The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-12-11
NEW ENGLAND AND THE SOUTH
CONTRASTED.

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New England stands out in bold relief.
New England, a barren and bleak
country, whose water power was frozen
up five to six months in a year, and
the South, with a genial cline, espe
eially adapted to the establishment OF
manufactures New England, possess
ing In a limited degree the raw mate
rial to establish manufactures, must
import the raw material to run her
handkerchief. The South, possessing
boundless and unlimited resources; the
cotton at her door to manufacture ard
furnish the world, minerals in unlim
tied quantities TO establish all kinds OF
manufactures. As long as the policy
of New England and the South was the
same, the South lead the East IN wealth,
education and commerce. Toe sharp
New Englanders, with an eye to bust
ness. perceived that the manufacturers
Of Old England we're growing rich
manufacturing the cotton of the South
andthe raw material of other countries.
The policy of Old England is and has
been to pay a penny for the fox skin
and sell the tail back for a shilling, and
this policy made Old England rich
while the South remained poor. New
England secured a protective tariff and
began manufacturing the raw cotton of
the South, and she at Once forged to
the front and lead the South in educa
ton, wealth and commercial inf fence.
The South, with every advantage OF
climate, soil, unlimited quantity of
water power to establish a large variety
Of factories that would add wealth to
this section, remained poor. The leg
~islators of the South were theorists and
business impracticables who left her
vast resources of minerals lie locked up
In the soil and sold a dollars worth of
cotton and paid four dollars to get the
dollars worth back again. New Eng
land Legislators we're practical and en-
Outraged manufactures of all kinds
and created a home market for her
fruits and vegetables. The dominating
class in the South refused to take ad
vantage of her immense resources,
build factories and create a home mar
ket and convert her raw material into
finished products and exchange them
for such things as she did not produce.
Had the South put an import and ex
port duty on cotton, and manufactured
ell her raw cotton. she would have had
q monopoly on finished cotton goods
She could have fixed her price, made
her exchanges and controlled the fiscal
policy of the world and pushed up
prices and reversed the oppressive C
nomical system of England. The manu-
featuring of all the raw cotton athome,
the opening up and manufacturing of
her minerals would have created a
home market for hundreds of millions
eff dollars Of perishable farm produce
for which there is no market. It would
have created a home market for all the
surplus wheat, CORD, pork and beef
raised in the West. The cotton crop
of the South of 1891, if manufactured
in the South, would have sold for one
billion and two hundred million dollars
atpreeent prices. Thefruits, vegeta les,
poultry, etc, would have brought the
South a greater revenue than all the
cotton sold up to date. The So 2O3,
524 $50 pounds of cotton sold from 1873
to 1892, manufactured in the South,
won d have brought into the country
$27, 665 934 994; whereas, the raw co.,
ton sold for Sc, O92. 267. 72O, or a DOSAGE
on cotton to the South of 81 500, 667, 274
in nineteen years. Add to this the
DOSAGE to the South from not manufac
turing her minerals, and a lost home
market, and it will not fall under fifty
billion dollars during the last twenty
years, or two and one-half billion dol
lars annually.
The South had better chances than
New England to build manufactures.
She had all the natural resources and a
genial climate, and New England had
neither. With all of these disadvan-
tages, New England grew rich and
established schools to educate the
masses that are an honor toher energy,
while the South, with her vast resources,
remained poor, a monument to the
stupidity of the controlling class in the
South.
There is an imperishable conflict 60
ing on to day in The South between the
old political fossils ard the progressive
element that are ready t take advan-
tage of our immense and
establish a system that will develop
them and make lis rich hnild schnol