The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-04
CHARGE AND REBUTTAL.

We find the following in an Arkan- sas contemporary. and though it Is rather lengthy we give it space be- cause of the significance of it's truths:
 The average Arkansas citizen im- agines that ne lives at home, but he doesn't. He gets up in the morning and puts on socks made in New York, shoes made in Boston, pants made in Ohio. then slips a pair of Connecticut suspenders over his shoulders. He dips some water from a Missouri bucket with Chicago dlpper and puts 1t in an Illinois washpan, and washes his Ar
 kansas face with a cake of St. Louis soap. He dries his face with a Rhode Island towel and reaches his hair with a Vermont comb. He drinks Cuban coffee from an Indian3 cup and saucer, sweetened with sugar from Louisiana and stirred by New York spoon. His knife, fork and plate are made in the North, and his tablecloth ditto. He eats a piece of Chicago ham fried in Kansas lard, sops his St. Louis biscuit seasoned with Boston soda and Michi- gan salt, into Louisiana molasses. lie wipes his mouth on a Vermont napkin and seats his family in Michigan chairs around a table from the same State. His meal was cooked on a St. Louis stove with wood cut with Pittsburg axe and hauled in an Indiana wagon, The citizen then puts a Boston brldie and harness on a Missouri mule, gets out his blow and works in a field en- cumbered, in all probability, with a New York mortgage. He returns at night and satisfies his appetite With another imported meal, hlls his 1ndi- ana lamp with Pennsylvania oil and lights it with New York match. He then fills his Illinois pipe with North Carolina tobacco and settles down in a Northern chair for comfortable smoke. When bedtime comes he takes h ia R1hla WbiPh printed in Massachusetts, reads a chap ter, says prayer composed in Jcrusa- lem. then retireS to bed, slips under his imported covers and is kept awake for two long hours by the howl of hls Arkansas dogs, which are the only home products he has on his farm.
 We cannot say just how much of this will apply to Alabama, but we are sure that more of it fits us than is to our credit as a State and as people. We ought not to buy from outsiders any thing scarcely that is made of cotton, iron, steel or wood. for we have all the raw materials for the manufacture Of such articles and could make them at home as well as they can be made else where if we would resolve to do it and go at it in the right way, but we don't
 and that's the whole of it.
 We note that The Little Rock Ga zette Is not disposed to rest under tho indictment without putting in a re- buttal. which it does by saying that "Arkansans wear many shoes that were made in Boston, but Boston uses many boat oars that were made in Arkansas
 And though we buy shoes from Boston
 Boston and many other cities buy shoe lasts that were made from Arkansas dogwood We dry our faces with tow els made in Rhode Island, but the mills of Rhode Island shoot through then looms thousands of shuttles made from . Arkansas perslmmon wood We huy { certain cleaning article made in New l York, but one of its important ingre
 dients comes from the vicinity of IIo | Springs. We do cut our wood witt 1 axes made in Plttshurg but people al over the United States sharpen thail edged tools with homes and whetstono. i from Arkansas. We do use Chicag,
 ham, but we send much Arkansas full
 Thousands of people in other States us ! products of aluminium that was mad
 from Arkansas bauXite, Various arti
 cles of clothing have buttons tha
 came from the factories at Newport Clarendon or Black Rock. Much of tn