The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-08-20
HELP YOUR NElGHB0R.
DO Not Cry Down His Effort and Spend
Your Money with Strangers.

Editor of The Times:
Sir.-The South has am ugly fault. It
undertakes its own people Last week
in Georgia. am eminent citizen made bold
10 ten "a great cOncourse OF SOutherners
that "a Georgian might make am article
superior 10 the work OF any factory in
New England. yet the output OF the
Boston mill would Doe found not only in
competition with the home product but
pushing 10 aside. What is more detes-
tible2 There is much of the hog in a..
Watch "a shoat. Iie Will quit his own
trough FUN of corn and 20 10 the feed
ing box of distant hog for the ears
there He thinks they are better than
his own.
Twenty odd years sg 60 confederate sol
dicr began in "a small way 10 manuiac-
turc am article of value bon Virginia
city. lie had limited capital 4 power
ful house in Philadelphia, had well
nigh a monopoly. Notice was given that
they would crush him. But tine menace
of "a rich rival did not cut so keenly -
20 find In the chief stores OF the Nir-
ginia city the wares OF the noJthern and
competing factory though be would have
furnished a superior article right az their
doors.
lie was pressed hard by his rival. lie
received meagre encouragement from
home folks. IL Is possible he would nave
been pushed 10 the wall had not one man
Of means got enlisted IN the contest.
They shall never beat YOU lie loan
ed him good round sum- lie won. Inc
city which never clcered him, saw
great factory built and many people
furnished with good wages.
There was another Illustration given
me Nirginian made "A scientific dis
n "a INanffHIE. lie De-
gan in am obscure building on back
street for his resources were moderate.
The business men" and their clerks
passed the sorry old structure. lausntd
at the boiling and steWing OF Dulls. IN
"a word they did every thing they could
To- disuIrit and discrrdIt their struse ing
fellow citizen. II persons lh distant
cities enQulred OF the value OF inns pio-
duct. the Virginian replied win JoAe
about 20 and OF course cut inc 'Hloal ~.
the enterprise. one man t0iled 20 build
nm "a new business. Ills ueghbors exert
ed themselves 10 pull DO DOWN iney
hamstrung him al home ana abroad; Tor
they seemed willing 90 work without
wages if they could damage MIN ana pre-
vent the success OF ne" business III
their city.
We heard related the terrible ordeal ne
went through. without q Woru OF iile,lu-
~ interest or good will. rather meeting
everywhere with a smile Of inereauuly
or suppressed sheer, be tussed ana 'us
ged at the laboring oar. lie mortsaseu
his h0me-all his property. ne SPs".
tire fourths OF the borrowed sum, 80 ,5e
the business was not on paying pass, ~
toiled during the day early anu -
walking the floor Of his room at nl5ll''
haunted by forebodings. He kne" ne
had discovered a preparation OF nish
value lie might ruin himseH IN a.,
tempting 10 interest the world As ms
last thousands We're melting away '.-0
sales grew greater than the expenses
The tide had turned. Not Nirslil,e'i a.
but distant peoples had recosnlzea i's
worth. He lived TO see a rich return tor
his grit, when his fabricated tood he'u
the foremost place in army ana navy
hospitals in Europe and Asia-but NOT III
Virginia.
We were present when man OF analTS'
whose name is a synonym for CONNER
cial success. residing in northern Guy
made an observation on this southern
trait-the peculiar littleness animanEelr
ed on by the Georgian. The Philadeiphiah
remarked that the want or puoAc sp"''