The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-21
MOVE TIE MILLS SOUTH.

ing the fact that southern compa
ny had selected an intelligent youn;
man and kept him as an apprentice
for three years in the Lowell ma
chine shops, preparatory to putin:
him in charge of n cotton mill the,
proposed to erect, warns northern
manufaci urers, when such sensibl,
precaution as this is resorted to, ant
when these southern mills are to b,
erected in proximity to the cotton
fields, that they should look well t.
their laurels. The truth about it is
the cotton of the south should b,
manufactured at home, saving the
consuming world vast tax derived
rom unnecessary transportation Of
the raw material We should send
cotton clothes to New England and
Old England, and TO continental
Europe, and all over the world in
fact, direct from southern mills
The lint when not compressed, is
known to maintain its strength OF
fiber best, and when not exempt
from the great pressure required for
transportation and from long stor-
age in damp holds of vessels and in
warehouses, it looses much of its
vitality and that gloss which is
foundto belong to goods made at
Columbus, Augusta, Graniteville and
elsewhere at the south. The journal
Of Commerce sees that changes in the
manufacturing world are coming
and it treats the growing manufac-
turing interest of the south as i'm
portant, and as promising a great
industrial revolution. 1t might
treat 1T as even more important
for while the Journal admits
that we may manufacture only the
coarser goods with profit, it will find
that In twenty years from now the
south will be making just us fine
and probably finer cotton goods
than are made in New Eng
land. There is no reason WHY
this should not be the case, and it
requires only little more expert
ence and a few years more of profit
on southern mills for these mills
to duplicate at reduced cost
any piece of goods made in Massa-
chusetts. The Journal is quite lib.
eral, however. 1t says:
"We can count at the moment
more than twenty different mills
which are projected, and fully that
number which are now being built.
Recently several northern men, or
either individually or COL
lectively, have made propositions
for the erection of cotton mills at va
rlous points in the south. We have
during the present week had inter-
views with two parties who are Just
from the south, and we believe they
do not overstate the thing when they
say that the subject of making cot
ton yarns and cotton goods is quite
at fever-heat IN various portions of
the southern states. And this is not
from anything except legitimate
A large majority of the cot
ton mills of the south have been
very prosperous, and with an in
creasedpopulation there is no reason
why much more cotton shall not be
in the south, and
great many of the various kinds of
coarse and medium goods can be
made there at positive advantage.
Ii is really the commencement of an
era which may be properly denomi-
mated the new and progressive south.
This actual application of means and
skill to the productive industries is a
most material advance, and certain
y enters upon the road of material 4
progress. The people of the south !
nave come to look at a cotton mill |
md laboring man with a very diff |
'erent view from their opinions of |
,wenty years ago. The cotton and |
yoolen mill of to-day takes in its |
wake a variety of progressive and |
matters. 1t requires an
mount of skill and education which |
he so-called aristocratic classes
know nothing OF, for the education |
If one is practical and the other |
theoretical; and Notwithstanding we |
read a magazine article,
written by some BOBBY, that the
help in manufacturing villages are
rough and uncouth,' we fail IN New
England to find that the help are as
rough and uncouth as some of the
yould-be aristocrats, who were aris-
6cratic, only because they were born
With silver spoon in their mouth,
md have not the good sense or
raining to earn their own living
While the employees of the cotton
Mills of New England, the west and
outh, will as rule be found to be a
lass. that are not dependent upon
ortune or favor. The establishment
# mill in the south means the es-
of many other indus
ries which must necessarily follow
nd be with the mill. Ii is school
pom large scale-it is an actual
roducer of WEALTH. Is q cultiva-
or of all that is or can be made
cute and the one disgrace about it
J, it is honest work; it is productive,
and wherever establish
d and properly cared for it elevates
he community in contact with and
4 communion with it in every partic-
lar instance. 1t has nothing to do
nth politics, it is an industrial and
Ommercial interest, and there is no
eason why the southern states
lould not advance rapidly in the
of wealth and the bet
II condition of its citizens, and
lille it will raise all the cotton that
9th the northern and southern
ates can use, it can make portion
the goods Tor the whole country,
nj furnish England with all they
IN use beside. Their action in Civ
lg their own sons u practical and
borough education is certainly COM
could beimitatedw with
rofit to the stockholders by some of
he older managers of New Eng
nd.n
HENRY WAITERsON has lucid
lteryals. and during those neriods