The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-05-02

paying to labor annually $35o,oo0,-
900 in wages
Twenty yesrs ago the south had
S2l 800, 600 invested in cotton fac.
tories their 584. 600 spindies used
22l, 900 bales of cotton. In 1880
there was $48.0O0,000 invested in
southern cotton mills. with 1,605, ,O00
epindles. using $4,000 bales of cot
ton There has been greater
growth during the last ten years,
until now there is $l25,0O0, 600 10
vested 10 southern cotton mills, and
their 6 100000 epindies will use
2,0OO,0 900 of this years crop OF cot
ton. There is no reason why this
rate of increase should not continue
Twenty years from now we shall see
so 600, 900 southern spindles, supply.
ing the increased demand for cotton
goods and using three fourths OF q
twenty million bale crop OF cotton
"In the production of coal the
southern mines have risen from 5,
959 200 tons in 1880 to 42,S63 .44s
tons in 1899 in coke production,
from 299, ,430 tons to 5,l40.977 tons J;
in pig iron production. from 30a,o3l
tons to 1850 554 tons in phos'
pilates, from 750, GOO tons to 2,0o0,-
900 tons
1.-The south produced 474,6l4,756
bushels of grain in 1880 ;; the crop
las: year was 4S.796,A76 bushels.
The south had 10000 miles of rail
road in 1880 last year there was
$4,000 there
"The southern states have half the
standing timber of the country, and
are now building up rapidly an ;m-
mense trade in wood and lumber.
1t will not be long before she will
control this field of industry The
south grows 72 varieties of field
crops and IS varieties of garden
truck. fruits and melons.
"But with all today sees only the
beginning of the souta's industrial
and commercial development. What
has been done by our people during
the last 80 years has been done in
the face cf intensely adverse condi
tions, and in spite of the heavy hand
of unfavoratle Legislation Our IN
dastries have suffered from discrimi
mating freight rates by land and
water, aud do 80 yet They have
been retarded by the lack of money
and it's increase in value year by
year. We have worked aud st-ug
gled against our poverty in the face
of social and industrial estracism
such as few sections of the world
have ever known.
"But when we remember that sue
cess begets success, that oppressive
restrictions and preiudices fall be-
fore power, then we see the south,
industriaily free, moving forward
with leaps and bounds to the indus.
trial and commercial supremacy ebe
earns
..W'e only hope for the domination
cf our COMMON country ic every field
OF life when we look forward to the
day When somewhere south-maybe
at Charleston. s c., and | hope 50
there vii! be built commercial city
that will be to the modern world
what Rome and Venice and Carthage
were to the ancient world From j,
will go forth the moat variable and
valuable products, mineral and vege
table, to all the parts CT the earth to
bring returos for the enrichment aad
the glory of the southern states:
The day will come when millions
of bales OF southern cotton, mana
featured at southern looms when
millious of tons of southern iron,
manufactured in southern forges
when millions of feet Of lumber, cut
by southern mills. will find their way
to every port upon the Atlantic, the
Pacific and the Indian oceans We
are called upon to supply the needs
Of the Occidens and the Orient. The
duty is ours. aad the rewards Of the
honest worker, of wealth, of eouor
aad of power, shall be ours also. "
The New Board Of Education