The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-01-07
The New South.

Mr.. A. X. Mcclure, in the Philadelphia
TiMee, reviews the condition of tho south il
an able and exhaustive manner. The need
Of an honest civil service in this section ar,
fprcibly presented. Hs clearly expresses tht
wish Of the south TO be lot alone and b.
granted the opportunity 10 work ou
the difficult problem of race conflict. Ii.
Acknowledges the fact that negro domination
is thing Of tho past, and not desired now BY
tho colored people themselves, Ga the othel
hand every channel Of industry 10 open Il
either race, and far greater liberty in thit
respect exists than in the northern states
The future peril Of the south Mr.
Mcclure CoacoivsS 10 be the division
Of the white vote and the certain appeal Of
contending factions TO tAe blacks as the ar
biters Of Disputes The industrial needs OF
tho south arc handled ably, and tho fact i'm
pressed upon capitalists that there is no
more inviting field for tho establishment
Of cotton factories than in the districts
whore The staple is grown. He declares
"ihOso who say that capital IL not safe in the
oNuAh WlNuul hbpN nOI Wuhh may shy or
mean 10 be unrulhful." The comments
upon southern manufactures are worthy Of
perusal. He says:
Tho manufacturers Of the north must soon
go south with their cotton spindlos and
looms, and those who go earliest will reap the
richest harvest. 1t is violation OF all the
laws Of trade to transport tho cotton thou
sand miles to an inhospitsbls climate,
where wpter'powOr is unreliable third OF
tho year, and where it necessarily
costs moro to sustsin labor than where the
cotton is grown, Our struggling cotton fac.
tories in Pennsylvania would be earnng
from 10 10 80 per cent. ON the great water.
powers of the Savannah or tho Alabama,
who're labor is cheap, where tho climate is
the Most most genial to be found on tue con
tineni, and where the cotton lint can be
furnishod fresh from thsgn. Instead of in
curing tho expense of packing, of trnngper-
tatioa aud OF fo.sspsrating tho lint, at nue.
cest TO the fibre, the cotton should, and SOC
will, DO spun directly directly from the 4 p.
by cheaper laber aud turned iuto BE-, ei
fabrics than can be fur lshgd with ,bt
skill of the north. Those who b..
that capital is not safe ia the south
either know not what they way or mean 10 30
untrutltul. In every southern state there IS
a supreme dsalrd to have Lhs fact Try Ivory
where that tho raw material 10 furnished, and
S1sth Carolina e1ompis every factory from
all taxation for ten years. La both tho Caro-.
inaa, Georgia. ToxpS, ArksEsAp, Mississippi
and Tennessee there ARE regular emigration
bureaus, not only inviting hut urging whlo
settlers, and even Mississippi has several ofIhe
largest and NEST Successful fsotcres Ia The
south. Tho cotton crop Of this year will be
worth three hundred ulious of dslats,
and when simply spun into yam, it will b.
worth nearly three hundred millions more.
Where in nil the world is there so wide ard
SO tempting u 60d for legitimate euterpri,o
and large prodni believe that hSf tia
whole cotton product will be- spua ia tho
aeulh before another ten years, ard tho sue
ceOdi & decade will iurnish southern lActo-
rtes for tho entire crop. The factory and
the school will 80 hand IN hand in the south,
and the factory princes from tho north will
roxt DO bulldcajng the black mnn in tn,
south to vote against the ple,eat oppressive
tariff upos cotton machinery.