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

Inc following comparative statistics,
gathered from the columns of the Boston
Commercials Bulletin, are interesting and
instructive: New England shows man
uinctures worth 81 ,0UO, 900 900, and farm
products valued Ut $l04 100000. The
West, where 80 much attention is paid
TO agricultural pursuits-the manufacture
ed products are stated ut 81 1894, ,9Y2, 900,
and the farm products ut $9l3, ,9j5, 900 {:
in the Middle States we meet with the
vast productions of the mills and factu-
ries stated at over S2,OOO,O 100000 while
| the tillers of the soil cuuu. up $343, 757..
900. In the South, where manufacturers
ARE but just spriuging into existence, il
is about S65 100000 against farm pro-
ducts worth 1856, 1892 900. II is mill w,
farm, manufactured articles in the whole
country valued at over $4,000, ,OOO, 900
against agricultural products valued at
about ~, ,225 100000"
The pressing need of the South would
seem to be not diminution of its agri-
cultural industry, but increase Of manu-
featuring. There should be more diver
aiiy in both pursuits. The buiiG.nv ,i
irst class locomotive in the Georgin
hallway shops in this city is an earues,
OF what skilled labor can do here. We
trust that the day is not distant when our
| cotton mills can ut least have their ma.
chinery repaired at home if not construct.
ed there. The way to procure sgilled labor
is to establish chronological schools
The Sthte should aid in this. Failing
that, the manufacturers should com bine
to 30 so. What n mine of mechanical
talent is running to waste in every South.
arn community because Of this lnck I
we have some superior artificers, but
more are wanted. Grs.. Britain's com.
merce 10 perpetuated by her magnificent
schools Of technology. The United
States are far behind England in this
reapect, and the South is almost no.
where in comparison. Our Boston con.
temporary says:
Technical education is closely allied
with money making. A Southernsr NAV
cotton, the value vi Shich cannot be ca
timated in dollars and cents: but the
English mills put that cotton into prints
that are beyond our competition.
IF we perfect ourselves in the indus.
trial arts there will be no need of impo
sing duties upon all articles of foreign
manufacture which may be superior TO
our OVID, for the sake of encouraging
American industry. The experience oi
Europe teaches that untions 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 endeavor 10 com, 'oe
the eSceilcnciea Of both the free school
| and technical systems of education. In
this country it Is not n machine that
works machine, but brain directs its
movements. The mere automatic work.
man stands poor chance with the
brainy workman. The mind that can
make O ship or horse shoe has nothing
| to 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 as
the coarse arts, which feed, clothe, house
and comfort people,"
"By mutusl confidence and mutual aid,
Great Gre deeds are done aud grea. discoveries made.
The wise, new prudence from the wise acuuire
And ono brave hero fans anothers bre."
This Is forcibly and elegantly put.
Our planters are becoming truck. produ-
GERS, fruit and grain cuitivators as we'll
as cotton raisers. Our manu- ufactures are
spreading and will diversity. Rnt the
object now of the South Is to educate
some of her youth in mechanic arts at
home, utilize their talents aud stinulate
their inventive faculties. The water.
power Of our Savannah river has not
been allowed 70 go to waste. The brain
power Of our boys shonld not be un.
sphered but turned into channels of
thought and dexterisy that move noun
tains, 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,
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