The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-01-29
The New South.
IN. O. Picayune.1

phia Times reviews the condition v ~
the South to an able and exhausfive
manner. The needs OF an honeef
CYL service 10 this section are forc.
i6ly presented. He clearly e1preseee
the wish Of the South to be let aione
ana be granted the opportunity to
work out the difficult problem OF raoo
conflict. He acknowledges the 6ct
t1at negro domination ts q thing az
the past. and not desired now ~ fhe
colored people themselves. On the
otner hand every channel OF industry
Is open to either race, and q III
greater liberty In this respect ed|ats
than 10 Northern States.
me future peril OF the South Mr..
McCiure conceives to be the divieion
OF tue white vote and the certain m.
peal OF contending factions To tie
0Iacks as the a1biters Of disputes.
The industrial needs OF the 6onth
are handled ably, and the fact In
pressed upon capitalists that there n
20 more inviting field for the crab
!ishment OF cotton factories than In
the districts where the staDie II
grown. He declares ''thoee Who nv
tnat capital is not cafe In the Soutk
either know not what they ~ or
mean to be untruthful."
The comments upon Houtharn
q! manufactures are worthy OF perussl.
He says: ~
The manufacturers OF the Moth
must soon go South with their az.
ton spindles and looms, and thoee
VINO go earliest will reap the richeat
harvest. It is q violation Of all ma
laws OF trade to transport the cot.
ton q thousand miles to an inhoeni.
hble climate. where water.poVer IN
unreliable q third of the year. and
wnere It necessarily costs moro to
sustain labor than where the cotton
is grown. Our struggling cotton iao.
tories 10 Pennsylvania would be-
earning from 10 to 30 per cent. on
the great water powers OF the 6avan-
nah or the Alabama, where labor In
cheap, where the climate IL the mad
genial to 10 found on the continent.
and where the cotton lint oan he
fresh from the giD. In.
stead OF mourning the expense OF
Of transportation and OF
re'eerarattng the lint, at much coat
70 the more, the cotton should. and
soon will, be spun directly from tho
gin. by cheaper labor and turned into
better fabrics than can be furniahed
with all the skill Of the North. Those
Who cay that capital is not safe In
The South either know not whaf thev
say or mean to be untruthiul. IL
very southern State there IA q an.
preme desire to have the factory e1.
that the raw material IA fur.
aished. and South Carolina exemnfa
svery factory from all taxation Tor
Len years. In )both the Carolinsa.
9sorgta: Texas, Arkansas, MissiesiD.
u and Tennessee there are reQuiar
emigration bureaus, not only H. vitino
Int urging white settlers. and even
4tsstsetppt has several Of tho ~.
tst and most succeesful factories In
The South. The cotton crop OF thie
year will be worth three hundred
millions OF dollars, and when simplY
spun into yarn, 1t will be worth neaf.
Y three hundred millions more.
Where 10 all the world IL there 10
vide and 80 tempting q field Tor len.
!ttmate enterprise and large Droflts3
believe that half the whole cotton
product will be spun in the 6outh
before another ten years. and fhe
succeeding decade will furnish 6outh.
ern factories tor the entire croD. INA
factory and the school will 90 hand
10 hand 10 the South, and the facforv
princes from the North will next IA
0ulldozing the black man In TIA
south to vote against the present on.
presstve tariff upon cotton Machine-
r..