The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-11-03
MAURY COUNTY FARMERS, CIV b
Regular Meeting. Saturday, Oct. as.

] Lion, tne SecTetaiy was OEuereu 10
amend them as TO show that the thank
of the club were rendered to all the firs
years officers. On motion of Hon JAS
Ii. THOMAS, the titles of members vii
be dropped when written in the min
utes, as being supplementary.
l.. w. BACK, chairman of the com
mittee appointed to invite Mr.. WAnDEl
to address the people of Maury count,
upon the subject Of grape culture, etc,
reported that he had written letter t,
the gentleman, but had not yet received
an answer.
ED. KUHN, chairman Of the commit
tee of arrangements, in regard to the adj
dress of l.. ID. MYERS, on the first Mon
day in November, reported that hand
bills had been sent to the different por
tions of the county.
Mr.. KUHN stated that there was ;
charter granted by the Legislature o
1865, to Messrs. T. w. KEEsEE, I'D
KUHN, JOHN w. MAYEs, JONI ID
MOORE, w. ]. ANDREws, and J. :. uAR
EIs, with an authorized capital of 500.
600, for general manufacturing purpos
es. The provisions of the charter are
that each share shall consist of $50. paw
able in annual calls of $40 per share
and as soon as the sum of $1,000 is sub,
scribed, an election of officers and direc,
| tors can be held. Said charter had nine,
ty-nine years to run from the dav of its
passage. Mr.. KUHN thought the cIar.
ter rs broad and liberal as one could b,
drawn, and would suit the purposes in
view, with the exception OF the limited
amount of the annual call, which could
be easily remedied.
The President stated that ne believed
1t would be best for the Club to settle
upon some definite kind of manufac-
| tory.
l.. ID. MYERS made few remarks
upon the matter, by special request.
His first desire was that the present ag-
ricultural mandatory in this town be
enlarged, if in the judgment of the pro-
prietors it was desirable, and likely to
prove profitable. His next choice would
be cotton factory. lie would like to
see established In our midst, broom
factory, iron mills, bucket faetory, and
all other kinds of manufactures calcu-
lated to supply the demands Of our az
ricultural population, and kee y their
money at home. Our farmer. eod q
market tor their produce at hom~. our
or five wagon loads OF marketing would
now glut the Columbia market. which
which can be remedied by building fac
torres, and thus edd to the population
OF the town. Since the war the South
has made S27S, 100000 more than the as
sessed value Of the entire property Of
the Southern States, including negroes,
land, money, and everything. And she
is poor, because it has all been sent ont
of her borders for such things as could
be made here at home. He believed the
ten per cent. law, passed by the last
Legislature, was q nuisance, and caIcu-
lated to ruin the manufacturing in
terest of the country.
Mr.. j. II. THOMAS agreed heartily
with Mr.. MYERS, in regard TO the ten
per cent. interest law, and at his per
mission, would eudeavor to get an ex-
preston ofthe public mind upon the
suhject, on the fist Monday in Novem-
Der, after the speech of Mr.. MYERS.
Mr.. MYEIs.-JEFF. DAVIS issued
about one thousand million of dollars
during the war, and every man, woman
and child had it as plentiful as leaves,
because it would not pass beyond the
borders of the Confederacy. II the
South would establish manufactures
and make everything she needed, good
money would be as plentiful as the val
ueless Confederate bills. We must act
upon Major BEN. HARLAN's plan, when
he fattens his cattle and his land all at
the same time. The South owed more
money when Fort Sumpter was fred
upon than the valuation Of her entire
negro population.
Gen. l.. +. PoLK.-The largest por-
ton of the debt was due her own citi-
zens. however.
Mr.. MYERs.-No, sir. ]; was due to
the merchants, who owed it to the
Northern merchants and capitalists.
Our merchants have in a majority Of
cases paid of all those old scores, how
ever, and only mention the fact TO
show how dangerous and general is the
pra ;tiee among our people of going in
debt.
Mr.. TILMAN VEsTAL.-We have in
our midst population, who could be
employed in factory which would not
require skilled laborers. \ cotton fac
tory at Salisbury, y. c., recently failed,
which was conducted by men who hsd
been successful in the same business in
the Northern States. They gave as the
the sole reason of the failure, that the
labor was unskilled. and the factory run
by such laborers could not compete
with factories OF New England, where
almost the entire population of poor
people had been raised up to such
work.
Mr.. MYERS We must conquel = our
prejudices against labor, in the South
God had decreed that all men must Ia
Dor, and instead Of its being a curse,
the failure to labor is a curse. We AL
ways quote the divine law, land the
seventh day thou shalt rcst,n and |
forget what precedes, 'six
days shalt thou labor"
l.. i. RoLR.--MF. MYERS Is mistaken
| think. 1t is not prejudice against |
labor, as he states, which exists in the |
South. 1t Is IGsiHe's. II Is only an ex-
cuse for those who are too lazy TO labor |
NJ people ever had higher Appreciation
Of the honor and dignity of labor than
the representative men of the South |
They have ever respected, honored and |
rewarded true worth of character, irres- !
pective of birth, station or condition.
Mr.. HAMILTON agreed with Mr.. |
MYERS that there was a prejudice
against labor, and also joined him in
the earnest desire that it give place to
encouragement anu profession OF labor
ing people, and institutions OF labor.
Mr.. KUHN-I have given consider
able thought to the subject ofimanufac-
tories, ami have concluded that a cotton
factory would yield the stockholders a
better dividend than any other manu-
factory; although might not prove as
beneficial in its indirect results to the
town and county. The agricultural i'm
plement manufacturing business could
not pe enlarged with rront. The most
ignorant people learn 70 do profitable
and skillful work in cotton manuiacto-
ries in very short time, and no difficult
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