The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-02-23
The NEW SOUTH.
The Processes Of Develop
ment Still Going On.
The Concentrating Of Enterprise, En-
argy, Industry and Capital
And the
Wonderful Progressive Accumulation OF
Diversified Manufacturing Indus
tries at
DIG B.


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The business life of the south is
in process of radical metamorphosls.
There has been shutting off of the
old manners and customs and
steady readiustment to she new or
der Of things. Some men resent the
phrase New South" as in some
sense reflection upon their fathers
and the Old South. 1t does not me-
.cessarily carry with it any such
meaning. Because country has
been startled into livelier business
WAYS is no evidence that the man
hood and integrity of its people has
been affected in the change. That
phase of The question is for senti-
mentists and demagogs to argue.
There is New South and the
quicker we adjust ourselves to the
change and get into the current,
the more rapidly will we get the adj
vantages that are coming.
Time was in the memory OF
young men of to-day when this
country was content to produce in
the fields and let others produce in
the shops. We had no ambition IN
this line. Scarcely smoke-stack
lifted it's smooty crest into the sun
nv sky. We knew nothing OF man.
ufacturipg nor thought to ascertain
what was under our hills and noun
talns.
The south worked out an indus
trial problem that should stand as
warning especially to the farming
classes: It was demonstrated tina
it is not possible to get rich in an.
; business unless it is prosecuted
twelve months in the year. Th
south worked seven months in tn
year in her plantations and tn
, north worked twelve months in tn
wear in her factories. We need nc
mention the result.
But there is change! The wa
q struck duwn the labor system ths
hung like an enervating incubu
upon the energies of our people an
o men were forced to open their eye
= The world never witnessed sue
d prodigious effort and such rapid RI
r. accumulation of wealth IS foilowe
d the war. 1t showed what might
II powers of resistless energy lie
southern character. Once awaken
ed it reached out into wider fell
G and it is yet reaching and delvlr
! and creating.
"a It amounts to the discovery OF
r new continent. If Rider Hagga
g should abandon fiction and turn b
ST extravagant pen to reveal the hi
den treasures of the south and d
scribe the superficial wealth al
: magnifcence that result. from ths
/. development, it would be more ms
: yellous than King Solomon's Tres
IA ures.
~ This proposition defies disput
- ton: The ultimate seat OF man
!, featuring empire is at the south.
nj takes but a statement OF the Ia'
upon which the proposition is pre-
icated to furnish its demonstrate
I'M The raw material is produced or
he lists at the south in greater abun
re- ance and perfection, in nearer pre-
of unity and easier OF access tn
to elsewhere. Why should cotton
1T, iron 60 north to be manufactul
at and shipped back to be sold1 W
d. not build the factories in the cot
ii fields and at the mouth OF
pa mines?
en- At the south the days>are lon
st. and more work can be done, and
winters are milder and m
ID months can be worked.
I'M All these facts are just in proc
ss Of dawning upon the world.
Pc tendency for years has been to
vest, but now the tide is setting
the south. It needs telling ofte
CIV CIV and louder, and the more we tel
sss. and the louder we scream 1T,
quicker strangers will hear it,
they will come With their enc
yer aud money and help as york
5 or the grandest development in
es- history of the world.
We here in Giles county are
Of tuna6ely situated. A northwest
the man writes here to know If he
a get q body of 1000 acres of land
rev. esta blish o colony in reach OF
10 Decatur!
Why Decatur? Why does T
man select Decatur as a site for
ali hpilding of a southern branch
cry the greatest and richest palace
My factory on earth2
'us- WHY did the United States /
Jug ing Stock Company select bec'
,ked as a site to remove the colossal
, be building works now already so
heir cessfully opel ating at Urbana, VI
mot Why did the i. IL N. Co. Sc
1T. this point to build ffty acre
the shops?
lesd Why were the scores OF o
All manufacturing plants running
Just S20.0 900 10 a half million lnvestr
rm m located here?
+ Is Why do men from north, east
else west sell out their properties
lpon where aud flock here to go to
building, building, building?
Why do train loads of excurs
IN to lists come to Decatur-and neve
end 90 back?
e OF Why is sll this energy and
- ~ and ell this accumulation OF
" 10 and money spd machinery-wt
entail it all concentrating SO rapid
nc in Decatur?
!. N. We auswer:: The sound judg
y r o. of the country is that Decat
Gent the inevitable central metropoI
! fact the New South.
ing 1t no longer admits of argu
to be and we need no longer tell why
VAN the geographical center, the W
y shiah way center, the industrial ce
an of The country so adjudges and
}ition tai by the hunureds OF thous
lding comes in and attests its comic
5 Ma ~ ,ha fnfure OF Decatur. I
t the -, - stronoer aroument
- ! e 80 that. Capital is timid and not
does she not venture into dou
resent fields. but even If the issue
'r the doubtful, after capital comes
object ,sa.,l., 10 removed end the resu
lentai uou'S . III other cons