The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-12-05
TIE rARrFr AND THE soUrH.

day the relation oil the South TO the
tariff, affects to believe that the
South is not sufficiently interested
in mining and manufacturing to
prompt it to maintain the tariff. 1t
undertakes to show that agriculture
is now and will hereafter be of more
importance I'm the South than min
ing and manufacturing combin sd.
Nobody in the South has ever un-
derestimated the importance of ag-
riculture, but neither has it been
contended by any in the South that
mining and manufacturing are of
secondary Importance. 1t is we'll
known in the South that agricul-
tural development has been mate
rally stimulated by the growth OF
its manufacturing industries, Gre
ating a home market. No country
can thrive which depends alone
upon agriculture, but agriculture
and manufactures are mutually de-
pendent one upon the other.
Our agricultural development in
the South, the Courier Journal main,
tains, has been due to the adoption
of new methods of husbandry, Incl
dent to the change Of the labor
system the introduction of North
ern settlers, of Northern agricul-
tural methods; theincrease of labor
saving implements and the diversi-
fication of crops. Undoubtedly
these were factors, but the greatest
incentive, at last, was the increased
market and the encouraging stimu-
lus of better prices. We have evil
dences of this everywhere in Ten
nessee where blast Furnaces. has
been erected or a mine opened or
factory con structed. Every cotton
mill in the South is a bonanza,
which not only keeps a part of its
profit at home and pays better
prices for cotton, but opens new
markets for other farm products
which should alternate the cotton
crops in the fields around the facto-
~. Before manufactures were es-
tablished, in the days when Andrew
Jackson was asking "Where shall
the farmer find home market for
his products?' our farmers were in
comparatively poor condition, sell
ing cheap and buying dear, as COM
pared to their present condition. 1t
was not diversified crops only, but
diversified industries as well, that
wrought the beneficial change
The market is brought to the farms
and an enormous. saving realized in
the economies of transportation
We are no longer wearing out the
points of plows not made at home
by dragging them through the iron
ore that lays upon our hillsides.
We are giving employment TO hun
dreds of pillow makers in the South
ern city of Louisville. In Nashville,
Columbus, Atlanta, Augusta and
other Southern towns, great mills
are growing, which, like those Of
Lowell and the East, will consume
more at home--hay, are now doing
t. The manifest destiny of the
South is not to be simply an agri
section, but TO build up the
richest and most beneficial varied
industry and commerce in the
world. You can hardly name
southern city that is not full of coal
and iron. We cannot have the best
arming until we have the best
manufacturing, each an indispensa-
Die help to the growth of the other.
To the farmer it is increase of the
product of his acres, economy of
and instant and constant
;all for variety of labor And
his is recent Southern experience
No theory or assertion can out
weigh the eloquent facts nor with
itand the overwhelming evidence
If experience. Then there is the
with the memorable logic of
igures and results to refute the ad |
assumptions of our Lou
sville contemporary. We have be-
ore us. a copy of short speech |
made at fair trade conference at |
4emington, England, on the 10th |
nst., by Robert Porter, who was
on the statistical work of
he last census, and pretty good
He says:
The development of American man
Ifacturers had not been from the d.
erting of capital from agriculture.
had only followed close
y along the line of agriculture,
trengthening and supplemening it
he Eumher Of farms hid doubled,
900 600 i'm I>60 to A 000, 900 I'm 1880
'beir value bal increased in that pc
iod from Il 200 to over e., 900. The
reduction OF cereals hal increased
nder protection from /, 230, 900, 90
ushels in 1860 to 2, zoe, 900 900 bushels
4 1880. an increase of over 100 per
emf. The value of live stock had risen
-om f200, 600, 900 in 1860 TO e300, O0O,-
10 Ia 1880, while the annual products
t the iarm Lad reached E600 600. COO.
he number of sheep, owing 10 the
utV on wool, had dOubled--20, 900 900
! 1860 as against 10000, 900 ar tie
resent time-and the home product of
DOL had Increased from go, 900, COO to
%, GOO Oc0 pounds The number OF
ersons return d as employed in the
ainiul occupations had Increased in
le lat ten years from 1850, 900 to
7 500, 900, the rate of increase being in
Ice-s of that OF the emit population.
xports more than doubled since 1860.
But the COHrier-JourndL has dis ]
'vered a new grievance with the !
riff, which is that it makes rail
'ad building expensive and the
outh needs cheaper transportation
r the development of trnck farms.
ct, whore the South will get one :
sw railroad through the induce
ent to the builder offered by a !
uek farm, it will get two new !
ilroads to coal mine or an ore :
3D. We do not know OF new rail
ad now being constructed in the $
States that has not for Its !
.jective point a coal field or an :
On region. But the tariff has not j