The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-03-29
bin their rot.a aoes and come south
Iand put i gre i Will turn is

In their rot - 3oes aud come south
and put it pre- It viii turn iG
self over eys ew menths.
Maj. Go work Ga this trip
will begin I'd hifest itself soon. 1t
takes time tod hid victim to buy
these dead plafis or to close out
the old busines9 and remove them.
AS fast as the transformation can
be made it proceeds. There are
emo agh of these men who want to
move south to I'LL several cities.
If Decatur is over crowded they can
go elsewhere up or down the river.
They seek first to get nearest the
center of the iron, the coal, the tim
Der and the breadstuff, and then to
get the best transportation facilities.
Decatur fills the bill exactly.
The northern man above referred
to who was tanning himself and
hopping his brow in Decatur the
day the blizzard was holding a wake
over New Engldnd wrote back to
his people that Decatur was bound
to..be city of LOO, OOO He was writ
ing particularly to farmers and tell
ing them that good lands could be
bought down here for from Sc to $I5
an acre that in ten years would be
worth $20&exactly what The CIR
ZEN stated last week. A stranger
saw at glance the very things WI
have been laboring for months te
Impress and he writes back to hi.
people to hurry IN and get homes il
the counties tributary to Decatu
while they are cheap.
/ An expedition is now fitting GU
IN Nashville 70 Naverse the nortl
as an advertnement. A car IL Co b
built of Tennessee wood and irol
and loaded Bith her products ant
| is to be taken on q six months
jaunt through the north. 1t will d,
great good toIthis whole country.
| There is room here for all tn
good men who want to come. Their
aeed be no envious rivalry between
our southern cities. We need NOR
cities to handle our trade to con
centrate it nearer home. VIII,
should our merchants and dealer
have to make semi-annual pilgrim
ages to New York or Cincinnati t
buy goods made out of stuff raise
right under their noses or digge
!, out of our hills and mountains
Why not make these things q
, homer There are a thousand diff
ferent kinds of products to be man
ufactured south, enough to bull
, forty cities Nashville, Memphis
Sheffield, Chattanooga, South Pitts
burg, Birmingham, Bessemer, Al
niston, Iron City, Montgomery, A
, lanta and Decatur can go hand il
, hand from greatness to greatnes
and from conquest to conquest.
E In the meantime, while these TO
: ces are developing, it behooves ev'
ry man to the manor born to q
$ his own house in order to lay tt
: foundations for his own forum
! The man who sits here asleep an
4 permits values of all kinds TO az
] preciate all around him without ge
f ting into the tide and getting SON
J of the benefits ought to go off an
: kick himself good to begin wit
e We should like to see our ow
southern people come in for the bi,
0 gest share of the profit. The Ian
: belongs to them and It's increas
: should be theirs. If they choose
e let strangers in for all Of it, it
e their fault. A man should skin b
r eye and keep it skinned. He hs
e got to do so if he wades in. W
= admonish you, however, not to wac
8 in so deep that when the tide com,
' in it will overwhelm you. Measul
yourself, find your calibre, see ho
r much you can hold without shown
it, and then load up just that ia
and watch or you might catch hol
e of something hot.
9 Decatur is the place for you,
t you want any Of these things, bl
: be not persuaded to it by anythin
we say. We give you facts and Fl:
ures and admonish you to stud
: them and be the judge OF them. "
D want to see our Giles county peop
make money and bring it back hel
}, to spend, and we want to see Decs
: lur grow to big city so as to maE
e truck raising in Giles so profitab
that it will make lands worth $2(
o an acre as they are in Pennsylvani
t where they are almost barren.