Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1890 — Colton-Weaving North and South. [ARTICLE]

Colton-Weaving North and South.

The rapid development of cotton manufacturing in the South during the past ten years has been one of the most remarkable facts in our industrial progress during that time. The first form of manufacturing taken up was the coarser lines of spinning, then the weaving of the coarser grades of cloth. Now it Is announced that the South has begun to compete in the finer grades of cloth with the old and well-established mills of the North, and many persons think that it is only a question of time when that competition will become formidable. How can such a thing happen if the protectionist doctrine be true that an industry cannot spring up and flourish without protection in a new and undeveloped country in competition with a country long engaged in that industry? Can it be explained by the fact that Massachusetts and South Carolina are not separated by salt water?