The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-02-14

been the law Tor years. Yet you can
hear protesting christians say every day
that the Dispensary Law is "step
towards prohibition"
Squire Fewell Favors Cotton Factories |!
Editors anderson Inteltgencer:
s, Editor Williams, of the Greenville News,
is right when he says that every bale of
cotton made in this State should be man.
ufactured here. We have the water.power
and every other facility right here in
South Carolina to manufacture every
ponnd of cotton made in the State into
fabrics, and Why not do 1t :
There is water enough running idly over
some of the most magnificent shoals in
this State to run millions of spindles, if
properly developed. Take Reedy River,
running through Greenville County, for
example, and for the same quantity of wa.
tar it has no superior, if an equal, in
water.powers, and how much of 1t Is util
tilized? Why, not q hundredth part Of it.
IF we would develop and utilize every
cubic foot of water flowing idly along the
several streams in this State, so that the
foam would hardly have time to settle on
the water from the wheel in one mill until
it was pursuing its way through another
wheel, keeping the spindles and looms in
motion from morn till night; and, after
doing all it can in manufacturing the cct.
ton into goods, then flow as smoothly and
gently into the ocean as If it bad done no
Work. and not content with having manu-
factured the goods, Is would b6 as good as
ever for floating the ships of commerce
in transporting the goods to foreign mar
kcts. No other country on the face of the
earth has such natural advantages as the
South. but we won't pull together. If
some enterprisipg man etarts up factory
there are others who are always pulling
down or trying to. Right here in this
State the manufacturing interest was get.
ting under pretty good hesdway few
years ago, and was beginning to pay the
pioneer adventurers-and not only them,
but the whole country-but it has received
8 set back which will take time to remedy,
There seems to be kind Of prejudice
40 oainst all manufacturing companies in
the country, and for what reason can't
ace. nor can the ones who hold this preju-
dice against them explain why 1t is, and at
the same time they are receiving their pro
rata share Of the benefits of such enter.
prises. Twas making my return to our
County Auditor the other day when some
one asked the Auditor if he knew what
tax the Piedmont aud Pelzer mills paid
The Auditor replied that ne thought that
the Pelzer mill paid about 5000 in this
County, ard the Piedmont mill about
$1,000. and that he thought they tthe Pied,
mont mili) paid in all, to both Counties,
about 81, 900 or $4,000, or that they were
assessed al seven or eight hundred thou.
sand dollars. "Well,' says the citizen,
sitbat don't look like it Is fair, for" said
he. aCol. Hammett told me some time be-
fore he died snat Piedmont was worth
million andia quarter, and, says he, "they
are not assessed for only about half OF
that I will bet wooden four-pence
that this same man has given in or assess
ed his land. which LES in less than i've
miles of Piedmont, at not more than five
or six dollars per acre, and you could not
buy it from him to-day for less than TWEEN
ty to thirty dollars per acre. Then Fled.
mont only assesses for about ona hall,
and the farmer, in the immediate vicinity,
assesses for one fourth or less. NOW, what
made this liars, ,an-acre land worth
40 much more in the immediate vicinity OF
the factories Piedmont and Pelzer Is it
better land than it is OF some ten or hf.
teen. miles, or is it because you are right
at good market for cash for every thing
grown on the farm, the garden, the vine.
Ward, the orchard or the dairy ? ! will let
Somebody else answer the question, for
am doing the asking.
AsI was going on to say. the very men
who are reaping a good portion OF the BEN
eft from these manufacturing enterprises
are the SAME ones that are trying to puI
them down, or at least some OF them. u
don't say they all do 1t, for some are in "a
yor or encouraging them There is water
power enough in Saluda River yet unde-
veloped to run at least q million splndles'
and have no doubt but what there is to-
tIays idle capital enough In this State to
develop it and start 1t to work masking cot
ton goods. Then why not go ut it2 The
unsettled state of politics is one reason
why our capitalists do not bring out their
cash and put it to work. II cotton man
ufacturing was brought up to anything
like half of what our natural facilities
wonId admit of, why we, as farmers and
leborers. would be one of the most pros
perous people on earth. Living, as we do,
tn one OF the healthiest countries in the
world. where almost anything will grow
that grows from the semi-tropic to the
rigid, we don't need to go anywhere for
comforts or luxuries We may want, ana
VET we are the most disseminated people or.
Sba face of the earth. Let us stop this
everlasting grumbling and 60, to work and
build UP our natural resources and advan.
taees, aud prosperity and happiness will
soon begin to smile on us.
inst what Piedmont and Pelzer have
done and are doing can be done at Hol-
lands Ford, Just below Pelzer, and at nu-
merous other places along Saluda. At
WARES Shoals, down In Laurens and Abb
beyille Counties, there is at least power
enough to run two or three hundred thou
sand spipdles that is doing nothing but to
finnish an element and food supply for
fish, &c.
Let every citizen Just put his shoulder to
The wheel and encourage manufacturing.
and it will not be long before you would
ace them springing up all over the coun-
try. We farmers could get more for our
cotton and more for our other surplus pro-
duce-such as the cereals, vegetables. meat.
fruits. poultry, eggs, etc There would be
nothing to waste-everything We had to
,ell would bring the ready cash the year
like cotton, only once 9 year,
and not last but few days then. for you
10 soon have to turn 1t over to some one
20 take up that lien or mortgage.
Another fine wster.power is at Cedar
Falls. ON the Reedy River, that is doing
aothing, which could be made to run
,ome ten or twelve thousand spindles,
living employment to at least three hum
ired hands, and support for town OF
inhabitants, besides the odvan-
ages the farmers for FIVE or six miles
.round would get. All this would in
,reass the number of taxpayers and lessen
he burden of taxation on all. / don't
,hink it would cost any more to run our
state government with all these improve
nents than it does now, and it would give
IS more property to tax. 30 let every
,ody who can spare 8 hundred dollars or
more take stock ir factories, and let us
our cotton at home and get
he profits. SQUIRE FE~ELh.
No Convictions.
CHARLESTON, S. g.. Feb. 12.-1n the
Jourt in Berkeley County to-day three
parties indicted by the Grand Jury for
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