The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-02-14
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a. The production N the one shFl
staple which Il sent out of nbe eosni,l
and buy everything lhey osc, all 4
Witch IL faifed Or manufacture,
abroad, that long Will W be impovei
ished, md sf.od DOR energies IN m
, ricbing Of o'fet sections. There IL n,
reason under Che son why the soull
cannot manufacture her own wagons
rlonghs wbcelbarrovs, spades, hoes
and The many other farm implement.
she hses ~ veil as send her none
elsewhere 10 purchase them. knd the
Southern Patrons will do a glorious
work for the southern cause and
southern H~usboodry If they will use
their mighty influence to build up es.
Adjustments. for the manufacture Of
agricultural implements 10 the south.
AS to the necessity OF rails. ng such
articles on the farm as are required
for home consumption, it has been 30
often urged, and the advice 80 oon.
stantly neglected, that 1t seems use.
less to say a word farther on tie sub.
iect. But the south now is in a con-
dition when she must hear and heed
the advice. She was never poorer
than she is to-day. Her farmers and
her small country merchants are bank.
rupt, and her city merchants can
scarcely stand under the pressure. We
too many consumers, and too few
producers. Everything we eat, wear
'r use and hat everybody in the !
outh eats, wears or uses is bought
nd brought from abroad, and one G
hing-Cotton, is depended upon to t
for it. Cotton will not do it,
nd therefore, we get more and more 81
l debt, and worse and worse off. Let a
farmer try TO raise as much CT
eat, corn, oats, hay, potatoes ETC.. I
he uses, and let the country mer- Of
lants turn what capital they have
#, into farms; mills. blacksmith, or
rpenter, and shoe shops /; or nf
lall factories for the manufacture OF tn
agons, ploughs e.c; and let the peo- IN
e make it a solemn duty to patron pu
the Establishments, and we will W
on see and feel q vast difference. ci'
IN there be a more fcrcible illustra-
of the absrud policy of our coun- ia
farmers than is exhibited daily in III
obile, where turkeys, chickens and Gu
IS from Chicago are exposed for l.
G..
Yes, chickens and turkeys, prepar.
for the table, brought $50 miles by
through Mississippi into Alabama att
market, by the hundreds of dozens. Su.
surd as it lie, 1t is not more so than EN-
foolish policy we pursue in regard of
everything else we use. Whose pre-
1t is it. The farmer says he must edi
e an advance in money or provis- 9
J to plant another crop. The tioI
omission Merchant in the City me
only advance on Cotton, the out
ntry merchant will only provision tiol
on Cotton, and for Cotton, he cha
in goes. Did a farmer ever cal oil
'te what interest he pays to the thr'
1try merchant who thus "luns to
> We heard a thorough bust for
|, practical man, the other day, ster
it was at least 40 per cent. per
any business pay that and Iros. of
rig
Ut We started out to insist upon it, aga
it is a sacred solemn duty we Sup
u section to patronize and en- says
age Home Manufactures ana mar
re Industries. When a mar, or BILE
'pany, puts up a factory for the kno
ufacturc, or production of any duti
lie of use or necessity they are oil
factors of The community State n
section, and should be patroniz- spea
1t is to the interest of every such
en- TO encourage them. The money Al
us kept at home. Such places add will
o value Of every house aud lot in peri
City or village where they are sbov
ted. they give employment to in late
'ious and valuable citizens. They men
ace something whereas the great with
of citizens Of a City r mere and
lmers, and they are steps in the this
direction,-to relieve the south polit
the entire, absolute, state of de sloug
cnce in which she now is. Not w
Standing the great financial de- Supe
ion which exists all over the the s
iry, Mobile can boast of at least be ID
institutions in which she and conn
lma. a and should take q cnt