Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-02-24

aware of it. And if they had all gone to
that other estate, Heaven knows would not
have had tear to shed at their demise.
COME SOUTH, YOUNG MEN!
On every side we see indications that the
manufacture of cotton is moving Southwark.
The United States and Great Britain recog-
nize the fact that the fields where the cotton
is grown is the proper place for its manutac.
ture At last capital is coming to the aid OF
common sense and the intelligence OF the
North is admitting that the South presents
every advantage for the most economical fac.
tories. Mr.. Mcclure in his letter from Gin.
cinnati, summarizes the argument in the fol-
lowing truthful language:
"The manufacturers of the North must soon
90 South with their cotton spindles and looms,
and those who 20 earliest will reap the rich
est harvest. 1t is violation of all the laws
of trade to transport the cotton thousand
miles to an inhosptable climate, where water
power is unreliable third Of the year, and
where it necessarily costs more to sustain
labor than where the cotton is grown. Our
struggling cotton factories in Pennsylvania
would be earning from 10 to 80 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. Instead Of
incurring the expense of packing, of trans
portaton and of reseparating the lint, at
much cost to the fibre, the cotton should, and
soon will be spun directly from the gin BY
cheaper labor and turned into better fabrics
than can be furnished 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 fac
tory everywhere that the raw material is fur
nished, and South Carolina exempts every
factory from taxation for len years. In both
the Carolinus, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas,
Mississippi and Tennessee, there are regular
immigration bureaus, not only inviting but
urging white settlers, and even Mississippi
has several of the largest and most successful
factories in the South. The cotton crop Of
this year will be worth S300,0O0,0OO, and
when simply spun into yarn it will be worth
nearly $500, 100000 more. Where in all the
world is there so wide and tempting field
for legitimate enterprise and large profits !?
believe that half the whole cotton product
will be spun in the South before the next ten
years, and the succeeding decade will furnish
Southern factories for the entire crop. The
factory and the school will 60 hand in hand
in the South, and factory princes of the North
will next be bull doing the black man in the
South to vote against the present oppressive
tariff upon cotton machinery"
Such is the prophecy Of the intelligent edi-
tor of the Philadelphia Times, after personal
inspection of the field. We find the editor
of the Chicago Times also admitting that the
South must become the field for manufac-
turing cotton. That journal says:
Economists tell US that within the next
twenty years, America will need $4,000, 900
of new spindles, with accompanying machin-
cry, for transformation of the chief product
of Southern agriculture into other commodl-
ties of commerce. Where should these new
spindles be set in operation? The answer OF
economy is: Where the transformation of the
raw material can be effected, and the new
commodities placed on the best markets, at
the least cost. Obviously then, the cotton
field, the cotton mill and the railway centre
should be brought together. The cotton field
cannot be removed from the Southern lati-
tude Nature has given to the Southern one
third of America, East of the continental
backbone, virtually minopoly of this pro-
duct for the world; for, though the climate
and soil of India and portions of Mexico and
South America are adapted to the cultivation
of cotton, experiment has shown that new
civilization must appear in those countries
before is cultivation can be successfully in
troduced. For an indefinite period of the
future, the southern portion of America
will continue to be the chief cotton. producing
region. Why may it not also be the chief
cotton manufacturing region on this cont
nent? Why should not the fact that nature
has given that region monopoly of the cot
tongrowing industry cause to spring up there
the most extensive manufacturing industry
of this land?"
The only answer that the Chicago Times
can find to its question is the old pretext that
the South is opposed to the introduction OF
Northern men and capital. This stereotyped
objection, which the facts of the case have
exploded, still finds lodgment in the brain
of the machine editor, who is not yet awake
to the fact that the intelligence of the North
does not believe his cry and is losing patience
at the antedeluvian stupidity. The war and
its absurd reconstruction outcome, with all
the prejudices and slanders which grew out Of
partisan debate, belong to the past generation.
The men who figured fifteen and twenty years
ago are replaced with new generation who,
while not forgetful on either side of the prin:
ciples involved in the civil war, are disposed
to look back at the sad events of that period
as the Marquis of Lorne, son-in.law of the
Queen of Great Britain, looks back to the
Battle of Bannockburn or to the Stuarts'
overthrow at Culloden. Neither side can live
in the past, and the South has been more
ready to accept this fact than the North. 1t
is is be expected that at Presidential elections
much partisan capital will be made for that
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