The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-08-19

the standard of Europe, causing all prop
erty TO rise, in proportion to the fall o
interest. Your wages are fixed by the
surplus of cotton you have to export, and
the price it will bring in Liverpool. Youl
prosperity depends upon the scarcity Of
labor and high rate of interest. You
have nothing but your labor-you cannot
borrow money, even if it gets down to
per cent. The value of your labor beng
fixed by the value of cotton in Llverpoo!!
where interest is low, you can, by resi-
ding where it is high, acquire proportion
ally, much more land in glvcn, time.
TO those who have land TO sell, or more
than can be worked, let me say the very
scarcity of labor will mako onc-half of
your lands bring in annually more money
than if all was planted-the other half is
worth per cent to grow broom scdge for
grazing, aud will advance more than five
per cent annually. j., For the safety OF the
manufacturing interest, especially in cot
ton, it is not prudent to push it too fast
not faster than markets can be found for
the products manufactured. Just as sure
as tho winds return the water. to be con-
densed and fall again above the shoals,
the pcoplc here will possess the money
and energy and skill to put the water to
work and to effect this most speedily,
we want scarcity of labor, that there
may be scarcity Of cotton, and CORES
with cotton at 20 to 25 cts. per h.. we
can in Georgia appropriate ten dollars to-
wards increasing our manufacturing In
tercst with more ease than one dollar,
with double the labor, and cotton to IL
cents. Where are the laborers best ted
and clothed? where labor is scarce:
Where does land pay the best profits
where labor is scarce and the reason is,
the products Of the farm bring the best
prices, under these circumstances.
l am equally opposed to begging for
money to be brought to the South, to be
invested. Ifcapitalists come of their own
accord, let them come, but it is not to our
interest that they should. You now own
the property of Gcorgia-if you sell one;
half of it, you will own but the other halt,
1t is very difficult to transfer real proper
ty from one country to another. The
most You would get, would be the means
to live. and dress fine for few years.
What We want is a system OF saving,
and properly investing, each year. We
could and ought to save annually fifteen
million of dollars, to be invested in ma
chinery. That would pay future dlvl-
dends, to be re-invested. [ am for more
labor too, but 1 want such as we may
never regret acquiring. Accumulate all
sorts of Iabor-saving machines; improve
your land to capacity double its present
rates improve your systems fully double
of what they now are. Learn to do full
" fifty per cent more work, with the
same labor than is now done, and with
moro case; learn to apply your labor to
greater advantage than is now donc-do
all this, and more too which can be done,
and you will find your products ample,
without any increase of population. l
am for non-action by Georgia--nonaction
of our people. Leave the subject OF i'm.
migration to time, and the free will OF
those who wish 10 come among us, and
be Of rs.
We owe our prosperity at this time en-
tirely to the scarcity of labor-many ne
groes having refused to work; others be-
ing employed in repairing torn up rail-
roads, and building new roads. If all the
negroes had gone to work on the farms,
and done full work, it woald have taken
twenty years to reach our present situa'
ton. The scarcity of labor is the only
blessing we now enjoy as result of the
war.
The scarcity of labor in the South,
gives us the proceeds of the very labor
some people wish to transfer here. The
profits of one hand in the cotton field,
give us the labor of two in Europe.
Transfer him here, and he will compete
with the labor we now have, or he will
labor with those we now have TO lessen
their profits, and bring about state OF
things, which will get up strikes. You
must rocollect, a strike in the cotton OF
harvest field, is not like one in cotton
mill or on railroad. If the mill stops
what has been done is not lost-if they
hands refuse to move any more dirt, what
has been, remains. Not so with wheat
and cOtton-all IS JOSH, unless you coii'
tinue to advance. The guano must be
pumped up into the cotton bolls, and they
must be gathered by uninterrupted labor
One more point | will mention, and
then leave the subject to be discussed
fully, hope by abler pens. The press OF
the South has laborcd earnestly TO get
the cotton planter to make all bis supplies
at home, urging 1t as being the cheapest
policy. Now every cotton planter knows
that nothing pays as we'll as cotton, and
all the presses in the world cannot change
his opinion. But if the press will strike
at the root of Tho evil, they may do in
calculable good. I will state what it is
| have always practiccd it; both the true
interest of the cotton planter and patr
otism, should make all adopt it. Apply
o,o LnIr of oil lohor and land TO the