Daily Republican., 1884-01-17
Tho New south.

govern the country is to follow the ad
vice of all the non experts, whose az
gregated ignorance can be- induced b
express its hostility to progress, enter
prise, higher wages, and free labor b.
voting the Democratic ticket. TIL
problem before them, therefore, is how
TO please all the iDcomp.tents and fool
who have been shouting for free trad
without bringing about wreck so gen
eral that even the fools will trace IL =
its true cause. Meanwhile, however
the cause OF progress and iudustria
civilization Is receiving great he'll
from the boom which manufacture
have been receiving at the South with
iD fifteen years, and especially within
five years.
Alabama has now % cotton mills
Georgia, 81 North Carolina, 90 Soutl
Carolina. 80 Tennessee, 80 Virginia
IA Maryland, "A Louisiana, 7 Mis-
sissippi, IL Texas, 6; Kentucky, 8
Arkansas, 4 and Florida, O. In IT,,
event Of a removal of the duties OF
cotton goods nearly all these mill.
would be crushed out, as the foreign
product delivered direct at Southern
ports would take away fromthem ever
that Immediate home market upOI
which every competing production mus
depend for living beforeit can aspir,
to supply the foreign demand. Thes,
mills were returned in the census o.
1880 as producing 81 200, 900 worth Of
cotton goods, but the product for 1884
is estimated at from $50, 00O, 900 TO $40,
00O, 900.
Since the census Of 1880 was compiled
about 25,0O0,0 of the earnings OF
these mills has been sent North for the
purchase of new and additional ma
chinery, for though the South itself Is
rapidly advancing toward such manu-
tacture of iron and steel implements
as will enable her to supply the ma
chinery for her own cotton mills !; at
present she has got no further than ag.
ricultural implements In these, how.
ever, the South In 1880 had 296 manu-.
factories which turned out produc,
worth 1857 ,604, the growth having
more than doubled between 1870 and
1890.
In 1880 were made In the South $780,
1872 plows, which was On--fourth of the
product of the entire Union. But since
that date the production Of plows at the
South has doubled, the product of
Georgia alone In 1883 being 250, 600
The product of an improved order of
cultivation Is shown by the rapid in-
crease of the ratio Of implements for an
advanced tlllage toinplements of crude
rudimentary tillage. In 1879 there
WAS one harrow to ninety.tour plows
and in 1880 one TO ten piOws.
In 1870 there WAS one cultivator to
ten plows, and In 1880 one to four plows
Southern Inventions are coming into
The field along with the upbuildlng Of
Southern manufactures, in accordance
with the uni versal law that he intro
duction of manufacture into new
section always result. in the invention
Of q variety Of the article better
adapted to the wants of their particu.
lar section that had previously been
The Globe cotton planter, the Clarke
cotton cleaner, and the Haiman pillow
are all Southern inventions, arising in
he South .ince 1880, and all due TO the
act that Southern capital and enter
jrise was busying itself in the MANI
iacture Of grain drills, seed sewers,
ertilizer distributors, thrashers and
operators, for all of which even until
$50 the South had teen dependent on
he North and Northwest. Sixteen per
,ent. Of the syrup evaporators now
made in the country are made In
kentucky, against "a per cent. made in
Vermont
In iron and steel the production of the
south rose from $40, $40 tons In 1870
o 6l4,971 tons in 1880, and the iron pro.
ULCERS confidently expect that the cen
us of 1890 will exhibit larger iron
production for the three States of Ala
anna, Georgia and Tennessee alone
ban the entire Union was producing in
PRODUCTION nine fold over that of 1870,
nd in 1883 doubled on the production
t 1880 Georgia tripled during the de-
AIDE, and in the last four years has
gain nearly tripled, growing from 49,
81 tons in 1880 to 1000 tons in 1888.
'ennessee has grown from 30, 3O5 tons in
$40 to 105, 600 tons IN 1888.
All these manufactures will in few
ears revolutionize the industrial, edu-
ltional, social, and political character
f the South. They Will convert the
continuation southwark of the great
Ipdallachian chain into new Penn
ylvaDia. They will plant free schools
n every hilltop, and free printing
resses in every valley. They will
rake the South country that can be
Jumped from Richmond to Galveston
'r he Republican party, not only with
ltety, but with success.
The war against the prot Ctive duties
n iron and steel Is a war on these
ew Industries specially. The Penn
7lvania industries would in some
'rt live, for their capital and re.
,urces are too vast TO admit of their
'mplete extinguishment, though their
roduct would be greatly reduced. But
18th any reduction of duties, fbreign|
on and steel carried directly by water
, the Southern ports would -xringuish
1919 Southern enterprises. Let the
emocratic Bourtons at Washington
stem then to tho sound advice of
% Atlanta, Tennessee, and Virginia
o ectionst press. The Valley Vir- &
MAN, of Staunt0n, Va, in its last is
o says - II
" Had it not been for the protective
riff laws it is safe to say there would I
1t have been a mile of railroad con-
ructed in the South since the war.
lere would not be dollar ofNorthprn
pital invested in the minerals and G
of this section. The '
lesapeake & Ohio Railroad would
II have its terminus al Cl fton Forge,
d this great national thoroughfare, II