The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-04-05
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Noothern markets, where it is finished, sold
then to Northern shoe manufacturers, and
our own leather comes back to us as North.
ern leather, in harness, boots and Shoes
Many OF you wear TO- day pair of North.
ern boots or shoes made Of Southern stock.
The general opinion here is that leather
and shoe material manufactured here is of
no account. In this you are mistaken.-
Encourage your tanners. Sell them good
hides, aud warrant you they will give you
good articles back again. ~
Hon.-By hunting around your farm
premises, you will find old iron enough to
make farm implements, mill gearing and
other iron ware 70 last you for fifty'years.-
Gashsr yysas old iron before it becomes
WORTHLESS. Start a afoandry--we have pine
timber enough p keep i a:large 5fonpdsy. in.
Sss@ sNs} 10 oa5:S5IE M cost ySa as Ss;s
4o6dcco.-How many Of you do not love Owe
good cigar, good smoking or chewing to-
bacco F? What becomes of the tobacco
which you raise? Most of it is shipped to
the North and comes back to you in the
shape OF Havana cigars, or of Durham
smoking or some brand of chewing tobacco.
You get from eight to fifteen cents for your
weed, and after it has been sent North and
been favored little you buy it back at
from sixty cents to one dollar and over
pound for smoking tobacco, or pay for it in
the shape of cigars from to Is cts apiece.
Fruits and Veyetables-Just see the
large amount of peaches, tomatoes berries,
peas, &c, which you ship to the North for
which you get but trife, and then when
winter comes you pay enormous prices for
the fruits of your own soil by going to some
store keeper and buying can of Baltimore
canned tomatoes or peaches. My frieuds,
l could so on for whole day in showing
you what we can and what We don't do, but
l know that you will all say, "How can We
start such enterprise when we don't know
how to do it?' Twill tell you how. Encour-
age immigration. Through it you will en-
courage home manufacture. Induce the
right kind Of immgran to como here, and
l assure you that in less than no time you
will see home industry flourish, and our be-
loved Palm.tto State in a prosperous and
healthy condition.
Before close my essay, will give you
some statistics of the amount of money
which yearly leaves our State never to re-
turn:
Supposins We have, at low guess, 7OO,-
600 Inhabitants in this State, and put down,
as an average, $50, wKGh are spent by
young and old during one year-it gives us
the small sum of s2l 100000. Then put
down 100000 with two pair of shoes or
boots year, at an average Of 50 per pair,
S2,SOO,OO. 100000 sides of leather, such
as sole, upper and harness leather, at S3
side or skin, 100000. 100000 inhabi-
tants who smoke or chew tobacco at an av-
erage of $40 a year, S1,0OO,OOO. 100000
hats. allowing one new hat every year, at an
average Of $3, $2,100,0O0. Further VIC
allow for farm implements, farm ware, tools,
&c, 100000 Together it sums up, S27,-
100000
No wonder we are poor, then, if this sum-
leaves our State yearly, never to return
Why can't we keep it here? If we try
we can, and hope we will all join hand
in hand, and lift our State, by agriculture
and home manufacture combined, to that
station where she ought to be.