The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-09-26
The Southern States and Cooperative Indus
tries.

We are glad to learn that movement is on
foot to organize cotton factory in Georgia on
the cooperative principle The plan is to-
build factory and stock it with the most i'm
proved machinery. Attached to the factory
will be lands upon which to erect the cottages
for the laborers, with few acres attached to
each home The school-house and church will
not be omitted, and the principle of Tempe
rance which has worked so we'll at Vineland,
New jersey, will be engrafted in the little CO.
operative Society in Georgia.
| Correspondence has already been opened
with experienced parties in that State with the
view of securing desirable location So SOON
as this with other preliminary steps are taken,
company will be formed under the general
incorporation laws of either New York, Geor-
gia or Massachusetts,. The capital stock, will
be fixed at figure sufficient to carry the enter
prise through thoroughly, and certain leading
men in the North interested in the subject will
undertake the work of having the stock SUBJ
scribed for.
The new Company will engraft on the enter
prise the three leading ideas of-co-operative
distribution of profits the eight-hour princi
pie of labor; and temperance. Families will
be selected from among the manufacturing dis
tricts Of the North, and the most skilful super
vision and experienced management secured.
It is also proposed to associate with this facto-
ry enterprise colony Of Northern agricultu-
adjacent to the village This will give society
for the settlers, and command first-class church
and educational advantages.
We regard this as the beginning Of revolu-
tion in the South. Factories and small farms
are what we want, and cooperative settlements
will lead to this The industrial problem
which England is trying to solve, which has
for centuries agitated Germany and France,
and is now engaging the attention of the labor
ing classes in the manufacturing districts of
the North, is destined to find its final solution
in the Southern States of America. In these
States is to be found all the necessary condi-
tions for the success of cooperative industries.
Coal, iron, water power and cotton are in close
juxtaposition. The climate is favorable to
health and mild in its temperature, without
being enervating. The soil produces in pro-
life abundance grain, vegetables and fruit.
Living is therefore cheap. These consdera-
tions, with cheap land and sparse population,
naturally invite associated labor to seek for
homes and independence in this fertile and
beautiful garden of the Union.
A glance at the geographical position OF the
South, with its natural and artificial lines of
communication, will show that ready accessi-
bihty to a choice of markets will add greatly
to its other advantages as manufacturing dis
trict. All we need is organized and associated
skilled labor, supported by capital to enableu
to cover the Southern States with factories One
or two practical successes, even on small
scale, will impart such an impetus to the CO.
operative idea, that capital in abundance will
be found to assist in its complete development.
We would direct the attention of the Labor
Reforners of the North to this subject. The
South is the battlefield where the aspirations
of the toiling millions of the North are to be
soonest realized. The cooperative, landed and
social influences of the South will combine to
favor the movement There will be no organ
lied interests to keep down labor, because the
capital which is to develop the South is yet to
be created, and that capital can best tcome from
cooperative industries applied to our vast re-
sources. Once organized, there is no power
which can withstand the onward march of the
great army of laborers under cooperation.
The South is ready. What says the North?-
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