The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27
THE WONDERFUL LITTLE Gle
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NENT ATTACHMENT A
P0STLE OF A GLORIOUS FU-
TURE.
Editor Patron. The little ''New Pro-
| cess" cotton factory, located near the viii
lage of Westminster, South Carolina, is
attracting increasing scores Of visitors
from different States, and more notably
from Georgia, and the ablest and best in
formed papers of that State are confident
that there will be not less than one hun
dred of them erected within its limits be-
fore the harvesting of the next cotton crop.
The appeals, statistics, facts, arguments,
etc, of your journal have had very much
to do with these auspicious results. They
simply illustrate the Importance OF fan
ming the little spark of fire until it be-
comes a glorious, cheering light. They
demonstrate beyond doubt or controversy
that their general erection in every neigh
borhood in the cotton belt by the capital
of the people immediately interested
would more than double the annual in
come from this source alone to the people
Of the Cotton States. It's happy results
would not and could not stop here. The
yarns would not long be transported
thoasasd miles more to Lowell and T ali
ism would disappear. Crime would de-
; crease. In fine, there would be more
| happiness as there would be more gen
eral useful employment. Nor these alone
In the near wake of these would be stim-
ulated to high degree diversified indus
trial pursuits; or in other words a rare
and happy combination of a successful
agricultural and manufacturing country.
/ In several issues of vOI1r rlar1er Won very
| properly give your readers simple and
correct idea of the ''Cost and Profits of
the New Process cotton factory at West
Minister, S. c. Leaving out the cost of
the building and machinery, let us see
what the net annual income over expen-
ses would be, assuming the year to be 300
working days:
The daily earnings are $3.50
The daily expenses are also
| Net daily earnings, So So
| Now multiply each of these items by
300 and we have for
| The annual earnings, So,4I7.oo
| And the annual expenses o,4so.OO
| Net annual earnings, $2,o67 90
or a net annual profit of nearly 81 per
cent. of the gross annual earnings, which
| is larger amount than is realized by any
cotton or woolen factory in the United
States enough in all conscience to tempt
| the investment of the most prudent, eau
| tious farmers merchants and other busi-
ness classes in the Cotton States.
The question will soon be staring US in
the face shall Southern capital erect these
| mills or by our'supineness and indifference
permit Northern capitalists to do SO, and
| thus add another tempting bonanza to
their already bursting Golfers? In your
! last issue you strike the key note OF warm
] ing, and none too soon we can assure you.
/ Continue to press the matter with your
| accustomed zeal and earnestnes, SO that
we can hold this great lever of deliver
I ance, for it may be our last if not a for
lorn one. In an article you published
last spring we expressed our fears on this
point, and late events are fast intensifying
them.
The vicious legislation of the country
that is impoverishing the West and the
South is controlled by the ill-gotten
wealth of the East. 1t is fast corrupting
public men in every section. 1t should
and must be curbed by all legitimate
means, or in time we will be as badly
domineered as is i'll fated Ireland, or the
tenants Dy the IanuloIdS VI TIC oiel "oIAa'
Glass legislation has enabled the Puritan
descendants of the Pilgrims of the May
flower in bleak New England to cast
blighting, whitening influence over the
fairest and most fertile region of this
country Destroy this influence by the
NeW Process and the Old Process-let
Birmingham outrival Pittsburgh, and
make Columbus and Augusta s'pale the
Intellectual fires" of Lowell and Fall River
and our word for it, we will have new
i and revived South and West.
IF the farmers in the different cotton
States would memorialize their respective
legislatures for appropriations to buy the
patent of the New Process from its owners
!; it would be money wisely and judiciouslJ
spent, provided, parties living IN these