The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-02-09


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A ROYAL MARRIAGE.
The Iron King Offers His Hand to
the White Ecbod Queen.
The Site for the Imperial Palace Of the
United Monarehs Of the South.
LOCATED AT DECATUR.
The south's corn crop was worth
$21 100000 more in 1887 than in
1886.
Her cotton crop was worth $27,-
100000 more than the year before.
She had an unprecedented fine
crop all along the line and accurate
estimates based on careful inquiry
places the increase over 1856 at
$75, 100000.
Think of such colossal sum be-
ing added to the bank accounts
and the ragged pocket-hooks of the
common people. The farmers got
that-not the capitalists.
The south spent over 100000
in 1887 building railroads. The
capitalists did that. The farmers
$75, 900 was not touched.
The south invested in 1887
$25O,O00,000 in capitalizing manu-
factories and other corporated
schemes. Capitalists did that. The
farmers $75,00O,0o0 was not touch
ed.
The product Of the south's cotton
mills in 1897 Eaa $40, OOO, 600.
against $21 ,00d, 600 i'd 1880. Over
doubled in sixyears, and most of
it done within two years just past.
The era of cotton mills is just open
ing. Iron has absorbed attention
until it is on a fair footing, and
now capital IN turning toward cot
ton manufactures.
Mark this prophecy: The south
within ten years will own the bulk
of the cotton mills. 1t Is inevitable.
There never was any sense in ship
ping cotton two thousand miles to
be manufactured. 1t ought to and
will be done right at the cotton gins.
The south gets $300,OO0.O0O a
year for her cotton crop now. When
she makes it up herself she will get
$500, 100000 for it. At the rate al
which the transplanting of mills
from the north to the south is go
ing on, ten years will easily see the
coasummation of this prophecy. Il
is not prophecy, however. 1t is
a logical result-sn inevitable con
sequence.
LONG LIVE THE KING
The battle Of the Giants is drawn
Iron and Cotton have pooled then
interests. The Brawny King of the
Smooty Mountains has offered hi:
hand In marriage to the Fair anC
Fleecy Queen of the Plains. Thei
, Kingdoms united, their interest,"
pooled, their armies joined, the,
defy the world.
. Iron is King, but Cotton is hi:
) Queen Long live our sinewy Cy
clops and his white robed consort
The only point remaining yet un
settled in the marriage contract il
the site for the imperial palace
The queen insists that it shall bt
} erected on the plains where tn,
7 flowers bloom and the palms wave
but The king begs that it be bull
10 the grim mountains where hi
richest domain lies.
The issue has to be settled Xix,
, the democrats will settle the TART
compromised. It is not fair t.
, the queen that her dominion shal
be completely forsaken and ignored
: and neither is it just to the kin,
E that his kingdom shall be aban
= Edoned.
They must unite. A place mus
be found on the confines of the tw
4 kingdoms to erect the seat of uni
i ted empires. Where2
2 Birmingham is too much given t
E iron.
Atlanta is too much given t
: cotton.
New Orleans is 90 far south.
Memphis is too far from tn
iron.
Nashville is too far from tb
/ cotton.
= Chattanooga is wee ded to her lido
But DECATUR stands on the boz
E ders of the two Kingdoms an
:. unites their interests. Here is th
0 natural site for the royal palac
f Here is the geographical as well s
the natural and the industrial cer
ter of the two kingdoms. Here
the site and seat of diversified in
q dustries," the talismanic word
; that will open the hidden treasure
# that lie buried in the future to th
sons Of the south.
- The man who has an ounce of di:
4 cernment and will open the boo
t and study and read the tendency {
the times is compelled to conclud
: that Decatur is TO be the melropo
: lis of diversified industry; anu
s man who has an OUNCE of brains
compelled to know that whereve
n tho greatest accumulation of varie
: manufactures, each using the pre-
duct of the other, there will be th
center Of prosperity and thence Wi
= it radiate and there will be concen
!, tered the trade Of the country.
Every day reveals new facts tina
establish the wisdom of the prophe
. cies that are made concerning Deca
: tur.
Week before last we mentione
: one single contract for 70 residen
J ces. This week we learn of anoth
. er man contracting to build 40 res
# licences.
The DECATUR Mineral and Lam
Company that has heretofore rid
!, den upon the coat-tail of the pa
rent company, the Decatur Lane
Y improvement and Furnace Compa
, ny, has opened its eyes to the situa
t ton and its plethorfc purse AM
has ordered splendid three stror
e block of houses built. This start
i a new branch of Improvement.
Last week a train load of 5,