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VAlarch, ioo.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
OUARTERLY.
LIFE IN A SOUTHERN MILL TOWN.
T HERE is not yet a cotton-mill type in the people of the
South, but many different stages in the development of
an operative class are represented among the individuals whom
this paper attempts to describe. Because of this lack of uni-
formity, statistics cannot aid in the work here undertaken. It
is based merely on the observation of numerous cases - the
only method through which an understanding of these people
can be obtained.
C- is a town of Sooo people in the west-central section
of North Carolina. Though the town is more than a hundred
years old, most of the population has come since i88o. Before
that it was a sleepy country town, deriving its chief importance
from the presence of the county courthouse. Now many towns
of twice the size could not boast an equal volume of business.
The principal industry is the manufacture and sale of cotton.
Few towns in the South are so identified in the public mind
with cotton manufacturing. This is not so much on account of
the size of the mills as on account of their success. During the
years of the panic and the depression following, when the margin
on goods was narrow and the business unprofitable in many
sections, the mills of C- paid promptly either four or five
per cent semi-annually. Moreover, the machinery has been
kept up to the highest stage of efficiency, and large surplus
funds have been accumulated. Years ago the dividends were
even larger.
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