The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-05-02
THE WATCHMAN AND sOUTHRON. MAY 2, 1900

dollars invested in manufacturing,
paying to labor annually $3.50. .000,-
00O in wages
Twenty years ego the south had
42l 300. 900 invested 10 cotton fac.
tories their 584 900 spindles used
22l 900 bales OF cotton. In 1890
there wss $48. 900. 900 invested 10
southern cotton mills. with 1,605. 900
spiudles. using 645. 900 bales OF cot.
ton There has been q greater
growth during the last ten years,
until now there is $l25, 900. 900 iu
vested 10 southern cotton mills. and
their 6 100000 spindies will use
100000 Of this years crop of cot
ton. There 10 no reason Why this
rate Of increase should not continue
Twenty years from now We shall see
60. 600. 1000 southern spiudles. supply.
iog the increased demsnd for cotton
goods and using three four,hs of Q
twenty million bale crop Of cotton.
"lu the production of coal the
southern mines have risen from S.
$50 200 tons in 1880 to 42,863 ,44S
tons in 1899 {; in coke production,
from 299. .430 tons to 5.140.977 tons ;
in pig iron production. from 900, ,O3l
tons to 1880 554 tons in phos.
phates, from $50. 900 tons to 2,O0O,.
600 tons
"The south produced 474,6I4,756
bushels of grain in 1880 the crop
!as: year was 748. .796,476 bushels.
The south had 10000 miles of rail
road in 1880 /; last year there was
so, 900 there
"The southern states have half the
standing timber Of the country, and
ere now building up rapidly an i'm.
mense trade 10 wood and lumber
Il will not be long before she will
control this field Of industry The
south grows 72 varieties OF field
crops aud IS varieties of garden
truck. fruits end melons.
"But with oil today secs only the
beginning Of tho south's industrial
end commercial development. What
hss been done by our people during
the last 30 years has been done 10
the face Of intensely adverse condi
sious, and in spite Of the heavy hand
Of unfavorsble Legislation Our IN.
dostries have suffered from discrimi.
mating freight rates by land and
water. aud do 40 yet They have
been retarded by the lack of money
and ito increase in value year by
year. We have worked and strug.
gled against our poverty 10 the face
Of . social and industrial ostraoism
such - few sections of the world
have ever known.
"Bot when We remember that sue
cess begets success, that oppressive
restrictions and prejudices fall be.
fore power, then we zee the south,
industrially free. moving forward
with iesps and bounds to the indus
trial and commercial supremacy she
earns
1--WE only hope for the domination
OF our common country in every field
OF life when We look forward to the
day when somewhere south maybe
At Charleston. = G. and l hope So
there w,ll to built CONNIE rcial city
that will be to the modern world
wh.t Rome and Venice and Carthage
we're to toe ancient world From it
will 60 forth the most variable aud
valuable products, mineral aud vege
table. to oil the parts Of the earth to
bring returos for the enrichment and
the glory Of the southern states.
Tho day will come when millions
of bales Of southern cotton, manu-
fsctured ct 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 Occident aud the Orient. The
duty 10 ours. and the rewards Of the
honest worker, of wealth, of honor
and of DOWer ahall ho Ours olao