The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-11

stand, and TO shape and direct the legisl
tlon OF the country The farmer looks
froyidenee for rain TO produce his crop
ana when the rain comes he is eonten
{ while the trader looks to Congress for Law
e 70 make his profits, and. in some form
Y otner, ne Is sure TO get the laws and res
: But will not deal with general prin
T clpies- prefer to talk about our condtio
r sSld prospects We of the South are yer
poor. With individual exceptions. we al
all poor. fear we do nor know how DOC
we are [ arm quite confident we do no
= mag ne how poor we are going to be. A
: q people. the agricultural population of tn
south are poorer to-day than they hav
ever been. AMI they are getting poorer ev
! cry DAY All, but YOU are1 making goo
crops this year. Yes, God has mercifull
sent good seasons on our fertile soils. Ev
erything we have planted has grown well
The cotton fruits splendidly. too. Well
this Is all true. Now, let me ask yon thi
question: How much viii you make thi
year! will answer tor you. large ma
Jorlty of the planters of Georgia will b,
| poorer on the last daV of December mex
than they were on the first day of January
last. There will he individual exceptions
lt may be You are better off il this county
IMAM most OF our people in other counties
admit large profits viii be made by some
people on this years cotton crop in the
South; but what | affirm is. that with indi-
| VldIIaf exceptions, these profits will not be
reaped by the plsnterSand producers of this
| cotton.
| Who will get the profits then. Won will
ask | will tell you. Wall street will get
| Millions of your profits. The manufacturers
| in New England will get many millions.
| The corn raisers and hog growers in the
West will get other millions. The lien mer-
chants around you will get millions. The
brokers and cotton factors and commission
merchants will get still other millions.
Guano men, life insurance panies and
many other artful contrivAnces will get the
remaining millions of your profits, aud the
great majority of the farmers may go home
and be thankful il they have food and cloth
ing, and have settled up their bills and pre-
served credit enough 10 go through the per
cent. mill another year.
| wish | had time to show you how all the
commercial, manufacturing specializing
world have formed their schemes, shaped
the laws and united in harmonious shrewd
ness co gather the profits of cotton planting
in the South.
| tell you to-day, | care not what seasons
may come, what large crops you may raise,
stlli under existing conditions. YOU Will ever
grow poorer who produce cotton, and they
will ever grow richer who handle it after it
i produced. Without a great change the
Southern States are destined to become
many plantations, practically owned by the
Northern people. and Southern people so
many hireling slaves To work them. And
in this condition you will reap scarcely the
wages, and not halt the respect, you accord
ed your former slaves. And yet the very
reverse of this fate is within your power.
Under the present policy the next genera
ton of Southern people may become the
richest, the most powerful and the most re-
spected of living people. Which destiny
will they choose?
But, you ask. how can this better destiny
be secured? | will tell you.
First-Make cotton your surplus crop!
In these five words lie the Samson locks OF
your future power. Make your own fertil
iZers by resting, cropping, graSsing and
your lands. Thus you become
independent of the guano merchants. Raise
your own provisions. Thus you become in |
dependent of the provision merchants.
I our cheapest and safest line of transpOrta- |
Clon runs from your own fields and hog |
pens to your own barns and meat houses
W uh no debts for your supplies, you viii /
need no accommodation credits at two per |
cent. per month. Thus YOU become indie
pendent of brokers and cotton factors and |
lien merchants. 1Ou can then sell yonr |
own cotton. at your own time. TO your own
chosen buyers, and for your own price, and
will get your own money. None of these
things can a cotton planter do who plants on
credit and borrows money to buy his provi-
'ionS. But, you say. the Western States can
'alSe provisions SO much cheaper than we
'au that we can make more money bv MAX
ng cotton and buying from them This is
he teaching of figures and a greater lie
vas never Taught.
Now, l affirm. it is cheaper for you to
'aise your own provisions than to have
hem brought from the West, and given to
rou free of all cost and charges! How is
his! In the first place. if we raise five mill
ions of bales of cotton we will get no more
money for them than we would get for halt
hat number. Then. out of the sam amount
ealized, You pay for raising the five mil
ion, just double cost of production! Half
he labor and supplies without reducing the
'alue of the cotton crop one dollar. But
lalt this labor would raise more than you
leeded for supplies! You could employ
much of it, also, in enriching your lands,
nd improving your property in many ways
Then you would come to the end OF the year
With your cribs full of corn, your smoke ii
louse full Of meat, your family full of
miles, yourselves full of Independence, and
'our pockets full of money for investment.
And how could you invest it? In cotton
actOries on the waterfalls which God has
Pnt all through your country to run spin
lies. This would make you indedendent of
Did England and New England. Then.
lso you would mine your own iron and
make YOUR own implements of husbandry.
nd this would make you independent of
foundries and Massachusetts
In word, every improvement
would be bnilt MP in your own country.and
IL the profits of these improvements would
% into your own pockets.
Go on as you are now going. making cot
on your chief crop, and slavery is the doom
t your childrea and your children's chill ,
rem forever! A people who depend on /
Their people for food and clothing, are, and
luSt be slaves.
Make cotton your surplus crop, and your
Fealth. independence, and power will null
ply as surely as the years increase.