The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-06-30
70 BUILD Up CITY.

d CITY Win a q 5 population and
corresponding business-the people
must have constant and steady EN-.
ployment. This is only to be had BY
means of manufactures.
Factories of every sort suitable to the
location of a city will give employment
to a thousand mes more people than
can be done by an equal number of
stores for the sale of merchandise, or
of railroads for carrying the goods.
The weekly or monthly wages earned
by a population working in factories
puts in circulation more money than
is done in any other way. This money
in the hands Of thousands OF work geo.
pie goes out to the grocers, butchers,
the bakers, the general retailers of
merchandise and all the therfurnishers
of articles of daily consumption, and
it makes the only general prosperity
that a exist, namely, the great body
of the population earning fair wages
and able to live well, while also laying
up something for the future. This is.
the highest practical ideal of general
prosperity, and it is realized only when
the factories and workshops are work.
ing on full time, with large compile
ments of employees, to whom are
promptly paid fair wages.
These are facts that are being realiz.
ed by William NJ. Steele, one OF the
Picayune's staff correspondents now on
a tour of observation in the industrial
cities of the Northern states, and set
forth by him elsewhere in this Issue of
the paper. Manufactures arc absolute.
necessary to employ and support a large
population, and without such industries
there a be no great city at New Or
leans or anywhere else.
The considerable advance made by
New Orleans in the past decade or two,
in the way of manufacturing, had been
great thing for the city, but that is,
a mere start. 1t must bs multiplied by
tens and hundreds. There are several
in which manufacturing
ian be carried on here upon an almost
unlimited scale. One is the spinning
md weaving Of cotton, a subject o
the Picayune has addressed the
late and early, in season and out
season. Then there is the manu-.
'acturing of machinery and everything
made OF iron and steel, particularly
ron and steel ships. Then every arti-
lie made of wood. from a set of furni.
ure to an ak handle, ought to be made
The vast virgin forests Of pine,
and hard woods, and nearness
this city to the sources of such tropi-
al woods as mahogany, ebony, cedar
nd rosewood, make New Orleans pecu-
iarly the place to manufacture every
wooden article of use. There are other
ines.o of manufacturing industries that
an be successfully cnrried on here, but
What is said should BIZ suggestive
The people of New Orleans will have
0 give m the notion that their city is
0 he made n worlds metropolis by
living mp their streets aud river front
0 a railroad trust. 1t is time for them
D realize that if every bale of the entire
otton crop were to be dumped from
abroad cars to ships at the water side
ere, on through bills of lading, that
'ould not make New Orleans a vast
of population nnd produce indus
'y. Our people must stop a large part
the cotton, the iron, the timber and
'her raw material that are shipped
trough this city, and manufacture
lem, furnishing employment to home
'ik, Instead OF to foreign and northern
and keeping at hcme the mon
! that is now sent away to zurich
rangers,
II we shipped manufactures instead
raw products, it would furnish more
better business than ever to the
lips and the railroads, so that, while
10 city would be built up and its popu.
ton vastly increased, there would be
creased benefits to the transportation
'mpanies. The first great step toward
Is vast growth and upbuilding has
taken in the movement to san,tate
is city. Pubic health is both pablic
"a private wealth. The latter follow
9 for .ler.-N. q. Picayuue.