The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-07-22
CHAPTER n.

clerk broke the thread OF my dis
course, I was making a calculation.
I had told how the following per-
sons realized profits on me:
l. The Raleigh Cotton Factor.
2. The Railroads and Steam
lines.
3. The Insurance Agents.
i. The Baltimore Merchant.
5. The Northern Railroads.
6. The Northern Insurance
Companies.
7. The Manufacturer.
8. The Wholesale Merchant.
8. The railroads on return
freight.
10. The insurance men on return
risks.
II. The retail dealer.
These parties all show a deep
interest in me, and I wish to say l
entertain no unkind feelings toward
any of them. The profits they
realized from me were legitimate
and proper. But, I feel very kind
ly for the man who raised me, and
when I considered that he paid all
these accumulated profits, added to
the original cost, I did not wonder
that he dressed poorly and was
hard pressed to support his family.
| have travelled around and listened
to calculating men talk, and | in
tend to whisper a word to him
through the Crescent. What |
want to say is:
Raise your own hogs. Don't buy
Western bacon at a high price when
cotton is liable to be at low price
Sow an acre or two in clover. It will
save corn and enable you to feed your
teams better, and will cost yon less
than Northern oats and hay. twill
enable you to feed your COWS better,
and they will give more and better
milk. Your calves will grow larger
and make finer cattle. Raise your
own corn and wheat. Don't plant all
cotton. If yonr land is poor, SOW peas
and improve it. Save all your barn
yard manure; compost your vegetable
mould, and don't buy worthless fertil- !
izers.
And when I get through whisper
ing to the farmer, I want to say a !
word to capitalists.
Cotton must be raised in the South. |
There will always be a demand for the
manufactured article. We have water
powers in abundance. If Northern
manufacturers can pay transportation
and insurance on the raw material, and |
manufacture it On the frozen streams
Of New England, and realize handsome !
profits, why cannot the Southern man
ufacturer, who can purchase it at his
door without freight and Insurance
charges: compete successfully with the
Northern manufacturer Our water
powers are as good; streams are sell
dom frozen; our climate is better; !
we can work more days in the year;
labor can be had as cheap. Besides /
making large profits on the capital in
vested, you will give employment to our
poor women and children, and the
cost of manufacturing instead of en-
riching men a thousand miles away, !
will be spent with our OWN merchants
and tradsmcn. and thus improve the !
condition OF our own State.
I do not wish to be bemisunderstood. I !
do not desire North Caroliniaus to invest !
their capitalin factories because enter ):
tain any uukind feeling for Northern .
people. 1 have had enough of sectional
ism. was once known as King Cotton, !.
but my crown if not entirely ruined,
is badly damaged by sectional Difficult
ties. l only mentioned the North !
because most of our stapiei is manufac-
tured there. I wish to see all our peo- |
pie, North and South, prosper, but I |
can see nothing like prosperity for the
South-for North Carolina-until |
her people learn to raise their own
food, manufacture their own staple,
and give employment to their own
mechanics.