The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-05-13
The County and Town OF Newborry-No. z.
10 CITIZENS WHO HAVE GAprrI1. Nouu

fellow-citizens, it is plain that factories
where well conducted, are very remunera
tive, no matter of what kind. It is plain
too, that this must and will become n manu-
featuring County, il you-wisb it to prosper
There are large number of you who hav
money stored away-you know you have
stored away in your houses, in crevices an,
corners; in your bed-ticks, or buried out il
the ground. What, in the name of common
sense, are you going to do with it? Yo,
have moro money today than yon ever hat
in your lives. Like Horaces miser, are yo,
boarding it up only to look Mt it, and coun
it? Of what use is it to you concealed
away? You cannot eat it; you cannot drinl
it; you cannot carry it away with you whel
yon die Then what? It cannot possibl,
make you anything. 1t only keeps you il
dread: You are eternally dreaming of til,
Ku Kluxes. You cannot buy any moro MICS
that's played out You say you have pent,
OF land. Will you not then, invest it il
factories? You need be under no apprehen
| sion, we assure you, about the profits
There IS not the least danger, because W,
tell you it will pay. Try it once Will yor
never be able to eradicate the old antiquatet
fogy ideas which have haunted you fol-
years? Are you still afraid of your owr
shadows? What are you going to do with
your money? Let it remain idle? Now, VIC
ask you candidly, honestly, had you moi
better invest. 1T in some good enterprise.
You have now chance, yourselves, before
any one else, OF creating manufactures o1
various kinds in this County You need nc
other advantage than what nature has given
you. They are amply sufficient to enable
you to compete successfully with Old Eng.
land, New England, and every other place.
There is no use to hem and haw-to bat
your eyes. You have got to go to manufac-
turing to save yourselves. You have got to
so at 1t to obtain an increase of population.
immigration will come to furnaces, mines
and factories. 1t will come where labor is
brought. Every new furnace or factory is
the nucleus of town. Factories and works
establish other factories and works Popu-
lation is one Of your greatest noeds Immi-
grafton only can supply this. You can OBJ
tain it successfully by providing diversified
industry.
The contrast between Belgium in Europe,
Massachusetts and South Carolina, as exhi-
bited by the census Of 1850, is striking, to
wit:
Belgium, II $50 square miles; population
3.426, 2O2; 3SS.60 to every square mile
Massachusetts,, 1880 square miles; popula-
ton 994, ,514; 1915 to every square mile.
South Carolina, 29,3SO square miles; popu-
lation S,5O7; 22.75 to every square mile
The amount Of real and personal property
the same year was as follows:
Massachusetts, S573, $40, 23G; South Caro-
lima, S2SS, 257, 1854.
The male population employed in com
merce, agriculture and manufacturing the
same year in Massachusetts was 300 600; in
South Carolina $4,000. Persons employed
exclusively in manufacturing in NIassachu-
setts was 165, ,03S; in South Carolina 1000.
The population OF Massachusetts in 1860
was l. 231, ,0G6; of South Carolina 7O3, 7OS.
Let lis contrast two Counties-one in
Massachusetts,, one in South Caroina-as
per return. There is but little difference in
the size. Middlesex County in Massachu-
setts-Newberry County in South Carolina.
The advantage in area is in favor Of Newber-
ry In Newberry County in 1850 there was
invested in manufacturing establishments
capital to the amount of S71,8 $40, and lie
persons employed. In Middlesex, capital
to the amount of 800. 100000, and %, SOC
persons employed. The value of the lands,
with the improvements and implements, the
same year, i'll Newberry, was estimated al
SO, 700, 900; in Middlesex, $40, 500, ,O0O The
number of farms in Newberry County was
population of Newberry was Is, 900; that oi
Middlesex 10000. Today its population
is 2l6, It will be seen at glance, by
the most cursory reader if he reflects at ali
the advantages of diversified industry in po.
pulation and wealth.
Surely, it ought to be unnecessary to ar.
que at length the policy of this County-oi
the South-to do her own manufacturing
to save the profits on labor they have here.
tofore paid away to the world; to furnisl,
their citizons many ways of earning living
to add largely to the populations to impart
greater value to all the products of the soil,
and by consequence to increase the marke.
value OF land; to give new comforts and q
better living to all of its sons and daughters
1t is evident that diversified industry is the