Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-02-02
SIMPLE TRUTHS PLAINLY TOLD.

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SIMPLE TRUTHS PLAINLY TOLD
Before the warn (don't ring the
belly millions of dollars went from
the South to the North to keep up col.
leges and educate the children of rich
Southern planters. That's the reason
all our great colleges, universities and
seminaries were founded where they
are and not where some of them
might be. The same thing is going
on now. Where are the Southern
schools and colleges that attract stu.
dents from other States? 1t is the
southern peoples own fault. Not
only that, they send their money
East, North and West for almost
everything they use,-s much so that
northern material has become so
scarce for manufacture that northern
capital and enterprise are breaking up
their seats of industry and moving
Southwark! Why? Because the ma.
terial is there the labor is there; the
freights are sayed, and the demand Is
supplied to the new customers at the
new stand right among them. The
Southern people wasted their oppor.
tunities ON culture, on society, on ease
and good living spent their money
in making the stranger rich away
from home, and never learning bust.
ness or enterprise to the last, kept on
buying his wares and encouraging his
productions until the very Yankees
come down to their doors and set up
the money producing machinery on
the ground. People may think This
is wild talk; let them think, the lon.
ger and deeper the better. We donot
point to this by way Of regret, or re.
proof. What is done is done; but
that which is still waiting for develop.
ment, - for the arms OF capital and
the hands of labor making wealth,
and comfort, and strength In home
and State, -that we as a people and
community should keep in our own
grasp and control. Do you under
stand? MartInsburg alone sends slO,-
900 away every year for the higher
education of her children. Why not
provide an education here, practical
business education to make enterpris-
ing men and women out of our child
rem, and when such institutions stand
before the world the scene will shit
and people will send their sons and
daughters southwark to be educated.
So far the literature ofthe country has
got its material In the South but wore
its laurels and enjoyed the fruit Of its
learning elsewhere.
So far capital has gotten its mater
ial elsewhere but turned 1t into South
ern money and enjoyed the profits
anywhere but here.
Ifnot why not? Where do you get
the wagon you use, the team you
drive, the implement you work with,
the cigar you smoke, the clothes you
wear, much of the produce you con-
sume,-the decorations for your
house, the furniture, books, stoves,
heaters, look around your premises
and examine the trademarks and
shipping tag or manufacturing brand
of anything you have? You bought
it? Here No. You sent your
check away through your dealers.
These are truths that come home TO
you,-have been home for genera
tions and will stay there unless your
energy, your pride, your enterprise,
yoor business capacity, are aroused
and put into action.
The South was people OF buyers
and consumers and not Of manufac-
turers and sellers-poor remainers and
not rich getters because Of its social
system, that had the means TO en-.
courage home enterprise, home edu-
cation, home wealth,-but preferred
for fashions sake to have foreign I'm
prints on the minds, manners and
dress of their children 1.-The brand Of
London or Paris, New York or Balti'
more, instead of homemade, upon
their purchases.
Now let this section Of the country
pitch in, keep Its timber, coal, lime
stone, ore, wool, &C., at home, and
manufacture it here,-5e producers o.
tohdt zee consume, and consumers o.
,chat zee produce; and the balance OF
trade. 1.-THE biggest pile Of cash, 1.-The
best of the bargain, will stay on this
side of the Potomac, within the
boundaries OF the Alleghanies and
the Blue Ridge. and not go beyond 10
make Boston and New York million
aires. !. r. i.