The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-09-11

at property of others. and which after 81
so long are turning on the hands that is
leased them on in expedition of Sec q
tional wrong so wrought and so ap: a
plauded, "if you SOW the whirlwlnd Z
YOU shall reap it," and endure it if you =
may-it cannot reach US, for the latter v
day ''come South" has not been ae- !,
copied, and best it wasn't, as we then, Il
perhaps. had garnered the inclpient n
germ of communism with Its conta- y
gion; now shall we not teach the God
like lesson of magnanimity, and save r
them from ruin greater than, in their /
blindness and malice, they wrought on t
US, or by lying dark and keeping low,
let the "mills' grind slowly ON. Most
fearful is the remedy" coming wrap
ped in fame, going out shrouded In
gore--for if it come, it comes only to
meet it's fall and doom. But how
many of the brave and true will 60
down with itf
Vainly seeking "remedy" in all the
sources We have, we are at last com
PEELED to consider the first, and 60 back
to the point we started at--large COM
mercial production, which failing as it
has for thirteen years for want of la
bcrers, drives US to other sources than
the swaney East and North, to the
possibilities of mechanics, that, with
,, out implements and machinery OF some
kind man would not produce support,
. will be conceded as known that sur
plus must be made for tue non-produ-
Ger, who in his turn does something
;, required if the world should continue
s'as it is," is also self-proved, and that
= increased production not only makes
. the needs of subsistence plenty and
! cheap, but increases business, manu-
- factories, rade-commerce, and en-
J. ploys idle and starving millions, keep
y ing them from mischief, and adding
e their quota toward prospecting the in
u >, dustries of the world. The increased
- production of this Parish alone to its
~ ~ fullest would send steamers into Red
10 Rives that arc now rotting idly at the
~ wharves, calling for captains out, Of
~ business, clerks, pilots; mates, engl.
20 neers, and all in all its other depart
40 20 ments, who would be more than now
80 consumers of something to brighten
~ times just here, and reach and benefit
!. a long way off.
d. A. The prevailing doctrine of supplies
as and demand does apply to cotton, as
20 small crops make small prices, as q
~ consequence of the reason SO easily
w. seen, that factors cannot hold over fol
w w future demands, but forcing sales or
Nv diminished demand at cheap price!
Ia must have cheaper cotton and cheaper
- labor to cover the fall in fabrics, ant
90 demand cannot exist so largely if tin
,ot millions who make it great are ill
III and moneyless. tt is conceded tina
,nr the way out of all the evils of tn
' 'er times is through increased production
~, or then the means to accomplish it mus
% meet that want somehow. Every Ell
,oo fort to obtain labor supply sufficient
w. capital to control it is vain so far, an
~; H. offers no better in the future. We ar
~ ~, left then to consider the "impossiblli
W ties,' so-called, of mechanics. Fort
years ago and all time before, tn
at main crop of bread stuffs was handle
.de entirely by hand. Since such time tn
ing ''need" being father to the thing, h'
combined enough OF the mechanic;
en-, movement in contriyance to rea
ent faster. snrer and better than ever WI
see or could be done by hand; using sou
OF of the same and other mechanic
BILE movements differently arranged, ar
ak is raked, and still others bind it, the
nts, thresh it, and the grinding but
a", is old.
~ Now there are four steps taken by m
eo- chinery in the great wheat crop of Il
AK West that was thought to be "impos!
'ro- BILE" to be done other than by hand: t
ar result has been to make bread plen
ne and cheaper. demanding more mi
ira and labor to run them-hoops, stavt
it'll and barrel makers employed, incre;
Just ing transportation carrying to the III;
lille kets of the world. Men seeing mac
nav merry recognize tile motions as. beio'
vii ing to thrt machine, without separate
49, the abstract movement from the II
,os, chine itself.
1ass Now, for such us do not know what
a Il meant BY mechanical movements"
Tue sucl,-the whole thing can be plain
tie explaining that mechanical mOveme
then are the elements of all machinery i
list a like manner that the alphabet is the
not ement of constructed language, and {
nory the presence of some of the moveme
even in different machines, does not neces
,laas rily make them the same machines
this some purpose, and use no more Il
onld does like letters in different words nj
das these the same words with like me
hoa ing and purpose-nor does precisely
- n' ~ same movements differently arrane
10 ~ make the same results any more q
t'iaI does the different combination of
their letters t make the same thing
me word that does. Now the kno
the mechanical movements are 507 in nj
# OBJ Der, and may be seen how much m
overs infinite are its combinations than
eme- the 26 letters of the alphabet, which
man ing used to construct $4,000 words
.orm. our own language, and much more
lo,o others, are us much the saving macl
corT corr cry of mind and memory, as are
:, ~ mechanical movements the saving
;e ms chinery of s'labor," as only few tt
IL no no sand are in use, out Of possible milllC
~ It will be seen from what 'unus
Id oe. sources may be constructed 81 mach
OF to do for all the crops of the South
), he, which very few are doing for
ize of wheat crop OF the West.
N for 1t has been said by men, who Il
ID for long and earnest before damning
lch a thing as Impossible, to be but
80 his ter Of time and will, and must be
gold nomnlished 1t is nv Obiec. to