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

ting the sale of real estate to emigrants.
This charter is printed, and will be
submitted to all who are requested IN
take stock.
we nave also determined, in addition
to this, 10 organize in each county vol
untary associations, not Incorporated,
for the purpose of encouraging the i'm
migration into our state OF intelligent,
en- terprising and industrious laborers,
and the introduction of capital, TO utll-
ize our immense mineral and maDufsc-
turing resources, which have so long
from various causes lain dormant. It 1s
unnecessary to point out in any elabo-
rate manner the advantages OF such
q movement.
No state in the union has more adj
vantages than Tennessee for manuiac-
turing and mining. So far as these are
concerned, she is new state. She is
alike removed from the malaria of the
extreme south and from the bitter cold
of the extreme north. In climate,
health and beauty of scenery, Tennes-
see cannot be surpassed.
Every variety OF agricultural produc-
ton, except the sugar cane, and all
fruits except tropical, can be grown to
perfection in Tennessee. We here have
the blue grass, which grows so luxuri-
antly in Kentucky and other states
north OF US, and the cotton plant, which
is the leading production of more south
orn states. We can have evergreen
pastures OF blue grass, rye and barley
in the winter and spring, and clover and
the other grasses in the summer and
fall. 1t requires a much less amount of
provender to sustain live stock in Ten
nessee than in more northern Ftates,
and on account of climate or some
thing else, they do better here than in
more southern states. That we need
that out of 25,000,00O acres of land in
Tennessee only about 100000 are
classed as improved, whilst in Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois they have about
two acres of improved land to one that
is unimproved.
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois are all
younger and newer states than Tennes-
see. The productions of these states,
whether we consider farm products or
manufactures, are much greater than
those of Tennessee. So also is their
population.
For this there is no natural cause, but
is owing to accidental circumstances
which may be and should be changed.
1t is true there is great emigration
from our state, but this is moth ing new.
A stream OF emigration has been flow
ing from Tennessee for sixty years or
over, when our state was new and
had virgin soil. Alabama, Mississippi,
Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas have
been peopled by her bold and hardy
sons. Thousands of her natives have
found their way to Missouri, Indiana,
Illinois, and the more distant states OF
Colorado and California. The energy,
valor and wisdom of native Tennessee
ans have illustrated the history of all
these states.
Notwithstanding this constant emf
grafton, she has increased since 1910
from 1913 to J, 542, 163 inhabitants.
This emigration is increased by the
fact that we are cultivating the same
lands that we cultivated 60 and sc years
ago, in the same manner we cultivated
then, when they were fresh and natu-
rally very productive.
Nothing but an improved system Of
agriculture, returning to the soil as
much as we take from it, the substitu-
ton OF clover and the grasses for cot
ton and corn on much of our worn
lands, will restore these lands to their
original productiveness, and prevent
emigration of farm laborers.
But what we especially need is the
utilization of our immense water power
and manufacturing resources.
1t is truly astonishing when we esti-
mate the vast sums of money that are
drawn from our people each year in the
transportation of their farm products to
market. The amount that would be
saved by manufacturing our cotton and
wheat and by making our agricultural
Inn Nlarr Fu Il In mn
years, to utilize all the available water
power in the state and put in successful
operation all our mines of coal and de-
posits OF ore.
To be satisfied of this, we have only
to look to what the comparatively new
states OF Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Missouri are doing, and we will see
why they are growing so rapidly in
wealth, and improvingin every respect.
AS manufacturers increase, agriculture
will improve. Men who can find mar
ket at home for every busheI of apples,
potatoes and small fruits they can raise,
as well as their corn, wheat, cotton, and
animals for slaughter, will make efforts
to improve their lands and to increase
its productiveness.
We now need in Tennessee consun-
ers OF agricultural products, rather than
producers, while consumers, however,
should not be drones, but be producers
OF other forms OF wealth.
1t will be our purpose to make fair
representation of the character OF the
country, the quality OF the soil, its pro-
ductiveness and its capability OF i'm
proVement, for we do not believe in in
ducing immigrants to purchase worth
less lands incapable of Improvement
merely because they are sold at
low prices, since nothing which is
worthless is cheap at any price.
II should be remembered that what is
called capital is the result of the aecu-
mutation of judicious labor. Land is
capital, so are horses, cattle and other
live stock. Labor, whether OF mere
muscular kind or of the intellect,is also
capital, and there is neither a necessary
nor reasonable conflict between these
| different forms of capital.
The coal and iron that lie hidden in
the mountains of Tennessee and the
water that flows in limpid streams from
those mountain, are all capital; and
what we now most need is another form
OF capital-money-to put this sleeping
capital into active use.
We cannot, however, expect, with
any reason, to get this much desired
| capital, unless we make earnest, per-
sistent and concentrated effort.
1t will not come OF itself. Too N any
other places are seeking it for it to force
itself upon us unsought, and apparent
| ly undesired.
| Every man in the state, land owner
and laborer, moneyed man and those
without money, should take an active
| interest and should all act in harmony
and concert. Whatever money is SUBJ
scribed to further our operations will be
placed in the hands of our secretary