The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-08-31

izers by resting, Cropping, S'aeeinS GU
manuring your lands. Thus you become
of the guano merchants. Raise
your own provisions. Thus you become
Independent of the provision merchants.
Your cheapest and safest line OF transport
alton runs from your own fields ana m0g
pens to your barns and meat housesl With
no debts for your supplies, you will need
no accommodation credits Mt two per cent
per month. Thus you become indePen
dent of brokers and cotton factors and lien
merchants. You can then cell your own
cotton, at your own time, to your own
chosen buyers and for your own pr ice,
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 provisions. But you say, the
Western States can raise provisions 80
much cheaper than we can, that we can
make more money by making cotton and
buying from them. This is the teaching
of figures and greater lie was never
taught.
raise your own provisions than to have
! them brought from the West and given to
| YOU at the nearest depot free of all cost
and charges! How is this? In the first
| place, if we raise five millions of bales OF
cotton we will get no more money for them
than we would get for half that number.
| Then, out of the same amount realized,
you pay for raising the FIVE millions just
double cost of production Half the labor
and supplies employed in raising, i've
millions bales of cotton could be employed
in raising supplies without reducing the
value OF the cotton crop one dollar. But
half this labor would raise more than you
needed for supplies. You could employ
much of it, also, in enrtching your lands
and improving your property in many ways:
Then you would come to the end
your smoke house full of meat, You fami-
, " full of smiles, yourselves full ofindepen.
, dence, and your pockets full of money for
investment. And how would you invest
it In cotton factories on the waterfalls
which God sent all through your country
to run epudles. This would make you
: independent Of Old England and New Eng
land. Then, also, you would mine your
own iron and make your own implements
of husbandry, and this would make you
Massachusetts, workshops. In word,
every improvement would be built up. in
: your own country, and all the profits of
: those improvements would 90 into your
r own pockets.
! Go Oh as you are now going, making
: cotton your chief crop, and slavery is the
q doom Of your children and your children q
a children forever! A people who depend
' on other people for food and clothing are
= and must be slaves"
y Tho argument can not be put stronger.
q While it is often true that section may
d raise u special commodity exclusively and
r exchange it for other commodities which
4 are needed and which could not he raised
= except at n sacrifice to the leading pro-
:, ducts, the case in regard to Southern pro-
! ductions is different. There is much in
% the fact that half the quantity of cotton
now raised in the South would carry t.
that section almost as much money rs the
entire quantity (which is now annually pro-
duced and sold, because New England, as
!. we'll British factories, have to rely al
Il most entirely upon the South for their
4 supply. OF course the price would rise in
a proportion to the reduction of the quantity
- produced. The gross sum received by the
"a South would be nearly tho same as at pre-
y sent. The net profits would be greater
a because half the cost of producing the pre-
~ sent crop would be saved.
A Another point to be considered is the fac
"a that the tariff enhances tho price of wha
a are necessaries to the farmer, aud thereby
- disturbs by artificial means the advantage
y of q free exchange. While it might be t.
IF the advantage of the Southern planter T.
- raise cotton exclusively and exchange i
! for necessaries if he could do SO withou
n unnatural restraints, that advantage il
certainly destroyed when he has to pay ar
N enormous tariff in addition to tho origiDa
20 cost of the articles which he needs ant
: which he might produce himself. In othe
=, words, the fictitious value of the necessa
"a ries raises them to figures which rob hin
~ of the advantages he might derive from
a free and untranmeled exchange, and rem
"a ders it cheaper for him to produce then
"a himself than raise an extra supply of cot
"a ton to exchange for them.
r. In taking glance ut the political aspect
IN of the Southern States, MIR. Hill thinks tina
m "the biggest idea of the age" consists il
ID the question whether under the new amend
~ ments to the Constitution O man is citi
zen of a State because he is first o citizel
at of the United States, or whether he Is a cit
Re izen OF the United States because he is frs
n citizen of a State. Protection to the citi
e. zen, he says, is the duty of the Govern
err ment, and tho Government of which per
g. son is primarily citizen is bound pri
iy mariiy to extend this protection an
is must have the primary jurisdiction t
ce that end. Ifthen the Fourteenth amend
g, meut has made citizenship of the Unite
It, States the primary citizenship, the
vs. the primary protection to that citizen
Or ship is with the Federal Government
Up But il this primary jurisdiction is IN til
&c Federal Government then the State gov
ns erpments can only exercise such jurisdic
it ton subordinate to and under the sup"rvi
ts sion of the Federal Government. Wit