The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-06-28
= V'rNff' 80 80 - 's-- --N---' - ..-I'- :
THELTE YEARN NENCE,
a Feep Into tho Future as Ono CarollnIan
u Forccasts It.

Forccasts It.
/ From the News and Courier.
CHARLEs1ON, S. G.. July 13, 1893.
Dear B''ofher--l have inst returned
from my tour Of inspection through
the State, and tl,d everything O.
Thorndike represented. You would
hardly recognize this as the Same
country wo left in diegustin 1879, The
State is dotted with tea plantations,
Chinese sugar cane aud lucerne fields,
fine cotton plantations, and the area
OF rice exceeds that cultivated before
the war. There are now fewer negroes
than whites, and tho former huve
ceased to be political power. South
Carolina, Of course, belongs to the
great Reform party, which has nearly
throttled the corrupt Republican par-
ty, except IN four Of the Now England
States.
What do you suppose all these
changes are owing to2 You rccollcct
that before we left q Department of
Agriculture had been established. 10
this was afterwards added a Bureau
OF Immigration. III 1881 this Depart
!nent introduced nAmbers Of European
immigrants. These were tried and
found unsuited to orr climate, tho
mode Of living on plantationa, tho
crops we cultivated, and IN other re-
spccts. In 1883 the Department. saw
what had long before tho eyes of
everybody bnt not perceived. Tea
plants had been growing we'll in the
State since 1859, and luGcrne had al
ways thrived in garden borders. Now
In China the finest Nankin cotton, 1ne
tea, lncerne and rico had been culti-
yatsd tor generations. This suggested
the idea of obtaining lnborers atpeady
skilled IN producing these crops, The
result was that In 1883 the Department
brought from California some Chinese.
These gave satisfaction; moro were
brought, thcn numbers were imported
from China, and now there arc said to
be near l00, 900 in tho State. You can
now readily see how tho change was
produced In the State. Tea, sugar,
molHsscs and hay, as well rs rice and
cotton. arc now exported. Tho labor
1s not disturbed by politics, and every
thing is lovely. You ought to SEQ
Hayne street, tho new wharyes and
the quantity of shippingl
But there is ono draw back which
legislation may correct. The Chinese
have found out how the poppy thrievcs
here, aud tho consc quence Is that their
wives and children (who commenced
to be brought over in 1882 besides
raising silk and fish. are cultivating
poppy grounds and making large crops
Of opium. Although the crop Is very
remuncrative, yet 1t makes that drug
too easy Of access to the Chinese and
to some extent iinpairs their useful
ness. SO think, but some saw not
near to the extent to which whiskcv
used to iijure tho labor before the
Prohibition movement cxtirpated that
evil III 1882.
Now what shall do2 Our planta.
tton for which we could not obtain
$500 per aero, Is worth at least $50 per
acre, for have had that offered. Will
you sell our coffee farm, and bring our
families with you, or shall l rcturn to
Rio Janeiro, and we both come back
toXether2 The first course would save
expense. Telephone mo by the ocean
line. "Ies," means l ami to await
you here; "no," the contrary.
Your atfectionate brother,
HENRY lie BLANK.
+. St would do you good to sec
tho number Of immense factories at
Columbia, down by what was an old
ditch, but now splendid canal. Spnr-
tanburg has oyor $4,000 population,
and seven railroads centre there. The
Chinese have taught our people to
raise fish in coopsl But I have not
time to explain this. What funny eyes
the Chinese children havcl Rats and
reaches ore scarce. II. EB.
- o.