The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-01-21
THE COLUMBIAN, VOL. XIV, NO. 8
DRMoCRAT, VOL. XIV, NO. 40


norant classes of both white and blacks
can be educated. There is cordial sym
pathy as rule, between the intelligent
whites and the blacks, much more than
there is between the whites and blacks
of the North, but the ignorant white
man never forgives the black man for
being as intelligent as himself In nine
cases out of ten, the black man will pre-
fer intelligent white to any sort of col
ored juror, to Try his case in court. and
he prefers the former owner of slaves to
any Others, certainly because that class
is certain to Judge the negro most gen
erously. All the reconstructed states
have equal educational facilities for both
races, but their poverty has prevented
either the number of schools or the
length of term which should be attained
to afford proper opportunities for gener
al schooling. The fact that the intelli-
gent whites have no difficulty in harmo-
nizing with the blacks, clearly points to
hastened education of both races as the
surest means of their mutual elevation
and prosperity. And next to the school
the factory is destined to be the great
civilizer in the new South. Every factory
! have seen looks like green spot in
the desert, and is steadily advancing ev-
cry class of people about it. The negro
is not successful as an operative, as the
laborer who was but lately the listless
slave is incapable of the little mental
concentration upon his labor that is nee
essary to the care of the simplest ma
chinery; but the fields offer him abund-
ant employment for the present, and an
other generation of educated blacks will
take its place in the factories. The fac
tories are now educating the poor
whites, and where the factory and the
school are planted together, there will
be rapid improvement in both races.
MANUFACTURERS SHOULD GO SOUTH.
The manufacturers of the North must
| soon go South with their cotton spin
dies and looms, and those who go earli-
est will reap the richest harvest. 1t is a
violation of all the laws of trade to trans
port the cotton a thousand miles to an
inhospitable climate, where water-power
is unreliable a third of the year, and
where it necessarily costs more to main
tain labor than where the cotton is
grown. Our struggling cotton factories
in Pennsylvania would be earning from
ten to thirty per cent on the great water
powers of the Savannah or the Alabama
| where labor is cheap, where the climate
is the most genial to be found on the
continent, and where the cotton lint can
be furnished fresh from the gin. In
stead of incurring the expense of trans.
portation and of re-separating the lint,
at much cost to the fibre, the cotton
should, and soon will, be spun directly
from the gin, by cheaper labor and turn
ed into better fabrics than can be fur
nished with all the skill of the North
Those who say that capital is not safe
in the South either know not what they
say or mean to be untruthful. In every
Southern State there is supreme desire
to have the factory everywhere that the
raw material is furnished, ,and South Car
olina exempts every factory from taxa
ton for ten years. In both the Caroli
mas, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, Missis
sippi and Tennessee, there are regula,
emigration bureaus not only inviting
but urging white settlers, and even Mis-
sissippi has several of the largest ant
most successful factories in the South
The cotton crop of this year will b.
worth three hundred millions of dollars
and when simply spun into yarn, it will
be worth nearly three hundred million
more. Where in all the world is ther
so wide and tempting field for legiti
mate enterprise and large profits? | be
lieve that half of the whole cotton pre-
duct will be spunin the South before an
other ten years, and the succeeding de
cade will furnish Southern factories fo
the entire crop The factory and tn
school will go hand in hand in the Sout
and the factory princes from the Mort
will next be bulldozing the black man i
the South to vote against the present OF
pressive tariff upon cotton machinery.
A. X. M.