The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-11-17
Coming to the Front.

The injunction, edo not hide your
light under bushel," may be supple
mented with the assertion that GU can
NOT hide. 1t will shine. AS well az
tempt TO stop rainfall as to hold Ten
nessee back in the upward career upon
which she is just fairly entered. The
world shows more progress in "a day
than 1t did in year century back.
Day unto day showeth knowledge. In
this grand march towards perfected in
struments of labor and the fullest ma
nipulation of all the resources in nature
susceptible of being reduced to the uses
Of life, the United States stands preemi-
nently foremost. Witness the salute ae-
corded the American flag in the worlds
metropolis the other day when the peo-
pie of the most powerful and renowned
nation on earth were assem- bled to honor
a representative of their own institu-
tions-a marked recognition, unprece-
dented, OF the superiority of American
progress and Americans. Although
this is true, Tennessee has little cause
to glory in the triumph, as compared
with other states, until now, but the
fact is glarinRly apparent that she is
fast placing herself in line with the
most advanced thoughts and progress
sive ideas and is reaching out to grasp
her share of the re ward that properly
belongs to her. IL is superfuous to re-
her oil
deyeloneh hnt e',al@; -.
E--5 sAIuCICuL 10 say that in
variety and extent they comprehend
more than belong to any other state.
Look at this meagre list and then say
what state can boast of more of either
or half of all: Coal, iron. minerals,
marble, stone, timber, water-power,
soil, climate, healthy atmosphere and
salubrious, pure water, all the cereals
TO perfection, grasses, cotton, stock
raising-alI these hers naturally, and
supplemented by a skill in developing,
operating and manipulating that is dali
ly growing. Mills, factories, Shops
innumerable and all kinds, springing
up and at once assuming front rank;
schools unsurpassed in the country, and |
universities that will stand for ages. |
Shelby county is the second cotton pro-
ducing county in the world. A Chatta-
nooga firm got the contract to build %
miles of trestle across Lake POntchar-
train, outbidding Cincinnati. Silk Gull
ture made eminently profitable on the
barren mountains peaks and even in
Memphis. These are instances that
might be multiplied indefinitely of bud
press is that, having all these illimita-
Die resources OF nature and the ele-
nents o. development, we should drop
I'll else that interferes with our prog
'ess and by all means and every means
end our assistance. The world is just
hiding US cut and in the one item OF {
cotton goods alone we
nay see our wealth doubled before we [
now it. 1t costs $40 more to work up c
bale of cotton in Massachusetts than c
does in Tennessee. If we will we C
iay bring up from the bowels of the S
arfh beneath us and by use of the pow v
+ and means around us create untold O
Of wealth, and this is all to l.
3 accomplished only by making the 7
orld more closely acquainted with v
hat we are and what we may be. For C
iddle Tennessee the accomplishment s
these ends lies through the move
ent inaugurated at Tullahoma, to a
Try great degree. All we need is that :,
should arouse themselves -
DIV while the tide is southwark, and =
e may see our farms peopled with Ia :,
'rious and good citizens and all our :.
Iried resources brought out to their -
termost-and Tennessee placed where
n Incompatible advantages and re-
urces entitle her to stand, in the very
remOst rank of states.