The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-16
ing towards using them? Nothing, my

ing towards using them? Nothing, my
friends
The waters will run towards the sea yet
for years. until you get convinced that
not farming alone, but home manufac-
lures too will help to make this State the
banner State of the Union. Ny friends,
shall the waters, Natures great gift, still
longer run idly without paying us their
tribute? Is not our State gifted with all
the materials necessary to utilize these
waters?
Forests and Timbers- See our forests !
The pine trees are waiting for the axmen
to be felled, to be hauled to the saw mill,
moulding and planning machines, there
to Je turned into prepared lumber with
which to build and furnish for US COM
Portable homes. Now, instead of the
luxury of a comfortable home we live in
log huts, and the soft side of rough
plank is our bed There too are the oak
and hickory, also waiting to be cut and
manufactured into spokes, felloes, pick
and axe. handles, wagons, &c, &c. The
willows on the creeks grow and die where
idle hands might be employed in basket
work.
Cotton-What are we dong with our
cotton? We sell it to the North or to
England to be worked into different cot
ton fabrics, and in the latter shape it
comes back to us again, and we, as good
people knowing no better, pay all the
freight, commissions, manufacturing cost
and other expenses with heavy interest,
and admire the wonders of the water
powers of the North, which with the help
of machinery are made from the fruits of
our soil and with our money. How many
people could we not employ in such en-
terprises? Well, my friends, the tim is
I hope not far away when we will make
our own prints and other cotton fabrics,
and give our Northern friends chance
to buy from US.
Wool-How much wool yearly leaves
our State, bought from us at trihe Z
We buy this wool back again at enor-
nous prices in the shape of woollen
goods, such as clothing, blankets, hats,
&c. Many of you wear to-day pound
of wool in the shape of Hampton or
Tilden hat, the original cost of which was
thirty cents, and now perhaps cost you
S5. Is it worth two, three or four dollars
to make such hat? I guess not.
Hides-How many hides are yearly
shipped to Baltimore and New York to
be returned again in leather or in the
shape of boots and shoes? And what
kind of an article do we get in exchange ?
Why the meanest in the world ! Instead
of boots and shoes of full stock, we get
them manufactured of the worst kind,
such as are made from split leather with
shoddy work. Have we not water and
oak timber in abundance for tan yards ?
I guess we have! Why then do we not
make use of them, turn our hides into
leather, and make our own boots and
shoes? There is timber enough in
Oconee County alone to run fifty large
tanyards for years, and yet how many
have we there? Only five The tanners
of the North pay from $l2 to S18 for a
cord of bark. We can buy it and get
any amount of it, too, at from So to IS
per cord. The tanners South are obliged
to sell their rough leather to Baltimore
or New York, where it is finished, sold to
Northern shoe manufacturers or returned
to us South as Northern leather, harness,
boots or shoes. Many fyou wear to-day
pair of Northern boots or shoes made
of Southern leather. The general opin-
ion here is that leather and shoe material
manufactured here is of no account. In
this you are blind. Encourage your tan
ners. Sell them good hides don't hang
your hides on a rail in the sum- I war
rant you they will give you good article
back again.
Iron BY hunting around your prem.
ises, warrant you that you can find old
iron enough to make farm implements
and mill gearing to last you for fifty
years. Gather your old iron before it is
rusted and becomes all worthless. Start
foundry-you have pine trees enough
to keep large foundry in Goals for many
years-and buy your ironware for onc-hali
the cost you do now.
How many of you are lovers of good
cigar, or pipe Of good smoking tobacco
What becomes of the tobacco which you
make? Most of it is shipped to the
North and comes back to you in the
shape of Havana cigars, or of Durham.
or some other brand of good chewing to-
bacco. You get from to Is cents fol
your weed, and after it has been sent
North and been favored little, you buy
it back atfrom so cents to S1.25 pound
for smoking tobacco, or pay for it in the
shape of cigars from to 25 cents apiece
believe it is time for us to have our OWE
cigar and tobacco factories, and so be
able to give employment to many poor
girls.
Thousands more could find employ.
ment in another enterprise, and that is
canning fruit by the wholesale. Just see
the large amount of peaches, tomatoes
berries, peas, &C., which you ship to the
North, and for which you scarcely gel
anything. and then when winter comes
you pay enormous prices for the fruits OF
your own soil which have come back to
YOU enclosed in tin cans. My friends,
could 90 on for whole day in showing
and telling you what we can do that we
do not do, but I know that you will all
say, elbow can we start such enterprises
when we don't know how to do it?"
will tell you how. Encourage immigra.
ton. Through it you will encourage
home enterprise. Induce the right kind
of immigrants to come here, and in less
than no time you will see home industry
flourish, and our beloved Palmetto State
enjoy that prosperous condition to which
she is instly entitled.
have given you the facts, let us now
20 to the figures, which I hope will be
found to lie. There are about 100000
inhabitants in South Carolina.
For clothing, $50 each per an
mum, will give. ,00O,OOl
Two pairs of shoes each at 81
per pair give................... $500, ,0OC
One hat each at So gives....... 2.l0O,0OC
One hundred thousand tobac-
co users at $40 each.......... 100000
Allow for farming implements 100000
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