The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-06
The Industrial West.

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Aprops to the above article is the
following paragraph clipped from the
Scientific American
with the over supply of labor and
capital in the East it Is natural to look
to the great teeming West for an QUE
let for the surplus labor, and for the
employment of capital in great enter
prise and achievements The West.
that is the greas basin east of the
Rocky Mountains and west of the AL
leghanie-. holds a variety of
and offers an opportunity FIR indu.t-
rial employment not elsewhere found
in he world
1t never for a moment occurred TO
the writer of tha' paragraph that there
was a great Southern slope southeast
from the Alleghanies hat was by Ma
ture as varied in it's resources.a and far
more attractive in climate, t, which at
least A portion Of n 5 surplus labor
and unexpended capital should be di-
rected. No not for a single moment
DIES a Northan man ever think Of ad.
vising emigration or investments
Southwark. A few invalids or
pleasure-seekers will come at a season
when il is too cold to remain North
| and enjov the balmy breezes Of the
Land of Flowers but except that such
persons put in circulation a few dollar
during their stay, they are of little adj
vantage TO . Southern State. They
do not become ornament s~et,lers
they develop nothing. The South needs
families who when they come willstay
all the year round and have their chill
dren grow up among us SO that they
may become identified with the deveI-
opnent of the country.
The tide of immigration has always
flowed westward the great railroad
thoroughfares of the country run east
to west and bin,. the two sections to-
gether in a sort Of brotherhood the
East gets IT'S food from the West. and
tt e West davis it's money from the
East, and thus there is and always
will be a common interest between
those two sections that is reciprocally
beneficial. The South, while for the
past decade dependent upon the West
for her food. has only labor to make a
product for an Eastern market, where's
withal to procure money with which
to pay for this subsistence drawn from
the West. Thus she has emphatically
been hewers Of wood and drawers of
water for all the rest of the Union.
To-day, however, she is in a condi-
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pathway to successful competition
with b tn those S ctions. The depres-
sion of trade aud shrinkage of values
that has within the past five years 80
atterly Frustrated Eastern interests,
has been z adually vending its way
Westward, and is affecting every in
vestment In that section. Ali the great
machine shops of the West, land re-
member there is as much manufac' ur,
ing done to day west OF Pittsburg as
there is east of IT'D are either idle or
working on sh TT time. More than
half the farms in every Western State
are under mortgage to Eastern capital
lists, and not n in twenty would sell
for the face of the mortgage. Farmers
Their as here. have for sew, raj years
failed to make both ends meet. and
there is universal unrest in the cou 1t.
ry.
Can a uninvitiDg picture be
painted for the South ? Almost every
new industry in he Sou h is realizing
a profit up III the investment Our far
mers are no worse off than those elSe-
where TO be found our agricultural
and inera are equal to
those of anv portion of the wO Id, and
while we arean I'm developed country
we have tho advantage of having es-
tablished society, churches, schools,
lines of transportati IN, mails and tele-
graph and really need nothing to
make us become a great people but
proper measures on the part of the
States to induce immigration. This
done aid we will have the tide flowing
Southwark as we'll rs Westward in a
very few years