The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-27


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The growing losses of the eastern
manufacturers eliminated when the
operatives of Fall river, thirty thou
sand strong, were called on to de
eide between discharge or ruin
Gus reduction in wages. Under the
proposed reduction it was shown
that men would be unable to make
more that eight dollars per week
After debating the matter for two
hours, ballot was taken, and re-
suited 4S4 in favor of strike and
50 against it. During the discus
sion it was shown that since 1873
the wages of the cotton operatives
have been reduced forty-one per
cent, and in only one instant has
the reduction been restored. In
the same special it is stated that
orders to stop large portion of
the looms in some of the largest
cotton mills in New England, repre-
senting over 100000 spindles. They
are compelled to curtail produc-
tion because OF the low prices for
goods. A prominent cotton dealer
from Georgia gives this explanation
Of it in the Atlanta Constitution:
81 am not at all surprised at this
result, and my only wonder is that
we have not heard of it sooner. 1t
simply an economic problem which
any one can understand. So long
as New England has a monopoly of
the cotton mills of the country
it made no difference to that sec
tion how much they had to pay in
the way of freight to get the raw
in their possession. How
considerable of an item this was
did not appear until the cotton
mills were started on the ground |
where the cotton grew, and with |
the same facilities for work, the |
same result was inevitable. By de-
grees the New England men have
been driven from point to point by
this complication until now they
are practically out Of the field. I'm
til the cotton prints of the south
we're made we stood no chance with
but now we are driv-
ng English goods out of the Chi
lese and japanese and Australian
ports. 1t looks to me as if this
vas the beginning of the end of
New. England cotton goods"
A good farmer must combine the
Judgment of many different voca-
ions; he must be good financier, I
IN small scale to be sure, but still
good one; also good manager of
abor; must combine the judgment
If the grazier, the butcher, the
gardener and the merchant; he
must also have that judgement
Lbout the condition of the land
nd crop for which there is no writ
en- rule, and which careful obser-
'ation gives; and in addition to all
his, he must have that quality for
which there is no name, but which
generally adapts means to ends
nd accomplishes things, which ,
,nows when to finish one thing at
ime, which is generally best, and
7hen to leave that thing and do ,
omething which needs doing more ,
the faculty which keeps his whole |
usiness together. This Judgment
3 the farmers first and greatest
eed 1T is the high court which must
pom all that is brought before it.
The only man whose success is
opeless, and will never acquire it, :
) he who thinks he knows it all in !
he beginning.-American.
Ex-Attorney-Gen. Wayne Mac s
Teagh contributes to the March
century a striking paper on "The i
Iext Presidency" in which he says
i part: ''There is at this time t
reat and noble work awaiting a '
resident able and willing to do it.
t goes without saying that he I
lust be absolutely untrammeled t
hen he takes his solemn oath to C
efend the constitution and to exc L
ute the laws. He must not have t
ought the nomination, nor must he t
ave shown after his nomination t
hat President Woolsey so aptly S
allied "a most uncommon anxiety I
)r his election, for he must be G
-ithout friends to reward, and i
-ithout enemies to punish. In the c
resent state of affairs at Washing c
IN, he must not only be anlhonest /
ian, but he must be q cause of
onesty in others. He must really |
ate every form of thievery, and t
lust be able to dedicate himself to V
le solemn work of reforming not 1
My the administrative service of f
ne national government but the a
cry atmosphere itself of the ma /
onar capital" L
The drift of democratic senti-
lent in Tennessee as to presiden-
al candidates indicates very clear l
: that the state will 60 for Mr.. Til
en- if he wants it. Beyond that :
here is no marked preference for
ny candidate. The strongest man
J the man that both parties in {
'ennessee want. publican opin-
IN is divided as to who will be the .
5rongest man for them to nominate,
lough the administration candi-
ate is always the strongest in the :
outhern states, because the dele
ates are generally office-holders.
he prestige of success holds the }
old ticket uppermost in the dem
cratic mind. Mr.. Tilden or Mr.. Til
ems political executor is most like
? to receive Tennessee's vote in the )
emocratic convention.
D. H. Hopkinson, of The Jewel {
,r's Circular, says that it is a well i
nown fact that no watch will keep .
he same time with two people. He f
elieves that it is in some way due .
0 the temperament of the wearer, I