Year: 1876




er.uf steam. To-day the iron
horse courses the prairie or
the leviathan steamship il
ploughing the sea. Yesterday
we grasped the child of the
storm god. the forked light
ming, and taught him for our
messenger. To day surprising
the ideal of Wild Will Shake
speare, like another Puck,
hell put a girdle round the
earth in minutes Each in.
slant you stand on the verge
of new and more astounding
inventions and discoveries
The earth, the air, the wateN
arc filled with element.d
principles and undiscovered
powers. They surround you
on every side like the impri-
soned genii of Eastern story,
waiting but the touch OF the
magic ring to call them into
bodily form.


You may ask how new in
dustries can be introduced. /
cannot go into the minutie
of this branch of my subject.
That had better be lett 20 the
interest of individuals. But
[ will mention some Of the
stumbling blocks which ig-
norance has cast in the way
of progress.


1t is often said we need an
influx of Yankee vim to ori-
ginate these enterprises and
foreign capital to sustain
them. / have no slight admi=
ration for the character of the
Northern people. They are
bold, yet shrewd, quick, lut
cautious, enterprising, intel
ligent and skillful. And they
have the capital necessary to
originate and sustain these
things. But in waiting for
them, are we not like the
farmer and his sons who wait
ed for their neighbors tohelp
them gather their grain? The
ominous birds ofpoverty have
built their nests in our field
of wealth, and they will never
betake them to other homes
until we cease waiting for our
neighbors to aid us, and begin
the work for ourselves.


Timid and far-sighted, ,capi
tai and skilled industry will
meet your every invitation,
with the question, "Who has
already succeeded in your
country?" Labor and capital,
my countrymen, seek those
places where they are likely
to be best enumerated. So
soon as you convince the
world you have established
an industry here destined to
become a pronounced success
you will wait no longer for
labor to sustain, and capital
to enlarge and improve it.


Every country from which
we get articles for our use,
may become a magazine to
furnish us with capital and
skilled artistic labor.


A small country with vast
population, feeding on grain
brought from other nations
and manufacturing raw ma
terial raised in other lands,
may, for a time, have won-
dertul prosperity. Butsos6on
as the countries from which
it draws its supplies, through
increase of population and
advancement in skill come to-
consume at home all their
raw material and grain, the
manufacturing nation is dis
tressed. This has now taken
placein New England. While
their great factories are sus-
pended because they cannot
sell their cotton cloth for what
it costs them to produce it, the
factories of Georgia and Mis-
sisslppl are increasing their
dimensions, and overhowiug
with orders which they fill
at a handsome profit. What
is the wise course for our
Northern conntrymen but to
recognize the obvious fact
that the power loom and spin
die are no longer valuable ex-
cept when set down beside the
cotton plant and gin stand.


(Concluded on Sd page.)


There will be a meeting of
the Rose Hill Democratic
Conservative Club, 2 p. m. OF