The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-02-02
The Factory.

The Factory.
Let us be open and frank for q moment
and have a little heart to heart talk.
Do you own property or are you engag
ed in business in Abbeville? Would you
not like to see your property enhance II
value, or your business increase? Is it moi
our duty as citizens:to do what we can fol
our city.
To be honest about the question, are we
not at a stand still right now, or rather
are not slipping backward, though ever
so slowly?
How can we expect to grow unless we
provide some means Of subsistence fol
those.who care to pitch their tents toward
Abbeivlle?
1t requires effort to build up these indus.
tri es, but when once built they are here
to stay, and they more than doubly repay
the city for all it's troubles of organization
We simply cannot afford to REST under
the shade Of the trees" until we get across
the river, in this matter of building up
our city.
But you know this, and there is not SO
much use Of preachments as there is need
OF ACTION! All are convinced that we
need something more in the way of indus
tries and it only remains for us to get
busy.
Some one says that Abb eville is "slow
but sure. Even so. Towns that are slow
but ..sure" in this day and generation
are towns that are slow at grabbing indus
tries coming this way and sure to wind up
in o state Of ''innocuous desuetude" in the
next generation.
We are still growing, you say. How
long will we continue to grow without eff
fort on the part OF our citizens toward a
greater Abbeville?
The best thing in sight just now for Alb
beville is a new cotton mill. One hundred
thousand dollars more per year put into
circulation thru the fundamentally OF
another mill here would help us, don't you
think?
=, Why is an acre OF ground in Abbeville
worth $4,000 90, while an acre at Clat-
worthy's X roads is worth $1,000? Why?
Because in Abbeville there are banks, there
are merchants, there are factories, there
are railroads, there are doctors, there are
lawyers, there are insurance companies,
there are preachers, there sre ~tailors,
there are shops, there are mills, there are
people; while at Clatworthy's Y roads
there is the forest primeval.
What we should do is to double all these.
We want some good, old-fashioned. grow.
ing panic to seize us.
Did it ever occur to you that Cokesbury
was at one time one of the largest towns
within a radius of fifty miles of this place?
Cokesbury was never troubled with grow
ing pains, and now-well it is still visible
from the, railroad, and good people live
there, too. It could have been Greenwood,
had it's citizens made the effort.
A little push and energy is worth just
t vice as much today as it is tomorrow.
A town that is satisfied with its achieve
ments is as dead as Sodom and Gomorah,
or soon will be. 1t only remains for the
sands of the desert to cover its cadaver.
A new factory with us just now would
mean much. 1t would mean:
500, 600. 90 more money In circulation for
Abbeville.
A g~lester population for Abbeville.
A larger cotton market for Abbeville.
More business houses for Abbeville.
Free postal delivery for Abbeville and
many other things that are worth having.
1t is in sight. should we lose it, it will be
our own fault.