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

who nave never embarked in this
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 ab-
surd ground that it coDhicted 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 diversity
of industries has been contended for as
inseparably connected with the pros
perity Of nation.
What is bred in the bone is hard
to get out of the flesh therefore as
our people have become indoctrinated
with the raising Of cotton to the ex-
| clusion 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'-It won'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 of the great mass
may be found one with little capital
who has the nerve to embark in in
vestment in manufacturing, who is
willing to meet the risks attendant,
and in general is successful.
On the principle that any man is a
benefactor who makes two blades of
grass grow where only one grew be-
fore, SO it is with the man who opens
up a manufacturing establishment in
the South. He is a benefactor,
progressor, friend to his section. It
is the introduction of new industry,
giving employment to men Of busl-
ness, and throwing into the midst of
the people articles essentially requisite
without having recourse to foreign
markets for the same.
But few days ago VIC called in at
the establishment of Butler & Ander-
son, near the Depot, and by Some cir
critous circumstance got into a fur
niture establishment which We were
told was run by D. N. Ward, under
the superintendent of Bennett. We
admit We we're surprised at the large
amount of pieces of furniture, for
bureaus, chairs, bedsteads, mouldings,
brackets, piled up aronud; the ma
ciinery; 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 lie 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 a short time CON-
mence the construction of a large,
eommodious, roomg building in which
he proposes to fix up large and pow
erful engine, with all kinds of ma
chi1ery 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 he can gain the con-
6dence of Southern cltj@ens, and in
duce them to believe that 1--WE can
make Lowell out of NeWberry, even |
if she chances to be in South Caro-
liua.' Why not? Have We not
cherry, ash, oak, maple. gum, hickory,
chesnqt, dogvood, poplar, Va!nRt,
cedar, pine, &c, and that in abun-
dance too ? Native wood. eminent!y
fit and appropriate for every kind of
furniture? Can we not manufacture it
as neatly and nicely iuto bedsteads
and then sell it as low rates, even
lower than the Northern manufacturers
thousand miles off who incur enor-
NOUS ezpenses2 Asspredly Ward can
do it, and much cheaper than any fur.
niture manufacture in cities. lie can
Manufacture and sell bedsteads, bu-
rcaus, 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 chcapness Of good, durable ar
ticles is an incentive to trade, then
Ward should be patroDizcd. To up
hold this advantage, he should receive
a hearty support. He has already re-
ccived this and now through the news
papers, to all inquiriug public, be is
working to receive more.
The vanguard of American civiliza-
ton, Westward, nobody needs to be
rem; ;n8ed was the axe. This tool,
fifty years ago, had to be hammered
out. Samuel ". Collins, merchant
in the city Of Hartford, Connecticut, |