Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-06-07

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themselves.
HOW TO GET FACTORIES.
It is an universal belief in the Southern
States that the thing they most need is capi
tai. The people of those States are incessant
ly telling the world about their exhaustless
stores of rudimentary wealth, and Of the mar
velous facility with which it can be worked
up into actual, available wealth. They have
a great deal to say about the amount of low
middling cotton, at IL cents pound, that
can be raised on an acre of their bottom
lands, and of the amount of wheat that can
be produced on their uplands; they boast
that this cotton can be manufactured into
yarns and cloth, by means of ample water
power, in sight of the fields where it is raised
far more cheaply than it can be manufac.
tured in New England. They tell us-and
they prove the assertion-that pig iron can
be made at Birmingham, Alabama, or Chat.
tanooga, Tennessee, or at Rome, Georgia, SO
per ton cheaper than in Ohio or Pennsylva'
mia. They point with pardonable pride, to
the fact that the cotton mills at Augusta,
Macon, Graniteville and Greenville, are
working steadily along, and making good
profits, through the present depression OF
trade, while those If Massachusetts and New
Hampshire are running at half time, and
losing money at that; and they declare that
the mildness of their climate, and the great
cheapness of raw materials, labor and living
with them, demonstrate the superior advan'
tages of their region over the rigorous re-
gions of the northeast, where the laborer's
family have to live on winters footing halt
the year.
1t is impossible to deny these statements,
and, indeed, nobody attempts to deny them.
The world admits them. Still, the capital
which the fascinating picture is intended to
invite, does not come. Boston money clings
to the granite ribs of New England, and re-
fuses to migrate to Georgia, where it can
earn ten to fifteen per cent. more per annum ;
every foot of Massachusetts water power is
harnessed to machinery, while that of the
Chattahooche and Congaree runs to waste
and the iron mongers of Pennsylvania con-
tnue to buy ore, at SO ton, and make it in
to iron, at $24 ton, instead Of going to Ala
bama, where they can get ore for 81 ton,
and make it into iron, at $l4 ton. The
people of the South have tried, again and
again, to understand this mystery, without
success, aud they seem to have settled down
to the belief that capital, labor and trade in
the North are too blind to take advantage of
the opportunities that the South presents.
But the matter is not 80 difficult of COM
prehension, after all. 1t is the people of the
South, not the capitalists of the North, who
do not appreciate these boasted advantages.
Ifthere are such superior facilities for manu-
featuring, in Georgia and South Carolina,
why don't the Georgians and South Caroiu-
ians avail themselves of themi If there are
fortunes to be made in cottonspinnipg in Ten
nesse, why don't the Tennesseans make them,
instead of inviting somebody else to come and
pet them3 1t is the people of Alabama who
ought to be making cheap iron at Birming'
ham. and the people Of Tennessee who ought
to be making cheap iron at Chattanooga and
that vicinity.
The reply to this is that the people of the
South have not the capital. But why, then,
do not the people of the South 60 to work and
make the capital? This incesssnt appeal to
foreign capital to come into the South is like
the prayer of the WAGNER to Hercules to come
and lift his wheels QUITO the mud. The strong
gods answer was that he helped those only
who helped themselves if the WAGNER would
put his own shoulder to the wheel, Hercules
would supply all the power he lacked. This
answer embodies the whole philosophy of our
situation.
The South does not need capital as much
as it needs willing labor-and this it has, in
abundance. Capital is nothing but con-
crete form of labor, now dead, and very SER
viceable and efficient substitute for it is liv-
ing labor. This, united with industry and
economy, in the midst of such favorable con-
ditions as mild climate, cheap living, accessa-
BILE materials and water power, accumulates
capital with surprising rapidity. A man,
who earns 800 year more than he spends
per annum, makes that much capital every
year hundred men in community, doing
the same thing, make $4,000 capital in a
single year; and a thousand men, working
and saving at the same rate, and investing
their earnings, would, in seven years, produce
81 ,OOO,0 O,000-a sum large enough to start ten
manufacturing establishments.
But it is said that the South has not enough
of either labor or capital. This is mistake.
1t cannot be said that there is deficiency of
labor in a community, as long as there is any
considerable number of idlers in it, and it is
an undeniable fact that there are great many
idlers in the South more, in fact. than in
those regions from which immigration is invi-
ted. There are, proportionately, more unem-
ployed persons in Tennessee than in Connec-
ticut Of the 425, 900 males and females, over
ten years of age, in Connecticut, $4,000, or
nearly half, are engaged in some occupation,
86,344 of them being engaged in mechanical
and manufacturing vocations, while, Of the
$40, 900 males and females. over ten years of
age, in Tennessee, only $4,000 are engaged
in occupation, and only $4,000 of these are
employed in mechanical and manufacturing
vocations. Of the 412,665 females, over ten
years of age, in Virginia, only $4,000 are en-
gagged in occupations, and nearly all these are
oolored females, while, of the 2O9, 900 females,
over ten years of age, in Connecticut, 159, ,46O
have occupations.
Those figures largely explain the abun-
dance Of capital in the New England States,
and the scarcity Of it in the South. If the
South wants capital, it must work for it it
must earn more than it spends, and invest the
surplus year after year, in manufactures. If
5000 idle persons In South Carolina we're to