The Russellville Democrat., 1878-12-05


 svuthef1i planters sitcN lhe Val inlts edniirms this coneIusipl. Hos plau Hof tht finrst plantation n eiie suttil now belong to the supply mere hal Is of St Lotus. .Cincinatl Mem .,iiis, New Orleans, and. other cities2 Absuiutclt eaten npihe supply man,tngether witt. all the crops that have been raised d the meantime. This was the case, af tentimes before the war. when not on. Ky the crops aud the lands which pro aucgl then, but tlic slaves who ctilti tesisund made the crops, passed away to the parties of the second part wio furnished the bread aud meat, In many portions ef tue country the les son taught by these facts, las wrought a cbacge, but in by far the large scope Of country the old plan of raising nothing but cotton has been followed The calculations Of the Department of agriculture, al Wash lingtan show thateottnii cannot he pro tiuced for less than between ten aud thirteen cents per pound and vet planters will persist in cthtisating'it and exclusively too. The bane oi Southern agriculture lies in the fact that our planters suffer themselves to necome too dependent, when they uught to be the most independent people on the earth. They ought to have their associations -Couaty
 
 State and National--tile same as other eal,ings for mutual protection ara advaneeinent-iin to eBcroah npon industries, but to hold what naturaly belongs to them. and to which they are justly entitled. The trouble heretofore has been that too many ot' the participants have been politKiuns and are identified with hostile interests. Ii the penple Of the south desire to serve under King Cotton, and give allegiance to him alone, there must be established ali through th South places to manu tactnre the raw material To pay I5 cents for q yard of cloth, and oa k get seven cents for | pound of cotton, will keep any conntry in the yassalage Of debt. The same prih eiple applles to everything else. In stead of manufacturing onr own wagons. we import them by the hun dreds. Oar blows. harows, and all our agricultural implements, are manufactured abroad. We raise cot ,., ra., tt,.. ,r.s.ll s.,,- s,,,, I,.x.,.I ..ti clothes. The North gets the profits of our labor, SD does England. We pai all thc expenses of raising cotton and give the mills abroad one halt of il lor it's conversions in to cloth The imports ot the South are laigplv in excess of our exports. Me pag out more than we take Tn. It is now weuuer that We are poor and depen dent. These things will always he so unless We change the course of atfaIs. It IS hardly possible for the pres ent oHler Of things to continue much longer. With non resident owners of cur most desirable realty. We can not expect to move forward. Our tim Der is exported for foreign ia tories, we have immens" coal ficlis and yet we import coal. We can grow as fine lruit as any State in tbe Union, slili thousands of barrels arr brought from other States. We have our smoke housts granaries, taiinfshops- miiliueries, mill, factories. in the North, in short, We get everything from aboard and expect to pa, lar 1t with cotton at seven or eight cents pmad. Tue outside world si'es our short si9hid policy anal takes adyan tage of our. condition knowing that we are helpiess and ar" compelled to take what We can get. The causes are in operation which are distined to establish different orelcr of things It may take a quarter of century to reap the fruits and many may go down in the meantime, hnt it must and will he dome.-Piue Bluff Press.