Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-15
. TRADE.
WhsFs II Has Gone 10 and How Il Has Seen
Lost-lmnlGranis Wanted.
R~anufaOturss to be EHSOuragsd-H0W
They may be Made Profitable to
Memphis,

Steamboats, and railroads have brought
the consumer and producer face to face,
which does away with middle men and
their towns, and thst is what Memphis
and her merchants are to-day. The con-
sumner, no matter Whether.he be
MERCHANT, PLANTER, WOOD CHOPPER OR
FISHERMAN,
| sends by the packet to st. Louis for his
| flour. for the reason that he knows he
can buy 10 cheaper there than be can from
the Memphis merchant, who has to buy
at the same place. The freight Is no
more from st. Louis to any point below
here on he Mississippi. Arkansas or
White rivers, than from Memphis to the
same points. The merchant has to dray
and store the hOur and u have a profit
some way, else he could not pay rents,
taxes, etc, and carry on business. These
things are known to every one, and,
hence It is, st. Louis and other cities are
/ doing the business that we once did, and
/ our merchants and people are only de-
/ csiving themselves when they try to be-
| lieye otherwise. We.must at Once realise
/ the fact that unless we change u bust
! ness from that Of middle men to that of
manufacturers, We will be blotted out
As A COMMERCIAL PEOPLE AND CITY.
And the only way for us to extricate our
selves is TO do as they did at st. Louis
when that city and county was supplied
with -four from the Ohio river. They
built their own mills, moi only supplied
themselves at home and three fourths the
Southern demand ibut sent g large guam
tity back to the very people who once
Now this is what Memphis must do.
There is no reason why we cannot. We
can, at Cairo, above or below, on the Mis-
sissippi and Ohio river, buy wheat as
- ~ 81 arHn mHNHnR1a wTn mUn
get il brought here as cheap as they cam;
can run our steam engines as cheap as
they can; can get stave timber and hoop
poles better and cheaper than they CAM;
the barrels can be made as cheap; can get
/ as good millers as they can, and make as
good hOur as they can, and sell as cheap
as they can. Then
CONSUMERS WILL K N HERE
for -four, instead of sending to st. Louis.
This is only q item in our trade and
commerce, but the same principle applies
to any other article manufactured in the
East or West. We must manufacture
everything here; build up our trade, as
thew have done; at the same time double
our population every ten years, An hon
est, working population is what we
want, and there is only one way to get
them. That is, capital has first got to
build the factories, mills, tan yards, roll
ing mills, in short, everything to set
people to work. and there will be no trOu-
bic in getting the mechanics, the artisans,
the men Of learning n science, to come.
Hundreds Of thousands Of French would
come, if we would only give them employ
ment. They are thoroughly acquainted
with not only all these branches of rough
manufacturing, but the most perfect in
al the fine and higher branches. They
are the only people in Europe that are
Southern before they come to this u
try,
A EOP WHO HAVE SUFFERED
and are now suffering as we have and are
now suffering. They would come here
sharing our suffering and sympathies, and
aid US to build up a country worthy ofour
efforts.
The Legislature Of our State should not
only exempt from tax all money and land
used in building and e%quipping factories
for atleast fifty years, but AID in some way
sscheme for French emigration.
Our City Council should not only aid the
State Legislature all it could, but give
every encouragement to all kinds Of inn
provemsnt. Let packet companies have
their W~harfbOats; let elevators be erected;
cease to tax the tonnage that builds up
Dur city; dc everything possible to aid in
c~hespsning transportation do away with
all restrictions, rings and small ideas, and
our city will, with all its vast railroad
connection passing over the great river on
q bridge, become the great central city
Of America, commercially as well as geo.
graphically.
Spring and summer clothing; a full
line at J. @. WARD CO.'S,
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