The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-09-23
spiudles for the South.

spindles for the South.
The reader will recognize in the follow
ing article from the New York Tribune
much that deserves the gravest consider
alton, and we can we'll afford to endorse
most of its principal features, as bestow-
ing sensible advice upon the South:
THE egg.nogg and roast turkey of
Christmas festivily will this year repro.
sent widespread and genuine congratu-
lation over wellbased prosperity in the
South When the present crop ia moved,
and the planter receives a balance sheet
from his merchant, he may feel himself
rich man. His crop has rarely sold
higher. and the early part OF the season
was so favorable that he has less grain to
buy, less pork and cloth and leather, than
ever before. He may need more mules
many will indulge in u handsome pair of
carriage horses but after all reasonable
outlays there will be great deal OF sar
plus money in the South. Will not our
brethren Of the Cotton Belt listen to us
while we urge them to invest that surplus
not in gay horses or - new saddle, not in
silver-mounted revolvers, Administer car
pets, or blocade silks, but in spindles?
s.A fresh and brilliant career Of great
ness liz opened to the South, il she can
but see her true and lasting interest. To
buy land and laborers has been her tradi.
tional policy, her hereditary passion.
Laborers she cannot now purchase OF
land she has too much for the wisest til
Age. Her territory is 80 pierced with
navigable streams that the call for more
rairoads is not imperative. The most
sayacious of her public men are duly alive
TO the Importance of establishing manu-
iactures, but ul are not informed as to
what manufactures are just now the best
for Tie South. This we propose to con
siier. No part of the earth's surface
can compete with our Cotton Belt in the
ease and certainty with which cottons OF
long, fine, even staple can be raised. This
grand advantage springs from our pecu-
geographical facts.
"Other regions, as India, Egypt, Brazil.
and the African coast, can supply to the
elamorous looms Of Lancanshire sufficient
cotton for lower gyaics of cloth, and tor
tho coarser yarns used ir 6lling. But tor
the long, fine threads required in the mus
li,s, lawns, fine prints, and highest grades
of shirtings, and sheetings. American
thread cannot be replaced. Cotton thread
fine, strong and even, is the precise arti.
Gle which England most needs from us,
and she must continue to require it as
long as she has that immense surplus pop
l,,t
live, requiring additional looms to keep
them from the poor loaf and thin soup of
pauperism. These cotton yarns can be-
spun ut the South ut less cost, with less
waste, by as cheap labor, fed by as cheap
food. as in any part of the world. There
are immense pine forests to supply fuel.
the weather is so mild that spinning
houses would consume but trife tor
heat. and spinning can be done by that
large class Of halt hands, the cripple. the
old and young, those feeble in body and
abascd in spirit, with whom the South
abounds. For manufactures OF the highest
class, arts which require vigilance and
skill, trained eye and nice touch at ev-
cry stage of an operation, the South does
not now furnish II full supply of the grade
of labor required Bat to tend the cylin-
ders, cards, jack frames, and ring traveller
frames, by which cotton lint is converted
into cotton yarns, numbering from twen-
ty to forty, does not require better
operative than the plantations and the
pine woods of the Cotton Belt can turn out
in abundance. A spinning house. fully
equipped with every wheel and spindle
required for converting annually a thou
sand bales into yarn, with comfortable
cabins for spinners, can be put up for fifty
thousand dollars The net profits of such
mill may be about twenty thousand dol
lars a year. Think of the immense in
crease of wealth and power to commu-
nifty to be gained by supplying snch an
empire as the British with an article OF
prime necessity and pocketing twenty
dollars Il bale gain over and above the
profit of growing the cotton! The South
thinks she needs moro agricultural Ia
borers more Africans or Asiatic That
is her error. She needs more OF the de-
scendants Of Japcth. not Normans with
hereditary pride of blood and of acres,
but the patient, slsllful, Industrious arti
san, the artificcr in brass and copper, the
man who thinks in iron. Upon this class
depends the world wide vigor and grasp
of the British Empire-this class it wa
that gave the North her victory. The
South does not lack the foresight and tho
thrift to see that her future power and an
unchaIlengod equality in national affairs
depend not OIL plow beam, but on a cog
wheel.'