The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-22
TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1902
NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF.

The Atlanta Journal somewhat poast- ingIy ailsdss to the fact. that more cases uf shoes were shipped to that city within s given. time ihaI, sto any other Southern rifE and points to that as an evidence of the flip6r7Mee of Atlanta as dis ,ributing and business centre. That is all well %Atfugh. from that point or Vlew' but these is another, and 1t is not so creditable to Atlanta, to Georgia, or to the South. Those shoes were all manu- fdctured in New England, and the money for the making and the profit on the manufacture all went from Atlanta, and It was sent through Atlanta from the thousands of people in Georgia and ad- joining States who trade there.
 Now, is this good policy? Is it the way to build up our own cities and our own people? Is it good business propo- sition to send money out of Georgia which could be kept there, just as well as notg These are pertinent questions and they practically answer themselves We know of no reason why leather and other boot and shoe material should bt any cheaper in New Lngiand than II | Atlanta. At least the difference, if any is offset by the freight and packing ihsrges on the shoes, and the profits o the middlemen. These must all be ad sded to the selling price of the shoes when they reach Atlanta.
 This is one of the many instances wher our people pay tribute to New Engiaho Ii IS well enough 10 say that Atlanta Montgomery or Birmingham receive som hundreds of thousands of dollars wort of shoes every year and distributes tner to the surrounding country, but why ar they not made here? Even the hide of our own beef cattle are shipped o 10 be made into leather and that leathe manufactured into shoes. Then It come back to us and our people pay 1reisf both ways, pay for making the shoe nay for packing and shipping them, an nav A profit to all who handle them. is pay. pay, pay" as <ipling express Il, and all the pay is going the wron way.
 Raw hides can be tanned ill Georgi or Alabama as well as in Connecticut Massachusetts. Shoe pegs, thread an lacks can be made here as cheapiy . in New England. and skilled shoemaltci can be. brought here, if we have Il, enough. 4 factory in Atlanta. Mon somery, Birmingham, or any other lar, city in the South can be equipped ai operated here as well as elsewhere. fact, owing to our midcr climate, u expense would be less here than in Ne England, and the smaller shop eXpcns would more than offset any addition expense which might possibly attach
 the ma terial used.
 The truth is that the shipment of lar. qtrantities of manufactured articles to o cities, while il is an evidence Of bu, ness prosperity, is a rejection on Ii South. because IL shows that We are r., ing others to do what We ought 10 do home and putting into the pockets
 distant manufacturers the money ought to be distributing among c home people The ,radc in shoes k u,i one Of many instances, and We ha spoken of il because The Journal allud cap of Atlanta. Is not the feath rather dark for pleasant contemplation
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