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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28
Our Increased Home Consumption
OF Raw Cotton.
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No fact connected with southern
industrial progress is more cncour-
aging than the remarkable increase
of consumption of raw cotton by
southern mills during the past year.
That increase, it will be seen below,
is in round numbers sixty thousand
bales; and we are glad 10 say that
Mr.. g. Gunby Jordan, the active
mayor of Columbus, Georgia, and
the energetic treasurer of the Eagle
and Phoenix manufacturing COM
pany, estimates the increase during
the coming year at 10000 bales.
Ii is true that this estimate covers q
small traction of that which we in
clude in this year, because a few
mills whose spindles are reckoncd
as increase for next year started up
before the close of this (September
II. But as increase will doubtless
occur which is not now in sight, we
think the estimate OF Mr.. Jordan
will do to stand by. The Eagle and
Phoenix company is the most sue
cessful and prosperous in the south
three mills, 10000 spindles $780,
900 paid up capital, a large surplus
fund, etc. There is no especial rea-
son why Columbus should go ahead
of other southern cities, but pluck
and dash will tell.
Mr.. Jordan-and he is good au-
thorjty-estimate the number OF
spindles put up during this year
(September /, 1881, to September /,
1882 at 361, 900, of W hich 100000 are
in Georgia, "a, 900 in Alabama, $4,000
in Tennessee. $4,000 in Mississippi,
81 900 in Louisiana, $4,000 in North
Carolina, and $4,000 in South Caro-
lima. The reader will bee below
that the number of spindles
actually running this year
was 839,361, and we pre-
sumo that this includes 10000 TO
2O0, 1000 of the increase reckoned by
Mr.. Jordan. The Swift mill at
Columbus is not yet in operation,
nor the King in Augusta, nor the
Exposition mills in Atlanta. The
Sibley mills at Augusta and the new
Lane mil in this city have Just fsirly
started.
The number of spindles in the
south in 1880, according to the annual
report of the National cotton ex-
change, to which we are indebted
for the following figures, was 583, ,696.
The increase has therefore been over
forty-fve per centum, aud 1t is not
extravagant to assume that by Sep
tember, 1888, the number will be
over 100000. No other opening
for the investment Of southern
capital offers such sure and
large returns as this, aud we would
indeed be glad If 100000 spin
dies could be stated in the cotton
belt next year. Such rapid growth
is not to be looked for; but II New
Orleans does not spring to IL and
put up a million, she will certainly
lose her most golden opportunity OF
making herself at a single bound the
banner manufacturing city OF the
south and of the nation:
The spindles actually running are
located in the following states:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

Wool prices were raised, but
the level was raised all around
He earned more dollars, but he had
to spend a great many more to OBJ
tain the same amount of home-man-
ufactured goods that entered into
the production of the articles for
which he sold his wool. The money
did not reach as far as formerly, and
as a consequence he got into debt
much faster than he could ever hope
to get out of it. .......
But even his protected wool often
proved a source of great risk and
danger to him by that very protec-
tiOn which he had considered so
great boon. 1t is in the nature of
all protection that it either stimu-
lates over-production or invites to
Incidence, carelessness and neglect.
Both, of necessity, defeat the objects
for which protection is imposed.
Therefore, on the whole, protection
must inevitably work injury to the
protected.
No other reason can be adduced
why wool was to be protected, but
compromise of conflicting interests.
Wool can be grown as cheaply here
as in any other country under the
sun. The very variety of our cli-
mate invites to it. The territories
promise rs free and cheap a
yield as Australia and South
America. Why make the peo-
pie of all the states pay toll to the
farmer of Ohio il his land becomes
too valuable and expensive for pas
turage and sheep-raising? With
equal justice he may claim protec-
tion for his wheat because the centre
of wheat-raising keeps moving to
new and cheap lands. The wheat
states of twenty years ago can hard
ly be called so now, and still they
prosper and earn fair enough yield
of other and more remunerative
crops. You cannot force nature
with pitchfark, nor by legislative
enactment abrogate eternal laws.
Ohio wool will still be wanted, as
well as territory wool, and it will
command its fair price; with or with
out protection, as each class of wool
has its own qualities necessary to
manufacturers. If a free tariff of
wool were to kill sheep-raising, why
did it not do so when we did have a
free tariff? Up to 1862 we had free
tariff, when duty of three cents a
pound was laid on wool. In 1864-5
the present rate of duty was i'm
posed.
Our imnorts. in round nnmhers
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

THE superior vitality OF the
Democratic party, begotten of un-
dying principle, is shown by con-
trasting its conduct in states hope
lessly Republican with Republican
action in states hopelessly Demo
cratic. In Iowa or Nebraska, for
instance, the Democracy regularly
meets and courageously goes
through the form of putting up q
full ticket. In Missouri, however,
the Republicans haven't the courage
to make square fight, for the sim
pie reason there are no Offices in
view; when they fight they must
have a spoils inducement.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

The Mexican congress convened
on the 10th instant. A preliminary
meeting elected Senior Manuel Ro'
nero Rubio president of the senate
and Senior Manuel Dublin, president
of the chamber Of deputies. Senor
Joaquin Barands has taken the oath
of Office of minister of justice in the
cabinet of President Gonzales.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

THE Flatonia argus says that Hon.
Wash Jones is making the guberna-
torIal race to please Arthur and
other Republican tycoons at WASH
ington, knowing that he has not the
ghost of chance to be elected. 1t
is stated that Jones is to be reward
ed with federal appointment in
case of his failure to be elected.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28
Changing His skin.

An old Bastrop citizen says Col.
Trigg was a rampant Democrat just
after the war. Next, he became a
Republican under K. j. Davis. Now
he is a Greenbacker. After this he
can only turn Independent, as that
is the last resort for chronic office
seeker.
Judge Terell has always been
bold, out-spoken, consistent Demo
crat
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28
Aided BY Brady,s orders.

IIuIIHueIPHIH IIes5, NItVP'JJ
1t is difficult to see how the jury
can have convicted any of the Dor
sey com bination and not convicted
all or nearly all. No profit in the
successful conspiracy OF which Miner
ani Rerdell are convicted was pos
sible unless 1t was aided by Brady's
orders and the routes upon which
they operated were those which be-
longed to the Dorsey combination.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

THE Mexia Ledger, laboring with
the Republicans to defeat Judge
Hancock, is q. sad thing to behold
Giving aid to E. j. DAVIS; think Of
it. Like the waters of the Rhone
and the Arve, Fishburn and Repub-
licanism haye long refused to mix
but, at last united, they run in one
muddy current to the sea, to be
salted down in brine.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

THE British team has been victo-
rious at Creedmoor, but this result
has been anticipated ever since prac-
tice began. But as this is the first
victory for them the American team
can afford to take it gracefully aud
beat in the next match.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28
"Protectiono for Wool.
IL. schoenhof in N. Y. Evening Pos

IL. Schoenhof In N. Evening Post.]
The curse of American politics,
log-rolling, is also the cause of the
absurdities of our "well balanced
tariff" 1t gives us a system of taxa
ton that grinds every one, does
cruel injury to a whole nation OF
working people, and good to no one
except a few mOnopolists and tax
gathers. AS the manufacturer
wanted higher tariff on his manu-
factures, the agriculturist had to be
pacIfied. To make him willing to
pay more for his blankets, fannels
and clothing, he was thrown a sop in
the nature of a promised higher
price for the wool he raised. But he
found out to his cost that moi
all il gold that glltters
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

GEN. JAMES b. WEAVER is said to
have become discouraged, and ID
said to be urging the Greenbsckeri
and Democrats of Iowa to organize
q new party. This is poor encour.
agement from the late Greenback
candidate for the presidency. MI
Still and the other opponents OF
Democratic nominees for the legisla-
ture should make him take back
what he has said. 1t throws cold
water on the Greenbacker's back.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

A CONSIDERABLE portion Of the
military stores shipped to Egypt
were used in the Crimean war.
Nearly all the wagons for distribut-
ing forage, powder and miscellane-
GUS supplies and stores have gone
through several campaigns without
being much the worse for wear.
Even the old Maltese carts which
were once seen near Sebastapol were
shipped to Egypt.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28
monumentally Malicious.
[Savannah Naval

1t is announced that the attorney
general will prosecute the Washing
ton Critic for libel, for a scandalous
charge for having him fraternized,
while intoxicated, with the star
route defendants in a Washington
restaurant. Considering that the
jury was "fixed," the libel was monu-
mentally malicious.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28
Our imports, in round numbers,

In the free years the imports were
far less than in the protected ones.
From 1866 to 1870 imports declined {;
protection had then fairly begun to
bear fruit. The industry had by
that time been fostered to such an
extent that in 1869 about 100000
sheep were killed (the sheep in the
country being thereby reduced about
twenty per cent?, because sheep-rais-
Ing became Improbable on account
of the over-sqpply. After that wool
advanced again, and the stock was
increased with the same result after
few good years. This process re-
peated itself about three times dur
ting the last fifteen years. The aver
age prices of raw wool for each Of
the ten years of the last decade are
given by the bureau of statistics as
follows: 1870, &c.,; III, 35c. '72,
26c ;'7S, 23c IA, 223c.; rs, 35c. '76,
1Sc.; III, &c.; 7S, &c.; '7S, 27c. '79
29c.
In June, 1879, the price of wool
was lower than any reached for a
number of years. l was offered a
lot of wool at twelve and half cents
that few months later could not be
bought at double the price. The
fluctuations to which the tariff for
the protection of American labor
subjects the prices of wool are of a
nature that cannot be but disastrous
to manufacturers who depend on
that staple. How easy it is to munipu-
late an article which is cut off from
the levellIng influence of foreign
supply is best illustrated by reference
to the wool trade of 1879. A boom
was created that enriched many
speculators and ruined many more.
In the summer and fall of 1879, when
prices were lowest, the wool dealers
sent their agents secretly into the
wool regions to buy up wool. Man.
ufacturers and their agents
did ikewise-but all very Sc
cretly and stealthily. Neither
was to know of the movements OF
the other. Meanwhile the trade
papers made it their special business
to prophesy nothing less than wool
famine. They figured down to a
pound how much wool was in the
storehouses, in the factories and on
the sleeps back. They proclaimed
that the farmers had no wool, 30 to
speak. Now, of course, a farmer is
but a mortal, and, in spite of his in.
nocence, knows as well as town-bred
folks how to turn an honest penny
So, when buyers who had never been
seen before in those regions made
their appearance one by one, like
conspirators in opera-bouffe, al
"good friends of the farmer" the
farmer had no wool to sell. The
situation was appalling; a revival O.
business all around; great demand
for woolens and no wool. ,WheI
"the good friends" over-bld
ding one another, had sue
ceeded in raising the pric,
of wool to a point where there wa
no reasonable hope to obtain higher
points yet, the innocents of the ru
raj districts suddenly remembered
that they had some wool; and they
did sell wool-grease, sand and all
When the final count of the WOO
crop of that year of famine, 1880
was made, it compared with pre-
| vious wears of plentv as follows:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28
The Best Thing.

IDOobOH 1IHu5CIIpI IhbpsIJ
Robson has pulled through and
will again be Republican candidate
for congress from the New jersey
district he now represents. The
best thing the Republicans of his dis
trict could do for the party at large
would be to elect Democrat in his
place.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28
Three IIIustrious Thieves.

The farce of the trial of the star
route defendants is practically at an
end for the present, and most likely
for all time. The two Dorseys aud
Brady, the three most illustrious
public thieves since the golden days
OF Tweed, have locked horns with
justice in the national capital and
proved themselves mightier than the
law
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28
The following table exhibits the
ctual SOUTHERN consumption,
ared with the previous year:

We are therefore warranted in
thinking that the consumption next
wear will be 100000 bales. We are
about equally divided between an
inclination to congratulate ourselves
ON this gratifying exhibit, and a
feeling of dependency occasioned
by the reflection that we shall send
abroad $250,O00,000 worth Of raw
cotton, donating every dollar of
profit In it's manufacture to foreign
ers whom we are under no oblige-
ton to thus enrich, and that we shat
actually buy back from them abov3
$50. 100000 Of cotton manufactures
giving foreign carriers the profit Of
Transportation and robbing our
selves of our own prosperity.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

THE Chicago Inter- Ocean, which
may he considered to be stalwart
authority, talks of a compromise in
Pennsylvania between the Republi-
can factions at this late day as sheer
nonsense. The stalwarts, it claims,
has all along protfered concession
but the half-breeds having disdained
1t, ought now to be left to the con-
sequence of their folly, even though
it culminate in a Democratic victory,
which, however, the Inter Ocean as.
sumes to believe will not occur.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

Mr.. WALKER, ststistician of the
New York produce exchange, says
this is the greatest year for good
crops ever known in the United
Statea
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

A PROJECT for establishing tele-
phone communication between Eu-
rope and America is occupying the
attention of electricians in this
country and Europe.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

HENRY III. FAxoN is Massachu-
setts advocate of total abstinence,
and he is peculiar in being willing
to spend money for the cause.
Whenever he deems the time aus
picious he buys page of advertising
space in the Boston Herald and fills
it with whatever he desires to say. to
the public. He has in that way just
published the record of every state
legislator OH the liquor question.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

THE ten thousand dollar trot for
the Blanchard purse took place at
Beacon Park, Boston, and was won
by Edwin Thorne. Of the nine
horses that qualified only seven
started, VIZ: Edwin Thorne, Cling
stone, Santa Claus, Helene, Fanny
Witherspoon, Humboldt and Par
ana. In the pools, of which a large
number were sold, Thorne and
Cllngstone were the favorites, with
the former having trifle the call.
Thorne won in three straight heats.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

FoLaER wins and there is less love
now between the contending Repub-
lican elements In New York than
ever before.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

The San Francisco Alta character
izes the California Republican state
platform as in many senses the most
serious document ever drawn up.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

THE New York Herald publishes
diagrams Of each shot fired in the
contest at Creedmoor.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

A grove of eighty banana trees,
eighteen months old, is bearing good
fruit at Waynesboro, Georgia.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

A rice exchange has been opened
in New Orleans.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-28

Hon. A. l.. MATLoCK will no doubt
be returned to the legislature as q
state senator.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-05-13
An Ed;tnr,S Trunk.

There appears to be an epidemic of finding valuables in old trunks. Not long ago diamond was found by la borer, and an old trunk sent to be re- paired in New Haven, Ct, was fornd to contain in 8 small drawer gold watch, S3U in gold, two gold bracelets and di- amond and pearl set. This reminds us that trunk brought over in the Mayfower was being cut up for Erewood by a Norristown man the other cay, when out rolled $500, 000 in gold, two silk hats, diamond iniaid clock, four pairs of new boots. camel's hair shawl, a set of solid silverware, costly mirror, a suit of parlor furniture and file of newspapers. The man who was demol- ishing the trunk said it formerly be- longed to an editor.- Her GLd.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-05-13
Raddhist Pauile.,,s.

The central idea of Buddhism seems to be that of buying merit, or gaining the favor of the gods by meritorious deeds and suffering fer their sake, and those who torture their bodies or suffer special privations hope by so doing to store up large quantities of m crit or evelt to be deifed in the future world. Their devices to accomplish this are various. One monk has fulfilled three years vow of hermitage in lonely hut at soma distance from the temple. Another sits cross-legged in tiny cell, coming ont only for his meals. They say he has not spoken for three years and probablt never will again, the vow of perpetual silence being especially pleasing tc Buddha. Still another, even more vii. ing to suffer than lis fellows, has offered one of his fingers as Q sacrifice, and pro- poses to offer more, we are told. I.'e process is described as follows: Tie finger is wound with flax which has been soaked in kerosene oil, and On the enl IS placed lighted taper, which burns slowly down, consuming the finger, aud the stump is finally cut off with pair of shears. CRj,sc 1etter.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-05-13
Home Influences.

It was Napoleon who said that the character and fate of the child was the work of the mother. Largely this is true, though not in Q sense to exclude the influence of the father, especially in the case of boys. The child is often left to the mothers care. 4 double duty is hers; to that which God gave is added that which man shifted upon her, and with her rests the whole work of prepar- ing her child for the grave encounters of life. In how many homes does s mothers intercourse with her children alternate between caressing indulgence and pettish fault finding? In how many are the bodies panpered and dressed, children reduced to mere ornaments to gratify paternal vanity, while the affections are thwarted, and all inc highest possibilities of the mind either uncuitured orrepulsed. Girlhood and boyhood pass, the old horae is left, and the new begun away from old scenes and associations; restrained no longer, but altogether free, still you trace childhood influences. When your boy steps into the street he opens all the doors of his home be car ies out a pho tograph of his parents to be seen Of their neighbors. When the little girl goes into the next house she carries inc do- nestle newspaper abroad. Dear reader, IS your domestic newspaper readable?
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-05-13
Single rs. Married Soldiers.

It has long been a mooted point whether jingle or married men make the best soldiers.
 Some maintain that the lack of wife and family tends to make a man more reckless of his hfe-therefore a good soldier.
 Others say that the married man is al- most veteran wnen he enters the ranks, being inured to combat-therefore a good soldier.
 In the recent Tunisian campaign Colonel was questioned upon this point.
 "Both are right" said he. "Look yonder-do you see that battalion Of happy, devil-may-care fellows? They are all single men, and they would take their lives in their hands. But look again-do you see those taciturn, somber, gIoomy-looking men there? They are all married, and in hand-to. hand fight they are terrors.
 'sWhat is the name of the battalion ?'' asked the inquirer.
 "They are called," said the Colonel, gravely, "the Children of Despair"