The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-05-24
DlversiflcatiOn or Industries.

The following comparative statistics.
gathered from the columns of the Boston
Commercial Bulletin, nre interesting and
Instructive: New England shows man
ufacturcs worth 81 900 900 900, and farm
products valued at $lU4 100000. The
West, where 80 much attention is paid
TO agricultural pursuits-the manufactur.
ed products are stated ut $l,394, ,9S2 900.
and the farm products ut $9l3, ,965 900 :
IN the Middle States we meet with the
vast pr0u uCtl0ns Of the mills and facto.
| ries stated at over $4,000 ,000,O0U. while
the tillers OF the soil count up $343, 757, :.
Oo0. In the South, where manufactures
are but just spriuging into existence. il
~ about $50 100000 against farm pro-
ducts worth $756, $4,000. /. is mill vs.,
farm, ma manufactured articles in the whole
country valued at over $4,000, DOC, 900
against agricultural products va,ued at
about 81, 225,O00, Goo"
The pressing need of the South would
seem 20 be nut diminulion of it's agri-
cultural industry, but increase Of manu-.
featuring. There should be more diver.
sity In both pursuits. The building OF
u hrst class locomotive in the Georgia
hallway shops in this city is an earues,
Of what skilled labor can do here. We
trust that the day IL not distant when our
| cotton mills can ut least hnve their ma.
chinery repaired at home if not construct.
ed there Theway to procure skilled labor
Is 10 establish chronological schools.
Tho State should aid in this. Failing
that, the manufacturers should com blue
TO 40 80. What mine of mechanical
talent Is running TO waste in every South.
ern community because of this luck
we have some superior artificers, but
more are wanted. Great Britain's com.
me:cs L pe.Pa;as;ed 5y her magnificent
schools OF technology. The United
States are far behind England in this
respect, and the South Is almost no..
where In comparison. Our Boston con.
temporary says:
Technical education is closely allied
with money making. A Southerner NAV
put into the field q machine for picking
cotton, the value Of which cannot be en-
tlmated In dollars and cents; but the
English mills put that cotton into prints
that are beyond our competition.
1T we perfect ourselves in the indus.
trial arts there will DO no need of impo
eing duties upon all articles of foreipn
manufacture which may be superior TO
our own. for. the. sake. Of encouraeipr
American industry. The experience uI
Europe teaches that nations with the
poorest natural advantages, by industrial
education, may take front rank in in.
dustrial prosperity, and that wealth of
raw material does not necessarily secure
industrial supremacy"
The South should endcayor 10 combine
the excellencles of both tho free school
and technical systems of education. In
this country IL Is not machine thai
works machine, but brain direct, i,s
movements. The mere automatic work.
man atands poor chance with the
brainy workman. The mind that can
make ship or horse shoe has nothing
10 fear from fortune. The power and
wealth aud progress Of people increase
IN proportion TO the education of that
people. Theodore Parker said: "The
tine arts do not interest me 80 much ma
the coarse arts, which feed, clothe, house
and comfort people,"
"By mutual confidence and mutual aid,
Great deeds are done and great discoveries made.
And one brave hero fans another's Ore" "'''
This Is forcibly and elegantly put.
Our planters are becoming truck. produ.
GERS, fruit and grain cultivators as we'll
as cotton raisers. Our manufactures are
spreading and will diversity. But the
object now OF the South Is to educate
some OF her youth In mechanic arts at
home, utilize their talents aud stimulate
their Inventive faculties. The water.
power of our Savannah river has not
been allowed to go to waste. The brain
power Of our boys should not be un.
spheted but turned into channels of
thought and dexterity that move noun.
catns, build temples, construct railways.
improve machinery and invent modern
miracles of Industrial art. A school of
technology will accomplish wonders for
Southern progress and Southern men,
ANQustd CAronicke and IhnskikufinnnH.f