St. Landry democrat., 1880-11-27
One way to Get Even.
City ItcIn.l

\ writer IN one of the oldest papers
Of Virginia, the Alexandria Gazette,
suggests that as the South has OF
! late been treated by the North in most
unsisterly fashion, more especially du-
ring the presidential contest. she should
! undertake to right her wrongs through
commercial and industrial rather than
political channels. The whole gaunt
of notions and objects of desire which
we obtain from tho North is paradcd
after this fashion:
"The Southern born infant upon first
opening its eyes aud lifting up its feeble
voice in this vale OF tears is swathcd in
! line linen from the North, and warmly
wrapped in shawl, soft dis sWansdOwn
made of Sonthdown wool from the
| mountains of Virginia or Tennessee,
woven in the looms OF Lowell, Mass.
Later, its little feet are encascd in bright,
red shoes from the New Boston Shoe
| it is dOscd with para gOric mado III Phil
adelpIia laboratories. 1t cuts its teeth
on Goodyear's Patent Rubber and be-
tween regular meals sucks milk from q
! bottle, sweet comfort, furnished with Il
patent India rubber nipple from the
same delectable source. \ little older
! and it is pleased with Il rattle from a
| Yankee dollar store, and may be " tick
| led with Il straw" from IL Connecticut
| broom, and its parents can afford 1t, be
| lullcd 10 rcpOso Ill Il patent stlfrOcklng
cradle, the ingenious device OF some
| thrifty \ aHkee, who wanted to do two
! things at tue same time
| In this manner the career OF the aver
age Southern is followed from the era
| die to the grave. But even the grave
| is dug with an .Aules Boston spade, aud
| his poor remains are entrusted to the
| keeping of Yankee caskct. There
| may be eXagerations i'll all this, but it
contains much more OF fact than fancy,
aud certainly if the Southern people are
| has been attributed to them they will
follow the advice of this Virginia coun-
selor.
1t requires only a little of judicial
| discrimination Oh the part of Southern
consumers to afford all the protection
which our struggling industries now
| need. We have the materials in abun-
dance-cottoG, wool, hides, iron, coal,
| marble, wood, etc.-and il we are una
| BILE now to fashion them with all the
skill which our Northern cousins boast,
Il few years of steady industry would
! make our Workmen skillful, and the
commanding OF the best market in the
country would make them prosperous
and rich. In prefering Southern to
Northern fabrics, our people would
simply exercise that choice which is the
inalienable right of all free men, and
even the men of the North would not
complain of it till they felt the shoe
pinch by the loss OF profitable consum-
ers. Georgia cloths have certainly as
| f.,, al
Us those of Massachusetts have; and if
the sectionaiism of the South finds ex-
preston in a demand fer Southern ia
brics and in rendering them fashiona-
| bic, the encouragement thus afforded
will tend to the Increase and improve
1ncnt OF our manufacturing industries,
and build up a prosperity for o,ll people,
/ such as they never enjoyed before.
There is certainly food for reflection
in the suggestions made. The North
may, by the force OF sectional comb;na-
| tions. not unlnlxed with fraud, force
| her political conclusions and ministers
of hate upon the Southern people, but
can not force them to buy what they
could and should do without. To carry
out the policy proposed does not require
our people to cut Off their noses to spite
their faces, but, so far as they can he
| supplied, it suggests that southern goods
| be purchased i'll preference to Northern,
| and that especially we refuse to nur-
chase the adulterated sugars, syrups
and other groceries which Northern
ingenuity has invented for purposes OF
| fraud.