Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-12
LESSON FOR THE SOUTH.
A Sensible Letter and Practical WIthaI-
Brief and to the Point.

ST. CATHARINEs, CANADA, Sep
tember 8, 1871.-Prior to the war be
tween the States, Canada was poor
and thriftless, compared with her
present prosperity. Content with ex-
changing the scanty surplus of the
productions of the soil for every spe-
cies Of merchandise, largely, perhaps
mostly obtained from the American
States, they,gavesbut little attention to
manufacturing. The Reciprocity
Treaty then in force, secured COM
mercial intercourse between them,
and the Americans, on easy and lib
eral terms, and they freely availed
themselves Of it. The effect was two
q market in Canada
for many articles of American manu-
facture, and steadily strengthening
annexation sentiment. During the
war, however, this treaty was an
nulled by the United States, and SUI
perseded by our high tariff policy.
The effect on Canada has been won.
derfully beneficial. Instead of her
former total dependence on England
and the United States, she has
erected her factories and mills, and all
over the New Dominion this spirit is
Is actively at work. This lit
tie corner from which I write,
not larger than Shelby county,
bounded on the north and south by
the two lakes, and on the east by
Niagara river, is growing rapidly in
manufactures, wealth and population,
and this young city has nearly
doubled her census report since 1850.
The leading minds here, as elsewhere,
claim to have learned from expert
ence that the plOw, powerful and in
dispensible as ii is, can never, unalded,
enable a country to compete success
fully with one of mixed industry;
and that the city without mills, and
shops, and factories, and furnaces, and
relying for growth and wealth solely
on such productions Of the soil as
may chance to pass through her ware
houses, will soon find a limit to her
prosperity, beyond which she can not
grow. Let Memphis here learn q
lesson. If st. Catharines and neigh
boring towns, in the midst Of q
sparsely inhabited country, inconve.
nient to timber, paying full
prices for labor, and in such
close comp 7tition with the North
ern and New England States,
can prosper so abundantly, why may
not Memphis, with her great Father
of Waters" and railroad con-
nections, her easy access to limit
less supplies of timber, and her cen
tral position, by a liberal system of
manufactures, promote her
prosperity far more rapidly and surely
than she has ever knOwnS My aim
is simply to direct public attention
to the highly successful result here,
in the hope that it may stimulate our
people to greatly increased activity
in the same direction, and, II the least |
instrumental in encouraging them 10
go and do likewise, it will not be la
Dor lost on my part to have jOtted !
down these suggestions.
Since my last q number of our
Southern friends have LEFT for home, |
while few others have taken their |
places. Our genial fellOw-townsman,
Col. Jack Hays, arrived to-day. After |
a short time this, at present,
delightful climate, and bracing winds |
as pure as the breathings of sezaphs,"
and an occasional mineral or Turkish |
bath, he and lady will leave for the |
Bluff City. Judge Clayton who, for
years, shed lustre on the Judiciary of
Mississippi and adorned the Supreme
Bench of that State, is looked for
soon, to accompany his lady and
daughter, Miss Clara, and Miss Halle
Barker, of Clarksville, down the St
Lawrence to Montreal, thence to New
York and home. We shall greatly
regret to part with such extremely
pleasant company. j.