The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-16

power that discounts the need OF pro
lection. 1t can stand against any fac
tory opportunity and place. As a re
suit North Carolina is making the
same phenomenal strides IN cotton
manufacturing that it is in aerlcui-
ture. For several years the South has
passed the North in the n OF
cotton spun. The South now spins
nearly three million bales a year, aLo
the North goes somewhere above two
million bales, just now many
Thousand | do not recall. But there
is no longer any approximation TO-
ward the amount spun in the South.
Ten years ago the North led the South
materially.
Manufacturing Advance.
Figures from the Department OF
Labor of North Carolina show that
manufacturing is making the same
startling progress hat Is shown by
agriculture. The factory products oil
the State are now about three times
what they were fourteen years ago.
The entire manufactured products or
the State in 1896 just about equal the
value of the tobacco products manu-
featured in the last year. All the
manufactures of the whole State four
teen years 6 exceed but slightly the
cotton goods produced in North Caro-
lima last year.
Possibly the progress of manufac-
turing in the South is best illustrated
by the fact that thirty years ago the
agricultural products of the South ex-
ceeded the manufactured products by
two hundred million dollars. Ten
years ago the conditions had reversed.
In spite of the phenomenal growth
Of agriculture the growth of manu-
featuring had progressed so much
faster that the manufactures, lnclu"-
mo tho mineral nrOdDctS exceeded
the agricultural products by three
hundred millions. These figures are
comprehended only by comparisons.
They cannot be realized in fact.
/ am a Pennsylvania who write,
and do not want any one to think
l am not appreciative of my native
State. / simply see the fact. and hav-
ing seen it coming for years | am not
surprised that it is coming. But | am
surprised by the magnitude of the de-
~velOpnent, coming with such swift
ness and with such enormous volume.
1t seems to me in its gigantic pro-
portions SO big as to be unreal and inn
possible, yet / see that it is entirely
logical and hat it has by no means
reached the climax. Only the begin
ming is yet accomplished. Pennsyl-
vania with it's unnatural industrial de-
velopment bolstered by the artificial
t stimulus Of tariff is to pay, alons
with the other States standing on the
I same unfirm foundation, for the ad
vantage they have forced from Other
States, by tariffs. They will pay il
, the tribUlatiOn hat comes from tn
competition that a more favored sec
ton will create, for North Carolina
standing on legitimate and actual re
r. sources, will be a Self-reliant leader.
South and West On Their Get.
The protected North and East wall
q on crutches. The South and Yves
: solid on the farms. | have no doub
a the North and East will always b.
prosperous as prosperity goes in
n manufacturing region. But it is tn
prosperity, as Carnegie says. of a feas
one day and a famine another day. /
is the prosperity of the dependent in
dustry. 1t is the prosperity that ma
a Croesus on one square and a paupe
on the next. 1t is the prosperity Q
extreme wealth and of the bread lin
for the unemployed. You of tn
South do not know what a bread lin
is, a line in which men stand to wa
= for a chance for the doing out Of
d loaf of bread from a charitable OF
- ganiZatiOn to men who are out c
! work and out of money. North Caro-
lima has farms, and those farms ar
coming ahead at a railway speed. pro
viding for the wants Of her own peopl
" End producing a vast surplus to hel
D. feed those of other States who cannt
~ feed themselves. The South with i
L farms is established forever in tf
at valleys of plenty. That is the fir.
al essential. AS the factories of Mort
ty Carolina multiply at phenomenal ga
Of the farms multiply to feed the art
al sans and to supply the raw materia
is Nc other State Of the Union is so sci
If contained as North Carolina That
er why the startling development is goir
tn on in this State, in agriculture ar
tie manufacturing, and why it will go Q
q still increasing in it's magnitude al
ed in its velocity, surprising anythir
that any man can dream, for no oil
can comprehend the bigneSs of IL
in future.
In ablisiling Markets..
Of Do you know what made the Stan
ard Oil Company the most pOwerf
~ industrial corporation on earth? \
sir, 1t was not special privilege
nc special opportunity, or anything y.
:. think Of. 1t was the capture of t
markets Of hp world yVhnrovor ~