El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-18

recent stateme Mt announcing his can
didacy for the democratic pominstion
for governor of Texas, published in
the Dallas News of Nov. 81, he said:
81 am earnestly of the opinion that
the people should countenance and
support any reasonable and proper
policy that would tend to secure the
construction and operation of all kinds
of industrial and manufacturing es-
Establishments within the etate. Present
conditions imperatively demand it.
SIN the other southern states, not
ably in Tennessee, Georgia, North
Carolina, and South Carolina, v.ry
been successfully inaueurated and
profitably conducted, converting the
raw material into the finished product
and furnishing remunerative emrlOy-
ment to labor in many forms. The
policy of our p ople, it occurs to me,
should be to expot the manufactured
article rather than the raw material.
Such policy would open up and null
tiply the opportunities of our own
citizens to find profitable employment.
and would obviate the necessity o.
annually paying many millions of
dollars to other communities for what
we must have.
"However large the aggregate of our
productions in point of quantity, our
people can not and will not be prosper
Gus if labor can not find constant and
renumerative employment and If the
money realized from the sale of such
productions is altogether expended in
purchasing from other communities
such artici es of wear ard use as might
be profitsbly manufactured within our
borders. In Georgia there we're in 1880
employed in the manufacturing estab-
lishments 24,S75 persons. In 1890 the
number had increased to So, $50.
THE wage account ran from S. ,266,
and the value of the product was in
cr' ased from $50, 600 600 to over $685.
100000. And Notwithstanding the Sc
we're and continued financial depression
since then, an incr ease in the numbe r
of establishments, in the wage account,
and in the value of products hiss steadi-
ly gone on. In South Caroilpa during the
last elk months the number of spind' es
has increased from 800 600 to l 300, 600,
while many mills of the east have been
compelled to shut down on account OF
the depression in such products In
North Carolina there are FOG cotton
mills, operating .O16, 247 spindles, "a, >
621 looms, and l ,41O knitting ma
chimes. They employ abou. $4,000
hands, and consume practically the
entire cotton crop of tbs state.
81 have gathered these facts from
official sources, borrowing the language
used. When it is recalled that these
states were the battle-ground between
the con,eading forces in the late war,
and that they emerged from that great
conflict in an exhausted and desolated
condition, their progress has been in
deed wonderful. Texas is greatly
superior to any of the states named in
extent of area, in fertility of soil, in
variety of resources, and in situation,
yet she lsgs behind them all in man
wooden mills Georgia has five, Kentucky
Eighteen, North Carolina thirteen,
Tenn essee twenty-five, and Virginia
twenty -four, yet Texas, with largely
more sheep than all combined, has
only lyon one lido. horn. .na ,oo.. .. 81
cat le slaughtered 10 our state as we'll as
our cotton, wool, timber. iron, clay,
and other natural products should be
by ou- own people and within our own
borders, thereby enhancing the value
of the raw material and creating q
large and constant demand for the pro-
duce OF field and garden. I can not
hink that there is any country where
the conditions for successful man
ufacturing enter prises are SO inviting,
Auo Wnere tney WOulo Do as prOn'aO e
and beneficial to all classes of society
as in Texas. When we consider the
present cost of Sc nd ng the raw ma, e. ial
to O. her states and countries for CONVEX:
sion into the finished product end of
returning that pre- duct to ourselves for
consumption, the drain upon our re-
sources j. frightful to COD template-to
say nothing of the loss to the state in
the employment OF its own citizens in
manufacturing pursuits and to the
farmer in the price of his farm a. d
garden products.
Draahsxan. rNl.:....e.