Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-24
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Build Cotton Factories.

Build Cotton Factories.
EDITORS APPEAL-I am truly glad to
see, in the late issues Of your valuable
paper, the many earnest appeals you are
making upon your good citizens to go to
work and build cotton factories in your
beautiful city. 1 have had some little
experience in the manufacture Of the
'f1eecy staple" at this place into the best
brown sheetings and drillings made
south of the Ohio river, and if we can
manufacture at Brownsville, how much
better may you manufacture in Mem
phis. Your city is delightfully."- situated
| on the east bank of the great Father Of
| Waters, upon one Of the most command
| ing bluffs between Cairo and New Or
leans, having Wolf river, with its pure,
limpid waters, running through the
| northern end Of your city. Can you
think Of anything more inviting to the
eye Of a stranger as he approaches the
"Bluff City, on board OF one of those
magnificent floating palaces that ply
between Memphis and New Orleans,
than to see ten large cotton-mills ex-
tending from the highest hill Of your
city down to old Fort Pickering? each
mill having four hundred looms and if
teen thousand spindles; having also
three hundred operators in each mill,
making in the aggregate in the ten
mills four thousand looms, one hundred
and fifty thousand spindles and three
thousand operators, bringing to your
city living, active, energetic pOpula.
ton of not less than twenty thousand
souls, thereby increasing the numerical
strength Of Memphis at least fifty per
cent. The cotton-mill of four hundred
looms employed in manufacturing
plaids, checks and stripes, would con-
sumo about four thousand eight hun
dred bales of cotton annually-this
would scarcely use the bOrings and SAM
pies in your city. Memphis could
manufacture all the colOTed goods
that might be needed at the
points that send their cotton to your
market. There can be no place found
west of the Alleghanies possessing supe-
rior advantages over you in the manu-.
facture of colored goods. You have a
superabundance of pure running water,
possessing all the facilities for easy and
cheap transportation to every point.
You have a direct line Of cOmmuuleR'
ton to the West Indies and the South
American States, where heavy goods
are in great demand. Your interests and
those Of the points you trade to would
be mutual; happy and interesting eX-
change of each others productions. We
live in little suburban city tributary
to Memphis. We desire to see your city |
buckle on her aTmOr and go to work. !
Build up and invite manufacturers to |
come to your city, give them helping |
hand, and it will not be many years un- |
til that destiny predicted by the adven- |
turous disc 0veTers Of your romantic /
bluffs will be fully realized. We love |
Memphis, we love your people; and |
when you prosper, all the surrounding |
country that trades there will enjoy and |
be participants in the same prosperity |
Our city ships large quantity Of cotton
every year to Memphis; our merchants
trade there; can you not influence your
merchants to buy our goods, instead Of
sending off one thousand miles for
goods not near as good as ours? We be-
lieve in encouraging home enterprises;
help one another, thereby cementing
that community of interest that should
ever exist between Brownsville and
Memphis. Lend US helping hand and
do us all the good you can.
PICKER-ROOM.
Tax on Titles.
EDITORS APPEAL-As Rstrench-
ment and Reform" is the slOghSlR both
political parties, and the deSnSeogues
and chronic Office-holders and seekers,
on the principle of the pickpOcket, who,
louder than his pursuers, take up the
cry of the taxpayers, and inscribe upon
their banners " Retrenchment and Re
FORM" Now in all this hue and cry
about reform, there are many necessary
reforms, which will, in all probability be
overlooked, and l hasten to call the at
tention of the Citizens High Protective
Union to it. 1t is true that under Ie-
publican form Of government, We can
have no hereditary titles and offices, but
as we are all, by descent at least, sci0ns
of countries where such things exist, we
naturally have laundering for these
forbidden things, and while some obtain
military, judicial and executive titles,
they cannot be handed down to the fam
lily as in Europe; and while this cannot
be remedied save by another amend
ment TO the national constitution, and
the general impression obtains that
we've had too many OF them already, I
see no prospect Of designating the !
generations with the titles of
their prOgenitors. But the old fOgy idea
that one could not be a general, judge
Or colonel, without having at some
time or other been possessed OF a COM
mission to that effect, is exploded and
out Of date, IS any one can see or hear
by visiting one OF our courts, and by OBJ
serving the number Of judges, generals
and colonies present Though with such ,,
q brilliant array OF military heroes left
after the late unpleassntness, he ..
may wonder Iat their names not ,,
fguring in some OF the many
Veracious histories Of that unhappy !
Struggle; and the idea that he is in q
,ourt.maTtial instead OF an ordinary court q,
nay obtrude itself upon his mind by hear
ng everybody addresse ed as colonel or ..
general 1.-THE legal fraternity thinking :
my rank beneath the latter unworthy .
# their high positiOn). Now a great :
many persons think it indicate to )
peak of man Of wealth without prefix !
ng title to his name, and Of course, as :
We are all Fighters" they dub him col /.
mel or general. Now have no objec- !
ion to this. but have two plans to sug- .
,est whereby this penchant for titles can =
Ne utilized. The first is to reorganiZe :
he State militia on the English plau
md sell the commissions, and devote :,
he proceeds to the establishment Of a \
mixing fund aud thus pay off the State .
ebt, as by this plan men Of large wealth .
an purchase any title they please, and !,
While feeding their vanity may at the n
anne time be Of great service to the i
ountry. The other plan is to give our
7eslthy citizens rank in accordance
'ith their financial cOndtion-as, for II
a man who is worth two hun. q
red Thousand dollars should be called
enersl, and one whose status is over
No hundred fhnnGQnn