Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-08-25


pound, $26.25, in addition to the
price of tho raw cotton, orr $56.25.
After deducting the loss by waste he
will receive from the jobbers to-day
81 cents per yard, or $3.50, as
against $50 put in circulation in the
first instanoe---the country has the
benefit Of $3.50, or nearly aouble,
the employee getting $26.25, and
the stock'lolder $2.55 additional.
And it does not matter, 40 far &s
the South is concerned, whether, the
mill is run at profit or not, for the
$26.25 has to be paid out for, manu-
featuring in addition to the price of
the cotton, and the country gets the
benefit of it. If South Carolina sold
to outsiders hero $4,000 bales of
cotton she would have $49,9S0,000; !;
in other words, she would be better
off every year to the amount of
$24 ,480,000. Run these figures
through your mind and you can
realize what the South would be
worth to-day if she manufactured
her IL 100000 bales of cotton instead
of one-tenth of it. Many of the OBJ
jections which were most strenu-
ously and dogmatically urged against
cotton manufacturing in the South
nave been overcome by actual expe-
rience. The theory that the climate
was unsuitable has been overcome
by scientific machinery, and it il
found that any temperature Or degree
of humidity can be produced Ut will.
THE BUGABoo OF UNsK1LLED HELL.
The great bugaboo of unskilled
help has proved the greatest farce of
recent times. The help of the New
England mills is composed very
largely of foreigners, and that is
their greatest curse. There is no
community of interests between the
employers and employed, while the
Southern help is the greatest bull
wark OF strength we have. They
are natives of the country, animated
by impulses, inspired by Tie tradi-
tions and descended from the Same
ancestry as all other Southerners,
and the result is that instead of
quarreling, bitterness and discomfort,
which has clogged the progress of
our Northern competitors and led to
strikes, shut-outs and violence, we
have not only enjoyed uninterrupted
work, but good feeling and content
ment have been universal.
! LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.
| Much stress has been laid on the
fact that we have no labor organiza-
tions, and while am thankful that
such is the fact, have mover dreaded
their power in this section, for they
cannot flourish in native American
communities. Their effects is to put
all men on an equality, not of the
highest, but of tho lowest member,
and all individuality and freedom of
thought and action is denied. The
organization, though, of human
beings is but a tremendous machine,
subject to the power and control of
its master. 1t is contrary to the
principles of free~born American
citizens, antagonistic to our form of
government and flourishes best where
communities are composed largely
of foreign-born citizens.
ARE WE BUILDING MILLS TOO FAST?
There is another scare crow that
is constantly produced when new
mills arc spoken of, that the South
is building mills too fast, and will
crowd each other out.
Now, I admit that it is terious
mistake to build larger mill than
you have the money to pay for, be-
cause you are not only burdoned
with debt, but having no commercial
capital you must buy wherever you
can get credit, without regard to
price, and sell your product as soon
as it is out Of the machinery at what
ever offer you can get. Indeed the
mill that owes its selling agent a
large sum of money is in just the
same condition as the farmer who
has given lien on his crop and
mortgage of his stock his credit is
limited to that one person, and his
production must be sold just as fast
as it can be marketed. If we never
had another mill | would not advise
building it until the whole amount
necessary for the completion was
secured. Build what you oan pay
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