Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-03

"a AMDEACA UkE
It is gratifying to know that the many
articles in the APPEAL in regard to the
Importance of promoting industrial en-
terprises in our midst meet with general
approval. If, by dint of constant itera-
ton and reiterRtion OF the same facts
and arguments-the frequent repetition
OF cline upon line, and pTecept upon pre-
cept," we can stir the people Of the south
10 the necessity Of engaging in manu-
featuring, we will feel that we have
served our section and puT people. In
Sentinel says: at seems strange that
Memphis, a city of sixty thousand in
habitan.s, has not the vim and enter
prise TO build up at least half dozen
cotton.mills. We see a small country
town within short distance of this city
erecting one of these factories, of which
it boasts, and forcibly Tidicules Memphis
because OF her IethaTgy In he var ious
enterprises Of commerce. Memphis is
our neighbor, and We would be pleased
to see her make some advance
ment on the road Of prosperity. But if
she continues to slumber she will be un-
disturbed by her patrons. Let Grenada
teach Memphis lesson by erecting a
cottoD-mill, and show all that We have
capacity and enterprise enough to man.
ufacture our own cloths, notWithstsnd-
ing our big neighbor has not" We be-
lieve Memphis will not always slumber.
Georgia is engaging profitsbIy and ex-
tensively in manufacturing, snd the
press Of Maryland is discussing the sub.
ject with great earnestness and ability.
The Baltimore Gazette shows that while
the population OF Pennsylvania is four
and half times that of Maryland, her
manufacturing establishments average
six and half to one, her steam-pOwer
sixteen to one, her wateTwheels eight
to one, her water-power eleven to one,
and that where they have one hand en-
plOyed In active industry she has twen-
ty-five. Now let any Of our readers
figure up the industrial position that
Maryland ought TO occupy to bring her,
taking the difference Of population into
account, On q level with Pennsylvania,
and the result will show wherein our
most serious difficulty lies, and how i'm
pOrtant it is for us to supplement our in
cTeasing commerce with those indus
tries in which We are so well fitted
TO excel, and for whose distribution
We have the shortest and therefore
the cheapest interior lines. More
over, the influence OF a manufacture
ing pOpulation'i is felt largely even in
the rural districts. DR.. Psley long ago
said, and his remarks are quoted with
approval by M'CUlloch: "In the neigh
bOrhOod Of trading towns, and of those
districts which carry on cOmmunics-
ton with the markets Of trading towns,
the husbandmen are busy AID skillful,
and the peasantry lsboTious; the land
is managed to the best advantage, and
double the quantity Of corn or heritage
ARTICLES which are ultimately converted
what the same soil yields in remoter
and more neglected parts Of the coun-
try. Wherever q thriving mandatory
finds means to establish itself, a new
vegetation springs up around it. l be-
lieve it is true that agriculture never
arrives at any considerable, much less
at It's highest degree OF perfection,
when it is not connected with
trade; that is, when the demand for
its produce is not increased by the con-
sumption Of trading cities.n How true
is all this! What is said OF Maryland
applies to every southern State. The
factory will make a villsge-creste it
outright. 1t gives employment to skilled
labor, and brings in from abroad the
most useful of all classes OF People-the
men Of Drawn and brain who have the
genius to plan aud the skill and the will
to execute. Men of this sort make
State; give it power, respectability, in
fiuence and importance among other
States. They also impart life, energy
and vim to a city-just what We need,
not only in this, but in every other city
in the south. But the most Overwhelm-
ing Of all arguments in favor Of the
founding Of cotton factories is that which
we draw from the enhancement Of val
ues, to say nothing Of the mere local
advantages, in which none but
the residents Of the factory-sites
would share, the general advan-
tage to sll the people would
be immense. The annual value
of our southern cotton crop is, say two
hundred and twenty million dollars,