt, in Wall street, Ameri-
eau credit will t6pple till all wise
men will stand from under What
will be tile position of tile South then.
if she have Nothing in her fields but
cottone -G-
In the event of Il foreign war cotton
would go down; corn, four, bacon
and every staple of food would 20
up. Would the South SUPPORT her
self then by "a crop even like that of
$500! And in case of that mites
tine war between money and credit,
would she be better Off? With her
warehouses bursting with cotton aud
her people clamoring for bread that
must be had, the iron clinch of the
North Upon Her throat would scarce
ly relax. The dire necessity for pro-
duction to fill the balance of exports,
now so heavy against her, would then
be heavier each month: To fill Ills,
cotton would take the first pace,
and ITS price T0uld depehd solely upon
the position in arhich the South then
stood IN the mattSr Of food. If the
planters put in grain now, there
could be no reason to ship except at
paying rates. If, on the other hand,
the South is perfectly bare of food,
she would have to exchange her cot.
ton for Northern and Western grain
at any price the holders put upon it.
There IS no need to repeat nor
dwell Upon this. Fhe proposition is
too clear; Truly does Ute Ecms say.
let cotton growers be warredi Plant
corn, cotton growing region Plant
corn, plant wheat, plant peas, plant
potatoes. Raise hogs and all you
want to eat, at home Let cotton be
a secondary consideration. Plant it
! by all means bnt plant enough and
to spare of corn first: aud every
stalk iSjust so much per centa,ge, in
gotd, added to the lessenet cfob OF
cotton Mobile Rty'sttf.
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