The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-04-05

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SEcs tsis That all acts or parts Of acts incon.
sistent with this act are hereby repealed.
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$H0ME MANUFACTURES ~ss.
BY; G.. wANNER.
r 4 will caH my essay stray thoughts and
matters OF Fact, by an Immigrant, on home
aanufastures, and when dQne with the facts
I4 viii give You some figures. Before / 90
Ron r chs erfand allow me. TO say, .sDea't. .ex.
Pses speech from me- Spseah making
i En- AE ~ haliRess :, Only the ho1s tia. my I
|enlisting home enterprise induces he t6 ftaESs
the stand.
Home ManMiacture.-This great supper
ter OF q country, are we as whole doing
anything in this State toward introducing
Ilit among us? I am sorry to say no. We
never have tried VIC never gave helping
hand and cheering word towards introduc.
ing it here. Yes, there are few exceptions,
among our editors, who in their papers
sometimes try to awake the mind of the
people, and some few mechanics from the
North who have lmmigrated here, and who
are working hard against the stream in lay
Ing the foundation of home industry.
Many amongst you will say, "We get things
ESQ cheap from the North that it would be
mo use 70 trysto compete with the North"
This shows how little confidence VIC have
in ourseis ~, and how small an opinion we
F5yrs OF the richness of cur soil. which in
every way is so lavishly bestowed on us by
Mother Nature
L am young in years, but have seen the
world, and in my fifteen years of travel, in
which [ have rambled all over this great
Union, from east tC west, from north to
south, over Mexico, South America, Aus.
tralia, Africa, China, and over the whole of
the European continent, | have never seen
better, Il healthicr, and, for manufactures.
more suitable country than the upper part
Of South Carolina.
Water P0wcrs.-Find me country
where there is such an abundance of patu-
raj water power, large and powerful enough
to run all the factories in the Northern
States; and what arc We doing towards using
them! Nothing, my friends.
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for years until you get convinced that not
farming alone, but home manufactures. too.
will help to make this State the banner
State OF the Union. My friends, shall the
waters, natures groat 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 IImGcrs.-Sec our forests !
The pine trees arc waiting for the axcmen
to fell them to be hauled to the saw mill,
moulding and planning machines, there to be
turned into prepared lumber, with which to
build aud furnish for us comfortable houses
and furniture. Now, instead of the luxury
OF comfortable home, we live in log huts.
and the soft side of a 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, DC. The willows on the creeks
grow and die where idle hands might be
employed in basket work.
CoHon.-W hat are we doing with our
cotton We sell it to the North or to
England to be worked into different cotton
fabrics, and in the latter shape it comes
back to us again, and VIZ, as good people
knowing no better, pay all the freight, com,
lh'ssioh' manufacturing cost and other ex-
pcnscs, with heavy interest, and admire
ouSio vi VIC water powers OF the
North, which, with the help of machinery.
are made from tho fruits of our soil and
with our money. How many people could
we not employ in such enterprise? Well,
my friends, the time is hope not far away
when we will make ou. own prints and
other fabrics, and give our Northern friends
chance to buy from us.
Wool-How much wool yearly leaves
our State, bought from us at a trihc? We
buy this wool back again at enormous price
in the shape of woolcn goods, such as cloth.
ing, blankets, hats, &c. Many of you wear
to-day pound of wool in the shape of a
Hampton or Tilden hat, the original cost of
which was thirty cents, and now perhaps
costs you So. Is it worth two, three or four
dollars to make such hat? l guess not
Maes.-How many hides are yearly shin.
ped to Baltimore and New York to be re-
turned again in leather or in tie shape of
boots and shoes? And what kind of an
article do we get in exchange? Why, the
most inferior in the world Instead of boots
and shoes of full stock, we get them of the
worst kind of manufacture, as are made
from split leather with shoddy wo.k. WHY
don't we tan our own hides and make our
own boots and shoes2 There is timber
enough ir, tho nppar xxorf 80 Co.tl