Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1890-02-15
What Alarms tho virtuous North.


While the Rev. rantankerous JOS
eph Cooke of Boston is waving the
bloody shirt, trying to excite the pas
sion and prejudice of the ignorant,
against the South, that Republican
usurpation may be popularized, the
more intelligent people of that state
are seriously considering the advan-
tages of transferring their operations
to this section of culture, intelligence,
good society and great possibilities.
The truth of this assertion is illustrat-
ed in many ways and instances.
Last week two enterprising gentle
men came here from Ohio, looking
for timber, to work in their factory.
They had heard so much of the inn
morality, and wickedness of the red
mouth rufians and blood thirsty reb,
els, that they were not altogether
certain that they would return alive,
but mas much as some Northern
men hadrun the gauntlettand return
ed safely, their necessities induced
them to take the risk. Behold there
surprise! On reaching here they
found the timber they wanted, and
met with such hearty welcome and
warm reception, that they at once
became charmed with the country,
the hospitality and morality of the
people, and the pleasant relations ex-
listing between the blacks and whites.
They looked around at our schools
and churches, and when they saw
the splendid school building erected
by the white people for the educa-
ton of the colored children, and OBJ
served the general prosperity, con-
tentment and happiness which char
acterieed the negroes, they said all
of these bad stories we have been
hearing about the South, are lies,
political lies manufactured to de-
ceive the Northern people that they
might be used for political purposes
And at once they made up their
minds to move their factory and
some thirty skilled operatives to this
city, and our people are subscribing
$1,000 to help them pay the expense
of the move.
After these gentlemen left for home
to prepare for moving, Mr.. M. HI.
Clark addressed the Board of Trade
on the subject of raising this fund,
uttered two significant facts in re-
gard to the future of the South. He
had recently visited Chicapee,
Mass., the Rev. Cookies State, and
having lived three years at that
place, experimenting cotton fac
tory many years ago, he called at the
old mills to note the changes that
had taken place, and learned from
the managing gentlemen that they
contemplated moving their mills
South, where they would be nearer
the cotton fields and where the bust
ness is more prosperous than in
Massachusetts,. These mills employ
$500 operatives and contemplates
moving all to the Southern cotton
| fields.
Another fact he discovered, was
that the policy of the Government in
buying and retiring bonds with the
surplus was helping the industrial
enterprise of the South, more than
anything else; that 20 per cent. of
the money paid out for the bonds,
found its way to the South for invest
ment.
1t is very strange, if so much i'm
morality and crime existed in fhe
South, as represented by the Rever.
end blatherskite Cooke, ingalls,,
Spoones and other demagogues, that
such men as Senator Plat and Gen.
Alger would invest so large sums Of
money in Tennessee and still want
more.
The truth is, the intelligence thrift
land wonderful prosperity of thC