The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-01-12
OUR HOME INTERESTS.
a Stirring Appeal to Our People to
Awake From their Lsthargy.

FRIEND MCCORD:-It is hard t
know just how to begin to tall
about or TO talk to a people tina
show so little concern about thei
own affairs as do the good people o
Giles. There was at the court hous,
on Saturday last a meeting of the
Giles County immigration Society
The president was absent, the sec
Rotary was absent. and nearly every
one else was absent. The interest
that should have been felt was alb
sent. The farmers were absent. The
merchants were absent, and the fe "
who were present seemed TO be alb
ent.minded and to almost wish they
were absent in person. Now why
is this SOP Is it because our people
have lost all interest in their state
and in the county they live in? Do
! they all feel that because there is a
Texas to 60 to that there is no Ten
nesseeY Do they think that there
is better land under the sky than
Giles county, Do they think they
can live easier anywhere Oh this
green earth than here? II they do
they are mistaken. While other
states and localities may have adj
vant0ges over ours in some respects,
we have a general average OF fortui-
tous surroundings that cannot be
surpassed and has never been equal
ed by any state in the Union.
We have better climate the year
round. We have greater variety
of productions, g more beautiful
country, better watered, with more
fertile plains, more productive val
leys, more beautiful hills, and water
courses that for purity, beauty and
usefulness have neveryet been equal
ed by any country that civilized mau
has discovered. Tennessee has adj
ded more to the population and
statesmen of her surrounding sister
states than any other state in the
Union. She has cleared up her own
forests and helped 10 people and TO
clear up Other states, and done all
she should have done to sustain her
own honor and that Of the national
government, AID IN addition 10 all
this she can raise more corn, more
cotton, more wheat. more oats, more
potatoes, more babies, more mule
colts and as many preachers, as any
other state or territory. Yet after
accomplishing all this they are not
willing 30 turn out TO hear the sub
ject discussed that may add more to
the material wealth of our section
than any other point that can be
touched on at this time. The SOW
ereigns may have had some feers
that the 1908 question would be
sprung {and il they did l don't
blame them for staying away but
such is not the case. The intention
Of this organization is simply to get
more workers on our soil, more
people in our towns and more ne
chanics in ogr snops. st is true
that the 100 matter was not touch
ed and ,OM not be at any Of these naess-
ifags IN tie future. So, nay trends,
you need not 20 afraid. Come along
and hear these matters discussed.
Let us see if we cannot let the PEG
pie of the older and more thickly
settled states know what good
place there is for every man who
will work in Tennessee, There was
landed on our shores more foreign
ers last year than any year in our
history, aud but few if any of them
reached Tennessee. Why? Simply
because there was no one to tell
them there was spch q spot Of
ground as Tennessee, and but few,
if any orthem, know any thing about
our country before they land. When
they land they are mat by agents of
other statee, telling them Of the ad
vantages of The section represented
by them and telling them how to
get to it and in many instances pro
curing cheap transportation to the
far west for the emigrants. Now
the intention IF the Giles County
immigration Society is TO let other
people know that they can find good !
homes here and at very low prices,
that our people have lands for sale
and are anxious to sell, and that
any man who will attend TO his own |
affairs car live comfortably and in
dependently in Tennessee. The
way this organization proposes to
do this is TO get up a book giving
the advantages of our section and a
general description of our lands,
with 2 special description Of lands
belonging to those who are willing
to pay a small bonus for the same. |
think the object good one and
hope that 81. the people of the
county that possibly can will attend
tue next meeting and let us tIy to
let the world know that we have
and that cannot be surpassed in all
things that tend to make life happy,
and my word for it, we will have
such rush Of people in the next
zen years that our lands that now
are worth $40 VIII be worth at least
$40 per acre. Tnis argument Of
dollars and cents ought to be a
one and / hope our peo-
de will attend. Respectfully,
GILES.