The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-02-04
Interesting Session OF the National
Agricultural Convention.

NEW YORK. February al the Session
Of the National Agricultural Convention
Yesterday Professor a. L. Perry, Of Will
iiams College, in bis address on free trade
proceeded To Illustrate how agriculture Is
injured by tariff in case Of cotton ties and
steel rails. lie said in a crop OF 100000
bales Of cotton If the tariff duty Of 81 per
cent. raises the cost Of ties one half cent
per bale. as i conceded by the Pennsylya-
MIA lron-makcrs, then the extra cost OF
hallng one years crop i Si2O,OOO, ana
therefore the extra cost under ! per cent.
duty, which is now sought to be imposed
by The Mckinley bill pending in Congress.
will be 81. 1000 on an annual crop Of
1000. 600 bales Of cotton. In the case OF
steel rails and the tariff the Professor
showed that il cost about s. extra for each
rail Of heavier pattern, or $4,000 per mile
extra for single-track railroad with steel
rails. The farmers and planters pay this
extra cost when they transport their pro-
duce and cotton from the prairies Of the
West and the fields OF the South to the place
Of export. Every one helps 20 pay it who
sends pound OF freight or travels a mile
on steel rails.
Hon. II. J. Kimball, divector-g general Of
the National Cotton Exposition at Atlanta,
read q paper on the results OF the great eX-
hibition. In his most sanguine moments,
he said. he had dreamed Of no such grand
composite display Of every southern indus
try and resOurces-Ores, minerals, ana
wood-which in their audacity required
building wider than they knew, had accu-
mulated in this great exhibition. II was
such IN exhibition Of purely American in
du,trv n had never before been collected.
Fifteen years had elapsed since the old
labor-svstem had been killed. The former
masters had neither money nor credit, and
the former slaves were intoxicated with the
first draught Of liberty. Ii was the old. old
story over again Of the show that had
been 30 long bent as TO lose It's clasticity" !;
but the essential elements Of tine manhood
which during those four years OF strife and
bloOdshed the southern people had 30 lully
demonstrated lapplsusol stu remained.
and Gathering up the broken threads OF
her former prosperity the south Woye them
into a complete garment, which She 50
lately spread out At Atlanta. Applause. J
lie was a Yankee, born In Maine. Repub-
/ lican ard PrOhibiiiOnist, but feeling that
the South was the natural home OF en-
ferprise he had builded there. lie had
( lived there through all the stages Of recon
structiOn, and had never suffered the slight
est ostracism. and he knew that here
after sectional strife was done. The
next great result was the wonderful sale OF
northern implements and laboT-savlng con-
/ trivances among southern planters. The
/ sale Of spreaders amounted 10 over
/ 53G, 900. One thousand five hundred cot
+ ton-planters, 200 new-pattern carriages,
/ 500 carloads Of engines, ploughs, har-
rows, cultivators, and other machines,
have up TO date been sold in the South
since the Exposition. In conclusion nc
said: ave want men and women OF
brain, who are not afraid OF work. We
have discarded sentiment and turned al
our energines toward practical things
There is room for all, hearty welcom,
for all, and fortune for all who come anC
settle In the sunny South" IGreat aI'
plause.l
General Tremaine moved a vote o.
thanks. which was seconded by Dir. Francl.
ID. Moulton, who said he had been q dele
gate to the Atlanta exhibition, and where
he thought 10 find hostility he had found
hearty welcome. The motion was unani
mously carried.
Al The evening session DR.. Coly, pro
fessor Of chemistry at the Washington De
partment OF Agriculture, read paper oil
"Agricultural Chemistry, "and resolution
were adopted endorsing the action OF thu
Mississippi River Convention on the i'm
proyement OF the Mississippi river. Areso
luton was also offered by DIR. Saunders, o
virginia, fayoring a ship canal across tn
I peninsuia Of Florida.