The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-24
AHdsrsuta gutetIigeHeer.
Eastern Manufactures and Southern
Competition.

In the New York Star of the 18th inst.
we find the following explanation of the
causes of.the great depressions among
Eastern manufacturers. Itveziiytseems
that the day that so many OF US have
dreamed of, when the South would be no
longer dependent on New England for
its manufactured goods, is at last actual
II at hand: -.
zone of the leading and most intefi-'
gent manufacturers of Missouri, now in
the CITY on a business visit, was seen
yesterday by Star reporter:
"tItis surprising to Western business
men, said he, s'to find the tariff agitation
80 general in the East. Those who look
to q protective tariff to revive the droop-
ing Industries look in the wrong direc-
ton. They should look Southwark to-
find the real cause of the trouble.
Within ten years the Southwest has de:
veloped tremendous energies in its man
ufactures, and is now its own producer,
manufacturer and consumer. Instead OF
sending our cotton and leather to New
England and bringing it back again IN
the shape of manufactured goods and
-it-up ourselEes=aad- save
the difference. New England has lost
nearly an AssS0utheln hads-in this re-
spect. The onH pfestge it now retains
isin the:manufactnr4 Of machinery, p4d
even. that has suffered. In. ten Years
more there will not be q single cotton
million shoe factory running in the New
Engiassn9so,p SSatsS .ustt ustssS tSD fn ne
Sonth.' e .o5. -. :
manufacture compiled for the census of
1880 and. q, glance at the reports of the
Committees OF, the Industrial Exhibitions
held, sduring the past year at Louisville
and Atlanta will show that there can be
doubt. aboit the marvellous increase in
the notwithstanding Industries ofthe South
and Southwest. At the same time there
is corresponding decrease IN the husi-
ness done at the great centres Of manu-
facturef5a New! E1gland Aand the North.
It is true that the depression of trade in
N6w Enefahif iSsaery great and in New
york the failing Of, although not so
marked, is still the cause of much COM
ment and discomfort. This depreciation
is attributed, however, in 9 great measure
TO q general dnllness In all trades during
1888 as we'll ais to our overstocked mar
ket. -. <z.s
|aThe :principal manufactures Of the
South afe cotton and wooden stnfs, and
all statemeutago to: prove that since 1880
considerable progress has been made in
both branches of industry. In 1880, the
South had 180 mills, with 71S,987 spin
dies and 15,222.looms.i Now there are
1874 mills, 1,76, ,422 spindles and A,s7S
looms. The value of the production iFor
the year increased from $21, ,00O,000 in
1880 to $40, ,000, 900 in 1883.
ct is reported that in view of the
great facilities lately developed in the
South formanufacturipg cotton and stuff
goods, New York dry goods firm has
decided to erect a mill at the South with
$4,000 spindles, at an outlay of 81 l,500,-
600. and that another enterprise of simi.
lar magnitude is on foot, which eminently
proves the great faith placed in the
future lnshnfacturing possibilities OF the
South. The originators of these schemes
ara ara anWel known Throughout the cotton
notwithstanding world, their credit is un.
bounded, and their Judgment matured,
and, above all, they are New England
capitalists All these facts 90 to show
that the, great centre of manufactures
and the staple ihdnstfies of the country
are gradually veering. from North to
South, and according to the present
outlook the only future resource of the
New Englanders will be in their
machinery, in which branch Of industry
they still remain justly pre- eminent" +.