Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-12-01
JUDGE FoRSYTHE ON SOUTHERN
PROGRESS.

Judge Forsythe, the editor OF the
Mobile Register, spent some weeks at
Bedford Springs, in Pennsylvania, IN
October, and thinks he has discovered
the secret of Northern prosperity n
W in their use Of steam and all sorts
of machinery to save labor. He thinks
that the three millions of Pennsylvan-
ians thus produce as much as six mil
lions would without machinery. He
would probably have been nearer right
if he had said 10000, 900. The portion
Of Pennsylvania round about Bedford
Springs is by no mean the best locality
from which to judge the OF the
greatness and strength of u State;
still we are glad to see such sentiments
spread before the South, who are now
fully and rapidly waking up to the dis
advantages under which they have been
laboring from having their working
classes kept in ignorance and abject
servitude.
Now it is getting to be fully perceived
that, Just in proportion as the laborer
is reduced TO a mere animal, he cannot
be trusted to work with machinery. In
fact, where he is so little educated that
he cannot invent and adapt machinery
TO save his own work, he will not take
care of the tools provided for him, and
will have to do as he can without them,
No nation in the world pays so high for
labor Of every sort as we do in the
Northern States. The result is that in
stead of being ruined, there is no nation
in the world that is growing in wealth
so fast. By paying high for labor, we
give the laborer the means Of growing.
His family is Drought up in a better
home than he was, The young all get
q better education, and know how to
apply their activity with so much more
skill that each Northern mechanic is
better worth three to FIVE dollars a day
as a producer of valuable results than
an average untaugtt freedman, who
calls himself a carpenter, is worth a
dollar, or a field hand fifty cents. The
educated labor ofthe North enables it to
use machinery, which does a great deal
Of the physical labor much better than it
can be done by hand in the South, and
ten times as fast, IN an average. One
man, one horse and a Northern cultiva
tor in the field will do more work, in
keeping down weeds and raising vege-
tables, than ten negroes, each armed
with q hoe. And in making doors and
window sashes, ten men in q factory
well fitted up with a proper machinery,
will do more than a hundred Southern
carpenters without such machinery.
Instead of planters and their Legisla-
lures sending of TO get coolies, or draw
in the poorest labor at the lowest prices,
we are glad to see that many Of them
are getting TO take broader views OF
things, and that their editors see and
feel that it is by introducing the most
skilful labor, aided by modern machine
ry and implements, that capital will be
drawn in, all the freedom made produc-
tive instead Of burdensome, and the
whole community prosperous.
It is not alone by the intelligence,
morality and wealth of the highest or
ders, but of the Eopes. also, that the civ
ilizstion and prosperity of any nation is
to be measured; and higher wages for
work accomplished, and higher educa-
ton for the working classes must be the
aim of successful legislators for all COM
ing time.