The Russellville Democrat., 1879-09-04

our attention to the establishment of manufactures and the building O railroads.
 The fact that the south will have lin 1880, l37 electors, requiring only IS additional from the north to SC cure the majority in the electora college will not compensate us fol our apathy when we calculate oul chances in the future.
 We are sanguine in the belief that the Democracy will control the Ma tional Government in the coming ad ministratlon. But unless substan. tial reforms arc inauguratcd and the south awakes from it's lethargy and is true to her own interests as well as to those of the whole county, the Democracy will be shorn eff it's power by the memorable logic of the cen. sus taker. That is the flatterine unction that the Republican party is now laying to it's soul. Says lead ing Republican journal: "'The changes in the distribution of polit. ical power which will result from the appointment based on tine census of 1880, may exercise controlling in l fluence upon the result of some of the Congressional and Presidential elections of the next decade"
 The late John c. Breckenridge, one of the most sagacious statemcn of the south, said that the true poli- cy of the south was the establish ment of manufactures and the en- couragement of railroads--that these would bring us power in the nation and prosperity as a people.
 A learned writer says: aAll France, today, is bee hive. Her millions of spindles hum with activ- ity; capital is busy rewarding indus try and multiplying her products to an aggregation vast beyond compre- hension. While supplying the wants of other nations she sustains herself"
 Now those who have kept apace with contemporaneous history know the terrible ordeal through which France has passed. Involved in a war that brought disastrous defeat and mercilcss indemnity, she has, under the wise administration of her laws and the inauguration of sound policy, discharged her debt to Ger many and today glves evidence of increasing prosperity and greatness. A sound policy, good laws well ad- ministered, f.sustentation, have made her the happi,5t and most in- dependent nation in Europe. To these conditions we ascribe her rap id growth and wonderful prosperity.
 We need not go abroad for illus trations of the powerful influence of manufactures in developing n coun- try. St. Louis through her railroads and factories las aggregated capital and become the leading city of the west. Chicago likewise, until she has out-riyaled New York in con trolling the thd-.rade. Chattanooga by her railroads and iron works has quadruplca her wealth and area since the war. The State of Geor- gia has rapidly adyahced through the liberal encouragement given to cotton factories and other enterpris- es tending to produce state of in- dependence among her people,
 We might go on and enumerate many localities in the south that are now thriving under this changed condition of affairs, The only re- gret is that it does not extend, as far as practicable, over the whole coun- try. A cotton crop that annually brings us at least $2,000,000, 900 ought to bring us more permanent and wide spread results. Where does this immense sum go? What have we got to show for it? But little. We pay the north that amount for furnishing and supply ing us, when, for the most part, we ought to pay it to our own people. We had q wagon factory in our midst, and straightway the court house yard, the bluff and every va cant lot were filled with wagons from Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Hi n6is. Naturally, 1t lansuished and died for want of patronage. We had a sash, door and blind factory fur nishing employment to hundreds, directly aud indirectly, and it too was compelled to succumb to the stern logic of individual impor. tations,
 If we desire to have mechanics, operators and intelligent laborers, we must establish the various indus tries that require them. We must have the facilities for transportation we must have have good public schools for the edueati0n of those who are unable to educate them selyes-we must see that our laws are well administered and be inspir- ed with sense of justice to all.
 "rhe solid south" and the bloody shirt" are clap trap-they are noc the real factors in our national poli- tics. They are illusions held up, like the red mantle before the infu riated beast to attract attention while the astu.e politician gives us a deep and lasting side-lunge. The design is to make us odlous in the eyes of the world And, in the