Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-17

| would accept the new with ut murmur
was to expect very unreasonable thing.
| But years have brought time for thought
and compulsory thinking has produced
marvellous results The Southern people
to-day are not the men whom Mr.. Tourgee
and other writers depicted. l do not pro-
pose to debate the question whether such
| a condition of things as they describe ex-
listed one or ten years ago. l am satisfied
| to Tx about the present and the future.
| The people of the South have suf5red-it
| is not pert nent VIII Their we regard their
sufferings as just or uDjust-but they have
put aside mourning and are ready for
| work"
| WHAT CAN BE DONE?
"This naturally brings US to the in
quiry what do they propose to do?" S i'd
| the writer.
| They hope to work out their salvation,
| not alone, but with the co operati of
their countrymen North and West an
| sWered MIR. Baldwin, with nsiderabie en-
| rhusiasm g was born in Mary land, but
have for many years been ident fed with
| trade in the metropolis. Long residence in
New York entities me to speak as a n ORTIZ
ern man As such, | say on the strength
| of recent and extended bservation, That
| whatever Of antsgonism to Nor hern capi~
| tai may have existed in the South has dis
appeared Inever met it, at any time, but
| am willing to grant that it may have ex-
| listed some time and somewhere. No one
| part of this great country Can ever ma 1t
| of advantage to ostracise the people II the
other. The great West could probably
exist separately more readlly-on prIml-
tive basis, | MCMILLAN the South or the
| East. because its people can raise all grain,
vegetables and . DOL theg require for food
and clothing But the absurdity OF Great
| ing territorial or cial boundary between
the manufacturing and fna cial cantres in
the Eastern and Middle S e. and the
grain growing region Is apparent TO the
sim plest mind Gran ing that the sou hern
peouIe may have been slow, amid their
f. st Years of struggle tor existence after the
horrors Of war, TO sc "a upon the CONNER
cial ossibiliieS to receive with De erVed
warm the few well meaning and honora-
bic men who went among them with someN
thing better than q carpet bag and
few war time spec ches IN mauuscr'pt-
granting all this, say (Which personal
l AN far 9 ON dol g, it certain that they
are to-day awake and alive to the situa>
ton Never were so many bales of cotton
raised, picked and sent to market as In last
ear. Mills for the weaving of the coarser
cotton fabrics are now IN successful! operas
ton in Tennes -ee, Georgia. kentucky and
several of the Atlantir coast States, all of
which have been built BY native labor,
mo lily with local capital and are managed
by Southern men y
COAL, TOBACCO AND IRON.
aside from cotton and rice what are
the special interests to be opened up?"
was asked.
"kentucky, for instance, has larger
coal fields than Penn, ylyania and the Ca
paci y of her mines has only been develop
ed to an il considt rable extent. But the
coal sections of that State will be mad g &C
To Lats NV hn
systems The tobacco Interests of Vire
ginia AID Tennessee, al hough promising,
will grow greatly under incre sed market
facilities, whit the new railways are sup
plying The coal, iron and copper mines
of Tennessee are only in the infancy of
their development. The iron ore beds of
Alabama are vast in their extent aud of
eingular richness, with contiguous coal
beds and limestone necessary TO their sue.
crssful working. 1t is positively asserted
by gentlemen who have visited the place
III lat pig iron can be run at less cost there
than at Any other point IN this country
WHAT THE RAILROADS ARE DOING.
What " II be the re ut t. the South of
efficient raiir ad management asked
you correspondent.
The railroads will do their usual good
work toward reuniting the people. North
ern capita lists are now so largely interested
ments As an evidence of the ON ercial
backbon which II lafge and useful railway
| corporation gives to the people of 4 whole
| State witness the pay ing off of Tennt -ee's
| debt My idea has been, from the frs,
| b the earlIe-t care of such corpoFat Ons
| shout be the the fostering of such enters
| prises IS were already in operation. For
! Instance, to speak of something which
| comas within my personal knowledge, let
| M tell lou what the Louisville and Nash
vile dire ctors are doing for Brming h am,
Ala. AS u company, they took hold of
one furn ce IN that place after another, en-
| cou aged the owners where that would do,
ad vauctd m where that Wss needed
until now every mill is aglow. 1t is now a
city OF considerable sizs A single COM
pany makes about one hundred tins of pig
METAL per day"
PRACTICAL PROGRESSION.
&c Inn il at IN from All SOURCES will be
encouraged, no dpub ~ WAS suggested.
| Cer.aInly," WAS the Ri inner. And
now let me Ii you how railway corpora
tions IN tue South of liberal management
can do this. Lands when they get into
the hands of agents sold at terms in
tended to be Immediately Iemunerative to
nobody but the n. entS Generally the
price demanded # the settl-r IS largely IN
excess OF the option figure which the form
owner gives to the agent. More ready
money is generally required also than the
settler can pay and have capital enough
left to probably work his farm. There is
no reason for this. O1e case of hardship
suffered by we'll TODD immigrant deters
from coming a score of valuable and d.
sirable settlers who would have f How ed
hun In th- event of success. The rem dy
easy and practicable. Let the railway
Companies have carefully prepared maps
ut The lands along theIr roads let them get
the options each ye r upon such lands as
tie actual owners we to dispose, let
tn. m we come the setJe So IL him The land
aL exactly what they pay 70 1t, guarantee
ing The title aud making he terms reason
aule, disposing of the middle man and his
usur Gus commissions and in cases where
1t is necessary, advanc ng small amounts #
capital, pr t5Cung themselves, carry il z
| tn NOR gage. An extra clerk at he gem
eral office OF ezch company to exclusis ell y
devote himself To this department will be
| all the increase of clerical force required.
| Where the companie, own the lands, either
| by purchase or grant, and are paying div-
| oends cut of real earnings the lands in
| their possession should only be- disposed of
| to actual Settlers, The land shark' should
be weeded out. Every man who adds u
bushei of " heat to the country mill is a
vaiua be cilzen, and should be the ward of
the Railway that carries the -four omarKet
| L rt f5rred previously to the manufacture
of coarse cotton fabrics in the Suuth. l.
is my opinion that this class Of goods will
be wholly made there. There is growing
interest IF This kind In Georgia, and large
sales were recently made by those manu-
factuIers for the Chinese market"
EAST AND WEST NO LONGER