The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-10
A TALK WITH GEN. GARY.
The Condition ard Needs of South Caro-
lima.


| Tho Condition ard Needs of south Caro-
lima.
A Reporter for the Ncws and Courier
called on Gen. NJ. w. Gary at the Char
lesion Hotel last Friday to get an expires.
sion of his views Ipon the political out
look, State and National, and upon the
material development of South Carolina.
Gen. Gary said So far as the political
situation is concerned, l am not in poll.
tics and my line of thought is not upon
political subjects. am now engaged in
the railroad development of my county,
aud as one of the directors of the Edge.
field, Trenton and Aiken Railroad, / am
here in its interests. l and my associates
have succeeded Icyond our most san
guinc espectatio s The people of Char
lesion have resp ~ 1cd most literally to
our application " aid, aud the commit
tee have been received with great kind
ness. In behalf &. the committee and of
the County of EdgeGcld, l wish to ten
der to the good people of Charleston our
thanks and best wishes.
bclicye that the future Of Charleston
is very brilliant one, and her past rail
| road policy. none will deny. has been n
have contributed moro to railroads and
| received less benefit from what they con-
tributed than the Charleston people.
What they gave to the Charleston and
Memphis road did not bring back the
return that they had anticipated. In my
judgment their fatal mistake was in be-
ginning too fur from home in the expen-
diture of their money, as evidenced in
the 81 100000 subscribed to the Blue
Ridge Railroad. If q portion of the
| same money had been expended in the
| construction of the road in the interests
OF which am now in Charleston, and
which forms one Of the links in the
chain of the Air Line Railroad from
Knoxville to Charleston, which begins
at Knoxville and runs to Walha.la,
| Anderson, Abbevillc, Dorn's Mine and
Edgefeld, on to Charleston, the trade
Of Charleston would have been built
up pari passu with the construction Of
this great thoroughfare.
When completed this grand trunk
line will give Chicago The shortest
route that can possibly be built to the
Atlantic coast. This road is moro nearly
completed than most people are aware
Of TTn.thrds of the road from Knox
vile to Walhalln have already been
graded and tunnelled. Twenty miles of
the road from Anderson towards Able.
vile have been recently let out to con-
tractors for tho grading. 1t will thus be
seen that the distance between Anderson
and Edgeficld is the only gap in the
route.
Reporter: What do you think about
immigration, General, and the labor
question, which has recently been dis
cussed in the Ne,cs and Courier?
Gen. Gary ~: have always been in
favor of immigration to this State, and in
years gone by advocated it, In my
judgment, thsre is the same irrepressible
conflict between white labor and black
labor, as Seward said there was between
free labor and slave labor. To bring a
white immigrant to work by the eide of
the negro I believe to be impracticable.
The kind of immigrants that this State
needs are the immigrants who will come
with sufficient capital to buy for thom-
selves small or large FARMS We have
the cheapest and best agricultural land
in the United States. / do not believe,
as some have said that the white man
cannot work the year around in this
State without great physical dep: ession.
In the Piedmont and middle counties,
am certain they can work the year round.
Probably in the malarial counties bor-
deriEg on the Atlantic they might not be
able to do il, but am informed that by
the use ofa little quinine at night the
effects Of malaria may be prevented.
The only way to make the immigrant
who comes here az n planter satisfied to
live in our midst Is to treat him as o
friend and brother, and abolish the his
trar, <.rO
adopting aa our motto, ;:Uno honest
white man is as good as another" There
must be an effective quietus-given to .he
aristocra.ic oligarcbyy that has 80 long
ruled this State adversely &c .he ;mntteT-
eats of the common people and to the
exclusion of all all foreigners.
Reporter Well, General, If you will
not talk about politics, what Go you think
about the manufacturing and CONNER
cial future of the State?
Gen. Gary. / am in favor of estab.
ishiDg manufactures of every kind and
description all over the State. The last
war proved the stupidity of the policy
Of only producing the materials for man.
ufacture rather than manufacturing all
articles that were needed in aoivilized
community, am glad to see that the
Clement attachment is being adopted in
different parts ofthe Stale. Capt .searles
and Col. J.. N. Dallis are now erect
ing factory of this kind near the Able
Vile and Edgefield line, which is soon to
go into operation. The new railroad
will develop water power on Shaw's
Creek superior to that Of the water
powcr of Horse Greek, In which Van
cluse, Langley and Graniteville are situ-
ated. know very little about COM
inerce. Since have been In the city,
however, l have heard repeated COM
plants from the merchants here that
there has been no appropriate legislation
protecting them from tho competition Of
drummers from different States, who sell
their goods by samples without paying
any license TO the State, thus discrimi-
mating against our own merchants who
have to pay license when they sell by
sample in other States. : ''i's evil should
be remedled by speedy anu appropriate
Liquidation. In fne / I'm in favor Of pro-
gress and material development for the
whole State and the best thing We can do
Is to quit haTping on the past, bury our
past differences, and look forward tf> 6
glorious future for our grand old Com
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