The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-07-31
TIL WEST AND SOUTH.

pie, and which has precipitated them into an
hostility to railroads and railroad
We stated that the policy OF
not only the west but the sousb, was to en-
courage the establishment Of manufactures,
and thus create home consumption tor heir
surplus farm products, and convert the raw
material ,indie to these sections into fab
RIGS, not only for home but foreign USE
There is no necessity, nor is there wisdom Ia
war upon railroads. Great internal i'm
provement schemes cannot be projected and
consummated without combined effort, and
this implies, to greater or less degree, mo-
nopoly.. The prosperity of the west, It's won
derful development and its imperial wealth
are the result Of these great combinations for
public improvements-or to be pointed, the
result of monopolies The people then are
fighting against their best friends, when they
organize to embarrass public enterprises Of
this kind. The effort too, will be Intellectual
except as to one consequence, and that to
create an embittered feeling between the conf
binations and the people, in which tho latter
will have the most to lose. n
We are pleased ito see, from the following
paragraph, which ne find in a late number of
the Richmond Wing, that there has been
wonderful progress Of late years in western
manufactures.
In 1860, Missouri had only 1861 labor
ers employed in manufactures; in 1870 this
number had increased to 1854. In 1860
she had only s4.384 1872 capital invested 10
manufactures 10 1870 this had increased to
$50, S57 PA. In 1860 her manufacturing
product was only S41.782731 10 1870 it
had increased to 206,2l3,429. Illinois in
creased its number Of hands employed from
22,978 iu 1860 to SO, 091 in 1870. and its
manufacturing product from S57 $50, 1856 to
S2D5, $40, 672 Iowa increased its number
of hands employed from 6307, to IL SAT,
and its product from $13 ,971 1926 to SIG
| 534 322 in the same time. Kansas increas.
ed its number of hands employed from 1875
to 1884, and its product from 81 1857 ,408 to
1911 IT'S, 1888 Minnesota increased its num-
Der of hands employed from 1873 to II 200,
and its product from $3,374,172 to $23, no.
700. Michigan increased its number Of
hands employed from 23.160 to 60 694. aud
its product from 49,, 65S .356to $1l8,394,-
676. Indiana increased its number Of Ia IDS
employed from 81 ,2J5 to So, 852, and it's pro-
duct from s42 ,469 to 98,617 27S--
| ~. E,b ~ e.
could save the farmer the cost Of carriage on
his produce, and insure him a high price for
it at home, the condition of western farmers
ought to be better now than it ever was be-
fore,
1t will be remembered in the same ar
ticle we predicted that in the adjustment Of
the industries and internal commerce Of the
country, the capital of the east would find in.
vestment in the south and west, and the pros
perity of New Eng land, by reason of her
manufactures, be transferred to those sections
Harmonizing with this idea, we find the fol
lowing paragraph taken from the Charleston
: S. G., Ne,us and Courier:
"The southern cotton mills are working
full time and are making money rapidly
Let the Northern mill-owners come down
South and they can do the same. The STA
tistcs show that yarns can be manufactured
in South Carolina, transported to the North
pay commission of five per cent for selling
be sold at the cost Of Northern production
and yet yield a net profit Of .1tpe- cents a
1 pound. And certain class of colored goods
can be produced here and sold in the North
at the cost of production of similar goods
there, and yet yield profit Of over ten cents
pound. Again. yarns made in the Saluda
factory have been shipped to England and
sold in Manchester at "a rate which left net
profit of. Al cents pound. The saving in
cost of material, 10 wages, in commission, IN
waste, in transportation, &C., enabes the Sou
them mills to do profitable business, while
the Northern mills lose money and when the
Northern mills are doing their best the Sou
thern mills do still better. The moral Of this
is plain: Bring your machinery down South
at once, We manufacturers of New England F.;
for to that, or closing your doors. ye mus
come at last
Herein lies the salvation of the south, nc
less than the west. Let the people Of those
sections energetically turn their attention te
utilizing the grand opportunity, and they
will find that railroad combinations in stead 0
being disadvantage to them will facilitate
the accomplishment Of their prosperity.