The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-13
WHAT RBnoMEa OF TIE nONRY.

The State of Texas has raised for the last
ayo years an average Of eight hundred thous'
and bales Of cotton per year, which, at $40
por bale, Is worth SlsO,O0O,00O, sho has
shipped and driven from her borders not less
than two hundred thousand beeyes PER year
for tho last five years, which, nj al average
Of Sl6 per head should have brought to tho
State $40, 10000 0, In the Ave last preceding
years the State has made the enormous sum
of $lO5, 100000, u sum sufficient to construct
vt the rate Of 100000 per mile, $3.50 miles OF
rail way, pr build sIxly-ayo such clllos as Dul'
Ias In this computation wo have used only
two items, cotton and cattle Nothing Inns
been said Of wool, hides, wheat, corn, sugar
and pork. The political economist who per
ceiyes that, Notwithstanding this hugo in
come, wo grow but little richer, naturally
oasts about for causes Those causes aro
found In the fact that wa import Immense
quantities of food, such M bacon, flour, lard,
cheese canned fruits, etc., in tho Inn
portation of millions Of dollars worth
OF machinery Of furniture, clothing,
hardware and orockery, for which We pay
high commissions aud prices. So groat Is
this drain that when the year ends we are
nearly NJ poor M when II began, The RENE
dy for such state Of things Is obvious Es'
tabIish factories Of WOODEN and cotton goods,
of plows, wagons aad buggics, Of haWestcrs
and throshcrs mud furniture. This done,
this great wealth remains Mt homo and makes
US tho most independent, prosperous and
happy people on the face Of tho earth
No city, no State no country was ever yet
known to become permanently prosperous
by commerce alone, The individual who
RAISES nothing but cotton, for Instance, and
buys his corn and his meats aud his clothing,
Ia not ss prosperous rs he who raises also
corn and enough for his own purposes, and
so ON down through the catalogue, Tho
of cotton is one industry the trans
formation of the artceinto clothing another,
and 80 of corn; its transmission into the
beef, the hog, the horse and COW or sheep
is another branch of business, md when
these subsequent branches ARE attended to on
or near the spots where the original re-
quircmcnt grows, all costs Of transportation
are saved, and hence the consumers tax on !
the necessities or comforts of life are
TO such extent decreased. II this State, If !
this section of il would out adopt this policy
Of encouraging, of urging manufacturing in
dustres, before the next panic shall have
como upon us, the Lone Star State will be in |
such aaenviablo condition Us will raise her
population TO thousands Immediately on its
heels. In such grain country AS this, with
/ climate well adapted to the purpose, beef
md pork packores ought to be ono of our
argest and most important industries. With
hese would come an infinite variety
If collateral branches, such as ba rel and
Seg factories, the getting out of hoops, slaves,
,tc., lard refneries brush manufactures, tan
leres, bone-black fertilzing establishments,
md others, all products, after all, of corn,
Besides, we should have cotton and wool
actories, MS we have said, and along with
hese also come all sorts of collateral re-
luirements. Start on a small scale and 90
low At arst, if we can do no better, but Just
IS certain as we do start tho developments
vii surprise US and we will then understand
that becomes of toe money.