The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-01-23
COLUMBIA. s. G.
Sunday Morning, january %, 1870. u


THE INFLUX OF CAPITAL AND
LABOR-OUR GENERAL POLICY
One OF the great needs of South Caro-
lima and the South, is capital and labor.
We want moro capital and more labor.
These are necessary in order to develop
our resources, to energize our labors and
to stimulate enterprise. We do not
want, in our judgment, labor from China.
but We want it from the European hive.
It is European emigrants who have so
developed the great Northwest. They
bring their capital and their labor, and
their substantial citizenship. It will be
fortunate day for the South when this
stream that has so enriched the West,
shall be made to flow over and fertilizo
this Southern land. Ono of the great
points against radicalism is, that it does
not encourage this great work. Tho
negro man is disposed to regard every
white settler that comes to live in our
midst, as an intruder, aud, of course,
negro lawmakers are not going to legis-
late in behalf of the great work of en-
couragement to immigration to our
section. The South. under radical rule,
is not inviting to the settler, either from
the North or from Europe. We say to
our fellow citizens all over the State and
the South, that there is great duty
before US. We must seize the control of
affairs IN the South. We must organize
great progressive party, bent upon
making this section prosperous and
wealthy. We must do no wrong. We
must respect the rights and the claims
of all, regardless of color. We-the
sops of the soil aud the Heaven -ordain ed
controllers of this section-must move
out upon the political as we'll as the in
dustrial field. We must utilize all that
we have Of labor, white and black. We
must use all that we have of capital and
enterprise. But, in addition to this, We
must get control of government and le-
gislation in the South, and dscar,ling
the narrow, short-sighted and partial po-
licy of radicalism, we must inaugurate q
broader. higher, wiser and more telling
craftsmanship. We must open our Sec
ton to the capital and the labor of Eu-
rope. We must open it to the capital
and the labor of the North. we need
this from the North. It has been charged
that the whites of the South oppose the
coming of the Northern man here. This
is false. When the Northern man comes
as q settler, and not as political sucker
and incubus, we welcome him. We need
the ingenuity of the Northern man. He
can teach us. of the South, valuable les
sons in energy, thrift and economy. Thus
it is, men Of the South, that we open out
to you line of action. which, under
God, will culminato in vic.ory-victory
over the forces that impede our present
march = victory that will bring with it
the rich fruits of peace and plenty-vic-
tory that will give lis dignity and infu-
ence--victory that will reward us for all
we have toiled and lost and borne-vic-
tory-elorious yictory--not to be abused
victory for ourselves and our children
FlCCOEy IuhL Will CuuIS W luS ocucllI vi
all classes and conditions in our section
MIR. EDITOR: It is with pleasure read
Pan article in the Cleaner, Of the 9Th
instant, on the subject of "How to In
crease Wages. All that is said, !
concur in; but the writer has
omitted another very important item,
which all men giving employment to un-
taxed laborers, must admit as of vast i'm
portance. mean the extreme amount
Of taxes imposed on employers by the
State rs we'll as of the United States
Governments, upon those who are striv-
ing to rise from the wreck of misfortune,
that will, as long as continued, be the
means of depressing the value of labor.
High taxes always have, and always will,
compel capitalists to lower the amount
imposed, by low prices for labor and
high prices for their productions; conse-