American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-01-24
Onions c. mmerci4l Danger.

advance this IDEA rs scare-crow
or chimera, but feel the truth of
Tie assertion will be more apparent
in twelve month than mary per.
sons now believe. Let us cast an
eye over our prospects for 1880. and
see from what part of Madison or
other counties we can expect any
trade.
Meridian, to our right, with her
compress and railroad facilities,
paying prices for cotton within 4c.
of New Orleans and selling groce-
ries very nearly as cheap, will draw
every bale of cotton east of Pearl
river, that is not moItsaged TO Can
ton merchants.
The compress at Jackson will be
completed before fall, and we eau
confidently expect every planter
South and West of Canton, within
available reach of Jackson, to take
his crop there for sale. The BULLS
ing of the compress there, will EMS
BILE her merchants to pay fIom T.
to &c. more for the staple than they,
or we, did this fall; and when this
fact is coupled 10 tie one that they
can, and do, underscll us in groceries,
'itiis patent TO every one that farmers
will patron,xe the highest cotton
and lowest grocery market within
reach. Situated, as Jackson il.
with her iron arms stretching out
to the four quarters Of the globe,
her merchants are enabled 10 place
their ireights at much lower rates
than We unfortunate Canton trades
men, who must submit to the tariff
tho N. .. st. L. s. g. Il. r. sees 6t
to establish at this poiat.
The Oliver Gift OIL will soon be
flushed at Jackson, and will ply the
waters of the Pearl, making semi>
weekly trips, and carrying probab y
during the season, from LOCO To o.
900 bales Of cotton tn Jackson, tina,
legitimately should be sold in Can
ton. People may sneer at the idea
of the waters of the Pearl beiug
navigabie, bnt this boat has been
built at jackson, especially adaptcd
to it's waters, aud it will do thriv>
ing business.
From whence then, Can we ex>
pect our trade2 Only within ii cir,
cumference of from five to seven
miles. and III few years Canton
Will have no need to petition for AN
abolition of her charter; it will have
sunk into the insigniticance of vii
lage.
This loss in trade can be averted.
However, no single hand can ac-
compliAh l.. 1t will require Hercu>
lean labor aud the merchants and
property holders of Canton must
unite in a body. 10 preserve the
trade we now hold, intact. The
property holder is more Interested
than the merchant, for his invest
ment is immOvable and while a
withdrawal of t,a!e from Canton
must deprecia,e his property, the
the Arab "fold his tent and steal 81
lently away" To the former then,
does this threatened loss of our
trade present itself forcilIly. We
must be up aud doing, and quickly.
IL will not do to prOcrasiinate, for
this thief of time will soon have
robbed us OF The days wherein our
opportunity lies for the retention of
our power as commercial city. To
my mind the course to be pursued
is the meeting en- naGSSe of the mer- /
chants and property owners of Can
ton, for the purpose of Investigating |
more fully the causes that will and |
do now operate against us, and to
devise means 10 preserve the trade |
to Canton. its geographical position
and Sis entitle it to. warn them
not to slumber on in supposed
safely, for every hour brings the
danger nearer, aud every day lost
in inactiOn places the possibility OF
retaining our trade further from U.S.
What the means are, whereby the
is to be reached, L
leave TO tho intelligent minds of The
and landlords to dis
cover. That such means exist, l
am quite sure. That they will be
found l am equally sure. Tha;
they will be endorsed and action had
thereon, | am not quite so positive.
for Canton has reputation of -''>
gushing an.i hurran>
Ing over every new enterprise AT its
start, but one by one it's SUPPORTED
simmer down, and soon Ion- are
eft to toll the tale of it's death
ibis matter. however, being II iinan-
,ial one, affecting the packets of
hose interested, 1 sincerely hope
hat the action had. If any, be "a
strong pull, long pull, aud pull
al together" G. !. NJ.
UNCLE GEORGE HARPER, of the
Kinds County gazette, TALKS hard
horse sense in the following para
graph: |.
The Edwards Bulletin thinks that
" hen The Press and the Legislature
If this State disagf er, "the Lrgis>