The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-10
A Wealthy Pennsyivanians view
of Southern Deficiencies.

resources. MAJ. ouitiu - oaii. 49,
ham, sent his copy to a gentleman re
siding at Germantown, Pa, whom he
had met at the Springs. The latter re-
spsnded, with thanks. IN q long letter;
from which We extract, because the
views expressed are a fair sample OF the
.elf-righteous, declamatory, hectorIng
spirit in which a great many Northern
er. speak of the South without any
knowledge Of either the facts, or the
feelings, AMI sentiments OF our peo-
PIE
In looking over the paper you sent
me | find much to interest me, and can
OILY wonder that a State with such adj
v~antages, should not have taken much
more of the immigrants that came to
our country last year than about 5000
which the whole South received.
Again with such a charming climate,
no snow OF. ice in winter, of moment,
less liable TO sun stroke than Chicago,
summer heat less oppressive than New
York. puimOnlc diseases almost IN
known, with higher mountains than
New England, rivers or stream com
bining a water power equal 10 the en-
tire steam power of New England, rich
in soil, timber, fertilizers, fruit, gold,
silver, marble, iron, soapstone, whet-
stone, plumbago, mica, and other min
erals, valuable fisheries, a soil and eli
mate for growing cotton, rice, corn, and
all kinds of vegetables, berries. grapes.
tobacco, &c. If the writer had no,
said that he did not own a foot of land,
nor was he interested In the sale Of any,
and had not stated hat actual farming
lands average only s. per acre, includ-
ing a frame story house, we might con
clude with such advantages North
Carolina would be a desirable place to
emigrate to, if her laws would justify It,.
NoTE.- Is there any sense in reason
ing that because a young Editor doesn't
own houses and lands, the State Is
faulty? Are there no honest and hard
working Pennsylvanians who don't own
real estate? OF course. the writer did
not know that the Editor of the Fnmcr
dni Mechantc gave up every dollar he
possessed in defence OF his State, and
has since been 50 robbed and outraged
by the Northern Cor Grantite) govern
ment, that he could not buy an acre Of
the Garden of Eden, if it were selling at
5 cents a foot. But that is no reason to
his facts about the State. -ED.
L. II NJ.
IF | entertained the views that the
Of that article sndeavors to i'm
press upon any one who reads the ar
ticle, | would early be an owner of wa
ter power, and soil and mineral lands.
one farmer in Iowa raised 1000, 900
bn!C ~ oorn Dnn cIlunr NINA IN
Montana sold for O,0O0, 600 and par
les built "a railroad of 125 miles to con
lect with another to transfer its pro
I
NOTE.-We have mines worth that
'un; and three railroads are being built
% cur mines one to Ducktown copper
mines one to Cranberry iron mine; one
, Egypt coal mine; one to Chapel Hill.
ron orc mines ED. f. & NJ.
while the cotton crop of the
aid the tobacco crop are largely
Exported either abroad, or North and
Vest, and therefore become Knowing
hey are but little more than one fourth
# our exports misunderstanding nothing
bout our hay crop, boot and shoe crop,
nd other crops, the two last largely
xceeding cotton and tobacco, which
re chiefly consume. Why is farming
md twenty to forty miles from Phila-
worth 500 to $500 per acre ?
Why is not Is per cent profit on 81,
90, 600, 600, or $500, 000, 600 Of more
than sixty per cent on 800
%, 900 or 500, O0O, 900"
NoTE.-All the world knows why
md Is worth $500 per acre near Phila-
also, why the North makes
er big profits. For 80 years the South !
os been paying high tariffs to enrich
pennsylvania merchants, and m%anutac-
urers, and iron workers, and all man
er of money-makers. The South is
borrower drained of fifty million dollars
year to pay the interest on L. S. |
onds owned by Northern capitalists. |
5 it any wonder that lankeedom ex- {
els us in wealth? North Carolina, a {
outhern agricultural State, whose real Z
nd personal property is valued at only
lis, 574, 49,, paid in six years QS74 {
as internal revenue taxes SO, 1913, 4
Is, about a fourteenth of the value of t
the property in the State. While
Iaine, a Northern agricultural State, v
hose property is valued at 1924, SO, G
paid as internal revenue taxes in t
he same time only 500, 066, about one i
undred and forty eighth of the value
f her property. North Carolina pays c
s cents on each pound of tobacco she
reduces, while Maine fattens on draw a
acks and bounties .---ED. t. & VI. /
The South has great advantages in
w labor which always exist where the
lasses of the people are controlled and t
ept down. But once give freedom to, |
nj edu cate and enlighten the common V
much more will be produced a
nd done, but your profits will become g
mailer, as enlightenment Of the pro-
ucers will enable them to obtain their
in higher prices of labor, and
reater advantages to themselves. Il
hat will give a better public opinion, e
reliance III people, generally less e
cent Of profits, but a much larger q
ggregate Of profit, as the increased t
reduction Will be SO much greater q
machinery and inventive pow
, to supply ourselves and a surplus to @
e sent to best markets." t.
or of the Chicago Inter OceoR, or Il
.ew York Tribune, from his tone. p
ut as he is apparently sincere. We tell tt
that instead OF being controlled ii
III kept down. the masses of North il
arollna are the most independent PEG d
e on the globe. Two centuries ago NJ
were noted for their restlessness "
all manner of restraint. A cen n,
Try ago they spilled the FIRST blood in d
sistance to tyranny Cat the battle Of "
lamance) and made the first Declara- fc
on Of independence. As for the