The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-21

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hundred hands and paving tut every two
weeks FROM sixteen to twenty thousand
Dollars in wages, to be distributed by the
employees among different classes ard oc-
cupations in the city, and from fifteen to
twenty thousand per month to othefpar
ties here, who in various ways are connect
edWitht this vast establishment. Although
having the argest pay roll Of any en-
pioyers In New Jersey. and contributing
more to tie welfare and prosperity OF the
City than all It's financial institutions
Combined, we hear less in the newspapers
of this world of wealth makers than of
some second class money lending shop
On Broad street. It would be useless for
any one to attempt to trace TO their
source all the varied industries which
have entered into the production of
Clark's 90. n. T."spool Cotton, which
is sold by every merchant dealing in dry
goods, fancy goods, hosiery, notions, etc,
In the United; States, and contains two
hundred yards Of that indispensable ar
ticle, strong, smooth and beautiful. Il
is made up Of
NBARtsy foRTY-TWOM MILLION DOUBLlNGS,
and get is SO fine as to be hardly visible a
few inches from the naked eye. The i'm
mense capital invested in the Clark
+ Thread Company's Works and the vast
volume of business, amounting to several
millions per ,annrtn1, extending to every
part OF The United States, is n of the
princiaal sources of Newark's prosperity.
!, What is and the blessings which flow
from it, are not realized by one in a thou
sand of the people who dwell within the
sourdot their tower bell. Notwithstand-
ing the large amount Of money which
the establishment was to pour into the
hands of every merchant and trader in
the city. as events have shown, the first
e thing which the City Fathers did when
r these works were being erected was to tax
! the bricks and material not yet shaped
- into buildings. 1t was on a par with the
e intelligence and appreciation Of the
Y REAL SOURCES OF WEALTH,
!; usually exhibited by the average poIitl7
q clan, Had it been some trust company 6r
eurbstone broker that asked ez emption,
u it would probably ave been grqkited.
Some idea of the value Of these works TO
G the community may be had by illus
tration of a thing which might really
happen at any time. The Clark Thread
e Company employ, as stated, about ff-
teen hundred persons, paying out to
If them sixteen ito twenty thousand
is dollars every two weeks. These hun
dreds Of hands pay oht that money to the
" butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clothler,
u the dry goods merchant, and all who have
/; ANYTHING TO sell get a part OF it in some
% way. either directly or indirectly. From
- their hands it goes to pay debts, meet OBJ,
IL legations and fill the channels of trade
with the circulating medium called
money, and which is to business wha1
lie blood is to the human system, giving il
20 Liz, animation and power. Suppose to
~ night these works were
IN DESTROYED BY IRE
They are fully insured. The Clark Thread
t. Company receive their insurance in casl
y from their underwriters. They say t.
themselves; Business is dull, sales ar
9y uncertain, profits are small, the future i
no unknown, and our task are heavy. EIh
"a vast business requires close attention an
persistent energy. We will not take thi
money and rebuild the works, but adop
Id the plan pursued by most moneyed mer
,e- viz: 60 to Washington, buy government
nj bonds, bring them home, put them in
.1 tin box, pay no taxes, and sit down t
Ill take our ease, eat, drink and be merry
On with no though OF care, supported IN luz
"a urv without risk by the interest on on
nd bonds, paid by taxation of the produc1n
- classes" Can anyman calculate the wide
I'll spread ruin which would follow such
Up, calamity and course Of action by III
Ike Clark Thread Company? It would (
,ry incalculable. All those people who ear
or ed money to purchase what they wante
to buy, would be added to the list
paupers who to-day clamor for work
di- bread. Misery, want,
STARVATION AND CRIME
would be the fruit of such q course. Bl
RS. t~hisisexactly what has beendone throug
out the country, rnd explains why one
twelve in Newark are to-day
OF the city. The productive capital of u
are country, which employed u now id
me millions, has been put into governme
, to bonds, and appalling restitution and wa
rare on eyeryhan embarrassing at fee
fI,I rate. Labor is the source of all veal
hly and prosperity, and there is no loss ECU
rore cotton, which when ginEed weighs abo
tro- seventy five pounds, or one to five. /
negroes without doubt will eventua
o@n to that which follows enforced idleness
hey The producing classes. There is no mu
and 10 full of joy and peace and good Will
,e- men. as the song of labor and the music
,rts machinery. Better far that all otl
songs be hushed and every note be still
ure. rather than those, and to them we n
the introduce the rec der.
no ON THE DOCK
of the Clark Thread Comnany, which
'S"' five hundred feet long, is a mountain
OF two or three thousand tons of coal, ORA
lest, out of boats at the wharf by Il donkey
.ues. CINE, and the bales of cotton find tt
e;oo way from the same wharf to the br
:, =. house, for storage of that precious
y II terial, n pound of which will make
s. =. hundred miles of thread, containing alb
own forty-two million doublings. The m
traat cannot graspthe numericalfact. But
:, grades Of cotton are ordinarily used in
oid- manufacture of Clark's CONF" 81
is Cotton. and known. as Sea Island {
hos ton" This ONE principallyfr from So
and Carolina and is grown on the small
-. lands along the cost. Considerable
sa.'s raised on the peninsula and around
$ IN bays and inlets, but it is not equal
900, that OF the sea islands, whichis the fl
the in the world. The first bag of this
N island cotton of the eropof 1876 was
aiuiy chased by the Clark Thread Compan
icdgo fifty cents per pound. The inland co
i not used in the manufacture of thr
being too short in the fibre. On t
,rms, sea Islands were the richest planter
this the South in
I THE OLD SLAVE DAYS.
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