The comet., 1882-10-21

new source of prosperity in the south.
(The speaker here related how a
Mississippi manufactures made him
q present of new suit of clothes,
which he wore when he made his
| first appearance as a member on the
floor of congress and it was with no
little pride that he wore there suit
grown and spun and manufactured
In his own state.) To show the
growth in cotton manufacturing In
/ 1850 there were Dds, 900 spiHdles and
the amount of cotton spun n, coo, 900
! of pounds; in 1881 there were l0s-
000,000 spindles. and 793, 600, 900
pounds of cotton the capitol Ial yested
/ ployes, Isl 600. In 1910 the wool
manufactured Was $4,000, 900 pounds
! valued at SO, 900, 900, and the num-
Der OF hands employed, q 600. In
! 1889 167, ,O00, 900 pounds of wool was
manufactured, which was valued at
$145, ,000, 900, and the amount paid for
wages by manufacturers of wool, $45,-
O00, 900.
These figures indicate that we are
becoming q great manufacturing as
well as an agricultural people, and
that the crude products of our soil,
will, in the near future, be manufact-
ured where they grow, instead of
being sent away to the East and
to Europe for that purpose, and the
more Isee of the West, and your great
Northwest, the more am convinced
that here will be the seat of the man.
ufacture of the products grown here
as the South will be of the cotton
grown there. Grey headed men here
will remember when Michigan was on
the confines of civilization. Look at
the maps now, and see how this great
country has expanded, and how your
great State has grown. We att the
South intend to profit by your exr
ample; to improve our stock and our
factories; to make two blades of grass
grow where one grew before, and we
will then increase in pl losperity as you
haYe done. In Mississippi we have a
region watered by fine streams, with
a climate as soft and a sun as bright
as that of Italy. Our people can live
in the open air the year found. We
do not have nature to contend against
as you do. The winter storms even
only serve to raise the streams and
bring the floods which float our logs
to the seaboard. Here let me say
that / had the honor to be instru-
mental in obtaining the only aid for
river and harbor improvements ever
granted to my state, and in doing
that I did not vote to aid the monop-
humblest man that cuts a tree deep
in the pine forest of Mississippi, feels
the benefit. The laboring men feel
the impulse that it gave the logging
business of the state. It was not for
monopoly or capital. but for labor, |
that the assistance was obtained, and |
Just now when the pine Of Mississippi |
is coming into play to supply the /
place fyour exhausted forest in Mich I
A.. - u. n a
only genial bat the soil is deep and /
easy of cultivation. Indeed nature I
has done so much for us that we are
very much tempted not to do much +
for ourselves. daughter
In conclusion wish to say that in
visiting the art hall this morning and 1
in viewing the things there which are
the handiwOrk of the women of your
county, I was reminded of the debt
we in the south owe to the women in
the South, Tor it was by their efforts
that the fair was started there, It lis
indeed to womanis hand and woman's
taste that we owe the luxuries of our
homes, and those to whom we owe so
much should not be given grudging-
ly those things which are made for
the establishment and comfort of
home.
1 trust that the occasion of my Wis
it may be the means of showing to
the people of both sections that we
are one people with a common inter
est and common fate and whatever
brings prosperity to one does to the
other also. The West and the South
are especially bound together by COM
mon bonds of interest, and 1t is our
duty to live together in unity. We
are one people and an agricultural
people by virtue of that primordial
order which said that nan sheuld
earn his bread by tilling the soil.