The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-11-15
THE EDITORS LEISURE Hou RS.
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.


Present, Past and Future.
The rapid rate at which the paper
demand is consuming wood pulp indi.
Gates that at no distant day the forests
of this country will be greatly
devastated. There meyer has
been such demand for paper and the
consumption increases largely every
year. The consumption of paper
material by the newspapers of the
country is something enormous.
Let those who wish and will, spend
their time speculating about the poll
tical situation now and what it will
be four years hence. But The Con-
suggests that there will be
time enough for us all to get in line
time enough to vote again after we
have given three solid years to our i'm
mediate business. Let us all get down
to business and work. Yes, let us
work. There is no need for idlers.
Every living mortal with good health
and ar opportunity ought to have
some kind of employment.
Out upon idlers, loafers, loungers,
gossips and tale-bearers.
Everlasting diligence at something is
the best motto.
THE press of the State is in a sug-
gestive mood since the election, Al
most every quill-drjver is ready with
wise suggestion about business and
labor. 1t is rather strange that many
people follow the lead of the newspa-
pers they believe in with implicit con-
fdence concerning matters political,
os,t will not do it in other matters.
Many times the undecided voter waits
to make up his mind according to the
advice of his favorite newspaper and
ofterner than not the pansr leads him
right.
Now, the papers give just as good
advice about business and farming and
such like as they do about pol
itical matters. Then why not follow
them?
The South's potentiality, in which
The COMMONWEALTH has great faith
md of which it has repeatedly spoken,
8 we'll described in the following, repro
Luced from the New York CONNER
lal in the Manufacturer Record:
'Nearly every State in the South is
great producer of raw materials, and
very Southern State sends away many
Millions of dollars annually for man.
lfactures that might be made by itself
r its nelghbors. In one item of fur
liture and woodenware the South
night easily make an enormous saving
very year to utilize the products Of
er own forests. Her workable woods |
row in great variety, and they should
ot be shipped to distant States only to
% returned in manufactured shapes |
Or southern consumption at greatly
prices.
"The South produces practically
very constituent that enters into COM
aercial fertilizers, yet she continues
. put the great bulk of these-and
er consumption of them is enormous
in outside States.
"Nearly every freight train and
that moves southwark
aries thither vast quantities of can
ed fruits vegetables and other food
roducts, of which the South is great
and of which she might
asily become a great packer were she
minded to utilize her own resources
o the limit.
"Her vegetable fioers, most OF
which now 60 to waste, have in them
,reat possibilities for matchmaking.
american upholsterers actually import
ghole cargoes of "African grass" and
tber fibers that are inferior to the
owly saw palmetto for mattresses and
urniture. And textile fabric as fine
nd as light as silk, and much more
Iurable and cheap, can be made from
he prickly leaf of the pineapple plant.
For warm-weather gowns the women
ok of the entire country would well
ome it and pay most literally for it,
,et the pineapple leaf dries up and
OTIS in the plantation burrows.
"And so the story might proceed.
,ne movement of manufacturing In
he South is sui in Its Infancy.
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