The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-02-20
THE NEED.

showing the immense water powers
developed by the streams that aow
from the mountains to the sea. thou
sands Of native CarolIniaps we're
amazed, for they had never given the
matter a thought. Yet they with one
accord exclaimed, .'This state was
intend by nature to be a great manu-
featuring center. Surely the Northern
mills will hasten to remove South nov
that this evidence has been placed be-
fore them"
The Northern mill will not all be re-
moved South, and it is useless to expect
it. The men who have their money
invested in Northern mills, and are
bound by every tie aud interest to the
North, will not remove to the South.
as long as they End it possible to keep
their mills on a paying basis where
they are. The North is their home,
and they and their forefathers have by
energy and persistence made it pros
porous and rich, even though it was
not blessed with all the advantages Of
this State. The manufacturing indus
try is firmly established in New Eog-
land, and even while the large profits
of former years are not possible, now
on account Of adverse legislation and
sharp competition Of the Southern
mills, yet the mills seldom fail to pay
dividends. Those who have their
money invested in these mile will not
readily consent to have the chief H.
dustry of their section destroyed and
transported to a distant State. AS a
rule they are believers 10 their own
section, and labor to build it up. The
South may expect a larger investment
of Northern capital than heretofore.
but 20 avalanche of Northern money or
procession of Northern mills is possible.
The average Northern man will do all
10 his power to keep the money and
mills as long as there is any profit at
all to be made. Therefore We must
not expect the development Of the
South to be wrought by Northern men
and Northern money.
What the people of the South should
do is to unite aud bend every effort to
utilize the advantages that lie around
them ou every side. By energy, econ
omy, persistence, and cooperation the
people of South Carolina could make
South Carolina take the rank as a
manufacturing state that the people of
Massachusetts have Won for their State.
Massachusetts did not build immense
factories at the start, MOI did they build
a great many small factories. but year
after year the industry was gradually
developed /; and as it vas developed the
peopled increased in wealth and ability
to build up their State. Thus they
obtained the entire benefit themselves.
We are not so selfish as TO desire
that only our own people should obtain
the benefits frop the utilization Of the
advantages Of the State, but we do
desire to have them obtain a fair share
of those things that are their heritage,
and which they have SO long neglected
to improve. We do not desire to see
the owners of the soil sit supinely by
and ask others to come 10 and win
riches while they themselves seem con-
tent to remain in comparative poverty.
The erection of mills with Northern
money means that the profits will 60
North to the mill owners to be spent,
and the South will be more than ever
tributary to the capitalists of the
North. This section would be 10 the
hands of the capitalists, aud the de-
pendeuce would be actual and not
merely incidental. 1t would not be an
uumixed blessing to have a large influx
Of Northern capital in the South, but
it would be real improvement and a
great blessing indeed we're our people
to grow prosperous by means Of their
! own exertions. The South's greatest
need is development by Southern men.
The scarfs knows as cravats or croats