Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-04-01
TOO MITCH CAPITAL REQUIRED.

The old story about the necessity of estab.
fishing manufactures is being told by the
press and the people in every part of the
South. All agree that home manufactures
would multiply Southern wealth, increase the
supply of money, relieve our depressed agri-
culture, and improve our general condition.
But the invariable reply is, too much capital
is required. The Missouri Republican, in
discussing this question, says:
"It takes far less capital to start manu-
factory in favorable place than is imagined !;
the business requires labor more than it re-
quires capital. and there is not county in
Missouri out of fifty that can be named that
does not possess unemployed labor enough to
stock dozen factories. Successful manufac-
lures are not generally established; they
grow from small beginnings. If a company
of foreign capitalists were to 60 into county
of this State, erect large buildings, fit them
up with approved machinery, and invest one
hundred thousand dollars in a particular in.
dustry, the probabilities are that it would
fail; but if the citizens of the same county
were to embark in the same industry on a
small scale, with eight or ten thousand dol
lars, employing such labor as they could get
in the vicinity, conducting their operations
with economy, feeling their way as they went
along, and enlarging their business as the de-
mand for their fabric increased, the expert.
ment would probably grow into prosperous
industry, employing proitably one hundred
thousand dollars. 1t would make its own
capital and then invest it in an enlarged
business The enterprise would expand with
its annual profits Other enterprises would
be attracted by its success, and in few years
the place would be recognized as a thrifty
manufacturing community. This is the his
tory of nearly all the successful industries in
this country, and it is full of encouragement.
1t proves that foreign money and imported
labor are not necessary to the development OF
healthful and profitable system of manufac.
lures, and that willing labor, energy and de-.
termination are the chief prerequisites Man.
ufactures are gregarious; there is sympathy
between industries that causes them to group
together. A busy community -irresistibly at
tracts both capital and labor; an idle commu-
nifty repes them. 1t is sheer waste Of time
for an idle population to point to their rich
soil, fine timber, water power and beds OF
coal and ore, and call on somebody in the
East or in Europe to come and work up these
cheap materials into fabrics the solicited
labor and capital will not come, because they
will argue that, if the boasted advantages
really exist in the vicinity, the resident popu-
lation would improve them. But let that
population go resolutely to work to make
fortunes out of their own resources, inaugu-
rating manufactures on small scale, put
ting in a little money and plenty of work,
employing all the idle persons in the vicinity,
and managing their business with frugaity
and Judgment, and they will be surprised and
delig ghted at the result; their example will be
noted abroad; the hum of their operations
will resound far and wide, and the wealth
and immigration that avoided them before
will eagerly come forward to assist them"
CRIME IN New YoRK.-The New York
Erpress has an admirable condensation of the
first annual report of the Board of Police
Justices, embracing the time between Novem-
Der 12 1878, and October 81, 1874; and from
this record we get very excellent idea OF
the detected crime that stalks gigantically
abroad IN the Northern metropolis. belore
the Police Courts of New York city, during
the time above specified, 84,821 prisoners
we're arraigned, of whom 60,2l3 we're males
and 24,6O5 females. Of this host of crimi-
nails 1866 were discharged, either on &C.
count of police blunders or failure of parties
aggrieved to prosecute Eliminating the ee-
ment discharged, the startling truth is re.
vealed, that Of the 49,257 held to answer,
16,345 we're females, the larger number of
whom were arrested for crimes against tenn
perance and decency. To the fell spirit of
intoxication must be attributed more than
half the causes of sin and punishment, the
list of "drunk and disorderly" being q ,2OS
males and 1854 females. This statement
only includes those drunkards who "violated
pup pic decency," and does not embrace the
thousands who get drunk and contrive to
keep free from a row and out of the gutter.
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