Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-09-30
WHOLE NO. 2,442.
Our Material Interest,
Nashville American.

We enter upon the duties which
have been assigned us with ont
great leading purpose, and that |,
to devote large share of our space
TO the material interests of Tennes
see. We hope to be able to impress
upon our young men who will read
the difference between life of idle
ness and a life of industry, between
the intelligent application OF force
in life and sluggish existence, and
whatever can be done by q newspa-
per to stimulate our people to lust
and full appreciation of their oppor-
tunities and possibilities viii be
done.
We shall constantly keep before
che reading public the advantages
of the South, and especially OF our
own acknowledgements and Ala
bama. Whoever deserves mention
in the work of building up and es-
tablishing home institutions shall
have ii, and whoever writes in ref
erence to the great work of build
ing up our section, giving facts in
a reasonably clear manner, shall
have space in the American.
We hope by oft-repeated truths
and unanswerable arguments, to
thoroughly impress the reading
public with our capabilities for de-
veloping into real home wealth and
home independence. Every intel
ligent man in Tennessee can be
made to understand, and ought to
be made to feel, that we are not and
must not be dependent ON other
people-people thousand miles
away from us--for our wOoIen and
cotton goods, our boots and shoes,
our farming implements, our loco
motive and railroad iron, our hard
ware and holloware-that to con-
tinue to buy your manufactured
goods abroad as certainly brings
poverty as epidemics bring death,
and that to manufacture what we
need at home as certainly brings
wealth as rains bring tides. l.li 4
We propose to examine with care
the business of manufacturing in
Tennessee, and to look into and
give the facts in reference to our
stablishments in operation. If our
young men of capital. cannot be
walked up by giving the facts in ref
erence to manufacturing cotton and
iron In Tennessee, then the sleep is
worse than Rip Van Wrinkles, for
they will never wake, and Rip did,
in his old age. ....-.. - 49,.
We intend to keep another fact
prominent before our people. Who
ever goes to manufacturing among |
US is entitled by the laws of social |
life, as well as by the demands of
political economy, to be sustained
at home. Some years ago there
was an establishment in Tennessee
manufacturing cedar buckets. Good
many of these buckets We're sold in
Nashville, after being shipped TO |
business men at Cincin-
natl sold by them back TO our mer-
chants. ~ s4a. .AJ. |
Whoever makes good goods at |
home is entitled to, and has a right |
to expect, that he will be sustained
at home. as- tH ~ T. 'U.
Every industrial enterprise built
up here is not only blessing to the |
poor, but guarantee against the |
demands OF charity, and If sustain
sd by home people, enlarges our
home circulation, thereby adding
wealth to the Stale. But if we buy
abroad we add wealth to another
and not ours. '-'
We owe 1t to ourselves to deal
with ourselves, for when we deal
With each other we are contributing
% our mutual and common. inter-
ests. '--