The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-06-18

d the war; and since, while shrinkag
= in everything was going on from cor
d traction. We could hardly be expect
e ed to make much headway. Cor
t traction has been to Tennessee lik
long protracted disease to 8 Who'll,
( family. While they are wasting
away nothing in the way Ofomenta
D or physical exertion need be expect
! ed.
} But certainly contraction is ended
; the disease has been arrested, and
If recovery is to take place. as the
J symptoms now indicate. we cannot
permit local annoyance or family
strife to stand ia onr way. There is
no hope for Tennessee except in
manufacturing. This is our only
road to prosperity. We need this
to give our idle people employment.
We complain of our people being
idle; the way to remedy this is to
give them an opportunity to work /;
hold out an inducement to them to
work.
The life of every man IS more or
less influenced by his surroundings.
Some men, it is true, will find work
in times of great distress; but the
great bulk of people work only when
the opportunity is offered, and have
no capacity for making opportunities.
/ Most people are comparatively help
less. and hence the wise statesman,
instead of abusing people for being
idle, sets about giving them the OPP
portunity to work-and, taking man
as his God made him, he realizes
that if all are put to work the work
must be varied to suit all. t
We cannot wait any longer for
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 merchants
and laboring people of other coun-
tries while our own are starving and
how we are wasting our soil and ex-
hausting ourselves and. certainly,
they will be aroused. Iron making
is now a success in Tennessee; ; so is
cotton spinning. Experience teach
es that so years in man ufacturing
makes rich communities. while about |
30 years leaves a mercantile COM
munity ruminsting on better days.
We have immense resources and |
Ktllebrew has told the tale well but |
we eau no more live on this hidden
wealth than an enfeebled family |
without money can live on the glory |
of their sristocratic ancestors.
We must get to work, and if we
have not energy to do it Killebrew
must quit writing books. To get to
work this State debt question must
be gotten out of the way.
1t seems to me can not turn
away from the helplessness Of the
State for the lack of diversified pur-
suits. One thing which the census
reports show is alarming. In Ten
nessee. out of 1883 600 people, we
have only $4,000 producers. This,
but for the help that nature gives us,
without much effort. would impover.
ish us. That these producers feed,
clothe and give shelter to all the bal.
arce is as much an axiom as that
two parallel lines will not intersect.
/ ask the business men here to
night, if they are contented with this
state Of things? Can the few feed
and clothe the many and all be pros
porous? The condition of Tennes.
See reminds me forcibly of a family
Of which 1 have a reliable remem.
Drance A father and mother and
thirteen children-ten daughters
and three sons-with only one fourth
0f the whole able to work. II was
always struggle for life. This is
exactly the condition of Tennessee,
md the hope of the State. as in the
'amily, lies in the vitality of the
7oung, men and young women. Old
people cant well get out Of old paths.
Young men can adopt new pursuits;
7onng women TOO, if necessary. Tie 1
men in Tennessee alone can
'e relied on for diversifying our pur-
uits. Now and then an old man
las life, but the younger men must ,
10 the work. They can, by diversi.
ying pursuits, lake care of the old
ind give employment (the best ohari.
y in the wOrld) to the poor.
Lawyers, doctors and preachers |
re as common as pig tracks; and !
1e have reached the point in Ten. !
Iessee when the talent ofthe State,
or time at least, requires to be /
nrned 70 building up onr industries.
! want to see our young men com q
ng to the front in taking charge Of
Industrial enterprises on account Of
q nnanitrr for thn hnni.o ntAl