Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-13
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The tidal wave Oftndustrial exposition
which has swept over Europe and COM
PEELED the homage of kings, princes and
| potentates, and which had its origin in
the heart and head Of the good Prince
Albert, Of England, yet mourned for by
his noble Queen and wife, has at last
overtaken Memphis, and submerged
Ia it, we are to be carried for
ward by it in the race of progress in ratio
such as We have eve yet dreamed Of.
We regard the opening Of the Industrial
Exposition Building on Friday night a.
the dawning Of a new era in the history
Of Memphis. We have always been
convinced and have repeatedly SO
said, that it is impossible to build
a city or sustain one without
mechanical and manufacturing indus
tries. Mere barter and trade in agricul-
tural products, or the carrying or hand
ling Of freights, viii not sustain 8 COM
munity, nor tend to its rapid increase.
1t needs the creative energy and pluck
Of the men of invention, the men Of
sober, steady Flooding and everyday
effort who saw, plane and fashion lam
Der into a thousand articles Of furniture,
Of ornament and use, who melt, ham
and cast crude iron into shapes that
are as artistic as they are useful, as
beautiful as they are pillars Of strength.
II we sell forty million dollars
worth Of cotton and realize five per
cent. commissions, we have only Melted
two million dollars, and II we realize
ten per cent, it is only four million dol
lars; but If we put forty million dollars
into raw products, and manufacture
them, we viii be able to double our
money, and distribute to industrious
mechanics, artifcers and factory hands
and capitalists a sum equal tothe capital
represented. In Cincinnati they very
learned this lesson, and have for
years made the West and Southwest
tributary TO them for other things than
hams and bacon. 1t has been the prin-
cipal sesto immense furniture factories,
'Oundries and ~iron-vorks, and work
shops for the manufacture Of clothing,
and other useful and necessary articles
II daily use and consumption. st.
Louis, stimulated to rivalry by the sue
,ess attending the mechanical efforts Of
he Queen City, has made wonderful
in q few years, and she threatens,
the next ten, TO Outstrip Pitts
Jurg as the great iron producing city Of
he continent. Louisville has also found
lut that tobacco ends in smoke, that il
something else besides commission
merchants and tobacco merchants
though these are useful and honorable
TO make q city. She has devel-
1ped her manufactures with wonderful
and withit her railroads, in order
% find markets for her enterprising me
shAnces; and Chicago has learned that
{ Is not by speculstions in grain that q
great city is to grow or be maintained, /
md is consequently holding outunusual
Inducements TO mechanics and maniac
,urers to build factories and workshops
md lend q helping hand in making the
Jity Of the Lakes the metropolis Of the
Northwest. We, too, are learning the
essen in Memphis. Five years sgo tie
Building would have been
impossible; to-dsyit rears itself proudly,
|. monument Of u progress In the me-
arts, te~stifying that we have learn
d at least the inst OF the lessons Of pro-
Tess that distinguish our era. Hence
orth, Rs Colonel McRae, in his opening
address, well and truly said, " the dis
inction OF caste between skilled labor
md skilled thought, like other rel
cs OF q by-gone age, is supplanted and
eplaced by a recognized equality, and
%, one by one, the stars Of the feudal
light go out, as the dawn approaches of
Universal republican liberty. The SUI
lent over his book, the merchant st lis
the lsborer At his pillow, and the
at his bench, are 10 recog-
iized co-workers Of equal value in the
Of his race, and he only is
who dignifes his calling, since
practical and discerning age hath
ONE to discover that no calling can
upply dignity to a deficient follower
7he workers are coming to the front
nd the loafers and idlers are to be sent
0 the rear. The Exposition is to tell
THAT our mechanics and manufactures
an do, and it is TO be aperpetuh re-
TO the present generation that
abor, steady work and persistent toll
re the badges Of honor and the sure
Of n proper appreciation Of the
imposes Of our being.