The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-12
u N EFFECT.
Some Practical Thoughts for all Our
Readers--Raise Your Own Supplies
and Manufacture Your Own
Products.

1865 q citizen OF Kentucky was seen
crossing the Ohio river with a bundle
of pillow attachments, needing repairs,
and which work he said he was going
to. make the Yankees do, stating at
the time that the Yankees set the
negroes free in order to make the
Southern white people work, but that
he intended to make the Northern PEG.
pie work, and he would do nothing
| that he could make them do" This
sentiment appears to have controlled
| the great mass of Southern people, and
the effect Of it has been to give profit
| able employment to the population Of
the New England States, in manufac-
turing for us every article Of necessity
and luxury that we use, and has also
given employment to the Northwestern
| farmer, and has made good markets
for their horses, mules, beef, pork,
lard, corn, wheat, hay, syrup and
other products furnished for the sup
port of the Southern people, and for
the production Of the cotton crop. This
has aided in building up the Western
States, and making their land more
valuable. By employing the Northern
and Western people to work for us,
raising a large portion of our bread
and meat, and doing our manufacture
ing,) we are enabled to raise large
crops of cotton, and thereby furnish
the spindles of New England and
Europe with cotton at a very low price,
and it also gives the Southern people
much leisure time.
The practical result of this idea is,
that when a child is born in the South
it is dressed in French or Yankee
| clothing, and is laid in a cradle from
| Ohio or Michigan, it is fed from q Con
necticut spoon, OF a Pennsylvania bot
tie, and is given New England toys
When older, we find the boy clad in
clothes from Philadelphia, shoes and
hat from Massachusetts, seated in a
chair and at a table from Grand Rapids,
Michigan, the table is covered with a
cloth and napkins from Rhode Island,
the plates and dishes are from New
Jersey, the knives, forks and spoons
are from Connecticut, meats from Hi
nois, bread from Minnesota flour, tire
butter, cheese, syrup, condensed milk,
pickles, canned vegetables and fruit
from Maine, New York or other No tn
ern States, the crackers and hominy
from Baltimore, the rice, poultry, fish
and vegetables from his own section.
| When the lad enters school, heis seated
at a desk made in Indiana. He studies
United States History end other sub
jects from books written and published
in New England and New York; he is
even thrashed with a New Hampshire
ruler and plays with Vermont marbles
and with a bat from Michigan and when
he becomes a man, and a farmer, we
may meet him on his way home,
dressed in Northern clothes, shoes and
hat, seated in an Indiana wagon, driv-
ing New York horses, or Missouri
mules, with, Baltimore harness and
using q whip from Connecticut; the
load will probably consist of pork or
beans from Chicago, corn from Illinois,
-four from Minnesota, hay from Maine,
syrup from Philadelphia, fertilizer
from Baltimore, agricultural nipple
ments from Pennsylvania and tobacco
from North Carolina, all to be used in
connection with Southern sun, rain
and negro labor in the production of
Cotton, with which to give additional
employment to Northern operatives.
He will also have the usual supply of
clothing, etc, for his family, all of
which have been purchased by giving
a mortgage on his cotton crop.
When this man dies, he is buried in
a coffin brought from Ohio, his a
is dug with a Massachusetts, shovel,
and if he has been able to carry a New
England Life Insurance policy a Yer
mont tombstone will be placed over
his remains. and his relatives clad in
yankee mourning, will wonder why
the South is so poor, and the North is
so rich, and they will usually conclude
that it is the fault of the middle man,
Congress, Or Wall street, not realizing
that the wealth of a country is simply
the aggregate of the labor and produc-
ton OF its own citizens.
IF the South ever becomes prosperous
and wealthy, each citizen must pro
duce more than he consumes; or if
we Will continue to make the North
ern people do our work, we should in
sist upon it, that at least n half of
those we employ must come South and