The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-06-28
The Star STARTS
The Leading Democratic
Paper to Boom Us.
The South's Business Pros
poets Shown in Graft
flying Colors.
Some Of the Great Work Going on all
Over Our Fair Land.
Confidence Undaunted at Decatur
and Building Activity Con-
tinues.
| A Hegira Of Northwestern Men Predicted
| For this Fall.
A Hegira Of Northwestern Men Predicted
For this Fall.

The New York Star, the leading
democratic paper of the country,
has made arrangements to begin a
crusade upon the public in the in
terest of southern development. 1t
leads in all public matters, and with
prophetic aeumen it sees the trend
of speculation and investment
south and throws itself in advance.
1t augurs well for the south, not
alone for the results that will follow
the Stars efforts, but that the Star
is moved to such action is an &C
acknowledgement in the south's favor
that is full Of import.
To those who have been disposed
to croak about depression and are
afflicted with gloomy forebodings
because of a subsistence of that ex-
uberance of business activity that
marked the past season, it may be
profitable to study the situation a
little more closely. The Philadel-
phia Ledger collates and SUMMARY
yes the business situation thus:
HThe truth is that the country-its
sixty millions of peoples living in a
period of most gratifying prosperity.
There are no great masses of unemploy-
ed werkingmon; wages are, as a rule,
higher than they have ever been, ex-
cept two or three years of the war era !;
fho nj of IL,
cheaper than they have been for forty
years. Capital and labor are upon bet
ter terms, apparently, than they have
been since 1886, as is happily indicated
by the absence OF any great strikes or
lockouts. Money is abundant, finan-
cial credit excellent, public confidence
good, the crop prospects fair and the
vast mass of the people busy and re-
ceiving liberal wages or satisf actory
profits. Summer is the breathing time
of the year with trade and its holiday
season as well, and in all presidential
years mercantile affairs suffer to some
degree from the prevailing political ex-
element and turmoil; but up to the
present time business has been rather
better mot worse than in ordinary years
atthis time, and there is nothing to war
rant the belief that it will not continue
to be fairly good and the people busy
and prosperous"
That is from a northern stand
point. In the south there Is not
only no reason for Encouragement
but everything is full of brightest
promise. The bare fact that the
south has built half the railroads
that have been built thus far in 1888
is sufficient evidence that she il
leading the van in development and
enterprise.
The Manufacturers Record is
unusually full of news from the
south the past week. Alabama is
credited with Al new enterprises fol
the week and Tennessee SO, while
every southern state has a CORES
ponding showing. Everywhere
there is push and energy and vim
and confidence. Every town has
new enterprises afoot and capital is
vigilant and active.
Two new blast furnaces blew in
last week-at Bessemer and Lynch
burg.
The new tax assessment for Ten
nessee for 1883 is wonderfully
gratifying confederation of what
The CITIZEN has been telling of the
growing prosperity and increasing
wealth of our people. There is q
hundred millions advance in the
list. What tale that tells! We
expect that ratio of increase will
prevail all over the south.
Let the reader stop and think OF
the increase of enterprises and de
velopment that comes within his
personal knowledge and then ask
himself what the end will be.
DIR. Caldwell, president of she
Elyton Land Co., in a speech al
Chester, Pa, last week, at the land
ing of the steamship City of Biz
mingham, said that he went to Bir-
mingham II years ago when she
had 1000 inhabitants and 100000
of tax assessment. To day she has
$4,000 people and $4O,0O0,OOO as
sessment. Not a ton of coke iron
was made in that district then.
She makes now with her % furnaces
$500 tons day and that is confess
eddy the leading iron producing re
gion on earth.
Where was Decatur Is months
ago2 A dirty little town with nc
business and apparently no future.
Look what I8 months has done fol
her and imagine what II years
may do.
Look at Sheffield and Admission
and Chattan ooga and Bessemer and
the dozens of other thriving towns
and booming cities that have sprung
up in the open fields like mush-
rooms in a night and are yet found
ed on real wealth and value, as sta
BILE and sound as the granite bedded
rock of Gibralta.
The news from Decatur for the
week shows undiminished energy.
Maj. Gordon has spent two weeks
in the east looking after her new
railroad and it is considered GER
tain. There is no city in the south
with such shipping advantages,
taken in connection with the cen
tiguity of the stuff to be shipped.
After all this is the sina qua non OF
prosperous city. Atlanta is a
shining corroboratlon of this asser-
ton. The surrounding country is a
barren waste, and yet hef railroads
have made her an Incompatible
center of wealth and business &C
tiyity. Birmingham's railroads
made her. Her iron never could
have been developed without = them.
Decatur's advautassA Iies - hel
equal railroad fat ilitles held to q
minimum of freight charges by her
river, and her central location with
respect TO everything that coasti-
tutes the south's wealth.
This week Mr.. L. Corey, whom
the reader will remember as the
moor mill hand at Campbellsville, IN
this county. a few years ago-noW
worth mn in the hundred thou sands
gave out a contract for two new
residences and is contemplating ter
more. He has already built twenty