The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-11-15
KING COTTON.
What tie Has bono aud Might DO.

We make the following extracts from
the greatest article II. w. Grady ever
wrote for the Constitution:
Ten years ago the South sat III poverty
at the feet of the corn.raisers of the
West and the changers Of the
East.
Her farmers made the cotton crop.
The meat and bread they made it with
they brought fr m Iowa. The money that
enabled them t. buy the bread and meat
they got from New York. Their implo.
ments came from Illinois and Pennsyiya.
mia. Their fertilizers from the chemical
works Of the East and distant islands of
the ocean. They furnished the ground
and the sweat. While they toiled in
poverty and in tho humiliation Of denen.
dence, other people grew rich by feeding
ana clothing them, by making everything
Ior them, from pins to pianos In the
meantime the crop they raised from hand
to mouth gave America the balance of
trade against the world, and made spccie
resumption possible. Its manufacture
made New England populous and busy.
and old England mistress Of trade and
commerce. The south grew poorer and
poorer, the sol! grew thinner, aud farms
and homes more and more dismantled.
Now what cotton might do for us, il
this. "
With the proceeds Of last years cotton
crop, we might have put four cotton
factories where only one stands to-day.
We might have duplicated every shop.
mill, and furnace in the cotton States
and spent fifty million in new industries.
This would have given work TO every idle
hand IN these States and started swell.
ing tide OF Immigrant artizans who would
hnd good wages and steady work awaiting
them. We might have invested besides,
nifty millions in farm improvements and
stock. After all this We should have had
more than hundred millions to spare,
from the receipts for one years crop Of
one single staple.
There are three things necessary to be
done.
lst. On the edge of every cotton field
let there stand G corn crib and smoke
mouse Sci them in front Of the gin
house. Until they are filled, never let it
De 1ed. NO amount Of energy or enter.
PRISE can make prosperous u land in
thlnIgs, the making of grain and grass
and meat.
I'd. We must manufacture small things
as well as great, at home. The richest of
farms, no matter how wisely their crops
are pitched or titled, cannot make pros.
porous land that deals solely with raw
material and pays tribute OH all it uses
tc distant workshops and factories.
% We must gtand by Our home
industries. No amount OF capital or
sk!ll can build up varied industries in
thlnly populated section, against the
competition Of established industries in
populous regions, unless they have the
earnest and persistent support of home
constituency.
Here then is work-and glorious work
1t is, too-for three comprehensive class
es. The farmers, tho manufacturers and
the trading public. The work of each
compensates the other. The farmer
makes the basis on which the Others
build. The mechanic gives 10 the farmer
his implements and supplies and pro.
vides for him a market. They both
maintain the trading public, which in
turn, absorbs or distributes what they
produce. When they have all locked
hands and hearts and sympathies, are
entered the great struggle for Southern
independence, then, and not till then,
they will achieve victory, The henefi.
cence and glory and grandeur of which
the brave men who died under Lee or
jackson never dreamed of, and for the
winning of the half of which they would
have esteemed their suflerings we'll en-.
dured, and their lives we'll lost.