The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-02-19

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7eiu,i;7rq The Great Northwest. tIa'.. :
The rapid strides: Id wealth and prosperity
Of the great Northwest have been subject OF
Wonder TO all particularly to US in the South.
4 residence Of three years IN that section mas
made me connversant to some extent with the
people and the secret, of their success. With
bleak. long dreary and changeable winters,
rain. hail. snow. and the cold, sweeping winds
from the great lakes almost continually pre-
yailing short, hot summers, no spring or fall
traveller getting of at 9 railroad depot asks
himself the question, "Why this way station
in such desolate country--has. grown in the
last few years to the size Of a large town, bid
dinjg. fair to even become city" The super
ficiaI answer is @The enormous immigration, %
and then the thought arises, what induced this
influx from far distant lands to the neglect of
mote favored sections, and the correct answer
must be, "the absorbing passion of the people
to build factories, "to start Shops" as they ex-
press it, testifying the labor they had Com
mencing the sshop" in small way, the foun-
dation was laid which now commands both
labor and capital. After year or two of COM
parative prosperity and rigid economy, the cit
fzens of a small village call a meeting-dry
goods men, gfocers, shoemakers, adjacent far
niefs, butchers-al1 classes are represented.
The result of their deliberation is the starting
of a new shop or factory; something arises
from that meeting in the 'dingy grocery store
to. employ men and boys to add to the popula-
ton. Nine out of. ten of these enterprises
succeed to, the extent of their capacity, and
then the capitalist from the East steps forward,
the works are enlarged, more labor is required /;
the German, the Swede, the Dane, the Poland
er and Belgian write home for their brothers,
their cousins, all their poor relations, PtGce In
IKE shop is sva;tinq for the Immigrant; the I'M
u,ioraaat is not asked to come und acait for the
erection of the factory. The success of the ven
ture being assured beyond a reasonable doubt,
the sensitive, nervous organization of money
ean grasp something tangible the lnbricating
oil Of greenbacks is applied, outside capital is
not called upon to create but to expand, and
the child factory grows large and wakes strong.
The town meeting in that corner grocery store,
representing S25,000, raised an interest which
now gives employment to FIVE hundred men,
and within the space of ten years. The idea
that so much skilled labor is required is erro-
neous.a The great Improvement in machinery
has done away with that necessity. Some
brain is requisite in each department., but the
labor Of the South is at least as intelligent as
that of The Northwest, and can learn as readily
to manage labor saving machine as the for
7eien labor employed there, to whom the coun.
try, the language and the machinery are all
new. We can soon have sufficient experts IN
all branches Another idea entertained gener-
ally here is that water power is necessary to
the successful prosecution Of manufacturing:
, It has been demonstrated to the satisfaction OF
most of the large manufacturers that steam IS
cheaper and more certain, and many large fac
tories within mile Of line water power are a:
erected on tie line Of the railroads; the saving
in drayaee, repairing dams, loss Of time caused
by freshets, ice and droughts, moreIthan paying
the cost of fuel The people of the Northwest,
not content with furnishing that slumbering
.piant, the Southwest, with wagons, wooden
Goods, axes, soap, furniture, Wind mills, sewing
machines, paper, castings, in fact, almost every
thing are now turning their attention to the
erection of cotton mills, and venture the idea
ehattin "a few yeafs, the Northwest will hold the
same advantage over the Southwest as to capi-
tsl nopulatior, &C., as the Northeast now
holds totthe Southeast and there will be the
san1A sickly ery Of an under concent. alton of
cauitalg while theSouth hare fritted away their
savings and energies in vain efforts to legislate
eapital out of Csfe pockets ofthe rich manufac7
turer to a locality barren of manufacture, or to
force Immigration when they have but'one I'M
dustry oat which they can employ the immi-.
grant, when it is we'll known that a large pro
pportion of the immigration is from the crowded
cities of Europe, and ell do not wish to pick
cotton or hoe corn while the South have been
doing this, the Northwest utilized the labor and
.can;fal their command, and that both have
increased is as natural as that water will find
its level. The immigrant desires a home in. or
within market reach Of towns, with their fac
tories, schools and churches. These towns IN
the West were startediby the .resistlsss energies
of Americans, the foreigners but followed q,y! in
their wake, and they.willy follow here Wv
mington Star.
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