Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-14
Yeeklk-P Postage tree.

the Daily and 81 per annum for the
Weekly-POstGgs tree.
Persons tearing the city tor the sum
msr can order the DALI REJOICE
at 75c per month, or two dollars for
three mouths, in adUance, NTH The
privilege Of changing pOsto6ice.
WHY HONE INDUSTRIES LANGUIsH.
1t is sound business policy in any com
munity Scr she members thereof to stand
by each other as far as possible, n%eighbor
assisting neighbor, thus cementing com
mercial and social ties and building up Q
common strength. The lack of coop
eratiye action has been nowhere felt and
observed more than in Memphis. We
possess an inherited idea that this is q
good place to make money, but not to
spend it. The merchants acted on this
idea many years, and it is only recently
that the growth of the place aud the
rivalry of other cities made it actually
necessary to organize a cotton exchange,
thus securing harmony and concert OF
action among oil who are engaged in
that particular line Of business. The
benefits are such that the institution is
indispensable; but outside Of the ex-
change there is no common understand
ing or purpose that Memphis should be
built up at any cost and made beautiful
aad attractive as we'll as large and pros,
porous. That Memphis is growing in
spite Of croakers, idlers aud hard times.
no one can question who reads the re,
ports Of our binding and loan associa.
tons or takes an occasional ride around
the city. We have more than held our
own and demonstrated TO the world that
the Bluff City has IN assured perma-
nency and future. Beside six hundred
private residences built within the last
twelve or eighteen moRths, we a point
with satisfaction to several fine oil mills
built by our own people within a few
years and employing q large force and
capital, to a cotton and WOODEN factory,
an elevator. a large brewery, aud various
ether improvements, including q mag
nifcent enstom-house in course OF con-
struction. These are the substantial
and u~ndoubted proofs Of progress and
solidity. But with all this we are not
sufficiently united as a people in all that
concern the welfare Of the city. While
the place possesses all the cosmopolitan
elements that attract the stranger and
make residence here eongeHial and de-.
lightiul there is O lack Of homogeneous.
ness. and we are tempted 70 say Of the
local pride, which charscterizes many
other places. &c to St. Louis and every
thing is compact and solid for St. Louis
The peopls make common cause and
work together IS one man. Nashville lie
tor Nashville against the world until the
people are actually clannish. This is
al right and commendable; il is CO.
operation in a common cause which
works out good results. But i n Memphis
At q man staris a broom factory. instead
OF receiving hearty support and encour.
agement the chances are that his next
door neighbors buy an inferior and high.
er priced brooms made at St. Louis out OIL
Tennessee broom cora. The old habit
OF buying everything North clings TO u,
like dinginess to q deserted village The
broom.maker being starved out is uuab!,
to p%atronize the grocer, the butcher, th,
tailor, the book store, and in course o.
time is forced TO try something else. Tn,
same may be said ao to other enterprises
A furniture.facsory could net be started
here because furniture will not sell her,
unless it has the varnish and imprint o
Northern make on il. although the tim
Der Of which it is made may grow With
a hundred miles of Memphis. It js tn
fashion among many of our people 3
spend all the money they have to spar
and more at Northern watering place
and in Northern made goods Of ever
description. The plain fact is there
not much of a market here for HON,
made goods or work. Take the priutiu
business, for i~nstance-aud we ought {
know something about that. There ar
eight OIL ten iirst.class Job Offices j
Memphis, some of them built up by man
years Of patient toll and great outlay {
capital. They feed each on an averag
about one hundred mouths. directly an
indirectly. The proprietors and their "a
pioyes and dependents have their all her
and ppend all here. They necessaril
do a close cash business, and do as niue
a. aoy other laboring class to patroni2
retail deaisrs and keep money in cirei
iatiou. Yet there are business men VIII
regularly send North to have job prin.