The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-03-21
UNION c. H, SOUTH MARCH 81 SfsEo

Ger instead of consumer of their manufac
urcs. What we is consumers ut our barn
doors-wc want the loom, the furnace aud
the anvil located alongside of our plows
hoes aud pastures, so as to save the enor.
nous transportation costs of our raw mate
rials from and manufactured supplies back
to us. What we especially want is econo
my in the administration of government
Federal, State, and especially county and
municipal-thc latter is a glorious burden
under this State Constitution Ic arc living.
Economy in living, my friend r. to the
contrary. We have not economical in living
in the South as compared with the rural
districts of France or our Western States
In the latter, their cost of living on hog
and hcminy, with only frying.pan for
kitchen furniture, is four and n half cents
day for an adult; their habitations for
single men, a hole dug in the side of the
hill, with skins for blankets; and for fami-
lies, a one room board shanty, partly covered
with dirt to make it warm, with pot, oven
trying-pan and coffccpot for kitchen fur.
niturc; a looking glass, a tin-basin, and a
few chairs complete their establishment. with
no help except their own strong arms
Their living is on hog at two cents a pound,
aud hominy, made Of corn, at thirteen cents
a bushcl. Taxes, which are four times
Virginia rates, is almost the only money
they have to pay out, except for clothing,
which is of the plaincst aud cheapest kind.
| have recently had an acquaintance with
this Western method of living, and speak
n lnI, of hot
corn ought to pay uS at thirty five cents if
theirs will at thirteen cents; our hog pro-
duct ought to pay us at five cents pound,
aud beef seven cents pound if theirs will
at two and three cents, provided, however,
We will practice the economy that they
have to do. 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 hcscaboard,
Nc: the best that God mas ever given to
man. For what, to set 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 cst-
mated, We have the advantage. Then why :?
To pructicc economy /? Then, can't that
be done here? l don't mean to live like Il
ground. hog, for that is not necessary; but
live economically, and yet like honest gen.
tlcmen, as our forciathcrs did on this same
soil two hundred years ago but lived with
III their income or product. Then, what is
the matter as Major Ragland asks. My
opinion is, tree.lradc will do us but little
good, unless VIC can tariff against our North
cru manufacturers that is impossible
But we want all our productions manuiact-
urcd at hOne; We want a market at our
door for all our raw material, and we xTant
to supply our manufacturers With our meat
and bread, without cost Of transportation ;
and we 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 the 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 Estate | mcan), encourage
manufactures SO as to give home consump-
ton of our agricultural supplies it is be-
cause our young men don't stay at home and
worh and cconomizc; it is because our old men
have been brought up in the days of atilu.
encc 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-RoBr. BEVERLEY IN Southern Plan.
ter and Farmer"
PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BUSINESS
Nothing but ultimate ruin stares that far.
mcr i'll the face who does not pay personal
attention to the minute details Of his farm.
There are n thousand small leaks about tho