The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1883-12-01

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show what they have to sell III their own
way. but keep the mere show out of the
main part of your Exposition.
Of course cotton would form very es-
sential part Of the work and it will be far
more important for you to exhibit all tie
tools and implements for the development
of the fibre and the manufacture of cotton
and OF the by-prOducts Of the cotton plant.
than it would be to devote a great space to
the complex machinery needed for CON
verting the cotton fibre into cotton cloth
the one object would interest every farmer
and every mechanic in your State, while
the other might only serve to mislead you
into heavy and doubtful investmnets in
cotton manufacturing before you had mas
tered the alphabet OF the cotton plant and
fibre itself. In connection with the sub
ject OF cotton | should advise you to pro
cure an exhibition OF the machine made
by the Sanford Universal Fibre Company.
because | think the samples of fibre which
they show, made from the stalk of the cot
ton plant, promises more success than any
other treatment to which this stalk has vet
been subj cted.
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS OF EXHIBITS.
You may think that | 90 rather far
aft I'D when [ add another suggestion that
you shall construct some large silos next
summer and pack into them ens5luge made
of chopped corn stalks, cow-pea vines and
all the refuse OF the cotton plant after the
main portion OF the crop has been picked
and before the plant has become dry and
woody, and that you feed stock on this
material throughout the period of the exhi-
bition, especially mich cows, serving the
milk to prove its exceeding good quality.
Another branch of work on which you
have not made beginning would certain
ly require part OF q wing, and that is the
manufacture Of starch from the sweet DO
tato. If [ rightly informed, there is
more starch in bushel of sweet potatoes
than there is in one Of white potatoes and
there is glucose in addition if it can be
covered. The cotton mills of the United
States require about Il, 900 tons of corn or
potato starch every year for sizing their
warp only, and vast quantity more for
finishing bleached goods and prints. | be-
lieve good potato starch is preferred to
corn even at a little higher price. The art
OF making starch is a simple one and re-
qures very moderate capital.
Another section should be devoted to
economic botany, and in this department.,
as you are aware, no State can make such
an exhibit as North Carolina in the guam
tity and quality Of its valuable plants.
Another section should be given to the
machinery for converting wood into pulp
for the manufacture of paper. which is
now becoming a separate art from paper
making This and the starch making
would require a suitable flow of pure wa
ter, which you can doubtless provide
Some OF the makers of giant pumps would
cheerfully serve your purpose in these two
departments instead of displaying the
power OF their pumps by means Of fancy
waterfall. In short, make your exhibit
one by which you will prove how quickly
SMALL CAPITAL WITH BRAINS
behind it, can develop profitable industry,
and how unimpOrtant foreign capital is in
a State which has such enormous possibil
ties for the development Of its own capital
from its own soil. Bear in mind that the
useful capital of the richest State in the
world never does and never can exceed the
value OF two or three years OF annual pro-
duction, and that prosperity consists vast
ly more in the power of applying small
capital intelligently to large production
than it does to any possible use which can
be made OF large amounts OF capital which
have been saved by some one outside of the
limits Of the State.
| need not give other examples of the
method which | hope to see adopted in
State exhibition somewhere to the end
that such an exhibition may become true
object lesson to the people of that State.
teaching them in the best and most con-
resources by combining the work Of an in
structed brain with a we'll trained hand.
rather than looking to the investment of
foreign capital and the employment of
persons who may, it is true, become oper-
atives but who may not become indepen-
dent and self-sustaining craftsmen, me-
chanics or artisans. If way can be also
invented for bringing to the knowledge of
the people of North Carolina not only the
method of saving small sums as it is now
practiced by the savings bank Of the North,
but also the methods by which these saw
ings are loaned by the bank to the people
of the neighborhood itself, thereby enab-
ling them to become the possessors of
small lots of land and small dwelling
houses almost innumerable, an object les
son would then be brought from distance
hot in the from OF capital already saved,
but in the way Of teaching the people how
to become the pOssessors Of their own cap
ital.
TO USE HOME CAPITAL.
Nearly one-half the people of Massa-
chusetts are represented by name upon the
credit side Of the ledgers Of the savings
banks, averaging $500 each in an aggregate
deposit of 100000. The capital itself
cannot come to your aid, nor would it be
Of much use to bring it, until the people
OF North Carolina have themselves learned
this simple art of saving, and of using
small sums in this way; and when they
have learned this art they will have no
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natural advantages, especially in compare
son with this State, will enable them to
accumulate much greater wealth than we
have ever done.
But there is another object lesson which
ought to be Incorporated with this, if you
can invent the method of showing to the
eye OF every visitor the standard of the
credit OF the State, the counties and
the townships When you can prove
both by object lesson, by precept and by
will have taken the first step toward in
viting the immigration of prudent men,
Place alongside this standard of integrity
an image OF the gallovs upon which every
duellist who kills his opponent is after
wards hung, and OF the Jail in which every
man Of homicidal tendency is locked up.
and then you will give an object lesson of
the principles both of integrity and civil
order, upon which only can the foundation
Of the material prosperity of State be
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