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THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1890.
GOOD COUNTY ROADS.
While our county people are
themselves in the
improvements The
urges they do not
the most important
bestirring
matter! of
Democrat
overlook
matter which they can consider,
viz. : the
county
railroad
scheme can
betterment
of our
-
roads. Next to great
thoroughfares, no
tend more; it j so
much, to the direct improve
ment of the country, as good,
permanently fixed roads. There
is nothing n all the economy of
public improvements can equal
this1 in direct benefit to the
farmer. To make good roads
throughout Buncombe will cost
money, no doubt about that ;
but to continue the present sys
tem will certainly cost a great
directly, besides de
the values of the
Mi
What can be done?
the County Alliance
call a meeting, discuss the mat
ter fully, appoint a committee
deal more,
predating
farm lands,
(pannot
of its most
intelligent members
to co-operate with a committee
of citizens
not members of the
Alliance, but who are willing to
co-operate
matter, let
in so important j a
this committee seek
and investigate and report,! and
all formulate a reasonable, prac
tical plan to submit to our coun
ty authorities ? We ask any
farmer who lives five miles or
more from Asheville, who has
produce to haul to town, if jit
would not pay them better to
have roads . one pair of gopd
horses or mules could pull from
a ton to : a ton and a half over
readily, than to keep our pres
ent system, which compels them
to make from three to five loads
of the same quantity. Let! our
farmers and business men come
together and try to devise some
means to secure them better
roads. The Democrat is for
any reasonable plan mat may
be devised.
THE MANUFACTURERS' RECORD
This journal, published at
Baltimore, in its recent Special
Bankers' Edition, in which was
reviewed fully and elaborately
Southern progress during! the
past fewSyears, rendered I a1 ser
vice to the1 South that cannot
l)e overestimated, if fully ap
preciated. It was a great, al
most startling, presentation 'of
the growth and development
and resources of a grand section
of our Union, and for sucli work
the Record deserves the earnest
thanks of . the whole country.
In its last issue are letters of
commendation of the enterprise
of the Record and of the im
provement of the South, from
Vice-President Morton. Secre
taries Blaine. Windom, Wana
maker. Noble and Rusk, Sena
tors Morrill, Sherman, Ha,wley
Vest and Reagan. In its! next
will be letters from Congress
men and other statesmen.
Record is doinjr the South a
great service, truly.
The
think their own section the most
favored, jl am
tion to the rule!
not an excep
While I realize
that the advantages of other
sections are great, I am thor
oughly convinced that Western
North Carolina East lennessee,
Southwest
Georgia and
Virginia, North
Alabama is to be
in the near future the location
of the great iron industry of the
Union.
"The fact is patent to the
world that the South now is
marching on to greatness with
rapid strides. It is a source of
wonder even to us who are here
in the midst of it."
Within a few!
ville are beds
miles of Ashe
of as fine mag
netic ores as can be found, and
The Democrat hopes to see
them utilized at an early date.
The Madison
owned by the
county beds,
company about
to establish ! large works at
Greensboro, and now about to
be worked, will attract early
attention pf capitalists to the
other beds which exist in that
county and Buncombe. Let us
have a good plant at Asheville.
THE DEMOCRAT.
Merchants, patrons and visi
tors express themselves as
greatly pleased with The Demo-,
crat, specially j the interest it
takes in the material resources
and development of our city
and entire -section. A conserva
tive policy, with an eye single
to the general good and without
reference to selfish interests,
shall govern The Democrat in
all it suggests or approves. We
are pleased, however, to receive
the general and generous corn-
all the people
endeavoring to
mendation! of
whom we i are
serve.
specimens
beds and
HOME INDUSTRIES.
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The Democrat is pleased at
all times to chronicle the estab
lishment of industries in any
part of our State. The Eliza
beth City Economist recently
said: ' j
"We were shown on Friday
of juniper fibre for
I mattresses which
seemed to us much better adapt
ed to the purpose than shucks.
The fibre was prepared by the
Buffalo Company at East
Lake." j
Onr mountain hemlock or
spruce is the' equal of the juni
per for such purposes, and our
mountains! abound with this
timber. Why not such an en
terprise in this section ?
And what anjj opportunity is
offered here for a paper pulp
mill. With unsurpassed water
power near this j city, and with
an inexhaustible supply of hem
lock, poplar, yhite pine and
such woods literally going to
waste, what ; an opportunity is
here offered for capitalists.
The Democrat invites atten
to the subject.
Again. The Groldsboro Head
light informs us :
"The Wavne Agricultural
Works has just
finished a tre
mendous fire bell, for this
which
city,
will I favorably compare
with an v northern manufacture
It is cast out of
metal,! and weig
pounds." !
Who would have thought, a
little while
done!
being
State ?
ago
in
Let all
be encouraged
the finest bell
is nearly 1 .500
i
of such work
S
the Old North
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such endeavors
l)y our people.
It is such as these1 which become
works, giving employ-
and diffusing
great
ment to labor
good all round.
While on this s
OF
THE GREAT IRON ' CENTRE
THE FUTURE. !;
I. Mayes,, in a recent
Mr. N
letter to the Chattanooga Trades
man, says :
"Verily the South has j been
wonderfully blessed by nature,
and, as a matter of fact, the
world is just beginning to learn
about it. While the past five
years have produced wonders in
all departments of business, the
next five will reveal far more.
The 1 entire South is just upon
an era of prosperity, the like of
which it has never known.
"It. is natural for people to
ubject of Home
Industries, we recur to the fol
lowing taken from the Raleigh
News-Observer, it being the jre
suit of an interview with Gov
to
News-Observer
j Fowle just; after his visit
Charlotte. The
says : i
' ' Chatting with Go v. Fowle yes
terday about his visit to Char
lotte, he expressed himself as
highly pleased at the cordiality
that were ex-
He said;
Charlotte was
m i f f . I i
one oi the most progressive
towns he had ever seen, and one
matter which commended itself
to his appreciation particularly
was Charlotte's new cotton
mills and the plan of their es
tablishment; These factories
and hospitality
tended him there.
moreover, that
stallment plan, and the arrange
ment is one
any one, it
which will allow
matters not how
limited his salary, to take
stock. Weekly payments of
twenty-five cents entitles a man
pf one hundred
he can pay only
twenty-five cents a week until
ine snare is paia ior ana sun
enjoy the profits of the factory
all along. In1 like manner fifty
to one share
dollars, and
cents
doubles
the
of
amount
ctrkrlr ariH -cr rvn nn TVio 1 drwr-
ernor is very enthusiastic over
the plan and thinks with it as a
basis another I cotton factory
could be started in Raleigh at
once. Several parties would be
doubtless willing to make week
ly payments j of ten dollars
which would entitle them to
$4,000 of stock, others would
pay 35c, 50c. land $1. In this
way $100,000 of stock would be
readily disposed of. The plan
of payment is so easy ,that ev
erybody could go into it. The
Governor himself will take a
liberal amount of stock. What
does Raleigh think about it?"
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We commend this plan to our
Buncombej county Alliance
which is endeavoring to estab
lish a large wagon and agri
cultural implement factory at
this place,
enough to
On j this plan stock
establish the works
can be readily secured, and the
work established. We have as
good mechanicsjand machinists,
as fine timbers, and as fine facil
ities for disposing of the goods
as any point in the South. The
Democrat urges all our people
to unite in such enterprises.
They mean the building up of
our country on a solid perma
nent basis. New England got
her start by such efforts. Let
our people not despise the day
of small things.
REFORM NEEDED.
If it could be so fixed that
Congressmen cpuld not collect
their salaries j until adjourn
ment, and then in proportion
only for the time served at the
present rate allowed, work
would be done much more rap
idly than now. The whole
country demands tax reduction
and reform, and the great busi
ness interests oi the country
all interests wo may say are
involved not onjy in the system
itself, but in any changes which
may be proposed ; and yet Con
gress, its members quietly
drawing their pay as wanted
and not afflicted, generally, by
outside business interests, will
fritter away time, Republicans
in discussing how not to give
relief, and thej Democrats in
telling over again the same old
story of the people's wrongs.
If the Republicans are not going
to do anything let them say so,
and the people ban know what
to rely on, at least until they
get a chance next fall to reverse
tlie outrage of last election and
return men whp are willing to
dp something for the masses
and not exclusively for the
classes. Republican members
of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, -which committee alone
is I allowed to frame revenue
laws, gave it out, so reports a
dispatch from Washington, that
they will have a tariff bill ready
to j report early in February,
two months after the meeting
of i Congress, and they speak of
this as something for which
they are to be co nmended. The
dispatch says :
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" The Republican members of
the Ways and Means Commit
tee held an informal meeting
last night, and, it is understood,
agreed to endeavor to report a
tariff bill the first week in Feb
ruary. .!!' it ;
'f They agreed that the Senate
bill should be the basis of their
action, and that their alterations
in it should be made on its prin
ciples. They agreed that there
coal, free iron
provisions in
should be no free
ore or free wool
the bill, nor, indeed, any pro
vision for any free raw material
of j any importance, unless it
should be sugar. j '
'f. The disposition is to cut the
sugar duty down; low or to cut
it away altogether, giving the
cane, beet and Sorghum sugar
raisers a bounty."
Existing monopolies and
trusts are not only to be pro
tected, but the whole country is
to be taxed for bounties to su
es - r t i . i j
gar producers. This is certain
ly a sweet proposal to the over
burdened masses, but just what
can only be expected from the
monopo
party.
y-ridden
Republican
States
region
GET READY IN TIME.
Secretary Rusk, of the De-
partment of Agriculture, in a
recent letter to the Baltimore
Manufacturers' Record upon
Southern Progress, makes the
following timely observations :
! "The natural facilities of the
South for the production of this
great cotton crop, aided and di
rected by the intelligence which
constantly seeks improvement,
must assure for all time the su
premacy of our Southern
as the cotton producing
of the world, The South has a
climate and soil well adapted
to producing all the crops nec
essary to provide its inhabi
tants with food, and thej rapid
increase jin its production of ce
reals during the past few years
is extremely gratifying, and so
is the wonderful increase in
value of 'life stock; and in this
connection I would call your
attention to the special impor
tance of the horse, dairy and
sheep interests. The great de
velopment of your ! manufactur
ing interests in the South will
soon create an extraordinary
demand for heavy draft norses.
There is no reason; why this de
mand should not be supplied by
Southern farmers! j if they will
prepare for it in time. In the
dairy interest many sections of
the South have already given
evidencej of most gratifying
progress; and I can only say
that with the early establish
ment in! j this department of a
division devoted especially to
the dairy, it will be my pleasure
as well as my duty, to aid this
development to the fullest ex
tent possible. With reference
to the sheep, I notice in this
branch of live stock, and in this
alone, a falling of in valiies be
tween 1879 and 1889. I! trust
that thej j forthcoming decade
will show a very different rec
ord, and that in the meantime,
Southern farmers will give more
attentiori than heretofore to the
raising of mutton sheep, j for
which I am satisfied a j great
many sections of the South' are
peculiarly well adapted. " j
In commending all the Secre
tary says The Democrat wishes
specially to emphasize what is
said relative to the raising of
heavy draft horses in the South.
Western North Carolina is spe
cially, almost peculiarly, adapt
ed to stock raising J and we are
pleased to say our people have
made much improvement, not
only in quantity but specially
in quality during the past dec
ade. There is vast room for
improvement in both respects
however.; We wish all of our
farmers could see the magnifi
cent Norman horses recently
brought to this place and now
used on the Vandefbilt proper
ty. They are, horses for a fact,
and just such as! are rapidly
being wanted, not! only in our
own section but throughout the
South. The farmers of Western
Carolina aught to act promptly
on the suggestion of Mr. Rusk,
and "begin in timei'j to develop
this branch of thej stock busi
ness . with other branches men
tioned as well. It will
put
money in their purses. Who
will be t
this not a
ae first to move?
Is
live subject for Alii
ance action and co-bperatioh.
The sensation in Congress
week was
last
the introduction in
the Senate by Senator Butler, of
South Carolina, of a bill for the
deportation of negroes into Afri
ca. The j Senator made a pow
erful speech in defense of his
bill and declared that its pas
sage was! desired by many
prominent colored men. Sena
tor Morgan, of Alabama, is also
an advocate of the bill. Mr.
Hoar, of Massachusetts, replied
to Mr. Butler, and 'another re
ply is expected from Ingalls, of
Kansas.
I A Gap Creek correspondent of
Lenoir Topic tells of a Mrs. Brown,
1 - . , ' a. 1 - T .
lives in Asae couniy, wuo is eigniy
old and is-: a remarkable woman.
Brown lias been twice married.
first husband was named Phillips
whom she bore 22 children, all of whom
are liring and seven of whom are Bap
the
who
fears
Mrs.
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