The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-12-10

was q class OF small manrfa
such as makers OF carriages, waror
aha farm implements coopers. VIII.
wrights, distillers, tanners ha.+o-r
and makers of boots and shoes
nets and chairs, who thrived dow
1860. Indeed. If the antebelIv~.
dustrlal promise a been entire
TILED today, manufactures wor54
more diversified tina they are.
greatest danger to these ind.S.-
was really not slavery but tn
petition OF manufactures II
States n the distant markets
lection was sought in a series ~
Which imposed discriminatory l..,
taxes. Peddlers or statesmen r<
rlages not made in North O..
were required to pay a tax If
each county and establishments
Ing carriages, any part Of VIII.
made of material imported .r-
State, were taxed slO0; but if III.
rlageS were made entirely ~
Carolina material, the tax w.
$40. Likewise drummerS sell.r
not grown or manufactured
State were taxed $50: ped3ler.
ing on land the manufactures ~
States paid a tax of $50 in each
ty; the retailer of liquors
CURED to pay 10 per cent if
was bought outside Of North Cr.-
II he p~atrOniZed home diSt6.r- .
PAID only ; per cent. Now thus,
were clearly in conflict with TIL,
eral constitution; but the North
lima legislators either never read -s :
document, or if they did, th.> .--
garded it. Nothing better iHIt--r--
the contrast between interstate ...
merce regulations then and now tH.-
these provisions of the ant-i. ..,,
revenue code. Now, if these IKE
protecting the North Carolina n-
~1acturer against his competitor 81. Nr-
plnI1 and South ', rAti-
thing, was not q national law .tn.rt-
ing protection to all American rr.r..
1actures against foreign competition
also something to be desired
not surprising therefore to lind Gr.-
ernor M~orehead explaining t. tlA
Legislature Of 1912 the true doctrine,
n benefits Of the protective pr.l-
ciples.
There were two Very suggestive
manifestations Of this Industrial Spin.
in North Carolina worthy Of emphasis.
They were strongly in evidence in the
decade before the Civil War. Flrst
was a tendency toward industrial .r-
dependence Of other States. espe, tv
those Of the North and East. The
numbe Of manufacturing estah4.-l-
ments increased SO per cent from NO
TO 1860, n capital invested 39 bor
cent and the products SO per cent.
Contemporary with this development
the Raleigh Standard, the most III
newspaper of the time, called
on the people to patronize honre upI
chants and manufactures III prefer
ence to those of the North. We
must learn" said the editor. was
people to stand alone and to i've ~
much as possible within ourSeI&rs.
thus a conviction grew that North
carolina was different from the sister
States, a kind of industrial State
pride Developed which ended to
widen into d sense of sectional nation
atty. Undoubtedly here was an t"o-
nomic basis for the secession s-tti-
ment that triumphed in 1851. Tha
other manifestation Of the industrial
spirit was the rise Of class conscious
ness on the part of the mechanics and
those not identified with the slav, sys-
tenn. It found expression in tho id
vaIorem taxation campaign of 1875
n 1850. and had it not beer FIR
the national issue Of the latter year
the Wing party would propahly have
carried the State on the ad NaiorrIn
issue.
Now, all the information at present
available regarding the industries and
the industrial class IN North Carolina
IS IN q comparatively small number
or sources. We need a search for more
information. Moreover. how thor
ough1y the manufacturing spirit per-
meated h Piedmont, and the CON
unulty between it and the industrial
Phenomena of today, nave yet to be
revealed; also, the amount and the
distribution OF the wealth derived from
the State protection to industries Of
fers a worthy subject for tudv as Vel
as the class feeling against slavery
prior to the ad valorem campaign.
Here is an opportunity to make 3
study Of those conditions which most
dlnerentiated North Carolina from the
larger siave-holding States In the paos
n which have established its indus
trial supremacy OF today.
These economic conditions are net
merely OF local Importance; they are
vitality related to the social history q
the southwest and the northwest. Al
uacteo by better opportunities hosts
OF North C~arolinianS Joined the end
less procession of the migration 81
those regions All estimates OF the
migration from North Carolina prior