Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-01-13
The New South. .


phia Times reviews tho condition oi
the South In an able and exhaustive
manner. The needs Of an honest civil
service In that section are forcibly pre-
ssnted. He clearly expresses the wish
Of the South to be let alone and be
granted the opportunity to work out
the difficult problem Of race conflict.
He acknowledges the fact that negro
domination IL . thing Of the past,
and not desired now by the colored
people themselves. On the other hand
every channel of industry il open to
either race, and . far greater liberty In
tl.is respect exists than In the North
ern States.
The future peril Of the South Mr..
Mcclure concsivss to be the division Of
the white vote and the certain appeal
Of contending factions to the blacks -
the arbiters Of disputes.
The Industrial needs Of the South
are handled ably, and the fact i'm
pressed upon capitalists that there IL
no more inviting field for tho establish
ment of cotton factories than In the
districts where the staple 10 grown.
He declares ''those who say that sapi-
tai il not safe In the South either know
not what they say, Or mean ~ Be un-
truthful"
The comments upon Southern man
ufactures are worthy Of perusal. He
says:
The manufacturers of tho North must soon
90 south with their cotton spindles and loOms,
and those who 60 earliest will roach the rich
est harvest. IL 10 violation Of the trsde to
transport the cotton . thousand miles to an
tnhospitable climate, where wster-poWer 10 un'
reliable . third of the year, and whore II
necessarily costs more to sustain labor than
| where the cotton 10 grown. Our struggling
cotton factories in Pennsylvania would b.
earning from 10 to 80 per cent On the great
water powers Of the Savannah or Alabama,
where labor 10 cheap. where the climate 10 the
| most genial 70 be found on the continent, and
where the cotton lint can be furnished fresh
| from the gin. Instead of ineurrnx the expens SC
Of packing, Of transportation and Of rs-sepa-
f0tln8 the lint, n mUcu COSs W JUG noi0, sos
cotton should, aud soon will, b spun directly
from the gin, by cheaper labor asd turned In
to better fabrics than can be furnished with al
tho skill of the North. Those who say that
capital 10 not safe In the South either know
not what they say o. mean to b untruthful.
| In every Southern State there 10 . supreme
desire to have the factory everywhere that the
| raw material Is furnished, and South Carolina
sxempts every factory from all taxation for
ten years. In both Carollnas. Georgia. Texas.
Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee there are
regular emigration bureaus, not only inviting
but urging white settlers, and oven Mississippi
has several of the largest and most successful
factories in the South. The cotton crop OF
| this year will be worth three hundred millions
of dollars, and when simply spun into yarn, 1t
will be worth nearly three hundred millions
| more. Where In all the world II there 80 wide
and so TEN mpting . field for legitimate enter
prise and large pro6tsa believe that half
the whole cotton product will be spun In the
South before another ten years, and the sue
ceeding decade will furnish southern factories
| for the entire crop. The factory and the school
| will 90 hand in hand in the South, and the
| factory princes in the North will next be bull
dosing the black man in the South TO vote
against the present oppressive tariff upon cot
ton machinery.