The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-05-12

ot@nei OnioH' JULIUS Foppe, Anderson o. ID.
The County and Town of Newbcrry-No. G.
d 10 CITIZENS WHO HAVE CAPITAL: Citizens
OF the, County and State, you must turn
your attention to manufacturing You are
not able to be- as extravagant in living as
you have been accustomed. You must
therefore, become self-sustaining. You
must. make NIL that is needed for home
purposes, and as much as You can to send
abroad. You must educate your sons and
daughters at home. You must build ND
your own literary institutions. You must
labor to increase the excess Of exports over
imports.
Ii you will stick to and adhere to the plain
and simple rule of economy and manufac
lures, You will yet become prosperous. indie
pendent and rich.
BY investigation, you will find that the
profits arising from we'll managed cotton
factory are far greater than those derived
from producing the raw material It NAV
be stated, as general proposition, on an
average, that one yard of cotton goods is
worth as much as pound of raw material.
Inc number of yards produced from a
pound of raw material depends upon the
quality of the article manufactured. From
one pound OF cotton you may make four
yards OF what is known as four-ouarter
prown sheet1ng. These four yards would
be worth dollar Thus you see that the
process of manufacturing has added at least
seventy.fve cents to the value of one pound
OF cotton. You double the value of cotton
by converting it into yarns or osnaburcs.
Hence, the 1000 bales of cotton produced
IN this country the past year, worth 81, 200,
ooo,,lf converted into osnaburgs or yarns,
would have brought double the amount.
we nave no room to 60 into an exposition,
nave seen IS ms low as the legal interest of
south Carolina. This surely should be an
incentive to citizen capitalists to push on
tor manufacturing enterprises
Pof1tlcal econ omists have shown that those
countries which have been engaged in ma.
nutacturing, as we'll as agriculture; those
whose lndastry'is diversified, are more pros
porous, ana better able to bear taxation,
than those which have but a single in.
dustry.
If we take the contrast, during the LARA
war, between Connecticut and Maine. Ten
.nesSee and Rhode Island, Mas sachusetts and
Wisconsin, we find that it is very instrnc.
tive, to wit: Taxation per head in Rhode
Island was $22. 58; per head in Tennessee.
Sd'56. In connecticut, $13.O4; in Maine,
s2.4I. IN Massachusetts,, S18.S3; in Wis,
mi ~A'oo' lhis WIS IN the year 1864.
This proves clearly that diversified industry
is the source Of the greatest wealth, and the
source OF people to support governmental
expenditure in time of extra need.
me Southern States, this State, you of
this County, will lose the great lesson of the
war, which it has taught you, if YOU do not
uniearn and discard the theory which once
governed your policy; that you controlled
your own prosperity i'll yot1r control of cot
ton; and that the production of cotton. su-
gar and tobacco we're Sufficient to enrich
you, and render you independent of the
world, come what might. All this has been
proven satisfactorily, to be downright
tnumpug tng and deiusion. The cotton manu-
tao.a.er OF Europe was embarrassed for a
"me' SO were they in New England: but
neither in Europe or America was The ma.
nuIacture arrested. Substitutes were found
IN india, Africa and South America and
were utilized by mechanical skin and inoe-
nulty with the boi1 of what American cot.
ton was run thrcyoh the blockade. to snnnIv
the worlds demand for calicoes. shirtipcss
and muslins. An augmented supnlv of
WOODEN and linen goods filed up the deficit
and the world adapted itself to the war and
blockade The idea originated by Southern
Ponuolans, not statesmen that Europe
wouio Dc reyoutlonlzed, was fal-lal stuff
cant, the idea of the widest theorists
In the business of manufacturing. the
South, as q matter of course this County
possesses. many advantages, and very mate
rial ones, over the rest of the world. First.
IN climate; second, the material is close at
nand; third, it can be obtained cheaper
Inc South has inexhaustible water power.
timber, coal, ores of iron, copper, lead.
zinc, gold and silver. Our winters are short.
ana more days work can be done here than