Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-13
works which gradually erystalized

works which gradually erystaliZed into
competence, and from competence to
wealth, until in q few years he found
himself Gne Of the solid men of the city.
BY these accretions st. Louis has
emerged from the condition of village,
and is growing the great municipal CO
lossus of the west, BY the magic OF la
Dor has she conquered, and by that mag
ie viii she continue to conquer. Let our
own city learn wisdom of st. Louis.
There is much of the absurd heaven of
prejudice against workingmen still lin
gering throughout our whole country;
not prejudice against labor per Sc, but an
underlined, miasmatic, diseased opinion,
that the wlelder of yard-stick is some
how more respectable than the
man who wields a hammer or
I regulates the intricate motions of
a steam engine. But in Memphis this
effete relic of a slower age is but rarely
! found. The fault with our people is they
do not encourage, with the proper spirit,
enterprise and painstaking inducements,
skilled labor to come among them. They
are, however, wide-awake to the neces-
sity ofits coming, and in good time will
act. Politically, st. Louis is dead as
mutton. There is nothing but "words,
words, Words in the daily papers. The
| Democrat complains that out of one
hundred and twenty-five thousand one
hundred and sixty-eight children Of
school ages in the city, the average
number belonging to the city public
school is but twenty-five thousand and
ten, while the average attendance is
only twenty thousand four hundred and
seventy-nine, and that "the almost in
credible number of eighty-three thou
sand five hundred and sixty-eight of
our children of school age are absolutely
without instruction. This is bad for
st. Louis. She will find it cheaper to
enforce instruction than pay for the sup
port of criminals produced by ignorance.
This same paper gives some excellent
advice to the farmers of the Mississippi
valley touching the prospect of creating
a line of ocean steamers to ply between
New Orleans and Liverpool. 1t recon-
mends the oranges to talk the matter
over, and counsels them to take stock in
the enterprise. Among other things,
the Democrat says: "Only five per
cent. will be called at a time, and but
ten million dollars will be needed to fit
up twenty of the largest and most eff
cient freighting and passenger steamers
that ever rode the water. No political
affairs are contemplated, but boats that
will take ten thousand ton freight on
twenty feet of water-bOats that can
carry the grain of the Mississippi basin
to Europe at ten cents per bushel, if
need be, instead of forty cents, as is
now charged; cotton at one dollar per
bale, instead of three dollars, and bring
over emigrants by the thousands" "
1t contends that this line will compel a
reduction in freights over every railroad
in the United States, and make the
farmers Of the Mississippi masters of
the situation. 1t also says that the
money to build these steamers should be
raised in the Mississippi valley, so as to
give control OF the stock here, and sug-
gests that New Orleans take a million,
Vicksburg and Memphis a million be
tween them, Louisville, Cairo and Gin
cinnati another million, st. Louis two
or three million and the cities and towns
along the upper navigable rivers make
up the deficit of stock. We deem this
the best move ever made to secure the
commercial Independence of this great
valley.
We had an abundance of rain yester-
day, and to-day, Tuesday, the sky is
overcast and gloomy. There is no
cholera worth speaking of in st. Louis.
Your correspondent leaves for Chicago
tonight. MODoC.