The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-03-20

:. Behold Go We, and do likewise =
THE MANUFACTURING RESOURCES OF
NORTH CAROLINA.
And why should they not 90 and do
likewise: Why should there not be
many more factories established in
Henderson,: Why should not North
Carolina be crowned with manufacto-
ries:
Do not the times demand them?
Are not all circumstances and condi-
tons propitions:
Shall we have manufactures in
North Carolina?
Go ask her hills and mountains as
they glitter with their unmined treas
ures of gold and copper and darkiy
frown with their priceless deposits OF
coal and iron. and as the Wind God
roams amid their Businesses hear him
answer you as in thunder tones, ~ es.
Go ask her streams as they flow on
ward to the sea with a force 1t has
been calculated equal to that which is
required to run the united looms OF
Leeds. Lowell, Manchester. New York
and London, and hear them answer
Yes in the soft sweet tones of muir
muring waters.
Go ask her cotton fields, with their
rich product, extending as far as the
eye can reach. and white as the snow
flake that kisses the mountains brow.
but alas ! founded upon unpaid for
guano, and mortgaged for Chicago
meat. and hear them grooming, answer,
YES ''grieving if aught inanimate
e'er grieves'' over the unaccountable
and disastrous short-sightedness of the
major part of the agriculturalists of the
South.
Go ask her forests of different species
of woods exceeding those Of any State
of the Union in number and quality
as was shown at recent Exposition,
and they too will tell you Yes, we
have sighed now for many year for
the time when the Hand of Progress
would transform us into magnificent
mansions, happy homes-elegant pub
lie buildings, splendid ships, and thous-
and forms of usefulness and beauty
| Go ask her tobacco fields shall we
have Tobacco Manufactures in North
Carolina? Who cannot guess the
answer:
Would it be difficult for you to i'm
agine that you have heard, sometimes
i'll travelling through the Great Golden
Belt, some majestic stalk of tobacco
standing bv the roadside talking to
itself after this manner:
u do not want to be sent to Vir-
ginia. / want to be manufactured !
here in Dear Old North Carolina. | /
know that the sons of North Carolina |
love Virginia, grand, noble old Mother
OF heroes and statesmen. and that they
revere and love the city of Richmond,
around which clusters the sweetest,
saddest, modest memories Of their lives.
but o, men of the Old North State why
do you not say to your gallant brethren
over the border that you will manu-
facture your own tobacco? Why do
you not say to Virginia, that ever since
hogsheads of tobacco were rolled into
her markets from the Golden Belt her
cities and towns have grown and bios
somed into beauty because Of the golden
stream poured into them by North
Carolina:''
ARE THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE CAPA- !
PIE OF CONDUCTING MANUFAC- :
TURING INDUSTRIES. :
Thus we see that the times require. {
and the resources are abundant. for S
in the South.
Ii remains to be considered whether
he people of the South are capable d
If successfully conducting manufac- C
uring industries. The answer to that n
question is that any people who could t
Use Ph9niX-like from the ashes of il
lefeat and desolation as the people of II
he South have done since the war. are C
apable of conducting anything. The V
southern people have ALWAYS met the tt
whatever it might be. with h
n ability and heroism that has evoked Il
he wonder and admiration of the world. I
PrlOr to the war the South had absO NJ
lite control of this Government. "She ta
ad had sixty years Of Presidents and II
he North only twenty four; of the
upreme Court Of the United States, h;
lghteen Judges were from the South I'll
nj eleven sprung from the North. m
residents of the Senate had been W
yenty from the South against eleven &C
ON the North, and Speakers of the ~
-ouse twenty three to twelve; Attorney
enerals fourteen for the South against
We tor the North and Foreign Ministers
ghty-siN to fifty-four.''
1here can be no doubt but that she. Ia
no has been great on all occasions pr
he who for such a period controlled Tn
rs Republic, she who created navy. y"
lie VINO created an army and she who ar
me as near as she did to creating q on
atlon-wlth such odds against her. 1o'
IN place that same energy and ability I'll
manufacturing, and equal if not sur pc
lss, any nation on earth. we
Let US have manufactures all over an
IL land, and then we may proudly ex- we
aim: &c,
Out from the valley of death and tears. ye
ON the war and want of twenty-five TIT
years, tn.
ON the mark of sword and rust of chain no
lie Southern men and the Southern States
me out in the front of the field again, pe'
What says the stranger to such yita1itvo si'
ung on the shore of defeat, sta
erdly the survivors have sprung to their
feet w '''o'' or,
hen the nations are thrilled by the ;no
clarion words NJ
ming up from the South-EXcelsior- am
Forward" W.
ME LABOR AND C,p1r mol
ENOUGH -IMMIGRATION. ter
But after all the available capital in w"
South Is invested. and all the labor NV
lployed ID manufactures, there will 10
IL be ample room for all others who NJ
IL come and live and make their in W. W.
stments amongst us. They will be w.. W a
dly welcomed 'o'i
pause here tosay that am opposed COZ
Dromlscuous foreign immigration and
ope that the nightly flood that is {
1uaiiy pouring into Castle Garden MOI
ne millions since 1880 will continue this
How to the West and Northwest. sho
cannot be checked and controlled. pris
VIII not pollute the South with its side
eiul waters of Anarchism and other flow