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F OR CONGRESS FROM 7TH CONGRES
SIONAL DISTRICT. .
SAMUEL J. PEMBERTON.
CONCORD, SEPT., 5, 1896.
WHERE COTTON IS KlffG.
The Independent, a Newxjork
journal, on July 6ma puDiisned an
Jttuuio uvci tuo uauio ua it annuo x
Reed that reminds us of the Cora
Means episode. .
This Mr. Reed puts quite a
gloomy face on Southern life in the
cotton belt. He would have North
ern and Western people to; believe
that in the cotton region you can
raise nothing else; that you are
fnrnftrt in raiHA rnt.fnn oo fVio nnW
thing you can sell; that the cotton
raiser soon finds himself a bond
slave to a country merchant who is
generally a shylock. That shy lock
makes him raise cotton on which
he loses arid keeps on losing from
year to year and from generation to
generation, never freeing himself
from.the merchant who holds him
in bondage. Mr. Reed wails about
the mortgaged maVs not being al
lowed to buy indefinitely on his j
mortgage. It seems to hurt Mr.
Reed's feelings that if a man j felo
niously sells mortgaged property,
he may be put on the chain gang.
Mr. Reed says that the miserable
serf can do nothing under the cir--cumstances
and when his shylock
creditor speaks he must obey J He
says there is no market for fruits
and vegetables. If the merchant
buys he will not pay anything but
goods. He says Northern and
Western farmers come here with an
idea of superiority of methods and
their ability to succeed better than
their Southern neighbors and they
are generally disappointed, vl
Mr. Reed's liver was evidently
out of order when he wrote.j j We
do not wish to say that everything
he said was false, but what is not
false is strained by pessimism or
natural condition with the South as
with any other regions is made to
appear in the light of human wick
edness. Mr. Reed should know and say
that the Southern farmer has
learned that his best way is to; raise
everything he needs to eat as far as
he can and raise, cotton for his
ready cash. The time was when
cotton wad very highthat he could
probably afford to make cotton his
entire crop, but the low prices have
driven him out of that.
As for the Southern farmers being
a serf under his shylock merchant,
Mr. Reed should know that our
merchants like to deal with more
reliable men than those who have
to be watched and ordered, and Mr.
Reed is evidently drawing his pic
ture from the worst model he could
find' in the South. It is to the
merchant's interests to have all
classes prosperous around him, and
it is not pleasant to him to wrap up
a man with mortgages. It is much
more pleasant to him to sell freely
to the man whose word is his bond,
and whose promise is sufficient as
surance. It seems to us Mr. Reed
gives himself away in picturing the
Southern farmer as losing from year
to year for generations. Mr. Shy
lock would surely let him drop
when he had all that the Northern
or Western farmer had brought
with him. Why would he hold on
to him when there was nothing to
be made out of him but serfdom?
If there is a profit in his services,
why did not the farmer keep it
himself and keep out. of bondage?
Mr. Reed draws a picture from a
subject that will fail at other busi
nesses than that of farming and in
other regions than the South.!
Mr. Reed's wail about the mort
gaged man's inability to continue
buying, even necessaries of I life,
when his mortgage security is ex
hausted," sounds like a mortgage is
net to be a contract for the protect
tion of the wife and children of the
man who furnishes him with the
things, necessary to make his wife
and children happy.
Mr. Reed tjets - danger ou si v near
the truth when he speaks of the
Northern and Western man's idea
of his superiority over the Southern
hfarmer in methods. It takes a wp.11
balanced man to go to an entirely
different locality and temper his
science and his methods to the - nec
essary modification, as good common
sense would dictate. Too many,
instead of a due appreciation of
the tact that .the foremost minds
will discover the most practical
methods in any region, go hooting
at the natives and in 'their headlong !
way of trying to make Nortnern or
Western met bods fit -Southern cli
mate and surroundings, soon find
themselves reduced in means and
spleeny in temper as Mr. Reed
seems t be. -
Mr. Reed complains of no mar
kets for fruits and vegetables. He
should refer to statistics to see the
immense traffic of oar railroads in
rushing fruns and vegetables from
places of surplus to places of lack.
Of course those who live at great
distances from the railroads and
factories cannot enjoy tneee advan
tages North, South, East or West,
but fruits and vegetables are a
right good thing to bring a railroad,
and thsre are always plenty of
capitalists looking out for a place to
invest.
Mr. Retd, wit a prophetic ken,
sees the southern cotton mills clos
mg down but" the cotton raising
serf plodding o;to make the world's
chief-supply. j
What's the matter with the south
ern cotton milU? and wlio is going
to manufacture cotton when it is no
longer a profitable industry in the
South? , r:
Mr. Reed could not find it in him'
to say that the Southern people are
unfriendly or unkind. It is a won
der. He-seems to. sigh over the
deplorable drawbacks where cotton
is king and thinks it would tax the
greatest minds to find a remedy.
Give the South a fair chance and
she asks no favors. She has sur
vived her war wrecked condition.
She has beat her way against legis
lative abuse and much of circum
stantial vicissitudes and is under
going advancement all the times,
ghe has room for more development
that will still increase her prosper
ity, and in her onward march Mr.
Reed and his like must catch a new
inspiration or be left here as , they
would be anywhere else among a
spirited progressive people.
Fifty Years Ago.
This is the Way it was bound to look .
When grandfather had his "picter took."
These were the shadows cast before :.
The coming of Conjurer Daguerre
And his art; like a girl in a pinafore v
Some day to bloom to a goddess fair.
Men certainly were not as black, we know
s they pictured them, 50 years ago.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla
began to make new men, just
as the new pictures of men
began to be made. Thousands
of people fronted the camera
with skins made clean from
blotch and blemish, ' because
they had purified the blood
with "Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It
Is as powerful now as then'.
Its? record proves it. Others
imitate the remedy ; they
can't imitate the record :
GO Ycaro of Cures.
Bedu ced Railroad Kates. .
V Reduced rates have been author
ized for the following occasions:
Annual meeting of the Concate
nated Order of Hco Hoo, Nash
ville, Ten n., Sept. 9, 96. Tickets
for round trip one first class limited
fare 16.55. Tickets on sale Sep
tember 7 to 8, final limit, Sept. 15.
Hendaehe and Neuralgia cured toy De
UILES PAIN PILLS. "One cent a dose."
acket
STATIONERY
Just ieceived 200 standard
novels at 10c.
50 Seaside Novels at 5c
Cloth bound Novels 15c
A big lot of Ink Tablets
worhSo to "go at 3c
First class steel p ms, at 4c
per dozen.
Ink and mucilage at 3c,
worth 5c
Good Shoe Blacking at lc.
15c French blacking at 5c
3 plain cedar lead pencils
for lc I
i .
5c colored envelopes at 2c
Our lc lead pencils are as
good as any 5c pencil to be
had.
2fc box paper to go at 10c.
Ladies'
EurnisMng
15c White Collars at 10c
25c white cuffs at 18c
j b-
Solid Silver Shirt Waist
sets for 25c. Also pearl at
the same.
Swansdown 5c
i '
Royal Bora ted Talcum worth
25c at
9c
Hose supporters, silk elas
tic at 10c yd, good cotton at
5c yd
Belt
pins 2c up. Jet black
lace pins ,10 and 15c
Safety pins 2, 3 and 4c doz.
lc f ast black seamless hose
3 thread heel and toe for 10c.
Hermsdorf black, good vaU
ue at 25 to 37ic
Handkerchiefs. We have
by far the largest assortment
in town from 2c to 37ic
60 inch heavy bleached tav
ble linen at 47ic
3 pound feather pillows only
50c each.
Feather dusters 15c
v Crib counterpanes at 48c
2 spools Ooafs' capital thread
for 5c. Colors only.
Percale at 6 ls4 to 85c
See our No. 80 fine bleached
Cambric, same'- as Lonsdale
Co.' s, at lOc
-" " j o "iulu auu.
Cambric at 5c yd
Chenille curtains at $3.25
Chenille table covers at 98c
Embroidery silk at l-2c per
skein ,
embroidery cotton at 5c per
doz--
Colored linen floss 20c per
doz.
Gold embroidery 3c per
skein
Shaded crochet cotton 200
yard bolls at 5c
Embroidery scrim 12c yd
Bleached butchers' linen 25c
yard
. Ladies' home made musliD
underwear cheaper than you
can have it made.
Home- made percale shirt
waist at 50c. Bonnets for 25e
.... .
New line of embi older y in
a few days
$50 Wheeler & Wilson Sew
ing Machine for 635. N
Extra value in white and
colored shirts; white ones at
25c -
2 cakes of Turkish bath
Soap for 5c
Lace curtains at 48c to $5,
extra value. i.-
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Gingham at Sh to 81? 1
30 inch cottoa plaids at 5c,
good value.
We sell as good Tinware as
any house , in Concord, Our
prices are the lowest to be
had. Recently one of our
customers tried to exchange
produce for a gallon bucket.
They asked 15c, and when fie
spoke of the Racket selling
cheaper he was told they did
not handle cheap shoddy stuff
like the Racket handled
Theirs was triple plated be
sides The man came to us;
we gave him 15 cents to buy
the bucket, wishing to yin
dicate ourselves. He brought
us the bucket. It was the
same size single plate and
weighed 1 ounce less than
our 10c one. The party took
our bucket and left us the
"15c" one. See our extra
heavy stamped dish pans at
35c. : ; '
'Granite Dippers 15c.
s t i -a n.