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UNION. H. C.f JANUARY U?i'>
OUR PROSPERITY.
Owing to peculiar conditions tin
growth of the prosperity of the
south has I teen slow. In lSlio ju.-t
after the close of hostilities between
the north and the south cotton
c mnnnnded the highest prices on
record selling for front 2"> to 15
cents per pound. This was owing
to the ho t that the mills of the
north (New England) and England
had nractieallv stormed running for
want of cotton. The government
of England had tried to grow cotton
in several places during the war
hut to no effect, therefore when the
war was over a rush was made for
the cotton of the south, and lor
s vend years money was plentiful.
The southern fanners forgot to
make anything to eat. in their wild,
mail rush to grow large crops of
cotton, consequently the northwest
supplied southern cribs and meat'
houses with high price corn anil
bacon. Soon an over production of
trot ton the south put the price
>lo'\vn and the speculation took hold
"*? to make money out of our cotton
and our farmers became poorer and
poorer each year, some years barely
getting enough for their cotton to
pay the cost of production. Howis
it today? .lust as it should have
been thirty years ago. The farmers
have awakened to the full
knowledge <>f their true importance
as the producers of a staple the
world needs, must and will have,
cotton, a staple that has no rival in
the fibres of the world, southern
cotton that has no equal or competitor
in the world of textile manufacture.
Cotton is the true basis
of the wealth of the south, added
to which are her many minerals.
The. mills have at last come to the
cotton. Today the cotton grower
is the monarch who sways his
sccptor over the world of commerce
and makes it possible to turn or
stop the wheels of every cotton mill
in the world. What a gigantic
power, now recognized by the world
and upon winch the eyes of the
world of trade are turned. This is
our prosperity, this is why the new
south ha* come again to her own,
as of yore when the south had colossal
fortunes, with mansions like
the palaces of kings, when nabobs |
and monarchs moved in no grander
style :i it? i luxury man mu nir
southern planter.
SMALL INDUSTRIES.
The .Manufacturers' Record lias
done a wonderful work for the
Eolith and in its issue of I treem her
jsth it lias letters from almost every
important ]>oint in every state giving
its correspondents: views of the
benefit that particular section has
received from the efforts of the
Manufacturers' Record. The Record
is simply buried in houtjucts
with only a single exception and
that from the late Mr. Kdward Atkinson.
It is such good advice
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mat we give it, hi uiu aim iron,
cadi of our readers study it. It.
>eonis to have been written directly
at our town. Without much trouble
over #500,000 has been raised here
to build cotton mills, while our
fellow townsman, Mr. T. K. Bailey,
whom all know to bo one of our
safest business men lias difficulty
to raise one per cent yT>' ;yt amount
r^ 7'f
for ;i furniture factory that is in
tine running condition and shipping
its manufactures to all jx>ints
of the South and West. This with
Mr. Mois-'s foundry which has
hern of (incalculable assistance to
the building trade and cotton mills
is all the small industries we have.
The Neals Shoals Power Co. is
now ready to deliver electric power
to manufacturers at a low rate and
we hope that ere another year rolls
round that we. may he able to
chronicle quite a number of small
industries.
What is the mutter with a small
factory to make either of the foli
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Hitting articles: minis, overalls,
pants, handkerchiefs, knit underwear,
brooms, spokes and handles,
and a canning factory. A few machines
would not cost such a large
amount hut the beginning would he
tlu: event of perhaps as prosperous a
business as our cotton mill industries.
I'liion has pulled together in the
past, why not in the future? Let
us hope that the first man who
studs a new venture will he welcomed
when present ng his subscription
list and that each one will put
his shoulder to the w heel and subscribe
as he is able.
1 have watched the course of the
Manufacturers' Record from the
beginning, and at times j have put
into your columns views on many
subjects that were at variance with
your own.
First, in respect to your course
in promoting the cotton manufacture,
as if in that lay the key to the
progress of the cotton states.
Twenty years ago 1 cautioned my
southern friends to move slowly
and surely, pointing out to them
that the progress and welfare of a
state would lie vnstlv more nro- I
muted 1 ?y developing the small in-dustries
that require little capital,
that call for mechanical aptitude.
and intelligence, than hy establish-1
ing great factories of any kind. It,
was then apparent that there was a
field open for the development- of
the cotton manufacture, provided j
it was followed up in a very con-1
servative method; hut there was a
profound error in the minds of
southern people on the general subject?the
same error which had
misled them in earlier times?
namely, that the cotton manufacture
had heon a chief source of
wealth, occupation and wages in
the New Kngland States.
The next error in your course has
been an elTort to set it up in the
southern states. The inducements
held out were long hours, low
wages, to a certain extent child
labor, proximity to the cotton field
and a warm climate?all in some
measure a disadvantage rather than
an advantage. In the course of
time all this has become apparent.
It has been proved that long hours, '
especially night work, are unprofitable
on modern high-speed machinery.
The most intelligent and pr*>-1
grcssive cotton manufacturers are"
now keeping children out of their i
mills and providing them with edu.
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canon. rro.xnnuy n> Tin- couon
field, where the cotton mills exist,
has proved to he- a delusion after
the coarse work had been passed
by to fine work, requiring strong
cotton. The supply is drawn from
| the same sources supplying New
|Kngland: there is no advantage in
I proximity. The mills have been j
I constructed so rapidly that the
I source of labor is exhausted, and
I there is no French Canada or vol1
unie of immigration to fall back
upon. Wages are rising and help
is very scarce.
Again, the mountain people, previously
uninformed rather than ignorant,
but capable of a rapid ad\aneement
when opportunity is giv-j
en to them, arc passing through the
cotton factory, or will pass through
the cotton factory, as the farmer's1
daughters of New Kngland did, up j
into the lesser industries of a more
individual kind, where the work is
less arduous, the hours shorter, the
pay much better and the conditions
of life far better. The town or city
of small industries in New Knidand
is a far more prosperous place than
the factory town, as it will he in the
South. There was room for cotton
spinning in the South without the .
delusion of drawing from New England
or 01<1 England. There was
and is room for all, each keeping its
suitable place. Tin; warm climate,
hot in summer, is another disadvantage.
Cotton-spinning is an indoor
art for a cold climate. It is one of,
the less important branches of in- [
dustry that has l?een maintained, 1
and is increasing on the lines of
fine and fancy work as rapidly as it
is wholesome for it to increase, but
the cotton industry might have
vanished 20 years ago from New
England, and if it had, it would
not today Ihj missed. Other arts,
more profitable, requiring less canii
till mid paying better wages, would
have taken its place. I
While you have poured capital,
IK>tli Southern and Northern, into J
great factories and iron works, ha^
you nut neglected the very foundation
of your prosperity, that js,
agriculture? Have you yet surmounted
the evil methods of the
old system? What part even of
your cotton land has hcon subjected
to deep and thorough* tillage, to
renovation, to intelligent and intensive
cultivation? To what extent J
have you increased the old meagre i
crop per acre of an average of 2<MJ ,
to 224 pounds, and on the uplands'
even h .-s, when in point of fact, if
intelligent and intensive methods
are applied, with right tillage and !
renovation of the soil, double that ;
crop can he made on every acre, 1
with less lahor and under 1 >etter i
conditions? Is not that work being
done hy a small number of intelli- !
gent white farmers, and a yet smaller
number of intelligent colored i
farmers, yet sufficient in number
.to prove the general shiftlcssncss uf !
all the rest?
Again, witness tin- accounts that
i have been given to truck-farming in
Tidewater, V irginia. What would
; it have profited for all these Tide
| water countes tn put up a great
! factory, compared to what it has
! profited tliem to improve the conditions
of agriculture?
Again, witness the wonderful accounts
that have heen given* to the
raising of lettuce in Fayetteville in
North Carolina and at Newborn a
small capital, a large measure of
intelligence and industry and exceedingly
large profits.
I Again, witness the account of the
j saving of the waste of the old pine
forests, from which the turpentine
pines have been all removed. How |
many have discovered' the value of
the stumps and light wood? How
much lias it profited to save this
waste, as compared to pulling up
any kind of a factory? Such profits
are diffused; there may be no
'get-rich-quick' in them, hut they
lead more to the common welfare
and common wealth than any great
factory or workshop of any kind.
There are "dill titles to the manufactures
of the nation. How many
of these are listed in the old cotton
States, or rather, I should ask how
few? You can pick out certain
cities in the South that have developed
from within on their muscles
that are thriving on small industries.
How soon will this come to
be the rule and how soon will the
deposits in your savings banks, belonging
to the intelligent mechanics
and artisans who work your small
industries, begin to equal the dedositsof
the small class in the New
England States, in New York and
in Pennsylvania? My own reply
would be, when your common
schools and your common educa- !
tion have been brought nearer to i
the true standard and the illiteracy
of white and black alike lias been
overcome.
WRECK ON SOUTHERN NEAR JONESViLLE
K. 01 P.'s Give Banquet and Addresses
Were Made?Jonesville Guards
Have Banquet.
Jonesville, .Jan. I, I'JUth?The
holidays all passed off very quiet in
Jonesville and the new year comes
in bright and lovely overhead but
rather sloppy under foot. The snow |
came down yesterday morning quite
lively for awhile. Something like
two inches fell but it soon faded
away.
The Southern railway was greeted
early this new years morning with
a hail wreck about three hundred
yards below the depot. It was a
through freight that met with the
disaster, caused, it seems, by the
breaking of a rail, which ditched
seven cars, one empty box car and
six gondolas all loaded with coal.
Four cars and the caboose on the
rear end of the train never left the
track and several cars in front of
the wrecked ones also remained on
tin* track; no one was hurt.
Last Thursday night at the Knterprise
Motel the K. of 1'. lodge
here give a banquet which was
quite a social function for Jonesville.
One hundred and forty
plates were prepared for the occasion
and they were all occupied and
a few extra ones. From X.dO till
lO.IM) the banqueters were entertained
with sweet music by a
string band from Spartanburg,'
punch being served by Misses Lilla
llerndon and Lucile Crawford. At
10. o() the dining room doors'were
thrown open and the crowd marched
to the tables where the following
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iivbmi m?oov/i u:u. wjr^unn, llll l\t^ }
ham, chicken salad, saltincs, pickles,
olives, celery, ambrosia, cuke,
nuts, coffee. Supper being over
('apt. It. \V. Scott, toast master,
introduced Dr. \V. J. Douglass who
made an address, subject, "Our
bodge," which was followed by J.
J. Littlojohn, suject, "Past, present
and future of Juncsvillc," C. 11.
Foster, subject, "Woman," and
Hon. J. A. Hummcrsctof Columbia,
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subject, "I'ythianisui," which
closed the program. The speeches
were all good and quite entertaining
and everything was done by
the proprietors of the hotel, assisted
by Prof. 11. A. Wise and the committee
to make their guests comfortable
and happy. When the
exercises closed the clock had
struck low twelve or midnight and
it was high time for the crowd to I
he getting to their homes.
On Saturday night at the ICnterprise
Hotel the Jonesvillc (luards
with a few invited guests banqueted
and a line oyster stew and fine
cigars were served. Addresses were
made by W. II. S. Harris, C. II.
Foster and Prof. H. A. Wise. This
was anotht r enjoyable occasion and
after supper the crowd was treated
to fine music by Miss Lilla Herndon
on the piano and Mr. Dan White
on the violin.
Dr. W. O. Southard and family
have returned from Jersy City and
New York where they have been
for the last four weeks. Dr. Southard
took a new course in the hospital
at Now York where he got much
information in late medical science
and is now better prepared than
ever for the skilful practice of his
profession.
Dr. and Mrs. M. W. Chandlers
an?l their little daughter Mary are
spending awhile in Atlanta.
Mr. Mike Gregory, of Greenville,
is visiting his sister Mrs. Alonzo
Quito.
Mrs. Dorcas Matthews and
daughter, of North Carolina, visited
her brother J. W. Scott and other
relatives about Jonesvillc last week.
Mr. and Mrs. James Brown, of
GafTncy, visited Mrs. Brown's
mother, Mrs. Sallie Whitloek, last
week.
Mrs. A. Ij. Bassett and children
have returned from a months visit
to relatives in Durham, X. C.
Mr. Havnes Harris of Union
.spent Sunday with Dr. A. S. Foster.
Mr. Funt Porter, of Greenville,
visited his mother Mrs. S. A. Porter
last week.
Mr. Emory Pome field, of Doaz,
Ala., is visiting his uncle, R. A.
Whitlock and other relatives at
Jonesville.
Misses Amy Nicholson, Minie
Scoficld and Mamie Oet/el with
Messrs. J. C. Copeland, C. M.
McWhirtcr and Dr. Hair, of Union,
spent today with Mr. J. L. McWhirtcr.
Telephone.
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W. UroiiKs, Notary Public.
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