The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-03-17

.est rfarfRr.ts uiins Nr.'s-s iHf0
.he national htasHfy iLe tah.ceo
n.n ialY millions. unltna,isUalrfs
itr $50 millions Il brewers
aIi Som 1853 tu la-9 3l24lGi. I.
.jl 90 ha. not liy do thcy ,ur-
sd sreaa large .aalaDlthenlu1nal
.everu, they increase Gle ua.ioual 1
wealth iy drawing hiaer Csc moneys
VI foreign notions. n exchange l0r
iraughi arl bottled beer Of Ameri-
aa manufacture I'D 1872 This c0un-
.ry paid Europe $500 COO 90 IN
gold lor imported beer aud de, de-
plelna the lanl oi 30 much capital
THIS import has nearly entirely ceas,
Va and instead of o lively export
trade has taken place. amounting to
.ver ono million dollars for the pre-
cejing year, aud which IS rapidly /
aud steadily increasing. Amer can |
beer WAS exported last year to the |
following counties, and a large |
share oft from ST. Louis; Mexico, |
Brazt. CJba, Central American
States. Peru, Hawaiian Islands, Hay
%, Porto Rico, British West Indies,
and British Possessions IN Austria
Ola, Danish West Indies, San Dom
ingo, Venezuela, French West In
dies, French Possessions, uruguay,
China, British Honduras, British
Guiana, Asore, Madeira and Cope
Verde Islands, Chill, England,
British Possessions ia Africa, Scot
land, Dutch West Indies, France,
Argentine Republic, Germany, Hong
Kong, Nova scotia, British Colum-
bia, japan, Netherlands, Dutch
Guiaua As'aslio Russia, Belgium
ADD Spain
Ia al The uou-Europoan countries
he American manuiaeturc has been
received most layorsbly, and is fast
replacing the English, German and
Ssecaish ales ana beers, that hither
20 had uudlspu,eJ control Of those
markets, ana even 10 the old coun-
Tries 81 Europe, the American man
uGaclure is well liked but owing to
/ It's higher cost, as compared To- the
home article, the market will be
limited But The rest Of the world
/ presents such tavOFablpand Inviting
Geld tor this product Of American in
dustry. Chat America will export, in
less Aan ten years, over five million
dollara worth OF heer per anuum
Cut OF ibis influx TO the national
wealth, imagine all the tax derived
from brewers, wine growers, win,
merchants and distillers 10 cease,
picture io Yourselves the destruction
/ 10 tie national wealth, by wipine
/ Dot an The values Of The many mil
/ lions of dollsrs now invested ia
| hgeweries, disfilleries. etc, and Oh,
trade depending on and connected
with same, as coopers, machinis;s
coppersmilhs. bottle factories, cork
cutters, etc Imagine the value OIL
the vineyards, the hop plantations
and the barley districts destroyed
think Of The millions Of men thrown
ont Of employment, and contemplate
/ the picture. There must be consum-
ers Of the produce Of the land, as
well rs producers.
All those Industries which give en-
ployment 20 millions Of men who as
sist Ia increasing The national wealth
bY converting law material into
manufactured articles, who so largely
help to furnish the revenue Of the
government, are to cease. Barley
growing, hop growing, vine culture
etc, would stop, al those many
I thousand acres would have to be
planted with corn, wheat or oats, all
! those millions OF men now consuln
I egs, would have 10 become producer
! by filling Che soil, end where woult
/ De a market and outlet for all thil
1 pfolHol
Tie res cnue for The maintenance
| Of the government would have to b,
raised by direct taxation on "a i'm
I povorished nation. and The farmers
1 of this country would then indeeC
/ Clad it bard to pay the tax collector
/ An over prodnol.an Of an farm pro
duce would lower The value Of came
ana glut the markets, while abou
two hundred million dollars take
annually would he collected from th'
tillors Of tie soil.
The foregoing will prove the total
I lY imprac,ica5le side Of the issue
rdc object aimed at by the petition
efs would not be achieved any way
stimulating drinks would continue {,
. be consumed, and in their w0r
form being obtained from abroad
{ L would create q steady drain on tbl
+ cdused capital OF the nation, By
drawing The money out OF the coun-
i lly il exchange Tor such goods, thu.
impoveiishiag our people and enrich
[ ing foreign notions And a single
STATE pursuing such suicide policy
| wall De piopunionatelY impoverished
among her sister States, who will be
come The purgevprs 70 such State
aud thus De enriched at her expense
Much might be said on the mora
side Of tie question, by training and
educating tho people Of States with
such tyraniCa statutes to heeom
/ hypocrites aud law breakers, aid
thus be demoralizld generally.