The Marietta journal., 1906-04-26
HE OPPOSES THEM.


He OPPOSES THEM.
MARIETTA JoURNAL.--In your effort
to interest the people Of Marietta III
starting different enterprises that would
build up your city, you have time to
! time suggested cotton mill, fertilizer
plant, ard oil mill 1t is impossible
for you to mention three kinds of man.
lfacturing plants that would 20 fur
| ther to ipjure and detract from your
| beautiful city than the above. From
experience and observation l know
that when you introduce class of Ia
Dor into your community that does not
earn more than enough to buy the nec-
essaries of life from one pay day to the
other, who never pay dollar in taxes,
never own foot of land, and, when
from any cause the mills are shut down
for any length of time, great many
are on the charity Of the people or a
tax on the city and its merchants. The
oil and fertilizer plant possibly will
have one or two men to manage each
plant who will draw more than the
most common and cheapest laborer.
The balance of the employees are row.
ing. improvident class, and like the
buildings, cannot and will never be an
ornament or benefit to a community
that has the reputation that Marietta
has as delightful place to live, and a
healthful resort both winter and sum-
mer. l am sure that through your val
liable paper, you can interest parties
who have money to invest III manufac-
turing enterprises, employing skilled
labor in wood, iron or stone who pay
their laborer from three to twenty dol
lars day, and not thirty cents to a
dollar day, and employing delicate
women and young children.
Two OF the largest cotton manufac-
turing cities in Georgia have been
handicapped for twenty years by this
interest and you make fatal mistake
when you start your first plant. 1t is
good for some towns or villages, but
not for Marietta. Build a tourist hotel
the first thing you do and attract to
your city class who have money to
invest and will invest, and a great
many may make Marietta their home,
/ and join in building up your city
Yours truly,
A. s. J. GARDNER,
Marietta, Cobb Co
Il We are not 80 fastdious as Mr.. Gard.
ner, and would be glad to have with the
cotton factory, oil mill and fertilizer
factory, the tourist hotel that he names
ard we are satisfied it would be bene'
cial. The same objection might have
been raised against our knitting mill
but there is no enterprise in MARKETS.
that has been of more benefit unless il
is our chair factories and paper mill,
Eliminate our manufacturing enter
| prises, and Marietta would not be the
city it is either in wealth or popula
tion, Buffers addition was a quie
sleepy place until the marble industry
and GlOver's foundry were started
there. Now look at it and see the
houses and improvements in existence
there. Atlanta street has built up t
the corporate line on account of these
/
enterprises. Poor people must hav,
work as well as rich ones. OAly few
can live in Marietta and have employ
ment in Atlanta 1t is the duty o
moneyed men to build factories OF al
kinds, cotton factories and oil mills in
cluded, and give people employment
Dalton has the Crown Cotton Mills ant
she is not handicapped, but is grow
ing and is calling for more factories
Manufacturing enterprises may b.
unsightly to the esthetic, but the,
build up a town, give people employ