The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-07-21
Cotton nils in the south.

Weclip the following from the Boston
Journal of Commences:
Ia another column will be found an item
which amounts simply to the fact that par
ties in southern cities who have had an eye
to the manufacturing of cotton put one
of their young men into the Lowell machine
shops as an apprentice for three years. Here
he has been taught to fit and erect the differ'
ent machinery employ ed in the various pro.
cesses. After he became pronclent
in that, he was then sent out with the men,
whose bushes it was to erect and ADJUST the
machinery at the ff-rsnt mills, aud to see
II properly put ia working condition with the
cotton in the machine.
Having served his three years time faith
fully and successfully, the people mt home
have now organized company and are TO
build mill, of which be is 20 have the
practical management. If this is the way
our southern friends are taking hold of the
business, it is high time that some of our
northern people looked sharply after their
laurels. Professional nincompoops, the
favored sons of some wealthy stockholder, or
some other relative, who, in times past, has
had too much to do with the active manage
ment of the mills, will not now stand 80 good
q chance.
If land the case we have cited is not an
isolated one) this is to be the practice OF the
southern people, Is will relieve them en-
tirely and forever from depending upon the
so-called practical men, for whom they have
heretofore been compelled TO look to the
north, and If they are to make their own sons
practical manufacturers by an apprentice
ship of several years in the mschlne shop,
and 10 erecting and managing machinery
they will certainly have made the best
al
benefit.
But this is not the only matter that is
nrorresspr ~ the south We can count NJ
the moment more than twenty different
mills which are projected and fully that
number which are now being built. Recently
several northern men or capitalists, either
individually or collectively, have made
propositions for the erection of cotton mills
at various points in the fcQtL. We have
during the present . ~ had interviews
with two parties who are just from
the south, and we believe they do
not oyerstate the thing when they Say
that the subject of making cotton yarns and
cotton goods lie quite at fever heat in various
portions of the southern states. And this is
not from anything except legitimate causes
A large nsjority Of the cotton mills OF the
south have been very prosperous, and with
an increased populatlon there u no reasoh
WHY much more cotton shall not be manu-.
featured 10 the south, aud q grest many OF
the various kinds of coarser and medium
goods can be made there at positive sdvanN
tsge.
The establishment OF mill 10 the south
means the establishment Of many other in
dustries which must ne ,esssrily follow and
be with the mill. 1t IL Q school upon large
scale. Il is an actual producer Of wealth, IL
Il cultivstor Of ell that Il or can be made
acute. and the one disgrace about II 10. II is
honest work; Il is productive. respectable,
and wherever established and properly. cared
for II eleystes the community IN cJntsct
with and in communion with II IN every
psrticuls- instance II has nothing 10 do
with politics, Il IL an industrial and CON-
msrcisl interest, and there IL no resson
whv the southern states should not advance
rspidily in the accumulation OF wealth snd
better The condition OF lie citiz ne, and while
Il will raise I'll the cotton tbst both the north
ern and southern states Gao usa. II can make
a portion OF The goods for The whole
country sod furnish Rnelsnd with al they
car uss besides Tbsir hetion IN giving their
own sons . practical and thorough educstior
Ia csrtsinly commsudsble. and could De imr
t.,sd with proft 70 the strckbnlcers BY cont
Of The old managers Of Nsg Englsnd-