Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1882-10-28
Manufacturing.

We copy this week an interesting ac'
count of some of the leading cotton
manufactures of the South and East,
as taken from the Baltimore Journal of
Commerce and Manufacturers Record,
which may be found on our first page.
1t is very interesting, and we presume,
reliable, and well worth reading.
From this report we may infer that
. the business of cotton manufacturing
in the South is profitable aud yields
handsome increase to its stockholders.
We are glad this is so, and hope to see
all our cotton fabrics made at home,
not only for home use but tosupply, to
large extent, foreign demand. We
believe there are no investments that
will pay capitalists better than to come
among us and invest their surplus
means in we'll organized and well man.
aged manufactures Of various kinds in
the South. Not only do our cotton
mills pay large dividends and profits,
but our iron manufactures are paying,
although many of them are yet in their
infancy and just starting. For the
same reason that manufacturing cotton
pays, iron and other manufactures will
pay. The South has the raw material
in abundance, and fine water power at
hand, and can thus manufacture cheaper
than the East.
When the vast resources Of the South
are fully developed, and her products
are all manufactured at home, then
truly will we be a great and prosperous
people. To this end every true lover
of his native "Sunny South" should
work. Everything proper and legiti
mate should be done to encourage and
promote manufacturing in the South
While large majority of our people
are, and will always be, engaged in ag
ricultural pursuits, we may expect {
healthy growth in manufactures. Boil
interests are important and should b.
encouraged and promoted, but it is no
right to Cypress or tax one for the pro
motion of the other. The time ha
come when manufacturers can take car
of themselves. Instead of taxing an,
burdening the toiling millions of tn
poorer classes, we should rather striv
to help tighten their burdens. Jus
now the tariff seems to be a leadin
question before..the country. 1t is no
strictly party question, as it is sur
ported and opposed by men ii
respective of parties, accordin
to their own personal interes
or notions. But it is a question
which all classes are or should be deepl
interested. We shall not attempt
discuss this question. We have OF
views, and believe they are in accorc
ance with equity and justice to all, BIT
it is not our purpose to give them
detail. We give few facts and lea,
our readers to make their own concl
sions. There are two principal reason
which the friends of the tariff urge
its favor or support. First, means
obtaining revenue to defray the e
penses of the government. Secon
the protection of the manufactures
the United States.
In reference to insufficient tariff I
imports to defray the necessary e
penses of the Government, und
proper regulations, it is doubtless rig
and proper to that extent. But VIII
we are the friend of the manufacture
and would favor all proper and legi
mate means to encourage. manufactl
: ing, we fail to see a just and suffice
reason for taxing the toiling millions
consumers, a large majority of WHIT
are farmers and day laborers, to p
tect any class of capitalists. Capital
put their money in manufactures
profit, and while it is blessing to
country and should receive due enco
agement, it is not proper to make
rich richer by taxing the poorer clt
while a large majority Of the latter
barely supporting their families.
the profits of manufacturing are as Il
are reported by the Baltimore Jour
of Commerce and Manufacturer
cord, in the article referred to in
paper, these interests can well t
care of themselves without tariff.
We wnuld like IN See correct