Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-21

Yankee dishes apd feed upon Yankee food.
We call for Asnkee tooth-pieks, seife
Yankee hats from ankee racks, turn the key
to Yankee lock, open Yankee door, enter
Yankee buggy, seize the Yankee reins to .
Yankee harness and repair to our places Of
business and spend the day in trading on
Yankee industry. The South is rich in re-
sources, but our people are 20 fond Of the
Yankees that they lavish their wealth upon
Yankee enterprise. The wealth Of the South
is like the Mississippi river, which is con-
| stantly coming and constantly goipg-soins
| to enrich the Yankees and impoverish our
selves. II the Southern people would spend
in their midst what they make each year,
they would soon be the richest people on
earth. Discussing this subject, the Atlanta
Constitution gives the figures, facts and CON-
ments below:
| "The farmers of Georgia dug out of Georgia
| soil last year the following leading products
with the following value: Cotton, 94l 1856
bales, worth for the lint SAC, 000, 600, and for
the 500, 900 tons of seed s., 600 600; oats,
| Il, 643 4s2 bushels at ffiy-seven cents a
bushel, worth 1882 900; wheat, 3.500,0 900
bushels at 81 25, worth S4y375, GOO; CORP,
sc, 1858 $40 bushels st si1ty-six cents, worth
| s24 1896 900. This gives a grand total OF
| SIS, 403, 600, and does lot include the rye,
rice, hay, potatoes, sugsr.cane peas, eggs,
butter, chickens, sheep, cattle, hogs, fruit,
| vegetables, and the hundred other articles
that 60 10 make up miscellaneous crop, and
that would certainly swell the total up to
| 500 100000 for the products OF our farms
f. Al III a.
What has become of the SS0,000,000 that our
| farms have given US as the total value of
| four leading crops7 The answer comes back
to Us from every side. The desk on which
we write was brought from the North, and
90 was the pencil with which we write. PaIt
| of the $50 000, 900 was sent out of the State
to buy the carpet on our Office floor, the cur
tsins on its windows, the inkstand in front
| OF us, the knife, the paper-cutter, the chair
We ait in, the shces, coat, buttons, breeches,
vest, collar, cravat, underclothes and hat we
wear: the sofa in the corner, the wardrobe,
washstsnd, the bowl aud pitcher and slop-
bowl, the stove, the spittoons, the matchbox
and matches, the mantelpiece, the locks on
the doors, the files for our newspapers, the
mucilage-pot and The mucilsge, the water
| bucket and dipper, the scissors, and even the
was,e-basket. The only homemade thing
in the room is a knock-kneed white deal
table that is adisgrace 10 its section, and the
writer OF the lines, who, 10 say the least oil IL.
| is not knock-kneed."
Talk no longer about the South hating
Yankees when they drain from US the wealth
which, if kept at home, would make us more
prosperous than the Northern people. We
make these comments in no censorious or
sectional spirit. The Yankees are not to
blame for taking advantage Of eur folly.
But il il difficult to understand how any
Northern man can assail the Southern people
whore labor eDricbes Northern enterprise.
1t seems to Us that if the conditions
OF the two sections were reversed,
the Southern people, influenced by selfish
interests, if dead to the instincts oil
common gratitude, would regard it
as crime TO Willy the Yankees who
enriched as by purchasing from
our people everything they used and con-
sumed. The South will never become rich,
populous and prosperous until her people
stop this constant drain. This can be easily
done. We agree with our Georgia cotempo-
rary, that I'VE need factories that will sup
ply the articles that we are now sending
money out Of the State to buy. We are
moving rapidly in that direction. New fac
tories are being built and new articles m sde
at hsme. Even now we note that the watch
at which we have glanced 10 catch the time,
and the humble but useful broom that rat
has just tumbled down behind our Office
door, aud The sashes that the keen west wind
rs rsttIing in our windows, formerly all i'm
ported, were all made right here in Atlantis.
But until great many more factories are
built within our borders we will be wanting
to know where the money goes as the totals
of year after year are footed up"