Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-16

down. but may hold her own, and even
sdvanoe. under the force OF all her Vssl
! advantaaes: but unless she go to manu-
facsurinq, she win be far ouestnppeo 10
the race Of progress. She Will oe ieis Sss
she ia being without them) miserAoiy %
hind, however decided ner soVsnce gen.
araIlv. The question of this fast aie Of
teleerRphy and steam Is not progress
only, but much progress. For now, Il
tardy In the race, we may DO IS shame-
fulIV behind as II, in othsr times we ran
not ct all. MEMPHIS MUST MANUFAo-
TUREl -.
as have shown, offer US All tne lhats-
rials TO be manufactured, and all the ele-
mems OF living to facilitate industry, and
support 1t in the richest profus1on; and
enterprise has provided, and Is providing,
the carving facilities in every direcBlon
around us, abundsntly and SIMPLY.
With the cotton raised by ourselves
and with all these facilities OF msnuisc-
turing. why send our cotton to the essf,
or to Europe, 90 be manufactured, ana
then buy back the manufactured srticle,
with the supersdded costs of trsnsporsa-
ton both ways, and the repeated hand
ling and charges of mlddle-men3 Why
send our q ne timber north 10 go through
the same course, and be returned to us2
Why tax ourselves with these IN
wontsd burthens? Talk not OF high taxes
levied by the State or cityl This policy
entails a burden thousand times heavier
upon us! Il Ia crushing US down when
We would rise, when we could bound up
ward and 60 on with Unprecedented rap
idity to unexsmpled prosperity and great
ness.
Just 20 70 the Louisville depot or to the
landing, on arrival OF the freight train or
boat from above; see the hoes, Eakss,
ploughs, wheelbarrows, spades, shovslss
bedstesds, broOms, brushes, cotton anu
wooden g0ods-everything made OF iron,
wood, cotton, wool, hair, etc. etc. ana
constantly and every day used by cur peo-
plei The iron rail and the hesving breast
OF the river lsbors beneath the weight OF
transportation. The millions Of dollars
of the toll of our people are sent on TO
purchase these things, when every article
of them could and should be made right
here In Memphis. We work at cotton ali
the year round land into the next and
when we start the ensuing CROP sll We
have made by this toll is gone to support
Ms. Whv this foIlyY WHY this madness7
this blindnsss8 this wickedness toward
ourselves and our country and all our in
terestsS Why7 Look at our capitalists
right among as, those who have grown
fat on the prosperity that nature sad our
position have forced upon us at this point,
and in this favored locality. WHAT sre
they doing with their surplus WeslbhH
Investing It in these manufacturing en-
terprises to build up the city snd keep at
home the millions We sre constantly send
ing of, as above shown Not at ALL
They are investing it In banking opera
JiOns, in insurance projects or companies
and in bonds, by all OF which 1t is turned
to multiplying itself merely and not, AZ
tbs same time, materially building up the
city. Il is not used except for money
changing and money-shsv1ug. One fac
tory, with Just fifteen hundred operatives,
would sdd more to the material pro-
gress of the city and country in
q single year than all OF our
banks and mere money-deslsrs do IN en-
Aye, the latter but tie up or sink the ensr-
giles of the city, when they withhold the
capital they use in these ways from In
vsstment in manufactures. They run
their money in g circle, sugment1ng II,
truly, but not sending IL cut In streams to
enrich and build up the city and country.
If one Of Us rise up from obscurity and
poverty, by luck or industry, to have 8
few spare thousands of cash, OF we 90 to
b bAnking, insuring, buying notes or bonds,
or anything to keep cut Of the factory and
the shop or OF the farm. Blindness! blind
nssst u Blindness y!
And yet there has been some excuse for
this The policy Of the government toward
Us Of the south hss heretofore been UnprO-
pitiOus, uncertain, calculated to unsettle,
If not psrsly zing and oppressive, making
nothing sure but money in the hand, and
hardly that. And before this, as stated,
slave labor was deemed g barrier. But
now those things have passed or are pass
ing away. The blighting hand of the pol
iician Is removing. We sre likely TO have
but little worse, now, than the usual rs
curing blight Of g presidential election 20
clog the present and dsmpen the future
with its uncertainties of policy.
PROGRESS.