The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-06-16
INFLUENCE OF DIVERSIFIED IN
DUSTRY.

DUSTRY
From Mr.. Greeley's late speecl
before the Texas Agricultural So
ciety, at Houston, we take the fol,
lowing.
admitting that the South has
grown, and still grows too much cot.
ton-(and l judge that three
millions of bales grown in 1870
would have Melted her as large a
sum as the four millions she actually
did grow 81 see no way to counter
act this tendency but by introduce
ing branches of industry whereof the
product will also command money.
In vain do you exhort the average
planter to grow more corn and make
PORK he is often in debt, and
chooses to produce what will surely
sell for the money he sorely needs.
He is sure cotton will do this; he is
not sure as to corn and pork. But
plant one hundred cotton and as
many wooden factories ON the soil of
your State, making steady cash
market here for wool and meat, for
grain and vegetables, as well as cot
ton, and now your agriculture will
naturally and certainly divide its
forces and diversity its products
Farmers, will grow all these if they
know that a sure cash market is at
hand. A denser population, great
err variety and range of employ
ments, these are pressing wants of
the entire South. Every wheel set
to turning on a Southern waterfall,
every mandatory of edge-tools or
farm implements, started in any of
your cities or villages, is certain pro-
ftabIy to divert labor from your cot
ton fields, as naked preaching never
will. There is hardly an acre of
land which would not be
doubled in value if Southern farms
were mainly cultivated with South
ern made implements, Southern
backs clothed in Southern-woven
fabrics, and Southern dwellings, fill
ed with Southern-made furniture and
wares. And, now that slavery has
gone out, it is high time that the
useful arts were steadily and rapid
ly coming in.
Am / intoxicating what would in
iure my own section /? Not at all.
The more you do for yourselves,
the more you will require from
abroad. The State of Arkansas has
more inhabitants than the city of
Boston yet the latter, while the TO-
Gus of an immense interchange and
large consumption of domestic pro-
ducts, buys and consumes far more
of the productions of foreign lands.
Our purchases are limited, not by
our needs, but by our means. A
thousand times it has been predicted
that we should destroy our foreign
commerce by protecting home in
dustry, and thousand times this
has been proved a fallacy by in
creased imports under high duties.
If Texas were expanding four times
as much as she is, per annum, in
the purchase of homemade wares
and fabrics, she would buy far more
from abroad than she now does. If
she had dozen ax-factories in full
operation, she might import fewer
axes than now, but her imports of
steel, iron and hundred other ar
ticles would be swelled beyond com
putation.
| hold the naturalization of new
and extension of existing manufac-
lures among the most urgent wants
Of this State, as of nearly every
young community. Hence, | hold
mot that you ought to pay high |
price loT pour dILlClO bOCauoO IL 10
home-made-not that you should |
forego the qualification Of legiti
mate want because the article it con-
is not of Texas growth or
fabrication-but that each OF you
should give an intelligent preference
other things being equal, to what
ever is made on your own soil
should buy your harness, or saddle,
or pail, or broom, or pillow, or ak,
of your neighbours make, in prefer
ence to one brought from abroad
should take and pay for some first
rate Texas journal before looking
abroad for a better. Having thus
done your duty by the community
whereof you are a part, if you are
willing and able to take second
journal, might possibly aid you in
finding good one.
Here is what the Chicago Tribune
says about the free school system of