The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-07-20

Peculiarly spropos Is an anecdoie OF a G-0rei
funeral The corpse was buried in Ear.
quarry, and yet the little stone that maTgvd LIS
grave was from Vermont. They buried him m
the heart OF pine rorest and yet the pine coffin
WAS imported from Cincinnati They burle'
him within touch OF an tom mine, and yet Inc
nails in his coffin and the shovel that dug h.y
grave were from Pittsburg. He was buried in q
New York coat, Boston pair OF shoes, pair Of
breeches from Chicago and shirt from Phila-
delphla. The South didn't furnish thing on
earth for that funeral bur she corpse and ID.
hole in the ground
Is it any vonSer n, that for all these year
We have been self-appointed hewers OF wood anc
drawers Of waier2 We are commercial tax
payers without being tax-gatherers. We SOW
but others reap And yet for this anomalou
condition Of affairs no blame attaches to Gus
friends up the country. Our slavery is Of our
own making, our Industrial independence
must be wrought out BY our own exertions. w
are at last cutting our wisdom teeth and as the
years roll by we will live and learn.
no SOUTHERN coAIHoNwEALERs.
I appeal TO the Tennessee press to aid in
throwing of this industrial bondage. ! believe
in the doctrine Of "self-help." and contemn pa
ternalsm in all It's forms. Away with the idea
that the government is an eleemOsynary institu-
ton to help those who do not help themselves
1t is that sickly sentimentalism that breeds and
eTs. ! rejoice that the South has furnished no
recruits for the army OF the commonwealers.
THE NEGRO QUESTION.
When Abraham Lincoln liberated four mil
lions of slaves he made free the boys and girls
OF the South. The young manhood and woman
hood of this country was being enerYated by
negro labor until fatal lethargy threatened the
energy, the hope and ambition of the people.
The most serious phase OF the negro question is
ran al ism huf rat he
ing Of our farms and workshops TO the exclusion
OF our own children.
ROYAL HERITAGE.
The time has arrived in the South when.we
must not only raise the raw material but We
must manufacture our own wares and merehan-
disc. We produce nearly twO-thlrds of the
worlds cotton supply, and yet New England ami
Great Britain employ and sustain five millions
Of people in the manufacture of Southern cot
ton. Could we manufacture our entire cotton
product, it would require an investment of
81 zoo, 600 coo, and would mean the employment
of at least five million Southern operatives.
This is a royal heritage for our children that
they must either accept or permit TO fall into the
hands of aliens.
POLYTECHNIC SCHOOLS.
In order that this Industrial epoch may be
stimulated and quickened it would be well to
establish polytechnic schools throughout the
South, so that our young people might be taught
the practical value and importance Of our i'm
mense natural resources Let us follow in the
wake Of such progressive institutions as Column
bia College, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins
of Baltimore, and Washington of st. Louis.
We need more State training schools like those
at Nashville, Columbus, Miss. and other locali-
ties in the South.
NO MORE BONUSES.
When we educate our own mechanics and
trades people we shall no longer be driven to the
necessity of sending North for an electrician to
light our towns, nor manager to take charge
Of our manufacturing plants. When we have
the native mechanical skill and ability we can
command home capital for local factories. That
viii put an end to the beguilmg bonus now de-
manded by Northern factory owners to move in
this direction.
THE PRESS.
But the press, too. has leading part to per-
form in the great Industrial revolution that is to
bless, brighten and enrich our AmericOn Italy.
AS editors no duty is paramount to encouraging
and fostering home industries and securing and
building up local factories.
The town, county and State are our special
clients, and TO their Industrial interests and ma
terial welfare we should he ever vigilant and
loyal The press of Tennessee has been notably
alert and enterprising in developing the States
manufacturing wealth, and ''when a century
bursts full blOssomed on the thorny stem Of
shall be celebrated at Nashville, you gentlemen
should be honored as the very high priests of
Southern industrial reform.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
As we stand here today looking toward the
sunset of the present century, and then lift the
golden veil and behold the approaching glores
Of the twentieth century, a vision OF surprising
beauty unfOlds to view. In the eloquent Ian
guage OF the gifted Henry Grady, II see .
South, the home of fifty millions of people, who
rise up every day to call from blessed cities vast
hives OF industry and thrift; her country sides
the treasures from which their resources are
drawn; her streams vocal with whirrng spin
dies; her valleys tranquil in the white and gold
of the harvest; her mountains showeTing down
the music Of bells, as her slOw-moving focks
and herds go forth from the folds; her rulers
honest and her people loving, and her homes
happy and their hearthstOnes bright and their
waters still and their pastures green, and her
conscience clear; her wealth difuSed and poor
houses empty; her churches earnest and all
creeds lost in gospel"
THE NEW SOUTH.
Another shifting of the scene, and behold
thousand busy factories, with their saws anc
looms and FORCES converting native products
into merchandise for export; L see Southern
ships made by Southern mechanics from South
ern forest and mine, as they enter and depart
from Southern ports and as they plOw tht
waters Of the Gulf of Mexico or fieck the bosom
of the Atlantic and Pacific. Through the Mica
ragua canal witness the passage Of magnif-
cent steamers with these familiar names: "Ten-
nessee." Kentucky" Virginia" "Missis-
sippi," Alabama" Louisiana, - Arkansas"
and Texas" laden with Southern manufac-
lures en- route TO Western points in Mexico,
Central and South America, and thence to
China Japan. India and the islands Of the sea.
1 see these ocean greyhounds returning to us
and discharging their cargoeS Of fruits from the
tropics, drugs and spices from the Latin Amer
icas, and teas from the Orient.
New electric railways traverse the country
rivers and canals are lined with electric
launches, electric carriages and velocipedes
swarm on the macadam highways, while the
telegraph, telephone and monograph viii be
part Of the equipment Of the average rural
home.
CAS- I look, the vision grows, the splendor
deepens, the horizon falls back, the skies open
their everlasting gates, and the glory of the
Almighty streams through as He looks down on
His people, who have given themselves unto
Him, and leads them from one triumph to an
other, until they have reached glory uDspeak-
able and the whirling stars, as in their courses
through Arcturus they run TO the milky way,
shall not look down upon better people or
happier land"
MULTUM IN PARVO.
POVERTY is the sixth sense.-German