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CHARLOTTE, N. C. FRIDAY FEBRUARY 12. 1892:
NO. 165
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GOOD FJJIMING DOES PJLY.
The Real Truth Fairij Told Light
Breaking1 and Hope Ahead.
fr the Mecklenburg Times.
Iu former articles I named raanj
persons who make money farming, de
spite all drawbacks. But ! also show
ed that most of our cotton growers
realized no net profits even when cot
ton was high 10 cents and upwards:
That as a whole the South was not ad
vancing in wealth, beyond that inci
dental to her 'increase of population
and the sub-division of land and the
diversification of her industries. In
point of fact, the larger share of pro
fits of our 'cotton crops, go North and
West; still the South clings to cotton;
and there ia,a devotion .to it, that has
heretofore defied all reason. Else
where agriculture is able to sustain
itself mainly on the cereals, hay, and
itock, shipping largely to us. We have
all these, and the great money crop
cotton in addition thereto, and yet
remain poor. Here Ms a bundle of
contradictions hard to explain; but a
lose analysis will show certain facts
each tending to apparent good results
in mere theory, and yet ending in dis
aster, as a Jinanctal tcude .
COTTON A GOOD CROP.
The verv best in the world; requir
ing no special skill and little capital;
always a money crop ana tnc easiest
kept and handled of all great staples.
Betterlstill, it is the one crop on which
the merchant and tertilizer man win
risk their money. It is, moreover,
limited in the extent of country natu
rallv irrowinsr the plant; and yet ev
ery part of this royal plant can now
be used for products in demana, me
wide world over. . No wonder our
people once thought it a "King.
They know better now.
ITS DAGGERS.
Its very excellencies have beset it
with temptations and risks the aver
age farmer is powerless to resist.
Hence the crop, though limited to ter
ritory, is always subject to an eay
and rapid increase in prod uction. The
ilightest rise stimulates greed, pride,
and wild speculation. While, on the
other band, it is" a' purely sectional
crop, outside of the sympathy and pro
tection of national legislation, and so.
only the more exposed to the insid
ious attack of all "other interests. This
makes it the most dangerous of all pro
ducts to deal in; and yet it is the one
on which the South has for oyer 50
etentful years, time and again, staked
A
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HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS
MD HATS ARE BEING SOLD EVERY
( THE ENTIRE BANKRUPT STOCK OF THE M'DOWELL CLOTHING
" Are 3ou taking advantage of if? Remember vou save 50 cents on every dollar's worth buy. It is not our loss but your gain if you "get on to it." FOR SPOT CASH we b cufht hp
woods so cheap that we can sell them at half price'and make money. If you will need Clothing or Hats in the next twelve months now is the time to buy.
Twenty Dollar Suits for 10; Fifteen Dollar Suits for $7; Twelve Dollar Suits for $G. Ten Dollar Suits for 5: Eight Dollar Suits for $4: Six Dollar Suits for $3; Five Dollar Suits for 2.50
BOYS AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING AT HALF PRICE.
Hats for Men and Boysat 25 cents each. Hats for
McDowell Clothin- Co was in business only a few
Good Wool
Welse ever offered in Charlotte. Kemember the number, 21
her all, and failed. It is difficult to
explain this strange infatuation, es
peoially since the terrible lessons of
the war. But we will never see any
relief until we look our danger
squarely in the face.
COTTON A GREAT GAMBLING CROP.
It is the only field crop, our South
ern laborer, the average negro labor,
fully understands. If it chances to
hit all round, the apparent proGts are
simply marvellous. This, with its
ready cash value, easy handling, and
speculative deuiaud, tempts all classes
to the most desperate risks. But a
cold or wet spring, a long drought,
or rainy spell in summer, an early J
frost, or a fall in the price, may blight J still alive and at work; the crop of
all these hopes, and leaves the gam- j 1890 a million bales larger than any
bling cotton farmer, and the great ' ever made, and chiefly by the darkeys
cotton section utterly bankrupt. The in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkan
averago cotton farmer and planter, sas, where you can hardly kill them and
especially the small farmer, and more the plantors beg fur more. Worse tban
especially still, the negro cropper, is all. we now wake up to find that they
not to be blamed for the passion for not only raise the "grand mbuoply"
cotton, for it is his "all in all." Q IQdia, and in Egypt, but that Rus-
Since the years 1831-2-3, when,8Uia and China are taking their
the South set out to resist and resent
the unjust Abolition movement then
fully started against her, she ceased
to study all else except cotton and the
negro. This led ,to the fatal error
and delusiou, that We had a "grand
monopoly of cotton," and thkt the
darkey could only survive as a slavv,
and was only fit for cotton vork.
This master ilea developed the old
planter class of the Southern white
man into the most daring, bold, and
adventurous race of soldiers and states
men the world has ever produced.
We made a heroic fight, and only
failed in battle, because the fates were
against us on this one vital iwhr.atri;:!
prohhtm. Th world was ngainst us
on cotton and the nt irro. The world
was riht and and we went down in
defeat and disaster. Ou the abstract
questions of home defence, and State.
Tights, we .might hfave won. But cot-
ton "and the darkey led us to ruin.
But even defeat m battle, failed to
open an eyes oa this great delusion.
When in 18G5-G, we foUtfil jott0tt
cents a pound we svvWe harder than
ever that "cotton was after all a
king," 'the negro would not work, and a Raleigh paper has published
the race would soon die out, and that J SOiue 100 answsrs to about the same
the South would vet get the yankee." simple questions. No two agree; and
From that day to this the whole in-: not a single one attempls even a fair
dustrial South has been gambling on analji-is of the subj-ct.
a "rise in cotton." Under this' de- ) X think the Farmers Alliance is do
lusion, a frieud of mine at Concord, ng aa excellent work i arousing our
who came out of the war with 100,-, people and our public men to a fair
000 in cotton, would not sell at 50 j disouion of such topics. Will any
cents (!) but went iu debt for more, 0ne of the nac or old leaders frankly
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and finally died insolvent. This ood
man was a Christian farmer: so far asf
I know, and believe did not speculate
in "futures," but it was, none the
less, nothing short of down right
"farmer gambling.
Ten years ago, a tenant agent of
mine here near Charlotte, lost his
WDole estate of $4,000 in "cotton fu
tures." And for more than 25 years
the South has been periodically bet
ting on a "rise," involving all classes
of people and interests, and losing u?
hundreds of millions that ought have
been made and kept right here at
home. Meantime, we now find the
"king" on a steady decline, and low-
er than ever known before: the neff'ro
chances
Now cast up the other side of the
account. North Carolina pays out
annually 2,500,000 for farm horses
and mules, many from Kansis and
Wyoming (!) which owing to cheaper
labor aud capital here than there,
could be actually raised here in Meek
lenburg for less than they cost in
Kansas and Missouri. So, too, we
get corn, flour, forage and meats from
all the West; potatoes from Scotland,
and cabbage from Germany, and
turkeys from Richmond. tarm
ers of Mecklenburg, tell me if you
can. why these things are ro't
Wo know, as s fact, that all these
imported til tides can be easily pro
duced rirht here, or near around us.
I If we could save one-half of what wo
. so annually pay out, it would soon
make our fanners easy. If we could
j ave by real agriculture (oiixod
J growth) one-third or ooe-four'h of
, what wo year after pay out tor truck
and plain fruit crof.s, t.
eso sauie fur-
ers.;wonld become
nca
aud live
muou eabicr. v uy uon i uiey uo n ;
Now it is easy to talk acd guess;
At
50 cents werth $1; for 75 cents worth $1.50; for $1 worth $2;
months. These goods are going fast at half price. Your size
West Trade Street-
ROGERS AND COMPANY
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tell us why the good people of Meck
lenburg don't raise horses and mules,
cattle, hogs and sheep, corn, wheat,
oats, hay, potatoes and cabbage, tur
keys and other poultry, just as they
did 50 or 25 years ago? The market
is now at their very doors, and better
than it ever was? I want no talk
about the general decline of agiicul
ture, "Si Plunkard" took that off,
and farmers and all laughed heartily.
Cotton has not paid the mass of the
farmers here for 5 or 10 jears past
Why don't they try these other
things? I showd that my tenant John
Osborne; made money on corn, the bad
crop year just past ('91); why don't
others try it? - Some 40 years ago
Mecklenburg shipped 30,000 bushels
of wheat to a single house in South
Carolina? Cotton was then a fair price,
and wheat rather down, but yet wheat
paid? Now it can scarcely be raised
here at all. Explain why and there
fore? Rufus Barringer.
Livingston's Policy.
Lenoir Topic.
Congressman Livingston, of Geor
gia is one of the foremost Alliauce
men in the United Sates and one of
the truest, best Democrats as well
He is the impassioned orator whom
Col. Polk brought iuto North Caro
lina in the campaign of 1800, at
which time he delighted imtneuse au
diences at three or four appoint
ments. He is a statesman of whom
the Alliauce is proud and whom the
Democracy delights to honor. He is
the type of man who binds together,
iu ono indissoluble bond of affection
aud common interest, these tvi o grand
organizations, the one political and
the other non-political. Last week
! an informal meeting or caucus of Al-
liance Congressmen was held iu Wash
ington. Their number was 25, of
whom 18 followed the lead of Mr.
Livingston aud 8 flocked with Mr.
Simpson. Mr. Simpsou made a speech
in reference to the corruptioti in
"both old parties" and was particu
larly severe upon the Democratic par
ty, This brought Col. Livingston to
his feet immediately.
"The Democratic party is not op
posed to us, he cried. "It is will
ing and anxiou3 to work for the re
lief of our people, and tho gentleman
is doing us great harm by talk
ing of a third party and insinuating
that the Democratic part' is corrupt."
' A Catholic priest of Toledo, Ohio,
S has been arrested upon charge of as-"
sault on a little girl.
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Will Gold Core Drunkenness I Notes
on theKeelej Institute at Greens
boro. Stato Chronicle. 1
Greensboro. Feb. 2. There seems
to be a lot of mystery and self-mystification
regarding the Keeley gold
treatment for the cure of druukenness.
This is a repetition and reproduction
of vaccination when first discovered.
Men doubted it because they did not
understand how small-pox virus by
being engrafted on a heifer and then
the matter taken from the heifer and
placed in the arm of a human being
should fortify against the disease.
Yet its efficacy is assured and the
practice of vaccination pursued where
ever civilization exists. ,
Many avow their infidelity because
they cannot reasou out and explain
and reconcile all parts and passages of
Holy Writ.
With many this is the condition
somewhat of the bi-chloride of gold
cure. No one of the seventy-five pa
tients who have been treated for
drunkenness at the Greensboro Keeley
Institute can explain -why, after a
days' treatment, he lost all taste and
desire for strong drink; yet, without a
solitary exception, this is the evideoce
that has been related to the writer,
who adds his own testimony. Both
habitual and periodic drinkers of
many years' indulgence and in all
stages and phases of suffering, from
nausea and painful nervousness to the
"jiin jams," after a dav or two of
the treatment appear comparatively
cheerful in the club room circle, or
walk about the st, eels without an at
tendant. - Tho Greensboro Institute was
opened on the 30th of October, 1891,
and seventy-five ptticuts have been
! graduated and returned to their homes
and business, not only cured of their
drinking habit, but with their more
less broken down systems built up,
and iu good condition.
The Chilian court hs at last ren
dered a decision in the case of the as
sault on the Baltimore in which
several citizens of Chili are convicted
and"' imprisoned for assaulting the
sailors cf the Baltimore.
State Chronicle says: It is suggest
ed in Baptist circles in Baltimore that
Rev. A. C. Dixoo, a former Baltimo
rean, now pastor of Hanson Place
Baptist Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.t
may be called to succeed the late Rev
; C. II. Spurgeon, of London.
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AS IT IS PAST DUE.
We take this occasiou to thank our
patrons, one and all, for their patron
age in the past, and ask for a continu
ance of the same. We shall by strict
attention to business, courteous and
prompt attention, fair and honorable
dealing, selling only good goods at
legitimate profit, merit your patron
age. January the First is pay day.
The settlement of accounts is an im
portant one. All who owe us a note
or, -an account will please call and set
tlcat once. We shall put all accounts
and notes in the hands of a collector
as we must have a settlement in order
to close our books for 1891. If you
eant pay us all, we want part, and
you will do us a favor to come in at
once and see us about it; we have
now waited a year and must have
money, and our friends who owe us
are the ones we look to for it. Don't
delay this matter as it is uagent and
important. If you don't call on us our
collector is apt to call on you, so step
up and let us hear from you. Our
shelves and counters are filled with
good honest goods at the very lowest
possible prices. Come in and see us.
T. L. SEIGLE & CO.
-:-t Charlotte, N. C
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