The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-07-12

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you, or can you. and those who
propose to encourage the establish
mept Of manufactures in this city,
or State, imagine for one moment
that it will not require at least
thirty years to do it. Why, sir, 1t
would take from two to three years
to form any effective company, and
erect the buildings, and place ma
chinery and get ready for opera
ton; and then it would take ten,
or prehaps twenty years, and cost
much money besides, to- secure y
favorable reputation for the goods
no matter how meritorious they
might be. Wig, sir, so great 10
the desire and custom Of this peo-
pie to GO abroad for everything
that they want or need, that they
would not employ either home-
made doctor, lawyer or preacher,
did not emergencies compel them.
| Why, SIT, look at some OF your
corporations; the Gas Company
and the Water-works Company
institutions which derive their en-
tire revenue from this city-do
they, or have they ever encouraged
the foundries of New Orleansf No,
sirl To save a quarter Of cent
per pound on pipe, they have and
viii continue TO go elsewhere to
get pipe or anything else they re-
quire. ! ook at our wealthy mer
chants, capitalists, bondholders,
public officials, brokers, bankers,
planters, property holders. rail-
road owners aud street, railroad
corporations; don't they 60 abroad
to buy even the furniture OF their
dwelingsa 81 '''
/ Now, sir, do not, nor can any
one, dispute the right Of these peo-
pie to spend their money just
where they please. aud ~ they
please, and for what they please
but their indisposition to patronize
home Industries has much to do
with the question. II IL claimed
by the friends OF the manufacturers
aud mechanics. that exemption
from taxation and little home en-
enlargement would enable them
, to compete successfully in prices
and qualities of goods; hut, sir
| why give this encouragement u
such price, Ia face Of the improb.
abilities Of succesas IL Mrs.' Cot.
tonbreast goes to New York Of
{ Philadelphia for AN outfit for bel
dwelling or person, Mrs. Bankbacl
; can not afford to buy hers here
{ She must go to, Paris, or any place
: but here. Yes. sir, for sixty sever
years the people of this State have
been building up foundries. ma
chine shops. boiler shops through
out the Vest and the North, ant
! giving employment there to thous
: ands, while thousands have beer
indie here. / believe that seven
eights of the sugar mills aud boil
! ers on the plantations of this State
, have been made in Cincinnati, st
Louis, Pittsbnrg and Louisville. and
q that this state of things still exists
] l here take the liberty of reading
q an item published IN the Louisvill'
. Courier Journal OF the 20 inst:
9 "The New Mary Houston ough
i to make an unusual quick tri]
e South this time, as she left ber'
s yesterday with twelve boilers OF
a board. Eight of them are brsns
new, and were shipped to Ascen
}, sion parish. La. by G. J. Walter
+ of Joe Miller's boiler yard. The.
Il were splendid specimens Of work
!; manship, and the same establish
4 ment are busy making more jus
:, like them"
II No, sir. let US not disturb th
q prosperity of those sister cities b
3, encouraging industries at home
y Let us have one purely commercia
i city. New Orleans and Louisiap
d have got along for two hundre'
v years on commerce and agriculture
o and the mechanic can and shout
l. be left to shift for himself. II b
it can't get work here let him 60 elss
where.
N 1t is claimed by the friends {
" this exemption, that we have mo-
a large acclimated population tbs
% are earnestly seeking work, and su
3 fering severely for the want Of th
IT necessaries Of life, and that an
r; number of factories could be suI
% piled with operatives They ais
al claim that exemption Of capital j