The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1873-04-02
Immigration Development Of home
Industry.

article from an esteemed correspor
dent. in which be takes issue on cel
tain points, with a recent contrib'
tion Of Col. Aiken to tho Rurul Car
l;nion. After an. however, we SUI
nose that the difference between ther
is moro apparent thar rcal-tha
Col. Aiken wonld' gladly welcome tn
class of immigrants which our col
respondent has in view, and that h
on the other hand would oppose wit
cqnal vcbemance the introduction Q
the tbriftless and unreliable laborers
whose coming would provo a ours
rather than a blessing. That w
need labor is admitted by all. but W.
need especially skilled and intelligent
labor, to build up manufactures tc
diversity the products Of our fields
to erect workshops upon every hill
side, and mills upon every ripping
stream-to render US selt-reliant and
self supporting, both as to food and
as to every product of mechanical
skill and manufacturing industry-to
enable us to manufacture our cotton
at home, and to make our farming
implements at home also, and to raise
upon our farms, and at our own doors,
our bacon and corn and every other
article of necessary SIMPLY. 1ti is for
these ends that we need i'm influx OF
skilled labor from abroad, but the
first step in this direction, as it has
been well remarked, is to patronize
the labor that we have here, and to
encourage the artisans who are loca-
ted in our section. The best way TO
attract other laborers is to patronize
those that we have, the best way to
obtain help is to help ourselves.
Those only can obtain tho aid Of
Hercules who put their own shoul-
ders to the wheel. Our cry for for
eign aid, will not be the moro. rcgar-
dcd by reason Of our frequent impor.
tunity. Wcsmust 90 to work our
eelres, improve our homes, develop
our resources, and exhibit every
where the fruits of busy and thriving
industry. In this way wo furnish
IN argument which nothing can gain
say-we offer inducements which
come home to "the business and bo-
SONS" of all.
Our people seem at last to be COM
ing to full consciousness of tho i'm
rortance of this truth, and we see
everywhere around US the gratifying
evidences Of growth and prosperity
in the fruits ofdivcrsiied industry and
increased productior-in the hopeful
and reliant spirit, which gives a new
impetus to the laborer in tho field
and the artisan in the workshop
which is building manufactures and
importing fertilizers-and especially
in the spirit which seeks to develop
home industry and patronizc home
products. 3. @o1 .,
On this subject read an extract
from an article of the augusta Const;-
tutionaliSt:
.sThe farmers of South Carolina
have goneto work with the proper
spirit. Their oranges will do much
to raise their State from tho poverty
into which she has been cast by Rad
ical legislation and wholesale plum
derings. The address of Col. D.
Wyatt Aiken, of that State, before
the Agricultural Society Of Georgia,
contained many practical suggestions
and was listened to with deep atten-
ton by the delegates. His first step,
he stated, after instituting the order
of Patrons of Husbandry in South
Carolina was to contract with a wagon
manufactory in Columbia for furnish.
ing wagons to the members of the
order, at wholesale price By the
rules of the brotherhood, everything
must be paid for in cash. No such
thing as credit is known. Under the
arrangement, then, effected with the
Columbia wagon manufacturer, the
latter obtained ready money almost
Immediately, as orders poured in
from the farmers constituting the
members of the association. So lib.
cral, in fact, was the patronage that
the manufacturer was obliged to en-
ploy more than double the number of
mechanics that he hired before the
contract was made, and to greatly
enlarge his mandatory. His busi-
ness is daily increasing, and he states,
that he is making far more money,
and is able therefore 10 pay better
wages to his employees than previous
to the institution ofthe order, when
he sold his wagon at retail prices.
This is the practical method of en-
couraging immigration, and if adopted
by all Southern communities in re-
gard to everything in daily use by all
classes of our people, would soon az
comp|ish the most beneficial results,
md restore to the Soul sfar more
than her ante Jellum prosperity. But
rs We stated in tho premises, if we do
not adopt some such plan, we must be
to plod along, SEQ our popu-
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