The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-21
Tennessee as Wool Growing
and a Manufacturing State.

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II To the Editor Of The Morristown Gazette:
.fIiuI see from the Knoxville pape
that Knoxville is to have a Woole
: Factory. s8 sa
That is what Tennessee needs
our motto should be more sheep
more factories and fewer dogs, an
the latter kept at home and we
fed. New every poor man keeps
dog, and every very poor one keep
two. If our poor people would loo
at the amount they feed their dog
| they would be surprised; but the.
say we don't feed them only wha
the children leave on their plates
Now, what is the use to allow /
child to leave anything on it's plate
Better learn it to have manners
and only take what it may want
and then, if there is any unavoid,
able waste, keep pig or two-they
won't kill sheep and will be profit
instead of an expense. r4ad8
Suppose you only feed two or
three pieces of bread to dog in a
day, how many pounds of -four or
meal would you feed away in a
year? At least enough TO buy a
sheep, and the wosl of one sheep
will make yarn enough for one per-
sen besides paying for its feed.
Then. why not tax the dogs SO
that only good enes will be worth
feeding? sHa = 4fisi.s8 &
Tennessee is, by nature, wool
growing country. 1t is also a man.
ufacturing country, and produce
and mandatory should go hand in
hand to be profitable. .
By mandatory our farmers, mer-
chants and mechanics are benefited,
for every addition to town is that
much more Of market for the farm
produce, and another customer for
our merchants. By larger market
for farm produce our farmers are
enabled to buy more of the luxuries
of life and improve their farms
more, to say nothing of the great
help to the town. Anything that
benefits one branch of business is
bound to benefit all in an indirect
way. maae ssgaisa o S.
2 Now, why can't Morristown have
factory as well as Knoxville? (?
There is enough capital. If Knex-
vile can put $4,000 into such an
enterprise, can't we also do it? g
VIII our citizens see the wsol go
from this part to Knoxville or
Greeneville, and the trade with it :?
For if our farmers take their wool
to either place they will get what
they want while there to save time.
This is an enterprise which will
pay large interest on the money in
vested, if properly attended. Put
an experienced workman in as fore
man, and an energetic man as sales
man and general manager, and
there will be no danger of losing
anything,
Greeneville gave Stevens Bros.
81 900 to locate their mill-Morris-
town by SO doing, would do as well.
The Greeneville Board of Enterprise
has done good work. Let Norris
town leok after her laure.s by TAX
ing such timely steps. e
Now, let all interested in the mat
ter agitate this important question.
Let them express their views freely
in regard as to whether or net
Morristown shall be blessed with a
first class woolen factory, and if
they determine it shall, let them at
once subscribe the necessary stock
and push the entrprise through
without delay. Morristown has the
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money with which to accomplish
this end, but the question is, has
she the enterprise and liberality to
do it? M s. ~
aaLet those with capital look after
this matter. There is money IN it.
They could not invest their money
to better purpose. Besides an in
stitution of this kind at Merristown
would mean mere money in your
midst, an increased mercantile trade
and employment perhaps for dozens
or more of idlers, who only orna-
ment the town now by leafng about
the streets and saloons.
What business man who will not
give from one to five dollars, for the
location of said factory at Morris
town? If there is one let him
speak, And what capitalist or cap
italists who will not take stock in
said enterprise in the sums of $50,
SIS, 500, $3.50, $500, $3.50, $500,
$500, 81, GOO, $4,000, $4,000, $4,000,
$4,000, etc? We trust there is not
one in Hamblen county, but on the
contrary many, who viii, when full
Iy aroused on the subject, contrib
ute literally Of their means to Sc
cure such an important branch of
industry in their immediate vicini-
by. Let the ball be put in melton,
at once, and let all the enterprising