The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-04-30

diaries; and the wines for our banquet
from our own wine presses. Al our next
banquet we will eat this years
fruits and vegetables in our
own cannerles, so We are getting to
be able to take care of our own selves.
Our good old friend, DR.. Worth, once
said to me as We were riding along
country road in the month of June: If
we had just four years of war times in
North Carolina without any war, we
would be the richest people on the
globe. And so we would be. If We lived
within our production from rye, coffee
and sorghum to homespun cloths and
rag dolls, without the waste of war, what
happy people the lesson of self denial
thrift and the habits of accretion de-
rived from them would leave US. One
other branch of manufacturing that we
have that would not do to omit, and
that is the manufacture of healthful
! public sentiment. Our press does an
active business in this commodity. 1t
should be better patronized, because it
makes what all Of US of every shade Of
belief and opinion participate in and
benefit by. It has no tariff to protect
it. 1t stands upon it's merits. It not
only gives employment. but it makes it.
Now, as to what we expect to be and
as to what this Chamber hopes to make
Raleigh. Have we in the crude products
of the country that are sold in our
open market and that can be grown and
end that can be sold here, am
pie materials for prosperous manufac-
turing community? Why should not
our cotton factory be only No. l of a
total of dozen Why should ,4e not
have one woolen mill and score of
tobacco factories and dozen wood
working factories and an agri-
cultural implement factory and all
sorts of factories that send work
to the homes of all who can find time to
accept it2 II these meetings keep alive
the determination to do this, the annual
banquet will be occasions of rejoicing in
our progress as a city, and evidence of
the comfort and happiness Of the good
people, and the Chamber of Commerce
will itself, be the largest manufacturer
of that most invaluable product a
healthful, active, comprehensive, public
spirit.
Mr.. Charles f.. johnson.
It's benefits to our city and to the farm el
have been exceedingly great. May its
usefulness continue and increase until
it shall handle each season many hun.
dred thousand bales of this staple fol
the producer.
NJ Johnson said that it must be ad
mltteG that there was a prejudice in the
nd, Of
This was owing to the fact that their Oh
cts were misunderstood He was glad
however, that the great public Was be
ginning to realize that exchanges, banks
&c, were necessary for the facilitating
of business, and were necessary for busl
, ness. Ii the banks aud exchanges fall
the other business Of the country suf
ferS. He went on to show how ths
price Of silver bullion in Londo1
would effect the price Of the cotton 0
the back country farmer here, how th
r information concerning these business
matters was disse minated by exchange
: and prevented disaster at all times an(
frequently proved advantageous to tn
? producers of the country. He sad il tn
r cotton trade of Raleigh should be wipe,
out, the city would suffer an annua
: business loss loss of 81, 100000. Th
i cotton exchange sought to hold thi
3 trade, to cultivate and attract it, an,
he thought it incumbent on every goo
/ citizen to aid the exchange in Fostering
the cotton trade, and this he hoped for
Mr.. William C. Moore.
a 5. RALEIGH TOBACCO EXCHANGE:
! Situated in the midst of the "Golde
Belt it ever keeps careful watch owe
the interests of the farmer in securing fo
him the very best market prices and tn
: quickest disposal of his crop.
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN OF tn
y RALEIGH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.:
SIRs: The toast that your master {
; ceremonies has just offered is one tha
: touches chord Of sympathy within m
= heart, to the interests Of the weed ths
IS is enormously supposed to be one of th
luxuries of life 1t has been aptly n
l. marked by some one, ''Give me the Luz
n uries of life and I'll have no care for th
r necessities
y But, sirs, in my humble opinion, t
0 bacco is one of Raieighs greatest nece
d sites just nov. Give to her this or
luxury, $50 called" in that proportio
e and quality the territory surroundir
n her is capable of producing, and yo
it will hear no cry among her citizens f
lie the necessities. They will come purin
n into Luxury's lap from every quarter.
or Mr.. Robt Ingersoll has SAID give
* the savage in the wilds of Africa tobac'
20 and he will hunt ivory" I say, give 10 Ra
IS eigh tobacco in quantity and quality
g just indicated and she, too, will hu
lg ivory-in the way of largely increas'
manufacturing interests, IoG alone
ID tobacco (and no other will ever pay
tx bette) but in all manufacturing int
p ests She will build iron furnace
US add to your cotton and wagon manufa
e toring plants; she will build your mu
he coveted hotel and opera house, and W
enter upon such an era Of general pr(
C. perity as will throw in the shade t
70 prosperous days '68 to '73 of your cit,
to greatest boom.
co Gentlemen. this is not the time, q
ke have the inclination to 60 into the pa
he history Of the tobacco interest of 20
ry city. They are familiar to most
you, from the day the Stronac
by threw her banner to the breeze in St
re tember, 1884, to the present time. b
to sirs, could wish that the time allott
ic mo oovo opportunitv for fau words