The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-11-26

timber of East Texas was shipped TO Chi
cago at freight rate OF $500 per car u
make into furniture there, giving EN-
ployment to and enriching hundreds o.
laborers in the North | talked with al
experienced furniture man who said ont
ear OF logs, by using some cheaper tim
Der. would make twenty cars OF furniture
Much OF this was shipped back to TeSaa
by rail at $3.50 per car we paying the
railroads in freight $3.50 ON a car OF logs.
If one fourth of this is true 1t won
pay TO manufacture at home. Could not
our timber be manufactured at home with
proft for much less than we pay freight?
We have to pay enormous profits on many
other articles. We receive from ! To 10
cents per pound for dry hides and buy
them back ID shoes at Sl50 per pound,
paying 100 per cent TO the North 10 manu-
facture. witch should be done at home.
We sell a bale OF cotton for $25 TO $50
and buy ii back for $3.50. The people uf
Texas will continue to be "hewers oil wood
and drawers OF water TO enrich othere
until they quit such suicidal practice,
Several OF our Southern States are shaking
off old fogylsm and manufacturing their
products at home. thereby furnishing lu-
cratiye employment to home citizens and
saving hundreds OF thousands Of dollars
each year In freight rates alone.
The States of North and South Carolina
ana GeOTBlu are eIbClluB ldglOEIt5 VI ooule
kind In almost every town. They form
stock companies the citizens invest all
spare capital In such enterprises, the re-
suit is that these States have greatly IN
creased in wealth; lands have doubled
in value; the farmers are prosperous, Tor
they find a ready market for all they can
produce. They receive from So 10 81 pen
bale more for their cotton than they would
II they had TO ship to Northern mills.
abused
being such a poor market for country
produce. Her citizens are not TO blame
Many are poor; vegetables OF all kinds
are produced in town, more than can he
consumed; many are supplied with chick
ems. eggs. butter, and hence can not buy
Mr.. Patton. Endorsed by Mr. Wetter-
mark. has written some interesting articles
of late favoring the building Of a cotton
mill here. Suppose we had cotton mill
and other manufactories here, employing
few husdred hands receiving lucrative
wages, who were nom producers OF farm
products. Our farmers would not only
receive moro for their cotton, but every
thing ;hey could raise would find ready
market at fair prices; every acre OF land
would enhance In value. We could then
diversity our products aad Get or ~ ~"
rut Of the credit system that proves snch
a curse to the creditor and debtor
VIII II pay the investor? One town IN
North Carolina has had three mills for
years, three now being erected. Every
report have seen from Southern mills
asserts that they pay from 20 10 80 per
cent. Surely II colossal fortunes can oe
made In bleak, cold New England, where
the, nave to pay heavy railroad fire. gu
both ways (which statistics show they
have made millions). why should they pot
pay In this genial climate, with the cotton
grown in sight OF the mill?
SOME say that 10 invest IN manufae-
tories would decrease our circulating me-
dunn. II would be the reverse. Tn:
stock is generally issued in shares OF s25
each; every holder receives a certificate
Of stock and they pass readily as money
often at great premium. and sometime
double. AS manufactures would greatly
benefit all, every citizen Of the county
white and black, snould take some stock.
! Some say we don't understand the busl-
ness and would have TO employ strangers,
We will never learn till we try. The
stockholders would elect the managers. w.
could find plenty Of good men who would
watch the interests of all.
The proposed cotton mill Is not Hen
derson enterprise. but for the entire coirii-
~. The writer has talked with many OF
the citizens mostly at Laneville and Min
den, and finds them ready 10 aid.
| respectfully suggest that the citizens
investigate this subject, talk u up, ana
let's have rouslng meeting at the court
house, and see what can be done.
We have turned the grindstone 20 GRIND
off our own noses long enough. THE gods
help those who help themsslyes Re-
spectfully. " ., Doyle