The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-03-21

Ger instead of a consumer Of their manufac-
ures. What we is consumers ut our barn
doors-we want the loom, the furnace and
the anvil located alongside of our plows,
hoes aud pastures, so as to save the enor.
nous transportation costs of our raw mate
rails from and manufactured supplies back
to us. What we especially want is econo-
my IN the administration of government,
Federal, State; and especially county aud
muncipal-the latter is glorious burden,
under this State Constitution vc arc living.
Economy in living, my friend r. to the
contrary We have not economized in living
IN the South as compared with the rural
districts OF France or our Western States.
La the. latter, their cost of living on hog
and hominy, with only frying.pan for
kitchen furniture, is four and half cents
a day tor an adult; their habitatons for
single men, hole dug in the side of the
hrtl, with skins for blankets; and for f,mi-
lies, one room board shanty, partly covered
With dirt to make it warm, with Dot, oven.
fryiug,p pan and coffee-pot for kitchen fur.
nlture u looking glass, tin.basiu, and
few chairs complete their establishment, with
no help except their own strong arms
Their living is on hog at two cents pound
aud hominy, made Of corn, at thirteen cents
bushcl. Taxes, which arc four times
virginia rates, is almost the only money
they have to pay out, except for clothing,
which is of the plainest and cheapest kind.
l have recently had An acquaintance with
this Western method of living, and speak
with knowledge of what say. Now our
corn ought to pay as at thirty.five cents if
theirs will at thirteen cents our hog pro-
duct ought to pay US at five cents pound,
and beef seven cents pound if theirs will
at two and three cents, provided, however,
VIC will practice the economy that they
have to do. l am told "we can't live that
way, we should be discarded from society.
Do you not discard yourself from society,
the finest that have any knowledge of on
earth, from climate and soil, considering
all its advantages, proximity to the eseaboard
&c: the best that God has ever given to
man. For what, to get rid of taxes? No;
they arc higher there than here. TO get
more product from the soil No; for
where the prices at the barn,door are esti-
mated, we have the advantage. Then why?
10 practice economy ? Then, can't that
be done here? l don't mean TO live like a
grounding, for that is not necessary but
live economically, and yet like honest gen.
tlemen, as our forcfathers did on this same
soil two hundred years ago but lived with
in their income or product. Then, what is
the matter ? as Major Ragland asks. NV
opinion is, free.trade will do us but little
good, unless We can tariff against our North
ern manufacturers that is impossible
But we want all our productions manufact-
ured at home; we want market at our
door for all our raw material, and we SVant
to supply our manufacturers with our meat
and bread, without cost Of transportation;
and VIC want iron cotton, tobacco, &c,
manufactured here and our people to stay
at home and do it, and not pay tribute to
Old England or New England to do it.
Then what is the matter? IT'S not
that tho earth don't produce her in.
crease, but it is, first, that our people
have not learned to curb their extrayagant
habits in proportion to the PRICE of our
products. 1t is essential that they should
at once do that. 1t is because we don't, by
our statutes (State mcan), encourage
manufactures so as to give home consump-
tion Of our agricultural supplies it is be-
cause our young men don't stay at home and
WORK and economize; it is because our old men
have been brought up in the days of aflu.
ence and of politics that don't suit this age,
and we must either reform our habits or sur.
render our State to bankruptcy and disgrace.
The latter, God forbid. There is no earth
ly necessity for it. have already written
too long Let me say to my brother farm
ers, in conclusion, cheer up; all is not yet
lost.-RoBT. BEVERLEY IN Southern Plan.
ter and Farmer.
PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BUSINESS
Nothing but ultimate ruin stares that far
mer in the face who does not pay personal
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