The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.


-Henceforth the Fa1s,er and "
chdnic purposes giving hearty co-opera
ton to every scheme of Internal Devsi
opment that is not actual robbery 1
the taxpayers
Several weeks ago the Editor {
the Farmer and Mechanic wrote t
MIR. Chas. A. Dana, and other North
ern editors, a private letter urgin
them to lose no opportunity to speak
good word for the South, Z and assurin
them the Southern people are CRATE
tul people, and would warmly appreci
alto anything said in their favor
Whether the request had any weight
or not, we cannot say s; but it is fac
that the Sun, and perhaps other paper
THAT We not secl has printed at leas
three columns of matter relating t
North Carolina advertising our ivan
| tages as a field for capitalists withir
! the past three weeks We quote a let
ter from Ex Senator Clingman.
Senator Christiancy shows more re
ligion in his name than in his conduct
if his wife's tale be correct. By the BY
the outcome of that match ought to be
drummed In the ears of every worldly
minded woman in the country and
| there are, alas not few Of them
Mrs. G. Was a poor girl. clerk in the
Departments, and cursed ,oith beauty.
Ambitious for wealth and social posi-
ton, she married man whose grand
child she nigh. have been. Of course
she wanted 70 lead fat life /; and OF
course he didn't intend to ALLOW it. OF
course she grew weary of her grand
father husband, and of course he grew
weary of his peevish wife. OF course,
her beauty drew fatterers, and of course
she succunbed to them OF course,
for time they deluded the old man,
but of course they soon betrayed them
selves; for such women soon crave
more lovers, more fiattery, more folly.
OF course the whole business finally
came into the courts and the newspa-
pers. Of course, Mrs. G. will go to
grass.
In making our acknowle dgments to
Hon. w. ID. Kelley, of Philadel phia.
for copies Of some recent spec fferein ex.
pressed. The tariff question, to our
mind, can be summed in a sentence
Tariff begets monopoly, and monopoly
is the cauker of free-institutions. 1T
may he true that certain classes and GER
tain localities, are benefited by the
Tariff; but it is the kind of benefit
which accrues to the government con
tact or who grows rich from taxes col
lected from the toiling masses of the
country. Protective laws doubtless do
builI up manufactures ard manufac
lures are good thing But when Pc
ter and Paul are in partnership, if you
rob Peter (,he farmers) to pay Paul (the
factory mem where is the profit to the
firm to the cosntry
And if it be true that American man
ufacturers. with all the advantage Of
cheap land, cheap material, cheap fuel,
cheap living, &c cannot compete with
the foreign make who In addition to
the cost of making, must pay freight
5000 miles across the ocean, If our
makers, with all these advantages, can
not undersel the foreigners, then, we
say they should try some other busi-
ness. The truth is our manufacturers
could outstrip those of any nation on
he globe, but for one defect. the lack
Of sconomy Our profits would be
enormous II cur thrift were as great as
that of the English, the Scotch, the
German, or the Gaul.
We beg that our friends and pa
irons Will rot take offence if we fail to
answer their letters promptly. Every
letter on business is placed on a file
hook, which we take up and clear off
each Wednesday morning, before the
paper for the week is sent out. Having
attended to the business points in the
letters, we put them on another file to
be answered as fast as we can get time
Editors receive great many requests
on all sorts of b bIsiness, and we OF late,
have had a batch of letters from the
North to answer every week, general
iy at our own cost for tlnie. paper, en-
velopes, and stamps. Not to answer
them would, perhaps, cause a loss to
the State, for most of the writer's are
bona fde Home-Seekers, and would
think any neglect to respond to their
inquiries was due to sectional hostility.
We do not mention these things as a
boast of our own humble efforts in be-
half better future for our State but
simply to show that our silence in re-
spouse to mere friendly letters should
not be taken to signify Indifference. or
neglect. On the contrary, we should
be very glad indeed 10 hear from our
friends every week. Life is short age
creeps on; many things tend to sepa-
rate even those of the same kith and
kin but it is possible for Us all to keep
alive the spirit of friendship and afiec-
ton by frequent exchanges of the little
messages which paper and ink and the
postal service SO freely permit. \ mis-
sionary once sent a written message, by
a wild African, to another mission
several hundreds OF miles distant.
Afterwards he found the untutored
black down on his knees worshipping
the bit OF paper as God. Being ques-
toned, he exclaimed that it was surely
alive; for alter he had carried it over
hill and plain, and got II wet in swim
ming river, 1t no sooner reached its
destination than it talked and told the
other n issiond1y j,tst trhot has master
,cdnted! He regarded that as a most
supernatural transaction.
1t would be we'll if some civilized
folk should put an ligher estimate on
the advantages offered by pen and ink
i'm permitting conversation with friends