The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-25


What becomes of this rooney?
IL goes back to the nDrth and west for
almost everything we eas or wear or use.
"A lew years ago party Of Atlantians met
ITO encourage manufaauFes'. The table
they wrote their resolutions on, the chairs
they sat in, the carpet, the broom, the win
dows, the pen and ink, the paper, their
hats, shoes, clothes, shirts, knives, watches,
the lamp, the locks on the door, the soap,
the bowl, the towel, the wall paper, the
washstand and the hatrack, everything in
and about the room was imported. That
~as a bad beginning. Especially when it was
remembered that the farmers were buying
their bread and meat and hay and mules in
the west-so that from both city and coun-
try ran our substance In wasteful and vast
ing streams.
How is it now? We have made sharp
advances, as an article printed elsewhere
shows. We buy annually 100000 worth
Of furniture in Georgia. Five years ago
only $50, 900 of this was made at home.
Now, there is 100000 worth of it made in
Georgia which at retail prices, as the trade is
Estimated, would be 81 100000, or half of
what we use. We use $4,000, coo worth of
vehicles annually, of which about 100000
goes to Georgia made goods. A glass facto-
ry just started in Atlanta, makes annually
$3.50, 900 worth of bottles and lamp-chim-
neys and will check that much outgo every
| year. These are examples of the rapidity
with which we are decreasing onr imports
by home manufacture. Others will be found
in the article printed elsewhere.
With proper management, Georgia could
reduce her imports by s20,000,000 year.
Suppose the men who now send $2,0O0,O00
a year ont of Georgia for carriages or wag-
ons would patronize home industries, does
any one doubt that immediate our carriage
and wagon factories would double their ca
! pacity to meet the demand. If every
man would insist on Georgia made
furniture, our factories would null
tiply until the S1,000,000 sent annually to
the north and west for furniture would be
| hSpb lit tUO ItlIdIltlStliS WllO
bought home made cottonade suits last sum-
mer, kept in Georgia the $4,000 they sent
north for suits the summer before, and so
on, through the whole list of manufactured
goods
But some one complains patronizing
home industries won't make us rich, as
long as we buy our butter, onions,
apples, potatoes, cabbage, eggs, canned
goods, cheese, and even our beef and poul-
try from other states. We are told the
farmers ought to be stirred up and made to
raise these things at home, as by that course
only can our prosperity be made even and
our independence perfect.
Granted. All that is true. But IL is the
home market that inspires the truck farmer
and tho dairyman. Increase the number of
truck purchasers and the truck farmers will
come. Suppose by determined and universal
effort and by persistent patronage of home
industries we keep at home next year
west for manufactured goods. That money
will seek Investment at home. II 1t goes
into new machinery 1t means more me-
chanics to supply with meat and vegetables
and homes. 1t means more manufactured pro-
duct, which, in turn, keeps more money
at home or draws in money from surround
ing states. This in turn means truck farms,
canning factories and creamerles. II works
| In ri "a I'll
pends-the whole system of growth,
progress, prosperity-up the general
earnest, and definite support of our home
shops and factories, all over the state, for
everything we need, from cantilever bridge
down to e whist brooml
1t is a safe rule and good policy to buy
from the nearest shop or factory at which
you can be satisfied In price and quality.
In Atlanta If you live here, In Macon if you
live there. But if not In your city, then In
your state. II not in your state, then in a
neighborlng state. A factory stands for a
great deal, 1t means more than number
of men who give the farmer market for
his produce, and the merchant trade, and
house owners tenants. 1t means steady
and Weakening Grain on our resources
stopped, the cdtgo of money checked,
cash kept at home to build up waste places.
Take the glass factory for example. The
100000 its treasurer takes In for Georgia
sand made into bottles represents $3.50, 0oO
year that up TO this time has gone out OF
Georgia. Now 1t is kept at home and after
circulating awhile through our trade cur
rents will seek rcinyestment here. That
factory means much more than bringing to
Georgia hundred workmen who make this
their home. Il means stopping one of the
thousands of outward-lowug streams
through which the very life. blood of Geor-
gia is being drained! And what is true Of
Georgia is true i'll greater measure of the
whole south.
There are some who deny the right of oul
home industries 10 any proteetion-ever