Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-27
Our Industries.

The large and enthusiastic meeting st the Court
! House, on Monday evening last for the organiza-
tion of an Industrial Association, has created 8
! velier interest in the community than the most
ssnguine had dared TO hope for The unanimity and
earnestness Of our citizens in the encouragement
and promotion of home industry are already
/ producing their results.
One gentle man of ample means has decided to
| engage in the manufacture Of wooden ware spokes
and hubs for wagons axe and pick handles rakes,
seed drills &c.
Another is arranging to manufacture e-brick
/ A pottery mandatory is already in process OF
construction.
! A syrup refining and sugar mandatory making
sugar from sorghum) will probably be established
in Knoxvlle during the coming summer.
The manufac, of agricultural implements is
now being discussed with that intense interest that
always results in action,
The manufacture Of edge tools is not far Off and
shoemaking, by machinery, will probably be wit
messed in Knoxville before next January.
| Persons now here, who are commissioned to make
investigations for practical manufacturers, are now
writing back with enthusiastic confidence.
If our farmers will only raise sufficient broom
corn the coming summer the importation of brooms
TO East Tennessee will terminate the present year
IL was stated in the meeting on Monday evening,
| that the moving machines, which are brought from
the North, after paying fifty dollars profit to the
manufacturer and sixty dollars IN freight are pur-
chased by the farmers here at three times their orig
inal cost 1t also stated that the common hand
hay rake that retais at twenty-five cents at the
North is brought here and sold in the country at
one dollar and twenty-five cents.
So long as we pay such profits and such freights,
what wonder that we are so poor And so long as
We persist in sending all money out OF the State
to purchase articles at high prices, that could OBJ
tain for oEethrd the money at home, we shall con-
! tnue 10 be poor.
The new States Of the West have uniformly re-
manned poor and embarrassed in their finances, un-
! I'll thew have learned 10 depend on home manufac-
lures and then they have grown in wealth with
astonishing rspdity When people once resolve
that they will buy nothing abroad that possibly
be purchased at home they are on the high road to
prosperity They are then masters Of the situation,
and foreign capital and labor flows TO them as nat
uraly as water 1ows in its channel. Manufactures
then spring up as If by magic, and untold millions
! sre added 10 the treasury of the State.
To those who do not think or investigate, mode
rate statements of facts seem extravagaut. But
what at drst extravagant often falls far short
| of reality.
For The consideration Of those who have not yet
investigated the subject will make one moderate
statement:
! There are now fifteen men in Knoxville, each one
OF whom has the means and could easily start one
OF the branches OF manufacturing now being talked
of but not yet established aud ii they could DO IT,
fhev could and bring tn 10 hHorUlle than
| tloo millions Of dollars annually.
! We are now waiting for strangers % come and dc
for us what can easily be done by our own citizens
If our own people will take hold in earnest, that
very effort will induce strangers to come and dc
vastly mere.
"God helps those who help themselves" is an
old and true saying. One Of our first citizens told
us the otker evening at the Court House that vi
| had been asleep that we are now waking ut
| tie but are still asleep Even the symptoms d
waking are signs of great promise. But will mo-
some one who has thea bity sound the reveille tina
shall wake us entirely
Yours &c, n.