The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-06-30
READ I HIS
SOME NEEDS OF THE SOUTH
POINTED OUT.
Nne Who Knows What He is Talking
About Writes lntelligently on the
Subject.
BY HINTON A. HELPER.

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be transferred from New England and
Pennsylvania to the South.
Rather strong. assertion to make
unless backed up by facts and figures.
The controlling forces in all lines
of manufacturing tell the story in nc
uncertain measure.
Year by year industrial plants are
seeking the home of the raw material,
and not only will the South dominate
the manufacturing interests in America,
but it is this section of our country
which will yet meet Great Britain itself
in the final mastery of the worlds iron
and cotton industries, and the South
will win. Make no mistake about
this.
The first. factor of Importance in
determining the steady growth of the
South has been the increase in popu-
lation and the consequent growth OF
home demand for all commodities.
AS is necessarily the law with re-
gard to countries of great natural re-
sources, the first function of the South
was the supply of its crude products
to more advanced industries of other
sections.
The South fulfilled this mission
when in years gone by she made New
England rich and prosperous by send
ing raw cotton to the looms, there to
be manufactured into cotton fabrics,
and to-day by shipping, in part, her
coal, iron and timber beyond her own
borders.
Fortunately even at this late day,
tables have been turned and the South
is manufacturing her own materials.
LET THE SOUTH MANUFACTURE HER
| OWN PRODUCTS NEAREST WHERE GROWN.
1t is this location, embracing so
great a combination of diversified
manufacturing industries, with suffi-
cient capital to successfully operate
them, turning their splendid wealth
of raw material, iron, lumber, marble,
wood, cotton, ETC., into manufactured
articles, for which there is a constant
and increasing market, both for home
consumption and shipment abroad,
| illustrating in most practical manner
the American system of manufacture,
the productions of the earth nearest
where they are found or grown, and
shipping the manufactured products
to market, rather than the raw ma
terial-thus increasing the wealth of
the producer by adding the benefits
derived from their manufacture, en-
ploying labor, increasing the home
market for all kinds of food produc-
tions, and distributing the money paid
for labor through every branch and
avenue of trade, creating, in fact,
new civilization, and solving the great
problems of political economy and
craftsmanship, upon the dearest and
soundest business principles, creating
society in which all individuals find
congenial employment of mind and
body, and where all rights are carefully
guarded and all interests fairly ad-
justed.
This is the new condition which
confronts the South in her industrial
march to supremacy and indepen-
dence.
INDEPENDENT RESOURCES PREGNANT
WITH WEALTH AND PROMISE.
Everywhere from one end of the
South to the other are independent
resources, a natural out-pouring of
natures choicest gifts in everything
tending to make country rich and
prosperous. Upon this field has been
made the remarkable development Of
the South, but what has been done
has been but the first scratchings on
the outcrop. Around this great mound
of wealth piled up in the centre of the
South, forming natual workshop and
magazine of resources twenty times
as large as that of Great Britain, lies
more than half million square miles
of rich, fertile lands in the south, and
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