The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-20
A Prescription for the ais of she
south.

We find in our exchanges, extract:
from a speech delivered lately by Mr..
Asa FAULKNER, of Tennessee, name
probably unfamiliar to most readers Of
political newspapers, because he has
never been a member of Congress, q
Governor, or even a member Of the Legis-
Iature, for all we know. He is, however, q
more useful man to his time and genera
ton than if he had been professional
ofice-holder or political brawler. He is
working man who in his quiet, unpre-
tentious way has labored to improve the
industrial condition and develop the ma
terial interests of his State. A success
full manufacturer before and since the
war, he has illustrated by his own exam
pie what may be accomplished by in
dustrious and properly directed effort
in the Southern States. In the following
sentence Mr.. Faulkner thus describes
the ills of his State, and his description
would answer as well for Mississippi:
owe find nearly all our people in
debt, our land shrinking in value and pro-
ductiveness and no purchasers; vet there
is a constantly increasing Indebtedness
creeping on our people like thief in
the night, with our income becoming less
every year The great scarcity of money
in the country is the stereotyped com
plant of all they don't know how they
are to meet their money obligations.
Now, why is this SOP"
In seeking a cause for this unhappy
condition, Mr. Faulkner has searched
the census, and drawn therefrom the
following facts:
''Out Of population in Tennessee of
S90,8 persons 10 years and over,
only 367, 981 were employed in business
or occupation, leaving 522, S85 unem-
ployed persons who consume wealth with
out producing. Toput the fact in another
form, 367, 981 persons do all the pro
ducing for a population of $50, $3.50, while
522, $50 remain idlers. The dispropor-
ton of female workers to female idlers
is still greater; Of a total number of
454, 718 females, 10 years of age and
over, in the State, only 81, 402, or one in
eight, are employed"
Here is the cause of your poverty and
hard times, says Mr.. Faulkner; and he
says moreover, that if you do not reform,
"you will continue poor forever. y
Having described the disease, and stated
the cause as furnished by the census, Mr..
Faulkner states that these hordes of
drones, idle consumers, who are eating
up the substance of those who labor,
must 90 to work and become producers
themselves. He reasonably concludes
that it is not immigration which is needed
in the South, as much as a willingness
on the part of those who IRE here to per-
form the manual labor which is expected
of immigrants. He adds:
eve must stop this increasing pro-
elivity of our young men to 90 into a
store to clerk, or to sell goods, or to
prepare for some one of the professions
already full to overlooking. There is no
need for more salesman until there be
something more produced for sale. 1t Is
boosted, and indeed it has been proved,
that many kinds of manufacturing can
be conducted more cheaply and proftably
in the South than in the North"
The Kndictnlenf against the Super
iRlendenG of Public Instruction.
In order to show to the people of the
State and the country at large, the charac-
ter Of the person who has been elevated
in these disjointed times to preside over
the educational interests of Mississippi, as
superintendent of Public Instruction, we
have reprinted the Indictment found |
against I. w. Cardozo, by the grand jury
of Brooklyn, New York 1t is alleged
that he has never answered these charges;
and that in proof of their justice, he
has fled the scene of his guilt to avoid
being brought to trial.
We will keep this matter standing for
reproduction from time to time, until the
public mind is aroused to the enormity
Of the offence against morals and decency
Of an individual with this foul stigma
resting upon him, filling the most delicate
md important trust in the gift of the
Stats
In charity, We have supposed that the
party which nominated and elected him
10 this office, was ignorant of his antece-
cents. Everybody is liable to be i'm
posed upon and especially is popular
liable to make bad choice in
he heat of contest between factions
md candidates. 1t is said that Cardozo
vas taken up and nominated under such ]
without inquiry into his I
past course; and that the Republicans
ire guiltless of a premeditated fraud on
ne people in electing him as candidate
or Superintendent of Public Instruction. |
4 SO, the way to repair the wrong is to t
make the place too hot for its occupant. )
The native colored people (of whom this :
nan is not one,) who have unwittingly .
inflicted the wrong, ought to make them q
elves heard and felt. +
In justice to the Pilot, in publishing +
40 proceedings of the Pontotoc Republi- h
ans, we must say that we do not think
. reference to the scriptural language !,
a prophet is not without honor save in Il
lie own country made in the spirit 81
lferred by the meeting. The head and g
ont OF the offending was irreverent use Is
what ought to have been held i
lcred, in which the editor did not show :;
inself as well versed in Holy Writ as in II
adical lore. Our neighbor has more
Olitical sins on his head than he will II