The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-05-19

suits present In that country, pnyBlcdiAy 81 ltAe
our own We see there, the densest population
On the globe, whose existence in their crowded
state is only rendered possible by the diversity
in China for its hundreds of millions to cultia
vate, and the consequence is that millions are
engaged in manufactures of many kinds of rare
excellence, and when even SO, ell canhot find
the means of living the rivers and the seas are
made to yield their harvest, whole villages are
built upon the water, and on the water whole
populations are born live and die, as their
nrefghbors are born, live and die upon the Land.
Now such is the similarity of climate that it
is not too much to say that there is hardly an
important product of China which may not be
equally well produced in the Southern States.
We have already surpassed the Chinese in the
culture of cotton, rice and sugar-cane, and
without doubt, whenever, with. the proper
means, we set ourselves seriously to the task,
we will surpass them in the culture of tea and
silk, both which it has been demonstrated we
can produce.
That the white race is both intellectually and
physically the superior of the wonderful Mon
golians Of whom we have been speaking, has
never been doubted. If in their hands the cli-
mate of China can do such things, in the hands
of the white race, the similar Climate In which
we live can do much more. The difference lies
in this that in China, increasing density OF
population has created industrial diversity by
necessitating it, while we are striving after
Adiversity of pursuit but are foiled by scarcity
of population. 1t may be laid down as uni
versal economic principle, perhaps without an
exception, that no ,scanty peopled country,
whatever its advantages, ever exhibited really
diversified industry. The problem we are stri-
wing to solve, if it is not nsoluble, is at least
one of the most difficult in the whole circle of
human endeavors, and if we do solve it sue
cessfully, we shall be greater than success in
war, however glorious, could have made Us.
Being without that density of population which
could of itself create diversity of occupation,
and which our Northern neighbors have had so
long, we are striving to exhibit such diversity
of resources and capacity of development ns
will attract capital and the streams OF immi-
grafton poured out year after year from Europe.
into climates more like than is ours to that OF
the home of the white race Your committee
do not mean to report that the thing is impos-
sible, but to point out its true difficulties as the
best preparation for surmounting them. If
ever we succeed it will only be by the union
and concentration of all the intellect and all
| the capital there is among us upon the one
great problem. And it is this very union and
Concentration which is so hard to maintain,
when the few thousands Of our population are
scattered over so wide an extent of country.
Your Committee would then suggest that
there is no way in which our people can so well
provide for the future development of the al
most inexhaustble resources of the climate,
the soil and the waters, bestowed upon them by
Providence, as by providing for consistent
and permanent unanimity of purpose and con-
cert of action, by frequent gatherings, like the
present Convention, by forming and sustaining
local Clubs and Societies, and by maintaining
periodical publications devoted to the discus
sion of the industrial resources OF the South.
The attrition of mind against mind attained by
such means, while it tends to produce unanim.
ity of purpose, conduces also to division OF
labor, and diversified industry is only the full
deyelopment of division of labor. They must
also learn to value those scientific methods of
investigation which alone can be sure of event
ually reaching precise and trustworthy results.
They must, too, be willing to risk something In
the investment of capital upon experiments.
knowledge and money are two different forms
of power which go on accumulating much fast
er when they work together than when each is
| left to toll alone. We must learn to organize
for common purpose the administrative skill
of the successful man of business, and the skill
in research, which is the gift of the successful
man of science. And for this purpose we must
combine scientific education as far as possible
with education in business.
One of the ways by which a people may be
forced into full development of its material
resources is by foreign conquest, shutting out
from it every other avenue of progress-and it
may emerge from such subjugation the con-
queror of its conquerors.
Respectfully submitted, -.
B. F. GRAFTON,
''i-t.s For the Committee.