The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-04-15

phone and calls to the stock-yards,
and while lie is ringing every beef
market in the city is ringing for the
stock yard. Each one calls out to
the stock man, "Send more beeves;"
"Send more beeves;" "Send more
beeves." The stockman excitedly
shouts: "Wbat is the matter?n
The reply comes back: "Nothing,
only the liquor money is going for
meat" Great applause In every
city in the United States the same
thing has happened, we will say.
The stock yards send out their men
through the country on horseback,
in gallop, to huy beeves to meet
the demands. Every few miles a
stockman meets another and says:
"HOllJ, where are you going?"
Buying cattle;" Buying cattle;"
Buying cattle;" Buying cattle"
And this chorus rings through the
country. The old farmer catches
the chorus. and smiles as he sees his
cattle reaching Il price at which he
can afford to raise them. From the
beef market we all 90 to the grocery
store and order -four. "Send up a
sack of -four" "Send up sack of
four" "Send up sack of four"
"Send up sack of flour" And as
the groceryman throws down his
last sack of -four and sees the fifty
men waiting for sack of -four, he
says: "What is the matter?" Every
groceryman IN the city telephones
to the mills: "Send up a wagon
load Of -four" "Send up wagon
load of flour; :" "SeDd up wagon
load of four" "Send up a wagon
load of -four" The mills cry back:
"What is the matter?" And the
answer comes: "The liquor money
is going for -four Applause. The
wheat buyers are sent out through
the country, singing in the chorus.
bringing in the sheaves," while
the sickle of the busy farmer plays
the accompaniment, and the farm
ers of the country are the smiling
auditors as they realize that they
are to have good price and ready
sale for their wheat. Applause
Next we all go down to the dry
goods store and begin to order calico:
"Give me calico" "Give me Calico"
"Give me calico ;""Give me calico"
And as the merchant cuts off the
last piece OF calico, looks at the
store full of men waiting, he rushes
to the telegraph office and wires the
wholesale house to send him more
calico. The wholesale man comes
into hiG office, and there is a stack of
kilograms from every section of the
United States, and he begins to
read the kilograms. And they read:
"Send calico;" 'Send calico;"
"Send Calico" "Send calico" He
writes to the cotton markets of the
South, and, as lis message goes
through, all the wholesale buyers
send messages through the South to
Buy cotton;" buy cottOn;" "Buy
cotton '"Buy cotton" And all the
cotton of the South finds a ready
market at a good price. An ad-
vance in cotton means an advance
in hogs and mules and wages, and
this means prosperity to the middle
classes. AS the price of meat, -four,
and cotton advances prosperity
comes to the country. To turn the
pro rata of this twelve hundred mil
lion dollars into manufactures and
into all OF our industries, as it would
naturally go, every idle wheel would
buzz, and every idle man would
have job. The saloon takes only
: a man, and the dry-goods store
takes five; the saloon takes one man,
and the cotton mill takes a hum
dred. Stop the saloons and turn the
money into Legitimate business, and
: there would not be men enough in
the United States to run the shops
and stores and factories. The cry
would be, "Give us men," aud not
) the everlasting cry, "Give US job. "
Applause
But let us take the home end of
this twelve hundred million dollars
spent for meat and -four and calico
l got my part of it, and 1 am poor