The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-12-06

was prepared to add another mill to that
Mississippi property at cost Of 5000. 900.
i They had received orders during the past
thirty days for ten thousand pieces Of Jeans
more than they were able 30 supply, and
these orders came from the large substaa-
tisI houses of the West.
And in this connection want to mention
that we have another growing source OF
wealth in our cotton seed. 1t viii bring to
the cotton States this year upwards of forty
millions of dollars The proprietor of the
oil mills at Jackson told me recently that
the seed would be worth this season
twenty dollars per ton, and each bale Of
cotton represents half ton of seed.
Six millions of bales, average crop at ten
| dollars would be sixty millions of dollars.
Deducting seed for replanting and what
NAV be retained for feed and fertiizing,
aud forty millions may not seen en- oyeres-
innate IS net gain 10 tins cotton States.
The large percentage of cotton oil and oil
cake goes abroad. The refined oil is extern
siyely used in lieu of olive oil and for cult
nary purposes, instead Of lard. / do not
think there are half dozen families in the
city of jackson, Mississippi, that do not use
cotton oil Tor every purpose IN the Kitchen
that lard was formerly used for. 1t is pure
vegetable oil, answering perfectly as sub
stitute for lard, and at present about one
half the cost The day is not far off when
cotton seed viii be worth one-third as much
as all the lint
We want not only more money TO
develop these rich mines of wealth, but we
would be glad to have some of your thorough
business men. Young men with coed busi-
ness training and some capital would ind
opportunities for carving out their own for
tunes, for you may be assured, we have
turned the corner, and are leaving the quag
mires and the croaking frogs behind US.
Twenty years from now some here will be
saying, look at those booming business
centres in Mississippi! What grand oppor-
tunity | missed twenty years ago"
Ny State has practically no debt what
ever, and most of the counties and towns
are in a good, solvent condition. The
Erlangers, the Wilson's, and the Gordons, |
are investing millions there, after having |
considered all the aspects of our financial, |
industrial and productive growth. Some |
capitalists, it is true are waiting the solu |
ton of the social and political problems |
growing out of the presence of the |
colored race. Gentlemen, pardon me
for saying that |, for one, am growing tired |
of this twaddle. Principles are immortal
There ale certain laws in the moral and |
political world which are as inevitable as
the laws of nature. Water will always run
down hill, and I as firmly believe in the
survival of the fttest" The only way
you can get bad thoughts out of mans
mind is by crowding good thoughts in.
You cannot put an air-pump to him and
empty his heart. So it is in the body poll
tic. We have large and increasing pro-
portion of industrious, thrifty, moral and
aw-abiding people, who will continue TO do
what is done everywhere else, they will
become prosperous and successful while the
.hrifless, the idle and the vicious have
heir appropriate rewards and pass off the
ItaGe into oblivion.