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

your future power. Make your own fertii.
izers by resting, cropping, grassing and
independent 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 and nog
pens to your barns and meat housesI Win
no debts for your supplies, you will need
no accommodation credits ut two per cent
per month. Thus you become indepen
dent of brokers and cotton faStors ana Neh
merchants. You can then cell your Own
cotton, at your own time, 10 your 1--WE
chosen buyers and for your own price,
and Will get your own money. None OF
! these things can q cotton planter do VINO
plants on credit and borrows money to
| buy his provisions. But You say, tne
Western States can raise provisions 30
much cheaper than we can, that we can
make more money by making cotton and
buying from them. This 10 the teaching
of firures and greater lie was never
taught. o.
"Now, 1 affirm, it is cheaper 70: you to
raise your own provisions than to have
them brought from the West and given to
vun Mt 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 viii get no more money for them
than we would get for half that number.
Then, out OF the same amount realized,
Won pay for raising the Eve millions just
don bio 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 enriching your lands
and improving your property IN many ways;
Then you would como to the end
of the gear with your cribs full of corn,
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 sour country
to run spindles. This would make you
independent of Old Eugland and New Eng
land. Then, also, you would mine your
own iron and make your own implements
of husbandry, and this would make you
independent of Pennsylvania foundries and
Massachusetts workshops. In word.
every Improvement would be built up in
your own country, and all the profits of
those improvements would 60 into your
: own pockets.
! Go on as you are now going, making
cotton your chief crop, and slavery is the
q doom Of your children and your children's
q children forever! A people who depend
y on other people for food and clothing are
= and mast be slaves"
v Tho argument can not be put stI onger
y While it is often true that section may
d raise special commodity exclusively anc
,r exchange it for other commodities which
u are needed and which could not be raised
a, except at q sacrifice to the leading pro
f ducts, the case in regard to Southern pro
!. ductions is different. There is much il
IN the fact that half the quantity OF cotton
- now raised in the South would carry t.
:. that section almost as much money rs thu
, entire quantity (which is now annually pro
New EnulnnU
n we'll as British factories, have to rely al
nj most entirely upon the South for thei
ri supply. OF course the price would rise il
,I proportion to the reduction of the quantit
n produced. The gross sum received 10y tn
re South would be nearly tho same as at pre-
n. sent. The net profits would be create
h, because half the cost of producing the pre-
n. sent crop would be saved.
"a Another point to be considered is the far
ma that the tariff enhances tho price Of whs
I'd are necessaries to the farmer, aud thereb
~ disturbs by artificial means the advantage
~ of a free exchange. While it might be
~ the ad vantage of the Southern planter
~ raise cotton exclusively and exchange
i, for necessaries if he could do 30 withor
~ unnatural restraints, that advantage
w certainly destroyed when he has to pay a
a, enormous tariff in addition to the origin,
~ cost of the articles which he needs an
- which he might produce himself. In oths
ba words, the fictitious value of the necess'
va rles raises tnem 10 uSuTes "nlcn IoO ia
M of the advantages he might derive from
N free and nntrammeled exchange, and rel
.ra ders it cheaper for him to produce the
M himself than raise an extra supply of CO
he ton to exchange for them.
err. 10 taking glance at the political aspec
on of the Southern States, MIR. Hill thinks tn
em "the biggest idea of the age" consists
nd the question whether under the new amen'
ey mcnts to the Constitution o man is cit
zen of q State because he is first citizt
lat of the United States, OF whether he is a CT
de izen of the United States because he is Fir
m q citizen of State. Protection to the cit
De- zen, he says, ia the duty OF the Cover
rer ment, and the Government of which pc
is son is primarily a citizen is bound pr
dy mariIy to extend this protection al
its must have the primary jurisdiction
ice that end. Htben the Fourteenth amen
ps, ment has made citizenship of the Unite
Mt, States the primary citizenship, th'
VS. the primary protection to that citize
or ship is with the Federal Governmer
zap But if this primary jurisdiction is in Il
ice Federal Government then the State go
,ns ernments can only exercise such jurisdi
it ton subordinate to and under the suprrv
i az of bn FnHarai WI