The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-05-03

outsider GareS to take a hand.
Reorganize the Young Mems BUSINESS
League
Er.rops INrELL1GENcER For the
past twenty years or more statesmen,
economists and practical business men
have been predicting the approach OF
industrial development in the South
where the great staple, cotton, is rals-
ed. not thinking then that we would
he here when that time arrived. Now,
it is right ON us, witnessing the begin
ming Of this long-cherlshed hope, real
ling that tits no longer the dream OF
mere theorists, perfectly aware OF the
splendid achievement in cotton mill
building, and it's successful manlpula
tion in this Piedmont belt, where cll-
mate, labor and other conditions are
highly favorable, as has been most
practically dem onstrated, yetno move
ment has ever been inaugurated IN our
midst calculated to attract manufactu
rers and capitalists from other States.
That the movement is fully ripe, goes
without saying, for there are daily ac-
counts of enterprises being located IN
the South by New England people.
some very large ones recently located
in Georgia and Alabama, but the COM
munities that secured these mills were
thoroughly organized, spending money
and working hard to have secured
them. We started out with a business
league about d year ago to do what?
Evidently it was intended that this
Young Mems Business League should
foster, encourage and stimulate every
movement calculated to build up our
town, out there was no provision Tor
the maintenance Of work to be done
connected with expense. In order to
accomplish such results, a membership
Tee of at least ten dollars per annum
should be exacted Of each member, a
paid secretary and treasurer and a cor
responding secretary elected, whose
Duties it should be to be perfectly ia
miliar with industrial development
throughout the United States, and con-
stantly on the alertfo would-be In
yestors from other States. JNdacious
advertising would also be necessary,
all of which costs money, but we IN
Anderson have an idea that all things
come to him who waits. To wait, un-
til someone will come without an effort
on our part, I fear will find most Of us
living to-day in our graves, and every
one in this age Of progress knows that
Life is too short for such idle dreaming.
Mr.. Editor, 1 say never will anything
come without an effort and an exceed
ingly strong one at that.
The struggle for existence has al
ways been severe since man first ap-.
peared on this earth, and the survival
Of the fttest has held good in all ages
to the extent that the fttest survive
and the unfit perish. Communities
are in no way exempt from the strug-
gle for existence any more than the IN
dividual, and the community or andi-
vidual who are competing for CONNER
cial and industrial supremacy, must
keep in line with the grand army OF
workers on its goal towards reaching
the pinnacle Of human happiness,
which consists in employment for the
masses and diversified industries. Or
ganize, or rather reorganize, the Young
Mems Business League on such basis
as indicated, and it will not be long
before more enterprises will be located
here, a demand for real estate created,
our contractors and builders will have
plenty work to do, our stores crowded
with customers, our idle boys and girls
proftably employed, and smiling
conntenance on every face in our COM
munity.
The outlook for gigantic enterprise,
huge undertakings, safe and profitable
investment, in the conversion OF the
raw material at our doors into various
fabrics, has never been more encour-
aging. The writer feels confident OF
two new cotton mills to be built here
soon, but that is no reason for stopping
to bring more, if energy, work, efficl-
ency and the expenditure of little
money will accomplish it. The Young
Mems Business League could do Won
ders if only they started in a business
way. y. y.
Confederate Veterans Reunion, Char
lesion, S. c.