The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-04-24
sHURRAH FOR TEE SOUTH.

The South is unquestionably destined
TO lead the North in the manufacture of
cotton. This fact is plainly indicated by
sthe showing made in the II Manutacturers'
Record which says that the number Of
cotton mills in the South has doubled in
the last ten years, while the number Of
!. spindles and looms has more than threb.
bled during that time. There are 355
mills, 2, 2,055, ,26sspindles, and $4,000 looms
sinthe South. These figures DO not include
! many mills now being built, but not yet
i completed.
g Georgia leads in the number of spin.
: dies, having 455, 1898. South Carolina
sleads in the number of looms, and is sec.
sond ID the number Of spindles. The
Many tfacturers, Record gosu on to say:
South Carolina is probably making not
sonly yna0rer rapid progress in the develop.
Smeuts Of this industry than any other
Southern State, but its advance in that
line seems to be more evenly rounded out,
sand "a broader basis looking to the fu.
ture. Its mills;are very large, and many
ofthem have; grown to their present size
from small beginnings, through wise
management. They have paid good div
siidends for years, and steadily Increased
stheirs surplus, Investing it in new ma
schinery, and new mills. They have,
moreover, apparently given closer study
9to1 the possibility Of diversity and of the
making of finer goods = 3
he importan of developing this
Industry cannot be too strongly empha-
sized. It keeps at home the great wealth
EpIoduced in manufacturing the South's
leading staple. As already shown on the
basis Of the capital invested and the bales
sofcotton consumed in American mills in
1880; an - investment of SS00,000,000
sMould be- required to manufacture the
ssentirs cotton crop of this country. Instead
ssQf selling for about $3.50, 900, 600 9 year,
aas the cotton crop now does, it would, if
wholly manufactured i'm the South,
grepi over 81, 1000, 100000 year.
Cotton mills furnish employment to a
ssSs1arge class of labor that must remain idle
ssfor lack of work, except as this business
sgr0W. sss S
,ssssls In. every town and city of the South
there are: hundreds, and in some thou.
sands Of white women and girls anxious
s:Sto;Work, while there is no work for them.
sGiyen employment at cotton manufac-
turing, in which they readily become
experts, they are enabled to support
sthemsal alyes, ami thus to add g;eatlyito
sthe:wealth of the community. Mr.. John
SHills sone Of the leading cotton manufac.
turing experts of the South, has estima-
|sted that, ,:of the operatives given employ.
ament By the blishment of a cotton
mill at least so or 80 per cent. are
4 people who before had been unemployed,
Sand hence had added nothing to the
:;sprod uctiVe or ,Health h.creating power of
sthes State. Formerly idlers, not from
choice, but from force of circumstances,
they cease to- be q drain on others and
become self fsnpp porting. This is one of
the great blessings which the growth of
cotton manufacturing brings to the
.SSonth Pc $3.50
ssThiss is 9 very strong argument for
increasing the capacity of the Anderson
Cotton dills. i. The advantages Of cotton
8mills, Sas shown in the above extract,
apply as much to Anderson as to any
+ place. We have here many who could
ndswould take place in the mills, and
thus: become self.supporting. And, fur
sther. wosWould suggest that it is not now,
sas' 'itonce was, considered any disgrace 10
work ia a Factory. There should be 8
ssslrict watch kept, and in every case the
morality Of the operatives should be
guarded, and the fact should be demon
strated right here in: Anderson that a
Factory can be run by q set Of girls and
8boys whose morality is as good as that
ofthe employees lin any other business.
3 Carlyle has said: "All work, even cot.
aton:s spinning, is noble; work is alone
NOBLE Weare always glad to chronicle
%thes deyelopmentof of the South, and espe-
.scially Of South Carolina.