The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-11-20

control the country through his vote,
and having failed in this, they are
equally ready to see him disfran-
chised, ifthereby they can Increase the
representation of the South in Con-
gress. The best friends of the negro
are the whites of his own land, and
With them he must settle his future
status as q citizen. A proper view of
the rights and duties of man in the
broadest sense;a high conception Of
the sacredness of the ballot; u consti-
tuition which will confer no right OF
privilege upon any citizen, in the exer-
else of which he cannot be protected,
must be the final settlement of the ne
gro question, because, whether dis
tasteful or not, this is the only founda-
tion for enduring prosperity. Rights
to none that are not for the good of
the whole, but once conferred, sacred
and inalienable, because the safety
and welfare ola part of population
must depend upon the safety and well
fare of the whole. How strangely the
providences of God work out.
With the abolition of slavery came
a new industrial, era in the South.
With free labor manufacturing in
dustries, and more intelligent asri-
cultural system. The protective tariff
had steadily drained the resources of
the South, but now the stream began
to turn its current and flow South
ward.
The iron and coal of North Carolina,
Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama, in
vited Northern capital to take advant-
age of cheap free labor and a mild eli
mate, and to-day Birmingham is the
rival OF Pittsburg. The same mild
climate, cheap free labor and absence
of freight are rapidly moving the cot
ton mills of Massachusetts and Con-
necticut to South Carolinaard Geor
gia; afording home market to our
farmers, and diversified employment
to their sons and daughters.
Spartanburg ships manufactured
goods to China and Japan. In Green's
boro, N. c., Northern capital is now
building two million dollar plaid
mill, that will finish goods equal to
those of Manchester or Leeds: Seven
new factories built and in process Of
construction, in Columbia, and hardly
town in this State where the hum of
the spindle is not heard and the
smoke of the factory is not rising like
incense to heaven. The "Manufact-
urer's Record of October 18th, has
large picture representing a scene
that was probably never witnessed
before. Itshows the CRANKY cotton
mills, now being built near Columbia;
the cotton had to be cleared away from
the site, and the picture shows the
brick layers at work, while twenty
yards away, hands are picking cotton.
This mill is three hundred and seventy
feet long, and one hundred and
twenty-seven feet wide. What pic
ture could more forcibly tell of the
rapid growth of manufacturing in the
South. Mills situated right in the
cotton field, a living object lesson,
showing the folly of transporting raw
cotton one thousand miles for manu-
&acture. The mills will come to the
cotton, and freight saved will be
money in the planters pocket, as well
as for the mill man.
In the county Of Marlborough, we
have a factory at McColl, built with
home capital and oficered by home
talent. Five years ago there were
three stores and about one hundred
inhabitants in the town. A few en-
terprising spirits determined to build
a factory. Fifty thousand dollars was
subscribed, and factory costing sll0,
100000 was soon in operation. Last
June the sixty thousand debt was
cancelled, and the plant increased fifty
thousand dollars, the new stock being
divided among the old share holders
The result is that every man who in
vested one hundred dollars, has one
hundred and sixty dollars in stock.
The population has increased to
eight hundred, with schools and
churches OF the most modern archi'
lecture, while the factory makes the
town one of the best cotton markets
in Marlboro or Marion. What was
possible at McColl is possible at any
town in South Carolina where there
is Tatum and a ellison.
The President Of a large Massachu,
setts mill just moved to Georgia, has
the following interview in an Atlanta
paper:
awe built this factory of 10000
spindles in Georgia for purely busi-
ness reasons. We believe the Manu-
facture of cotton yarns in the South
more profitable than in Massachu-
setts. Cotton is cheaper, coal is
cheaper, and labor is cheaper. For
instance, we pay s4.O0 ton for coal
in Massachusetts, while I have con-
tracted for supply for our mill here
next year at $50. We shall con-
tinue the operation of our mill in
Lowell. Having decided to enlarge
it, we made the addition here instead
of there"
The decision of this company to
make its extensions and enlargement
in the South rather than in New
England will doubtless be repeated
by many New England concerns.
The following occurs in the Boston
Herald, and is clipped from the "Man-
ufacturer's Record"