Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-05-14
E'1c orroN rAcronIEs.

appears from reliable estimates, that
"a spinning mill which will employ
eighty-seven operativcsand consume
eight hundred and eighty-seven. bales
OF cotton per annum, will cost, not
exceeding $4,000, and can be made
70 return yearly profit Of $4,000"
Let us multiply these figures by
twenty mills, which are less than
two 10 ench Southern State, and see
what Is the amount. The number Of
operatives required will be seventeen
hundred and forty the number of
bales consumed, one hundred and six
ty-two thousand seven hundred and
forty, and the profits, three hundred
and forty thousand dollars. Let us
suppose the number of mills tn be
one hundred, which is less than eight
to each Southern State, then the fig
ures will be-for. operatives. 500; for
bales consumed, 1000, and for pro-
fits 81, 100000.
I'VE will not insult the Intelligence
of the country by supposing that
there Is q single State in the South
witch has not the means to build
eight small cotton, factories, If it has
the energy to try. So far from want
ing the means to build the supposed
number of mills, the South can, with
little cooperative effort, build them
with double the supposed capacity |;
and these added to the factories al
ready in operation or being construc-
tel, would furnish machinery for the
consumption of all the cotton the
South ought to raise, under the exist
ing demand for that staple.
But, referring back to the estimate
of one hundred mills, at cost of
$4,000 each, it will be seen that
an outlay Of s5,OOO,OOO, apportioned
among a dozen States, will, in this
way, return annually, profit of ST.
100000. Who gets that profit now ?
Echo answers Radical bondholders
and shoddy aristocrats. But thisis
I not all the South loses. 1t supports,
by its present system Of voluntary
dependence, the eight thousand sew
en- hundred yankee operatives who
make this profit for their employers,
whilst. the same number, In the
South, are thrown back upon the
cultivation Of the soil. And this
again entails additional loss, in the
price of cotton, by unwisely making
its production too nearly commensu-
rate with the demand. If, under the
beneficial effects of diversity of pur-
suits, these eight thousand seven
hundred operatives were fed and
clothed at home, instead of being
boarded, at our expense, in New Eng
land, they would, as consumers, add
to the wealth of farmers, mechanics,
professional men and merchants, be.
sides sharing with us the burdens Of
oppressive taxation. AS it Is, they
swell the population and increase the
wealth of the North whilst we gra-
.tuitously pay all their expenses.
Though we have confined our re-
marks to'the manufacture of cotton
the reader will, upon reflection, see
that they apply, with equal force, to
every department of manufactures
from the making of iron to the spin.
ming of shoe-thread and thence de.
.duce the vital truth, that diversity o
pursuits is the life blood of Southern
prosperity. Without supplying
home consumption with home pro
duction, our dependence upon tn,
North must continue indefinitely
and with that dependence, our con.
tinued subsection to wrongs and in,
suits, predicated upon weakness
that results from our own crimina
neglect of the exhaustless sources O
wealth and power with which natur,
has so bountifully endowed the
South. A wealthy South would b,
courted and fawned upon by tn,
North; dependent South will con
tinue to receive the jeers and kick,
which it invites, il it does not merit
A New HAMPsHIRE.paper give
IN account Of rat, caught in steel
trap, which, after dragging the tral
until homeless of escape. IL deliber