Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-09-15
BY JAYNEs, sHEhO1s, SMITH " sTEOK.


fire in stove from tho foundries of
Philadelphia, and cooks thereon
canned tomatoes from Now Jersey
whiIo our gardens during tho sum-
mer rot in wanton prodigality. He
rolls out a road cart from Michigan,
he untangles his harness from Mas.
sachusetts and puts them on mule
from Kentucky and drives down
town and buys an axc-haudle from
Minnesota to out down the hickory
trees on mis- plantation. He buys
baled hay from Missouri and swears
at the persistent fecundity of the
grass on his place. And how are
the bills met? BY selling cotton at
five cents a pound when it cost six
cents to produce it! We cannot
stand this terrible strain. There
must be an industrial revolution.
AN INDUSTRIAL AGE.
Every age has its dominating idea
The age of Pericles was one of lite
rary activity the ago of Luther was
one of religious activity the age of
Mckinley is one of industrial ac-
tiyity. Within the last fifty years
100000 patents have been issued in
America. Shall we accept the chal-
lenge of the age and enter the race
of Industrial activity
TIE TWO FACTORS.
To achieve industrial success two
factors are necessary:
1. Natural resources.
9. Skilled workmen.
| shall take up each proposition for
a brief discussion. Ishall speak only
of our undeveloped possibilities ; the
past is secure, we must look to the
future.
MANUFACTURES.
The South last year made ten mil
lions of cotton. Nine millions and
three hundred thousands were ship.
ped to Northern mills and foreign
ports and sold at ruinous margin ot
profit. Seven hundred thousand
bales were used in the Southern
mills and with few exceptions the
mills declared handsome dividends
| We stand on the threshold of great
manufacturing possibilities in cotton
fabrics.
In South Carolina, according tc
the careful estimates of Mr.. Swain
our streams now running in waste TO
the ocean will furnish one million
horse power. What does that mean
1t means that six million operatives
can find steady and profitable en-
ployment. There arc five reasons
why cotton mills arc coming to the
South:
. |. The climatic conditions are in
our favor.
2. We have q conservative, cheap
laboring element.
3. An abundance of cheap waite,
power.
4. Proximity of the raw products
of the mills.
S. The SouthernorS, and especially
South Carolinians, have an instinc.
tive talent for manufacturing. You
may express some surprise at this
last statement. But the fact is the
Southern mill man runs his business
economically, sustains pleasant rcla.
tions between himself and employees
keeps up with tho latest machiner,
and methods, and shows in ever,
way that he has an instructive talent
for manufacturing.
FORESTRY.
In native woods We have magnifi
cent resources. Tho live oak fol
ship-building, porsimmon for cog
wheels, dogwood for shuttlcs, white
oak for slaves, cypress for shingles
pine for building. Where arc the
furniture factories? We roll oul
babies in carriages Ii 'de in fal
country. We sleep on beds mad,
in far country. We bury our dead
in oofiins made in far country. Il
not South Carolina wood gooG
enough for the living and the dead
We have selected palmetto tree al
an emblem for the State, but we dc
not give the cold recognition of {
passing glance to the magnificent
forests that skirt our streams ani
shade our hills.
| GEOLOGICAL P0SSIBILITIRs.
We cannot measure the geological
possibilities of our State. We may
be sleeping upon Klondyke O
wealth. We shall not know unit
tho State makes o geological survey
Man is an animal that looks aheat
and behind, but does not look around
We have learned a few things b,
chance. Nature has thrust some O
her mineral wealth under our eyes g,