Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1887 — The Mission of the Bloody Shirt Ended. [ARTICLE]

The Mission of the Bloody Shirt Ended.

One significant feature of the recent discussion concerning the rebel flag matter was the total absence of any ill-feeling on the part of the South. The time was when the Republican bosses could produce political capital very readily, simply by irritating a few Southern editors, and then inflame the N orthern heart by repeating their illy considered utterances. This time has passed, and one reason why the South will not be drawn into sectional controversies with Republican agitators is that it is too busy building up new industries and increasing the general business of that section of the country. A very recent review of the industrial growth of the South demonstrates that the people have been earnestly at work within the last two decades, and that the fruits of this earnest work have been most marked during the last six months of the present year. The Manufacturers' Record , published in Baltimore, in its issue of this week gives the following encouraging figures: ■—First six months of—. XB-J7. 1886. Number. Number. Iron furnace companies 20 7 Machine-shops and foundries. 63 40 Agricultural implement factories 11 7 Flourmills 68 48 Cotton-mills 44 8 Furniture factories 33 18 Gas-works. 24 15 Water-works 46 15 Carriage and wagon factories.. 26 11 Electric-light companies 33 17 Mining enterprises 323 70 Lumber mills 361 248 Ice factories 55 30 Canning factories 49 8 Stove foundries 2 3 Brick-works 116 36 Miscellaneous iron-works, roll-ing-mills, pipe-works 46 8 Cotton compresses 26 7 Cotton-seed oil-mills 13 2 Natural-gas companies 30 19 Miscellaneous enterprises not included in foregoing 475 198 Total 1,855 812 This table shows a wide diversity of. new enterprises, indicating a new and healthy growth. The building of cotton mills is again attracting much interest and capital. In nearly all the Southern States new mills are being erected, and especially in South Carolina is this activity noticeable. Several very large mills are being put up and the older and smaller ones are being enlarged and otherwise improved. At Greenville a cotton mill to cost $500,000 will soon be built. Texas is also becoming largely interested in cotton manufacturing. The amount of cap'tal (including capital stock of incorporated companies) represented by the new enterprises organized or chartered in the South, and in the enlargement of old plants and rebuilding of mills destroyed by fire, during the six months of 1887, as compared with the same time in 1886, was as follows: For six months of-. 1837. 1886. Alabama $!2,6H1,D00 8 4,803,501 Arkansas 22,212,010 11,428,010 Honda 805,000 . 891,000 Georgia 9,257,001 1,399,000 Kentucky 21,71u,000 17,221,701 Louisiana 3,972.000 1,202,000 Maryland.. 11,295,000 5,139,000 Mississippi 2,233,000 417,000 North Carolina 3,212,0>1 1,485,200 South Carolina 1,606,0)0 533.000 Tennessee 26,25-,0:0 5,297,000 Texas 10,604,000 2,981,000 Virginia 10,38 t.O-W 5,553,010 West Virginia 4,961,00) 5,12),-.00 Total ....$161,192,000 $63,618,200 These statistics mean “business.” They are no idle tales invented by boom-makers, and they demonstrate the vastness of the recent revolution that has been quietly going on in the Southern States. The bloody shirt may flap and flutter for the Republican agitator, but it can be used no longer to retard the progress of the Southern States.— Exchange. The fact has leaked out that during the administration of R. B. Hayes, the centennial and continental Republican monstrosity, who accepted the stolen o'lice and rewarded the villains who made the theft possible, was in the habit, for the purpose of sa ing a portion of his stolen salary, of having the early vegetables khd fruits produced by the soldiers at the Soldiers’ Home sent to the White House, thus depriving the veterans of delicacies of the season. Other Republican officials, equally debased, participated in the piratical confiscation. The Presidential fraud and officials of the same stamp were willing to reduce the soldiers to the level of serfs if thereby they could save a little cash. It was General Drum who exposed the scandalous business, and the fact should be stated alonside of the rebel flag episode.— Indianapolis Sentinel. “Assignee” is the man who has the deal and gives himself four aces.