The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-02

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we get the whole outfit for all these
things ready to go to work.
Abrother writing to Bro. Barnes asks:
eff they don't get the amount asked
for by the specified time will they re-
fund the m 0ney4" 81 think" he says,
"our Alliance will take stock, bus they
want to see their way clear first. and
then they are ready for any good
work" Those brethren are right; they
should never jump into any scheme
or enterprise before they understand
it. When they investigate for them
selves then they act with more conf
dence and are less liable to make mis-
takes. To these brethren and to all
others we will say, if the enterprise
doesn't succeed, that is if we do not get
enough by the specified time to pur
chase the property, your contribution
goes back to you. We have no dream
of failure, however. We do not believe
the brethren will let this move fail. 1t
can, it will, it must be a SUCCESS
1t is the idea of the prime movers in
this enterprise to add on to this plant
and machinery by degrees, by contri-
buttons from the brethren and Ali
ances, and by saving the profits accru-
ing from the business until we manu-
facture under the same Alliance own
ership and management our hats,
clothing, farm implements, cooking
utensils. guano and about everything
we need, or as nearly all as possible.
Don't forget that this movement is
but the seed-corn, the nucleus around
which we will bring and add other en-
terprises as we need them. This the
Alliance can do, and this no other COM
pany or organic alton in the State OF in
the South can do.
Why should we not manufacture our
own wool hats2 There are only 80 hat
factories in this country. These, &C
cording to the census report, clear an
annual profit of 81 ,O4O, 978, which, you
see, is $32. 500 to the facsory-$38.35
clear on each 800 invested. The aver
age outfit for a hat factory, including
land, building and machinery, is $46,-
600. They r located where lands and
buildings are high-in large cities.
Then they make every style of hat and
to keep up with fashions must change
machinery constantly, or every season.
We would wish to make but a few
styles and could do with less than &c.,
600 for machinery. This could be
placed on the upper floor of the shoe
factory and leave oom enough for
manufacturing clothing or other things.
AS to clothing. Reports show that
1881, 019 900 was the value of the ouput
of the clothing manufactures of this
country In 1890, and their net profits
were $50, 1916, O63. The output, then, is
more than $500 per year per capitafor
the whole population. This makes the
quota for North Carolina Sc, All, 788.
Remember these are factory prices,
which are but little if any more than
half what the consumer pays. Why
should we not raise our own sheep, eat
the mutton and have the wool spun,
woven and manufactured into clothing
or made into hats in our own factory.
The tariff alone that we would save
would 5000 double our circulating me-
dunn.
There are go establishments with a
capital of $145, 313, 977 engaged in man
ufacturing agricultural implements.
The average profit to the factory is
$19, O4O pery year. Theper capita quota of
this output for North Carolina is 50, O99,-
$50. If we made our own farm nipple
ments in the State and used them,
even if in their manufacture and use
we didn't seem to clear one cent, we
would add, by keeping it in the State, 80
per cent. to u circulating medium
the first year.
We will now review a little, and see
what we have learned. We have found
that we send out of the State annually
for goods at factory prices, not includ-
ing imports, as follows:
For shoes. $500, 1876
For clothes. -. ........ 6,471, 7SS
For hats. ...........:..... 1O4, sos
For agricultural implements 1909, 1856
For these four items alone. $14, 375, 748
When we remember. that these are
the prices of the goods at the fac
tory after the factory profit has been
added aid not the price we pay that
all the salaries and railroad and hotel
expenses Of an army of drummers;
that freights. draYaga. leakage. steal