The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-05-03
Reorganize the Young Mems Business
League

EDITDI:s l>TEIII,I>, III: For the
past twenty wears 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 rails
cd. not thinking then that we womld
l,, here when that time arrived. Now.
it j. right on lis. witnessing the begin
niiy of this long cherished hope, real
lIin. that it is no longer the dream of
iiiiit theorists, perfectly aware Of the
splendid achievement in cotton mill
hnlilding. and its successful nilniplila-
iiun in his Piedmont belt. where eli
mate. labor and other conditions are
highly favorable, is has been most
practically demonstrated. yet no move
nIcnt has ever been inanEiratrd in oli
midst calculated To attract mInuiartn-
rcr> and capitalists from uthcr States.
] hat the movement is fully ripe goes
without saving. for there are daily ac-
counts Of enterprises being lnratrh in
The South by New England people.
some very large ones recently located
In Georgia and Nlal,,lll:l. but the com
imunitirs that secured these mills Were.
thoroughly organized, spending money
and working hHlxl to have secured
them We started ont with Il business
league about Il year ago to tlo what!
Evidently il was intended tliai this
Young Mems business League should
foster, encourage and stimulate every
movement calculated to build up our
town. but there WAS no provision for
the maintenance O! work to be done
connected with expense. In order to
accomplish such results, IL membership
fee of ut least ten dollars per innum
should be cXactrd of each member, Il
paid secretary and treasurer and acOr-
responding secretary elected, whose
duties it should b' to he perfectly Ia
milinr with industrial development
throughout the United States, and con
stnntly on the alert for would be in
vestOrs from other States. .Eutlicious
advertising would also be necessary,
all of which costs money, but we in
Anderson have m idea that all things
come to him who waits. TO wait, un
til someone will come with0utnn effort
Oh our part, fear will find most of lis
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 | say never will anything
come without an effort and an exceed
ingly strong one ut TINT.
The struggle for existence has al
ways been severe since man first np-
pcarcd on this earth, and the survival
of the tittcst has held good in all ages
to the extent that the fittcst survive
and the unfit perish. Communities
are i'll no way exempt from the strng
gle for existence any more than the in
divilunl, and the community OF indi-
vitlual who are competing for CONNER
cial and industrial supremacy, must
keep III line with the grand army Of
workers OH its goal towards reaching
the pinnacle of human happiness,
which consists in employment for the
masses and diversified industries. Or
ganiZe, or rather rcOrganizc. the Young
MEMS Business League on such Il basis
AIS indicated, and it will not be long
before more enterprises will be located
here, IL demand for real estate created,
our contractors and builders will have
plenty work tn do, our stores crowded
with customers, our idle boys and girls
prOfitably employed, and smiling
countonancc on every face in our com
mnnity.
The outlook for gigantic enterprise,
huge undertakings, snfn and profitable
investment, in the conversion Of the
raw material at our doors into various
fabrics has never been more enc0ur-
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, il eli ''Ey. work, effici-
rncy and the cXpcndA, W of little
money will accomplish it. The Young
Mems Business League could do won
.lcrs if only they started in n business
way. O. G..