The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-05
ANOTHER WAR.
The Embattled Legions Of
Diversified Industries
Lay Seige Upoa the Citadel Of Pro
gress and Development.
Victory Perches Triumphant Upon tn
Emblozened Banners of the
"CHICAGO OFTHE SOUTH"

are dnlC WOTuS, Tile open 6tS-
same to the south's hidden treas
ures, the secret spring that throws
open the door to development and
progress, the wizard wand that is
to locate the spot to dig, the artifi-
GERS will that shall transform
waste into wealth and minims in
to millions.
Has the reader read the record?
One can hardly grasp it and he
must be credulous to believe it.
The Manufacturer Record pub
liished last week the fall record OF
neR industries established in the
south in the first three months of
1888 and it is astonishing. 1t foots
up 1915 new enterprises with cap
ital investment of $38, 668, 900. Last
year it was 923 for the same period
and we thought it astounding.
Every additional period shows a
regular arithmetical increase, a
steady accretion, constant accu.
mutation of healthy progress.
| The spring of 1887 may be de-
nominated the formative period in
the south's new epoch. The great
plants were made, the foundation
mudsills were laid, the rock bottom
was put in. That period witnessed
the beginning of the erection of
nearly 80 monster furnaces with
corresponding numbers OF rolling
mills, pipe works. etc. Then was
laid also the foundations of the
cotton manufacturing superstruc-
, ture. 1t takes time to get the
brick laid and the timbers adjusted
, and the ovens built and the smoke
| stacks erected and the looms in and
! the fires lit. 1t takes time to dump
the grist in the hopper and start
t the stones agrinding. Men and
> muscle and money have settled into
t steady gait.
t The fruition period approaches
, By the latter end of 'S8 the output
will begin to assume proportions
e and the returns will begin to be
y manifest. When these grim and
r monster plants shall begin to turn
out their immense yield and furnish
the material for smaller manufac-
lures, then will set in deluge O
i. diversified industries and smoke
8 stacks will jut up here, there and
yonder, and whistles will echo from
9 hillsides to hollow, and looms rattle
e here and saws buz there and ma
; chinery hum yonder.
g The battle begun with the thun-
Y dering discharge of 30 100-tor
guns in 1887. A full battery open
t ed at Birmingham and Chattanooga
e and the numbering detonations wen
g rumbling over the hills. Soutl
{ Pittsburgh responded with resound
a ing roar aad Sheffield turned loos.
!. five monster guns, Admission jarree
/ the mountains with loud explosion
q and Decatur Numbered trumpet
il tongued salvo. The lines advance
The outposts are taken and the lout
alarum and trumpets peal along tn
embattled array announce tn
charge. The loud-mouthed boom
e ing of seige-gun and field piece roa
l. in deafening echoes from mountain.
d side to mountain side.
i: And now the battle Is we'll on AM
the sharp, shrill crack of the rifle i
% heard, and minnies whistle ringin.
e accompaniment to the ear piercip,
'e shrieks of bursting bombs-singl,
and in volleys. Hand-to-hand tn
battle RACES and the clashing clatte
of cold-steel makes the blood rul
cold.
Furnace after furnace runs up it
flaming flag to wave in its murk,
smoke. Factory after factor,
tlaunts its colors to the wind. Bat
tie penants hang out from the tur
rets of the mills, and emblozene
gonfalons futter in the aeecy wind
that disport themselves meath tn
balmy skies of the beautiful south
land. Banners and flags and steam
ers and standards and pennants an
ensigns are Haunting and fappin
here, there, everywhere, multiplyin
e and increasing, and the day is com
II ing when the whole scene will
&c decorated with the flaming insight
~ of DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES and til
- loud alarum of war be tuned t
9, sweetest melodies.
y To drop metaphor for fact, by th
~ end of this year the furnaces an
9 rolling mills and factories and sa,
3 mills will be in full yield and th
3 lesser plants that make up thei
- crude product into articles of mar
: ufacture will begin to multiply O
= every hand.
~ As sure as you live, Decatur is t
, be the center OF this and the seat G
y it. All the conditions are found t
= exist there in ampler perfectio
: than elsewhere.
: 1t is the accumulation of smalle
= = industries that brings people togeth
y er, makes cities, creates trade, slim
} ulates activity and creates wealth
=, Mr.. Tallaferro last Mon day cal
- ed attention to fact that wi
& spur every father Of promisin,
= boy IN Giles to greater activity :
= help bring about the development
)" impending. A few years ago every
body with an ambition in Giles wa
forced to go away from home I
find field for it. Even worse tina
- that, he must go north, east or ives
~ There was no opening for youn
|, men south, and We babe our son
. adieu and God speed as they sough
. the west for fortune and fame.
- To-day they stop at Decatur c