The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-03-30
WHAT AIS TENNESSEE.
Col. colyar Learns . Valuable Les
son at the North.

To the American.
OK THE CAR NEAR PITTsBURG
March Is, lSS2.-LeRving CIncln
naJi this morning. / am now near
ug the great misunderstanding town
Il PIttsbnrg, and as we go flfin2 al
he rate OF forty miles IA h UT.
sitting in a sleeper with conven-
rent writing table before me, jo,
down the thoughts of the day
This days run, from the Ohio river
1t Cincinnati to the Junction of the
Allegheny and MoDoDgahels, thu
place whence the American indus
tries are lighted up, always oringe
up an unans ~ered inquiry: Why th'
liffererce in the farms and mode
I farming here, in Ohio and Penn
sylvania, and IN Tennessee? The
traveller. all day long. as he look.
out, sees farm after farm with
Zond iences, Z ,od dwelling house.
good bsrus. fipe meadows, foe or
chards. with fine cattle in the pas
lures, large herds of sheep on the
alli-sides, and bat few idle people
At the depoLs. This in the mind OF
Tennessean. brings up the un.
pleasant inquiry, What Is the mat
,er with Tennessee? WHY are our
cities in Tennessee prospering
while the country is tagging, with
but little sign of improvement?
Ref. .ction and observation wall
aad the mind to the true answer.
There can be but one, to-wit: The
rar0er al all points in Ohio ami
Pennsylvania has a neighb1r en-
gagged in manufacturing, and the
wo work into each others hand.
1t is not only the big towns like
Gin cinnati, Columbus, Pittsburgh,
Harrisburg and Philad> >lphia that
are manufacturing. but all the
small towns are more or less en-
gagged in manufacturing. These
diversified pursuits are In close
proximity. The m mAnufacturer sup
plies the farmer and the farmer sup
plies the manufacturer, and be
tween them they get the benefit OF
profits, and nothing is set APART to
penplp who live by appropriation,
those who produce nothing, butca
ry from one to the other and ap-
pirate all the profits for such
service.
The farmer here finding a home
market for everything he produces,
% stimulated to rednuble his ener
gee. The profits of his ,arm whet
ais wits and quicken his steps. He
>tudies the different modes. OF i'm
proving bis lands; he becomes
subscriber to and reads the best
works on farming; he becomes in
dependent, and yet his habits of in
dustry are fixed. Above all, he
comes to see. being constantly III
con tact with the sy stem OF inciden
tai mutual helps, that manuiacLur-
ing is what gives him market,
keeps money at home, improving
mis- lands and bringing social and
pecuniary comforts, and is himself
ready to aid IN building up manu-
actories. Indeed all through
Ohio and Pennsylvania the tarmer-
are putting their spare money INTO
manufacturing. Take Maury o.
Giles county. and suppose all the
spare money of the farmers was pu
into manufacturing, it would soon
make either county rich, not So
much OF the direct profits on the
investment as by making a home
market, stimulating farmers and
improving and enhancing the value
o, lands. Ode of the happiest ef-
g. cts of indu airy and contact is that
il stimula; es and creates a desire
for notwithstanding. Take the
four towns McMiunville, Manches-
Ter, Winchester and Tracy City, all
N the same section oi country, and
while the first three are places of
efined society, good schools and
other advantages, and the last
named is a miaing town, all labor
ing people, and most of them poo,
Ell there are twice as many paper r.
taken there as at either of the other
places.
Let all our spare capital be
turned into manufacturing and
ur farmers Nill soon be as vel of
as they are in Ohio aud Pennsylva-
MIA. A >. G.