Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-09-11
table of accumulated wealth.
VARIED INDUSTRIES.

VARIED INDUSTRIES.
The disparity may in some degree
be ascribed to the ravages of war. the
distracted political condition of the
Secession States, to the new system of
labor, not yet adapted to existing con-
ditiohs; but after making allowances
for their full effect, we are still forced
TO the conclusion that the chief and
controlling causes are the varied In
dustries of the richer States, their in
dustrious habits and greater conform
ity to the laws of nature in the appli-
cation of labor to the supply of the
wants of mankind.
We know that the labor of Georgia
and Mississippi and Alabama and Ar
kansas bas been chiefly directed to the
production of cotton, and that the
people of those States have mainly
depended upon other communities for
their daily and necessary supply of
bread and of meat, of clothing and
implements of husbandry.
We of Tennessee and Kentucky and
Virginia, not relying upon a single
production, make our own bread and
meat and to some extent have engaged
in the manufacture of articles in daily
use. In the North and West are pro-
duced bread and meat for the South
and for Europe, tools and implements
of husbandry, and various articles of
handicraft and machinery, which we
and the South buy from them: But
in the Northeastern States all the
various productions are combined /;
labor is applied to the culture Of the
soil, to the manufacture of articles of
cotton and wool, of wood and of iron,
and to the navigation of ships. They
are commercial and trading as well
as manufacturing and agricultural
people.
The combination of two or more Of
these forms of labor requires that Ia
Dor shall be well rewarded in other
words, demands intelligent labor.
Hence with these varied productions
we find associated school-houses and
schools, and people almost without
exception able to read. intelligently the
thousands Of newspapers and maya
zines and books published to meet their
intellectual wants.
We thus see that dear labor is cheap
labor, in that it promotes the interest
Of the employer as well as the laborer,
and tends to the Improvement of so.
ciety.
We want, the good of the State de-
mands, an intelligent population.
For this end we must have a system
of public and free instruction for all
the youth of the land-not supported
grudgingly but heartily-maintained,
mot with narrow parsimony, but with
generous liberality.
We must have, moreover, grammar
schools and colleges, and lastly univer.
sites, for those fitted to become think
ers, inventors, teachers and states
men. We have begun the work in
every part of our beloved State. Let
us push 1t toward to glorious con.
summation.
But obedience to the natural laws
that govern the adaptation of labor t.
the wants and necessities of mankind
is more far-reaching in its cOnse
quences.
The Old World is filed to overflow
ing with active, intelligent men, whose
thoughts by day and by night are how
to improve their own condition and
make the pathway of life less rugged
to their children. Their attention,
naturally, is directed to this New
World of ours, where intelligent skill
will find employment, and labor Sc
cures to him who employs it, comfort
and happiness. In seeking new
home, the immigrant with no Other
capital than his intelligent skill, hi
brawny arms and brave heart, look:
not where nature has been most lavish
in her bounties, but where hE skill
will be appreciated, and his toll vii
meet with a just recompense.
Accordingly, if agriculture be hi
occupation, he will seek for cheaI
land and easy to be brought into cul
tivatiOn, with railways extending theil
willing arms to bear to suitable mar
kets his grain and cattle and grass.
If an artisan, he will find a hom
in more densely populated regions
where are to be heard the din and hun
of engines and water-wheels, of mill:
and looms.
And wherever he may go, he vii
expect the school-house to be ever open
that his children may be instructed
and fitted for the great battle Of life
The correctness of these assumption
is established by the same census re
turns to which have already so oftel
referred. l will not weary you b,
going into details, but simply state tn
fact, that of every nine inha Nitants
the State of Massachusetts,, two wer
born in foreign countries, and two
ffths of the entire population hav
one or both parents of foreign birth
In New York more than one-fourt
the people are of foreign birth, an
more than one-half have one or bot
parents that were once foreigners.
might give other illustrations of th
same kind in regard to Rhode Islam
and Connecticut and Iowa and othe
States. 1t is sufficient to say, however
} that of the 3S,500,000 persons in th
United States, more than 100000
are of foreign birth, and that of tn
vast addition to the population of tn
whole country, Tennessee receive
only nineteen thousand three huhdre
and sixteen 19.3l6).
q But not only has demand for il
telligent labor and remuneratin
rewards given this direction TO tt
stream of immigration from abroaC
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