The Charlotte Democrat., 1889-11-01
Scarcity OF Money-The Cause and the
Remedy.

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It is almost as hard 20 raise dollar
nowadays as it is to find a needle in a
hay stack There appears to be dearth
of money. 1t 10 just next to impossible
to collect, or to secure a loan. Everybod y
is hard up-destitute of the root of all
evil. The country people have no money;
neither have the town folks. But, isit to
be wondered at when we take into con-
sideration the fact, that our people buy
nearly all they eat or wear, or use on the
farm or in the little household They
raise a little cotton and tobacco and buy
their clothing and meat, much OF their
-four aud meal, their farm implements,
their cooking utensils, their wagons, car
riages, carts, harness and plows. The
fact is, the drain from without is constant
while there is little or nothing coming In.
Just think of it, away down in Mont
gomery county where ten or fifteen years
ago every man raised his own meat, they
are indulging iu the white pressed still
slop fed meat and yellow corn from the
West. A gentleman from that county
informs Us that he sold at a little eros.
roads store 5000 pounds of white western
meat in one month. Right here in ouI
town it is brought in by the car loads
weekly, if not daily. And so it is through
out all this section.
In the matter of corn it is quite as ba d
Messrs Boy den & Quinn have bought and
sold 10 the citizsns Of this county in less
than year twenty Thousand bushels o.
western corn. Ii they or others could not
have supplied this demand there would
have been absolute suffering. Others
here kept and sold corn also. Many o.
our merchants are compelled to replenish
their supply of -four from Richmond and
other places. 2:
With this state Of affairs, the scarcity OF
money is not strange. 1t should rather
be matter.of surprise that we have any
at all.
Now, what is the remedy for this i'm
poverishiDg state of affairs? Of course
it is difficult to tell. But it would seem
that to stop at once the importation o
every article that can be raised or made
at home would prove effectual. And
above all, rstnrn to the good old way OF
raising our own meat and bread. If oul
farmers persist in neglecting to do this
then money will continue to be scarce and
times hard.
1t is impossible for an agriculture
people to prosper who buy the necessariet
of life-their bread and meat.
If any people on earth could prosper By
raising oEe or two products, the Southern
people ought. They have monopoly, in
a measure, in the production OF two Oh
three OF the leading products OF the world
they cannot do it. 1t will not pay to
| on1 hnx
and bread.
Before the war those only who rails &c
cotton and suficiency of meat and bread
| prospered. Since the war those who have
tried the experiment of raising cotton anC
tobacco and buying their meat and corr
have grown poorer and poorer year BY
year. Really, seventy five per cent. o
the Southern farmers who have adopted
this plan are very much worse off than
they were at the end of the war, and each
year but adds to their rapidly increasing
poverty.
If change be not speedily brougb,
about, our farmers will soon be deserting
their once prosperous and still health y
farms in good old North Carolina aud g
vending their way to the lar west where
they can get hog and hominy cheap.
Neither the Grange, the Alliance, the
Wheel, nor any other organization car
| bring any relief to our poverty stricken
misguided, and mortgaged ridden people
until the farmers cease toraise cotton and
tobacco to buy bread and meat With
They must change the present method o
farming and rely more upon themselves
There is no help for it, SO long as the
present system is in vogue they must re
main poor and dependent and without
credit and influence with the commercial
world. No organization on earth car
prevent this nor help them unless they
singly aud individually help themselves
Independence at home is everYt hing
Salisbury Truth.
1 There has been discovered in th
forests OF India strange plant, whicl
possesses to very high degree astonish
ing magnetic power. The hand which
breaks Leaf receives Immediately shocl
equal to that which is produced by th
conductor of an induction coil At
distance of six metres magnetic needl,
is affected by it, and it will be quite de
ranged if brought near. The energy o
| this singular influence varies with tn,
hours OF the day. All powerful abou
2 O'Clock in the afternoon, it is absolutely
annulled during the night. AT times o
storms Its intensity augment to striking
proportions. During rain the plant seem
to succumb, and bends it's head during
thunder shower. 1t remains there with
out force of virtue, even if one shoult
shelter it with an umbrella. No shock i
felt at that time in breaking the leaves
and the needle is unaffected by it. On
never by any chance sees a bird or insec
alight on the electric plant; an instinc
seems to warn them that they would fin
their sodden death. Sd
The Wi1d Geese Fly Loso Ouer Louis
viNe.-LoUIsvILLE, Oct. 25.-The larges
fiocks of wild geese noticed in many year
have been passing over this city for sew
eral days on their annual migration t.
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