The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-08-25
For THE HERALD.
Home Enterprise.

| VINO nave. never euDaEkeQ III LHlS
line of business are afraid to venture.
In the South capitalists heretofore,
have been altogether agriculturists
and! to some extent commercialists.
They have always been averse to man
ufacturing in this State on the alb
surd ground that it conhicted with
the interests Of an agricultural people
and had a tendency to: prevent the
principles Of freedom in the free
white citizens. In these views the
Southern people, while slavery ex-
isted, were educated, and it has only
been since the emancipation Of slav-
cry has seen and felt, that a diversity
| of industries has. been contended for as
inseparably connected with the pros
perity of a nation.
What is bred in the bone is hard
to get out of the flesh therefore as
our people have become indoctrinatcd
with the raising of cotton to the ex-
clusiou of wheat, corn and oats so it
was and is yet to investing in manu-
factures of no matter of what kind.
Oh SAY doubling Thomases est won't t
Go! 1t won't pay! and then follow
the old habit of corn in the one end
of the bag and a rock in the
other.
Occasionally out ofthe great mass
may be found one with little capital
who has the nerve to embark in in
yestment in manufacturing, who is
willing to meet the risks attendant,
and in general is successful.
On the principle that any man is q
benefactor who makes two blades of
grass grow where ouly Que grew be-
fore, SO it is with the man who opens
up a manufacturing establishment in
the South. He is a benefactor, u
progressur, a friend to his section. 1t
is the introduction of a new industry,
giving employment to men Of busi-
ness, aud throwing into the midst of
the people articles essentially requisite
without having recourse to foreign
markets for the same. 's''.
But few days ago we called in at
the establishment of Butler & Ander-
son, near the Depot, and by some cir
cuitous circumstance got into fur
niture. establishment which we we're
told was run by D. NJ. Ward, under
the superintendent of Bennett. We
admit we were surprised at the large
amount Of pieces Of furniture, for
bureaus. chairs, bedsteads, mouldiugs,
brackets, piled up aronud; the ma
chinery; and the number of hands
employed. If we had not been in
formed, We would have sworn some
Northern or Eastern man had bolstered
up his courage and come down here to
open up something new.
In his store room be has $50 bed
stead frames, besides chairs, bureaus,
aud in his shop enough pieces pre-.
pared to. finish off 800 more bedsteads,
with large number Of bureaus, &c.
Ward will in short time com
mence the construction of a large,
commodious, room7 building in which
he proposes to fix up large and pow:
erful engine, with all kinds of ma
chinery adequate to the employ of
some twenty hands, for the manufac.
ture Of furniture on the wholesale, for
adjoining Counties and the State and
other States, if be can gain the con-
6dence of. Southern citizens, and in
duce them to believe that eve can
make Lowell out CT Newberry, even
if she chances to be in South Caro-.
lima" Why not? Have ne not
cherry, ash, oak, maple. gum, hickory,
chesnqt, dogvooq, poplar, Valnat,
cedar, pine, &c, and that in abun-
dance too t? Native wood, eninens!y
fit and appropriate for every kiod of
furniture? Can we not manufacture it
as neatly and nicely into bedsteads
and then sell, it as low rates, even
lower than the Northern manufacturers
a thousand miles off who incur enor.
nous expenses2 2Assuredly Ward can
do it, and much cheaper than any fur,
niture manufacture in cities. He can
manufacture and sell bedsteads, bu-
reaus, sofas, &C., 50 per cent. cheaper,
made out of cherry, walnut and gum,
than any dealer in Newberry can buy
them at the North and sell them here
Wages are cheaper, house rent is
cheaper. and the wood is cheaper
If cbeapness Of good, durable ar
ticlcs is au incentive to trade, then
Ward should be patroDizcd. To up
hold this advantage, he should receive
a hearty support. He has already re-
ceived this and now through the news.
papers, TO ap inquiriug public, he is
working to receiye more. ,........,.
The vanguard Of American civiliza:
tion, Westward, nobody needs to be
reminded. vas the axe. This tool
fifty years ago, had to be hammered
out. Samuel ". Collins, merchant
in the city Of Hartford, Connecticut, I