The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-11-30
A MANUFACTURER TALKS.
Some Hard Facts From a Clear-Headed
Man.
News and Courier.

enterprises IN COutn Car0Nna, WAS
interviewed by q reporter few days
ago and despite his protests that he
knew nothing worth dividing" what
follows was extracted. The News and
Courier man happened to know his
life-story and the fact is he has made
much more than he has ever lost.
It's also related of him that when his
good Presbyterian mother presented
the embryonic citizen for the ritual Of
infant baptism the little drops Of
water didn't run off fast.
"Mr. A. what is the best invest
ment you know Of at PRESENT."
"Buy land anywhere in South Caro-
lima and you won't go wrong. That
in the more populous counties-those
with the best railroad, school and
other facilities-is to be preferred, Of
course, for increase of values will be
most rapid but real estate anywhere
in the State is bound to show steady
gain from now on. The waste places
will be reclaimed and in demand.
Why? Because the Southern States
have had granted chem in perpetuity,
the contract for clothing the world,
and we have the people, the parapher-
MALTA and the experience to do 1.-THE
negro, the mules and q knowledge Of
the cotton plant! Buy dirt. No mat
ter If it is high. It's going to be
higher. Buy on q rising market. I
firmly believe that ours is' the best
country in the world-natural advan-
tages only considered. We are not
the most prosperous commercially,
not the most intelligent at present,
and We will never be the most pros
porous Of. oil sections until we i'm
prove our opportunities. We are be-
hind in the race for several reasons.
Some We can remedy and others with
out remedy should be without regret.
Warm climates conduce to Incidence,
cold and rugged surroundings to ac-
tivity. Events in the past which we
failed in controlling may have con
spired to fetard our progress, but
generation has passed since then and.
we should be up and doing all over
South Carolina.
Natures legacies are not all suffi-
oient. Listen to this clipping from
the Manufacturers Record Of recent
date: The six little New England
States have developed an industrial
life and general wealth which should
be tremendous inspiration to the
South. With an area Of only $4,000
square miles and population of FIVE
and one-half million against an area of
$780, square miles and population
of 23,00O,O00 in the South, New Eng
land on its barren, rock-bound soil,
has created industrial interests pro-
ducing annually six hundred mill
| lion dollars more than the entire
South.
"Massaohusetts alone, with an area
hof only 5000 square miles <sbout one
fourth the size Of South Carolina, one
of the smallest Southern Ststes),
has an industrial development which
until few years ago equalled that of
The entire South, and even today,
Bwith all the advance which the South
has made in cotton mill interests,
Massachusetts, still has more cotton,
kpindles than the fourteen Southern
States.
sThese facts are not presented as o
criticism Of the South, but they are
given ss suggestion Of the illimi-
liable possibilities of the future. With
bore iron than all Europe possessee,
Rith one-half of the standing timber
! the United States, withcoal esti-
hated at 40 times as much as Great
Britain ever had before it mined a
fngle ton, with 80 per cent Of the
= borld's cotton, production, with prac-
Rcally unlimited stores of oil, with a
. Frtile soil capable Of yielding almost
!. very variety Of agricultural products,
hd with uniform rainfall, the South
= Plds possibilities for manufacturing
{ tch as has been svouohsafed By na-
= 3 tre TO no other country on earth.
q "Pennsylvanis has developed its
!. hormous vealth &C. Of its coal and
or cn and oil interests; Now England
!. Ea che foundation e. much. Of its
b. kst wealth in tie manufacture Of cot
= b goods. and Great Britain. hss
o. tated its wealth on coal and iron
9 4 turning our cotton into finished
keans.s. the Northwest grew rich
timber. The South combines-
a the South alone of:all countries in