The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-20
MAKE RALEIGH
INDUSTRIAL CITY
Wonderful Opportunity
for Developments.
TAR HEEL TEXTILES
The South Leads the World and North
Carolina the South. Facts That
Should Fill The Hearts of
CsrO!inians With Great
Pride.


Messrs. F.. G. Sawyer and Harold G
Hansen, representatives of the New
York Commercial, are in Raleigh
They have been in North Carolina
several weeks, studying the textile in
dustry Of this State, and are pre-
pairing a pithy and most cogent sup
plement of the New York Commercial
on the textile industry of North Caro-
lima
These gentlemen believe that few
capital cities in America possess so
great an opportunity for industrial
and commercial development as
Raleigh. Messrs. Sawyer and
Hansen have travelled in every State
in the Union and are familiar with
the conditions obtaining in every
State and section. The achievements
North Carolina has made industrially
in recent years. and the wonderful
developments that are now being
made, with her ineXhauStible natural
resources and UNSURPASSED advantages
and opportunities, should make the
heart of every loyal Carolinian glad
with pride.
And there are also great things for
Raleigh. When seen by reporter
last night, MI. Sawyer said:
LAS a rule in this country capital
cities are not industrial centers. |
have been in eVerv capital in the
United States and with few exceptions
politics and political influences pre-
dominate to the detriment of the in
dustrial and commercial development
of these cities. Raleigh is peculiarly
situated to become a city of large
commercial and industrial interests.
She has banks with more than an
average amount of capital, compared
with other cities which should gladly
encourage livelier enterprise in bust
ness. She has taken in her banks,
however, too conservative stand.
There is extremely large capital and
gratifying surplus. One of the COM
plants you more frequently hear in
the South is that there is too little
capital for investment in the develop
ment Of the South'S Industries. In
North Carolina during the past few
years there has been a wonderful
growth in the banking interests, and
fully sufficient to be more useful in
the greater development of her in
terests. This obtains also in Raleigh.
If there were a more liberal DISPOSE
ton shown to assist in the develop
ment OF the city. Raleigh would de-
rive equal benefits with other cities in
the South
Raleigh has many natural points
of advantages. The railroad facilities
are excellent, but all North Carolina
should be aroused in securing better
freight rates SO that Raleigh and
other North Carolina cities may COM
pete successfully With Richmond,
Norfolk, Atlanta and other towns
favored by the railroads.
States Textile Industries
Mr.. Hansen was greatly impressed
by the opportunities in North Caro-
lima, and said:
"A State in whose country roads
a man may go out and pick up gold
nuggets, gives promise of greater
things. With her noted resources she
has not enough diversified interests.
1t seems to me that the opportunity
for the development Of the natural re-
sources of the State is at hand, and
where these resources are so great and
varied it is unfortunate that efforts
should be put forth in two interests
namely, cotton and where
as you are near to the iron deposits
of the South and nearer to its coal
fields, thus affording North Carolina
abundant opportunity to engage in the
of diversified articles and
promoting enterprises other than
manufacturing.
1.-THE textile industry of this state
has made rapid strides in the past year.
The astounding progress of North
Carolina in textile manufactures in
the past few years has been accom-
pliShed without unnecessary eclat. Yet
it has Impressed itself on the natural
and appreciation in a
way to make ever loyal Carolinian
proud of his birthplace. 1t is piece
of the great industrial earnestneSs and
resolution to succeed, which, for over
a quarter of q century has character
lied the new South more emphatically
than at any time in its recent history
What its continuance means, first of
all to North Carolina and the South
itself, and, secondly, to the general
conditions OF the country
at large, is a subject for both Specu-
lation and the careful figuring of
long-headed and foresighted manu-
facturers. The share which North
Carolina enjoys of the textile indus
trial prosperity is being noted daily
in our news dispatch columns and is
of so notable an amount as to attract
wide comment in the country and
attention in commerclai
circles in New York.
THE South is unquestionably the
loeical place for the manufacture or
cotton fabrics, and North Caro!tlla-
more particularly because of the vast
water powers she is developing Is
qualified to exemplify this idea.
The Labor Problem.
ITO North Carolina, like other
States in the South, there have come
some hard problems in the labor ques-
ton and their solution is still IN pro-
cess. But the day when entire de-
pendence must be placed on colored
handS<vho would work two days and
four, when local charity
had TO be suspended to turn shiftless
negroes from public charges into
earning laborers, has largely passed.
North Carolina has solved part of
its mill labor problem and is now
solving the rest. II imported and
foreign labor is necessary it will be
had; but the willing labor of North
Carolina and the South is offered first
opportunity; for the Southern en-
ployer is loyal to Southern resources,
and, moreover, he can be relied on to
see that the enterprising employing
capitalist from the North and West is
likewise.
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