Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-03-08
! to quote from. ihe rep,rt above ;,

TO quote from he report above
I ierred to, /" Values in agriculture a
d. enhanced by Increase. of non -agricl
II turaI population" VS.
TO Again, you have pasture Ian,
Capable Oi sustaining, as they i
ready 80 now, 10 a large exlen,, a
finest cattle of the country. Whe
ar. YOUR dairies ansicrea llieries til,
/ might supply your Whole Sta
witi prr5lncts that the West an
Northwest ship into Your ver
midst, repeating The old folly
carrying coaIs to Newcastle" G
on with the count A cotton facts
rs, well regulated, would bring int
1t and around il more people in on
Year than would be. added to YOU
city in ten years by the slow proces
of natural increment And then
bwhere is a more suitable place 70
furnaces and foundries, to work vi
your mineral resources for tanner
les; for. fruit and vegetable packin,
and preserving establish ment Iii
Eshort, for every branch o. industr,
complementsal TO your agrieultura
and mineral resources. ] Nigh
carry this out ad infinitum, bu
what / have said is Sufficient Il
show how great a future is sbefor,
you. The tobacco interests of YOU
section are too we'll known to de
mand more than passing notice al
my hands, but here, too, agriculture
and industry join hands again
There is no reason in the eworld why
every leaf, of your famous tobacco
4 should ever leave your county un.
prepared for use. The tobacco oi
Montgomery county alone would be
sufficient tn sustain comfortably
more than five hundred men iu the
manufacture OF cigars and the va
rious preparations for commercial
uSe. e a an8'P @nT
= The establishment of these indus
tries, SO far from ehcroaching upon
or absorbing your agricultural in
terests, will develop them tenfold.
Let us look at some practical exam
Piles of this. afat- 81
The statistical report, which. is
/ always the sureSt basis for all circu-
4 lation of issues, refers US tothe com.
parative value OF land in Virginia
and Pennsylvania, aud gives as the
solution of the problem.
Three hundred years ago Virginia
stood as to-day in resources of ma
ture yet beautiful desert, with
only spontaneous crops growing up
on her soil; deer and turkeys her
only cattle; her waters simply
breeding place for fish, her lands
q VIC t~lr of - ho "A
Goals lying worthless beneath the
soil F; agriculture, manufactures and
commerce were practically un-
known. Two hundred and sixty
years of agriculture have failed to
produce the prosperity that sixty
would have brought with a suitable
combination Of all the industrial
arts. Naturally agriculture comes
first, but other industries must fol-
low or rural arts will pine and
struggle, through a dwarfed exist
ence., Virginia heretofore held too
exclusively to the idea of the dignity
and independence of agriculture.
She has hitherto sought wealth in
the soil, but is now finding it in the |
coal mine, the iron ores, the dense |
forests, and the enduring waterfall, !
and a thousand sources of pr0duc- |
ton which are IN their utilization,
rounding into symetry and giving |
volume and momentum to the
grand whole of Virginia industry.
Pennsylvania had later and |
slower settlement. She had no sea |
coast, and is almost destitute OF /
natural waterways and aqueous |
basins for food fish sup lies. But /
Pennsylvania acted wisely and /
promptly upon the true theory OF
industrial development, that it
should be- various and symetricai,
furnishing lucrative employment /
for male and female, old and young,
in doors and in the open air, un-
skilled and rough, as well as nicely
adjusted to the peculiar tastes and
finer aptitudes of the delicate and re-
fined who are suffering for some
thing to do.
More than half the people of Vir-
ginia are farmers; only one in five
of the Pennsylvanians are in agri-
culture. Does the great number in
the former State make greater de-
mand for land and higher price
by reason of the competition No
the competitor is between one far
'ner and another in. the sale of pro-
luce for which there is no home
market; and the cheapening of
products also cheapens the acres on
which they are grown. So Virginia
arm lands are valued at $l0.93 per
acre while those of Pennsylvania
$49.30, according !to the
census OF 1880, which also shows us
hat the average farm worker in ,
Virginia produces crops worth $3.50, {
while the Pennsylvania agricultu-
list realizes $43l. Why is this ?
Because of the other four mouths
eeking to be filled and competing
or the supply. Tennessee iscredited
With twenty millions of acres in
arms, whose value today is just S
wO hundred and six millions of
lollars. Indiana has twenty mil \
ions of acres whose value to-day is |
'ver six hundred and thirty-five t
Millions. Texas, with her thirty [
tx millions of acres, only reaches j
'aluati0n Of one hundred and sew i
nty millions. The States of Geor- {
ia, North Carolina, South Carolina, I
labama, Mississippi and Arkansas U
ave an average of seventy five per @
ent. of their population engaged in i
griculture, and their farm workers @
ealize but one hundred and sixty (
Iollars average per capita, and the d
'alue of their lands is deprecated 1
ccordingly. In the State of New il
FORK, where agriculture and indus {
ries go hand in hand, her twenty Q
hree million acres of farm lands c
re valued to day at more than one
illion OF dollars. What a revelation v
his is {,
Let it not be lost upon US. We S
aust encourage every branch Of in- f;
ustry. We must invite skilled il
abor among us to open up and de- Ii
elop our resources. We must ex- O
and the scope of our agricultural a
olicy and throw into 1t the great v
ndustrial element which will K
ring US population and give Us r.
7ealth. a
Let the grand old county of Mont Il
omery, whose orators and siates- d
zen have electrified the Nation, V
those sturdy yeomanry and sue 6
essful merchants have given her a
hsracter for energy and enterprise, G
a tho piOnppr in fhiS fnnVRmpnt / 4,