Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-05-31

which the laws of nature restore to it. A
wasted soil can only be the home of poverty.
The earth cannot indefinitely sustain life
without recompense. One of the most mys-
FERROUS Of Gods laws is, that all the proper
ties of the earth's productions, necessary to
perpetuate the productive power of the earth.
are restored to it. Whoever violates this
law is the enemy of future generations.
The speaker urged diversified pursuits as
necessity, and cited the prosperity of other
States as practical illustrations. Pennsyl'
vauia and Tennessee have about the same
number of square miles-hpth have fine
lands, both have mountalnsEand rich valleys.
Tennessee has greatly the advantage In IRON
beds. Tennessee gives emps0Emeht to less
tn an twenty thousand people ii manufactur-
ing, while Pennsylvania has three hundred
and nineteen thousand people engaged IN
manufacturing, Tennessee Ands are worth
something over two huuared million, while
Pennsy lvania lands are worth more than one
thousand million. Tennessse manufactured
products ought lot to be published, while IN
Pennsylvania they amouDt to seven hum
dred and eleven millions. Tho manufactured
goods of the city of Philadelphia. In one year,
amount to more than all the taxable property
of Tennessee by fifty million. The productions
of the farm and the shop, in close proximity In
Pennsylvania, have proved alike beneficial to
each, and hence the vast wealth of the State
The effect is that after supplying each other
the surplus is the increased wealth. DIVERSE
fed pursuits among the whole people of the
State Is exactly the case OF a family making
everything they consume and having a SUE
plus to sell. OF course this surplus is the
measure of aceumulations. In both cases it
is keeping the money at home, and makes
every hours labor beyond what Is needed fer
support, added wealth. Tennessee buys
her locomotives and steam-engines, her farm
inr, iporIop.antS bar hOrcohnld cy0nda and
clothing, abroad in great measure. The
amount sent away Is at least thirty millions
annually. This IS what takes our money to
New York. This is what gives US three dol
lars per head IN circulation, while Massachu-
sets has forty dollars per head. It was be-
lieved slavery stood in the way of the manu-
facturer before the war; and since, while
shrinkage In everything was going Cd
from contraction, we could hardly be
expected to make much Roadway.
Contraction has been to Tennessee like long
protracted disease to whole family. While
they are wasting away nothing In the way of
mental or physical exertion need be expected.
But certainly contraction is ended-the dis
ease has been arrested, and if recovery Is to
take place, as the symptoms now indicate,
we cannot permit local annoyance or faml-
" strife to stand in our way. There Is no
hope for Tennessee except In manufacturing.
This is our only road to prosperity. We need
tulS W give OuE pCOplO
We complain of our people being idle; the
way to remedy this is to give them an OPP
portunity to work; hold out an inducement
to them to work. We cannot wait any
longer tor strangers to come and help US.
We must help ourselves. Manufacturing
has not been studied by our people. Let our
people be brought to realize how we are
feeding the mechanics and laboring people
OF other countries while our own are starving;
and how we are wasting our soil
and exhausting ourselves, and GER
| tainly they will be aroused. Iron. making is
nov a success in Tennessee; so is cotton
spinning. Experience teaches that thirty
years 10 manufacturing makes rich commq-
mites, while about thirty years leaves mer-
| camille community Illuminating on better days.
We have immense resources, and killebrew
has told the tale well; but we can no more
| hVe on this hidden wealth than an enfeehled
family without money can live on the glory
of their arlstocratlc ancestors. We must get
| TO work, and If we have not the energy to do
it Kilebrew must quit writing books. To get
to work this State debt question must he got
out of the way. 1t seems to me | cannot turn
away from the helpiessness of the Staterfor
| the lack of diversified pursuits. One thing
which the census reports show is alarming.
Ia Tennessee, out of 1883. 900 people, we
have anly S6T,957 who have any
occupation or businessI and we
for the help which nature gives US, without
| much effort, would impoverish Us. That
| these producers feed. clothe and give shelter
| to all the balance is as much an axiom as
| that two parallel lines will not iAtersect. l
! ask the business men here tonight, If they
are contented with this state of thing 2 Can
| the few feed and clothe the many and all be
prosperousP The condition of Tennessee re-
minds me forcibly of family of which |
have a lively remembrance: A father and
| mother and thirteen children-ten daughters
! and three sons--With only one-fourth Of the
| whole able to work. twas always a struggle
for life. This 10 exactly the condition of
] the family, lies in the vitality of the young
, men and young women. Old people can't
well get out of old paths. Young men can
/ adopt new pursuits; young women, too,
| if necessary. The younger men in Ten
nessee alone can be relied On for
diyerslfying our pursuits. Now and then an
| old man has HE, but the younger men must
do the work. they can, by diversifying pur-
suits, take care of the old and give employ
| ment (the best charity in the world1 to the
Epsor Lawyers, doctors and preachers are as
Common as pig tracks, and we have reached
1 the point In Tenness see when the talent of the
i State, for time at least, requires to be
i turned to building up our industries. | want
i tosee our young men coming to the front In
! taking charge of our industrial enterprises,
OF aGcoGat sol capacity for the business.
| Don't select them as the legislature generally
tseleets men to fill places of public trust-on
account of their politics-ner as Is too COM
mon IL cur private affairs, because they be-
long to our church. You have the proof that
among our own people we have great bust
ness talent, and that the success of cur en-
terprises depends upon the man managing it.
Mr.. Colyar cited several sins tances of sue
cessful enterprises IN yarious parts of the
State. a majority of the committee APP
pointed by the last general assembly to In
7estigata the Egreau of agrieulture, statistics
and mines, reported that the commissioner
under the greatest difficulties, had added IF
teen millions to the wealth of Tennessee by
his etforts-the minority, not allowing any
thing for the value of an emigrant, reported
six millions. Let us get this great debt off
and TO compromise at four hundred and
| eighty thousand dollars a year, instead oil
having the whole debt, with all its uncertain.
ties, will be neffect getting 1t off, and with
returning prosperity, this bureau, if it has
fair showing, will work wonders in Ten.
nessee. ! do not hesltate to bear my unqual.
ihed testimony to the valuable services of the
commissioner, So far as know or can see
most of the largest property-holders in tht
| State are Tor a compromise OF the State debt
but l insist, that the people who live by then
daily labor, and small farmers, are most in
terested in getting the settlement made, be-
cause their very lives depends upon our in
dustries; they cannot live without employ
ment and home market, and these they car
only have when our pursuits are diversified
and capital is turned to manufacturing. The
settlement being as favorable as We can eve
expect to get-in fact what the lowest tal
men In the state have asked--if We are not
going to repudiate and fight over payinI
nothing in the future, we had better get thu
question settled. As long as there is DANCE
of having TO ralse one and ahalf millions K
pay interest, capital may be driven ava.
and lands kept down, but, less thar
half million annually will no
be regarded as serIous-the railroads
pententlary, and special taxes will pay j
without touching lands. The bondholders, i
the debt Is compromised, vonld be only to-
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