The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-05-20
zveRsIrleD INDUSTRIES.


clause inindusiflal economy TIE rule
holds GOOD dhether applied 70 nations
communities or individuals A nation
relying solely upon agricultural indus
try would bo imporlled by a crop
disaster, oven single hall-storm might
produce famine aud ruin 30 II would
be- we're single community ora single
nan 30 hnmperod Ia our own country
and with all our boastod wisdom and
shrewdness, we have made mistakes OF
this kind which are perfectly bowilder
Ing In their extent New England has
confined herself almost exclusively 70
manufactures When period Of
financial diatrosa comes her thousands
upon thousands OF mechanics and Their
helpless families are thrown upon pub
lilo charity, or oxpairlato themselves TO
find that bread which her own soil
should have furnished, but which,
unnatural mother OK she is-she refuses
the wealth Other bosom 10 her starving
children, A large per cent OF her coast
population wore, before the war, embark
ed In ocean traffic Semmes drove her
ships into port, or burned them on the
high sens, These people became helps
less pensioners upon the bounty OF a
distressed country. Had they been able
TO entor her fields, or follow her nocks,
tho simple loss of stock in trade, would
have ended the matter, but ~
II was, her people arc still
after the lapse of all these years, groan'
ing under burden of debt too intolor,
able 10 be borne The western states
raise corn, wheat and stock. II often
occurs that other states have cheaper
supplies from other sources, and thus
the crop is thrown back on their own
hands, and what should have yielded u
liberal profit and lifted caro- from many
troubled heart becomes n burden.
Tho south fills her every tillOblo acre to
the full with cotton, Foreign wars,
blockades and orders in council, shut
our cotton.ladened ships out from profit
able markets. When this occurs the
effect is severely felt by the poorest and
most insignificant person throughout
tho cotton region, Trade is doubled
back on itself, and widespread distress
is the result,
Now, we maintain that the only
problem to be solved, in connection
with this matter, is how TO make each
section, each state, and each man,
independent of all others, or 30 nearly
so as that they can subsist, for few
years at least, from and upon thcir own
internal resources, Let each mechanic
in the mills of New England have his
few acres of garden or his little flock
of sheep, u few COWS, pigs and chickens,
and whom the mill stops grinding, he
need not necessarily stop eating, rs he
does now,
SO In the west. Let them have few
more mills, and when her granaries are
grooming under their iulness of unsala.
bic crops, local demand will furnish a
reasonable profit to the farmer, or at
least prevent loss by the decay of an
unused surplus.
In the south, and more especially
in Texas, we need o wider range of az
ricultural enterprises We want less
cotton and more grain, We need lssS
stock, but better quality We sadly
need mills to sgiR up at least enough
cotton to.&othe our own people. We
l4e,.s1 easily render ourselves independ.
ent of all other communities either at
home or abroad, and is it not The
height OF human wisdom to do this
Our people should at once commence
the earnest business of considering
ways and means of accomplishing these
reforms and when they are once
adopted, Texas with her diversified
soils, diversified climates, diversified
populations, and, more than all, her
diversified industries, no other land on
earth will be so prosperous or so rich