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c:miiQm::ihw ox:::i:rtvj::t, :mioi s, vm. OLD SOUTH AM) THE HEW MIL EDMOXD3 AT WILMINGTON ICdUor of The Manufacturers ITccord . Makes the frlnr-lpal Address at the Annnal lianquet of the Cham ber of Conunwo A Numbrr of . Other . Distinguished Qumu I'rcu : ent, Including Govertiof ltobcrt B. . Cleiin, ..AU of iVI oni lie pond tJJfppHy tov Toasts Col. Walker Taylor Blaster of Oremonlra Mr. Iklinond Pmys Tribute to the Old Soiufe, Toes Account ; of ' Those Who Would Disparage V the New South and Points to the Glorious Future,. ': rV'K'y?!:; .'Tv- ifo Wilmington March 1 Mora ' thai 3 a hundred local bWh'ess "man and halt w luura dl oiBunifuuiiBU f HUOBtai ul m uuwn tni evening 10 me nyy-nrtx. onnual kannnat aVie i YKTI Imln cr re .chamber commerce, which , was glven at the Orton. . Among the dia tingulahed visitors warn; Governor juamontu, a auor,, .or .., Tne aianu- win: GfuiffrAjiirma.n from IhA fllxth dla- . TPlA ' MM T a71ViACin flraaMAitl of the AH an tin f?oftt Line: Hon. tbe first North Carolina district, and uon. u. j. v Jrauoraon, retiring con- ' Eapovernor , p. C. , Hey ward, of South Carolina," left for a trip abroad on Immigration buslneas some days earlier than he had expected - and could not be present. The princi pal speaker was Mr. Edmonds, his subject having been "The Old South and an Inspiration for the Present , South." He was heard with great Interest and was given frequent ap plause. Mr. Emerson's , response was "The Railroads' True Relation to the Public;" Mr. Godwin's, "The Cape Fear Section, One and Indi visible;" Mr. Small's, "The Man We Need." Governor Glenn, spoke on "North Carolina and the Cape Fear Section; Its Past, Present and Fu ture." President J. A. Taylor presided as toaatmaster and was exceedingly graceful In filling the exacting duties of that position. Excellent music was furnished by Knelssel's Academy Orchestra. Mr. Edmonds' address follows: MR. EDMONDS' ADDRESS. Flushed with tha industrial activity of to-day. We are apt to regard the prosper ity of the present as a new thing tn Southern life. .Wo Join the world's ac claim about the "New" South, and. like the world, know little about the story of the Old South. In fact, we have ao cepted the world's false estimate of the Old South aa an agricultural region of easy-going planters who knew but little ani cared less about groat business problems. It Is true we have boasted of the statesmen and the warriors of anto-lx'llurn days. We have pointed to Washington as the Father of His Coun try, to Jefferson and Madison ami Mar shall and many ethers as mighty leadera In statecraft, In war, and in law, but even for them we have scarcely de manded the credit due. As to the leaders in science. In Industry and In general business we srem to hate forgotten that we ever had any. Even some of our own preat orators, apparently speaking with out knowledge, l.ave bemoaned that the Old South was sadly lacking in broad business men. '''The acttvtty of to-day la said to be 9 new thing in the Ssuth. How orten do we hear Southern people, to their own shame, talk of the South lacking energy und of our dependence upon other for initiative and energy in business. It eama to. have become the fashion, es pecially when addressing Northern au ilences, for. many of our publto men to apologise Tor our past, and to base on this a plea for outside aid and dealership fan business and In education. No wonder that tho World long slne accepted us at our own valuation. Sursiy nobody could put a lower estimate upon our en terprise and bualness ability than many ef. our own people put forth. If we had studied tho business records of the Old South as we should hava done, if our teachers had held up for our edification the work of the leadens In education, in religious work, in science, and In indus try In ante-bellum days, we would have caught Inspiration from the work of these men. Then our thoughts would have centered more upon material possi bilities and less upon "cross-roads" poli tics; more upon following In the footsteps f our great ante-bellum leaders. In eelt ealiaat development frem within, and less upon a pitiful begging of help. Taught to imitate the broad leadership of the giants in business In olden days, taught to be. worthy sons of such worthy sires, wo would have developed mors Ini tiative and more self-reliance. Instead of this, we seo a tendency toward lack of that self-reliant maahood, which should mark the peopl" of the Soiitfi; a tendency toward depending upon others to do for ua In businesa and In edncaWee what wo eught to do for ouraelvea. The Old South wns not no. You hear much about the "New" South and Its wonderful progress. You nre told that this Industrial acttvtty Is an outcome of some new force born in Southern people since 1865. Our own people talk tnts wav. and our own press voices this ia. with that sentiment I have no sympathy. It Is false. The boat In the South to-day Is but a revival of the Old Pouth. It Is no "New" Houth In tho sense of being a land of different lousiness activities, which we see now. The Old South simply lives again la the present. The "New' pouth. however, lacks some of the sterling qualities which marked tho ante-bellum South. TUF. OLD SOUTH Look for n moment at the Old South. In educational woik it matched the best In America. In finance anil hanking. It 1t had no superior In any otter section. In 1M It had 30 per cent, of the banking capital of the entire country. Louisiana nu ked as (he fourth State (a tbe Union in the amount of banking capital In that year, with New York first. Maeaaehu , setts second and I'jinsylvania third. . Louisiana bonks were second In the country In specie holdings In I860, New York alone belna ahead. In the first hulf of the IhM century .the South developed a cotton Industry, 'which was tho most powerful factor In ", shaping the commerce, the manufactur ing Interests, the tinanoe. and largely the politics, of the world. In the busl neas history of this or any other eountry no greater accomplishment has ever been recorded. The creation within half a cen tury of such a vast Industry, representing mere Invested capital than the entire manufacturing capital of the Vnlted States In IStSO, required a broad business ahlMty and a sitidv of world-finance great er tnin was needed or was given to the building of New England's manufactur ing interests. The finite mind can never fathom the infinite mystery of tha curse of slavery, which befell us, but we do know that it was a curae which fettered the whits man while It civilised the black man. The development by the Houth be tween 18W tind lSt of the world's domi nant Industry was thn arnntest business work of any country during the nln i -1enth century. Had the South aeroin ' jitohed nothing else. It would fuivo dem- Wtrsted the business ability of Its . leaders. This, however, was equalled bv 7 civilising during the same period several million blacks, many of them fresh from 1H juiimir-w w wiitv. iiu ini l II TIP UM Ti lling of hundreds of thousands of them. In civilising millions of men Just from barbarism and cariatianiang s many of them, so other country on earth can .ahow In the same length of time more to Its credit In work for humanity than this kfcord of the Old South. Greet aa was the curse of slavery tn the South, rejoicing as every other . Southern man must do that It has passed away. It Is. neverthe less, s fact that before ItflO the Sooth did more for the enlightenment and better ment of the African race than alt other tieoplo on earth have done up to the pres ent time. The very material auooeas slnoe Jit of negroes trained In slavery days r trained by parents who had been Uvea la nroxif of the anlandld amek rwe ectvUMatlon accomplished by tha Old fouin. riin prviDMtin pprwianon TO ha fore!. mltslOn Work Of SU datuunU riallons. It la safe to ay that from, the .salnninr of the Protestant foreign tnia ? elon In the early part ef the eighteenth axniurj r wvw rw jotib, mv nwimr .tr eonveratnrie in Christianity In he than lands wss not aeer so targe aa ia nam- ft. ef 1 a earths tie .4 as tha s fc. i . f ef eenaserated atea and women of the CM femth. beoasoe sersul ChrtsUaam If 'era' ua "hwi w ini a ares i; i i oil f'fui 1 im unittfY" on the .fore'n tiiii-! li' ul ccoii-ibd lc.-a In lua suvinif of ' men than the Old Boutu wroutht for Uod and humanity In the tfinvocMlnn to true reliKlon, 1o upright, ploua lives of negroea, who shall dire to ssy tliat the people Of this Sactlon did riot realise and fulnll, to a grester extent than all the rest of the world the mighty responsibility to a heathen people that reated upon.thcmt If the negro Is less honest and virtuous than In olden days, It is due tf the false training of the last .40 yaark'V'-VV-;. ..,! w ;, material jiaNaS, -.-y v ;-: But let us turn" to' routeru ' '' things again. While developing its great cot ton ' Irtdtuftry, the- ,01 d 48outh likewise estsbHahed a 'highly diversified agricul ture,, in im, la addition to. cotton, It raised sit of the suRar an rice, nearly SU of the tohaoce produced In tbe. United taUa, and 44 per cent, of the corn crop.i Of tbe total live stack In the country in that year,,, the Somh ;.bad W Per cent. Thi value of farms In the United BtateS was U.fti,0Q.0lvOf thta the South bad ttjflft.ofww), e more than oneHnlrd.-.Tha history of the South' Industrial acttVitlee before lm Is at dlreot variance with the general belief of the people North, as well as of "Vnany ef our Southern people. Industrial activity Is generally said to be a new thing In the South, we are told that the Old South was . an agricultural ologarchy despising the smoke and dirt of factory life.' It Is said that ws have no inherited traits to lead lis Into manu facturing Interests, that industrial de velopment la -a new growth a growth from the outside rather than a develop ment from within. On the contrary; the trend of thought in Colonial days and after the. Re volution was largely of an Industrial charaoter. Many of the fore most men of Colonial days were inter ested in .Iron and kindred enterprises, llluatratlve of the feeling in Virginia is an act passed, by the General Assembly of that State n 1727 "for, encouraging adventures In Iron works." In 1733 Col, William Rvrd wrote of manv Iron enter prises, which had been started In that State, waahlngton's leadership waa In a measure due to tbe splendid training and experience which he received as an en gineer and to traits Inherited from a lather, who was an Iron ore miner and an iron majker. fefrereon establlahed a small nail factory, which waa . said to have been run on a profitable basia. Swank In hia "History of Iron In All Agee" eaya that no States in the Union allowed more appreciation In their early daya of the Iron Industry than North Carolina and Tennessee. He refers to 'the daring men who pushed their way Into the wilds of Western Carolina and East Tenneeeee aa baring been "born with a genlua for iron making." In South Carolina iron works were established as early as 1773, and about that time the State offered liberal premluma to those who would establish Iroa industries. Fur naces and rolling mills and a nail mill were build in York and adjacent counties. In his advance through South Carolina, Lord Corn wallts destroyed an Iron fur nace and foundry owned by the father or the late General Hill of the Confederate army. Between ifflO and 1& there waa very considerable activity fa 'building fumacea, rolling mills and nail factories in both North and South Carolina, one of these companies having $250,000 capital Invested. At the beginning of the nine teenth century the industrial interest! of the Sowth exceeded those of New England. Had there been no change in conditions, the centre of Industrial thought and activity would have develop ed here Instead of In the North. But the invention ef the saw-gin, making It pos sible for the South to supply the world with cotten, wrought a sudden revolution. In this, ns In most cases, the develop ment of an Industry created a market for its product. In 1790 the South raised 4,000 bales of cotton In 1795 the saw-gin waa Invented, and five years later, or in 1S0O, the South supplied tne worm wun ou.w bales of cotton. By 1810 the crop had grown to ICO.OOO bales, and by 1S20 to over VioAflA halea Fnr fortv vears from 1800 to ' 1839 cotton averaged about 16 or IT cents a round, navmg in one. year aver aged as high as 44 cents. The profits at such prices necessarily caused capital, hralns and brawn to be concentrated upon cotton raining, resulting in an arreated Industrial development.. By 1840 cotton production ' had run. ahead of consump tive requirements, caualng a rapid de cline to 6 and 6 cents a pound. The de cade from 1&40 to 1850 was a period of great depression to planting interests. Then the Same economic law which during the period of high prices bad for ced capital ana wwrpnw inw production now acted Ito !rive them away from an unprofitable Industry. Ac cordingly, the South promptly turned Its attention once more to revivifying its manu featuring Interests. Betweeli l0 and 1S60 cotton again commanded good nrieea. hut tha Industrial spirit having been awakened to new life continued to expand and that decade witnessed a rs tnarkuhlA advance In manufacturing and vailrnarf Intarentn. This Is illustrated in the fart that between 1850 and 1860 the South built neany twice aa many mue of railroad as the New England and Mid dle States combined, at a cost of over 1220.000,000, nearly all of Its local capital. sjAvth rsumllna. Ineraaaed Ita mileage from 248 mllea In 1W0 to 8S9 in I860. Other Southern States did equally as well. Dur ing these years the mllenge of the South Increased by Sit per cent., while in the balance of the counary me gain wss oniy 234 per cent. In proportion to popula tion, the mileage per capita In the South was as great as in th entire country. During this period the South nearly doubled the capital Invested in founda rlM and machine shoes and in woodwork ing Interests; in the building of etenm engines and machinery and gnln In the country at large was 40 per cent., while here It waa over 200 per cent. Cotton manufacturing was beginning to rom- msnf the HOUth I atienuon, ana in mi rirruile Ooorsla doubled Its cotton mill capital, while, other Southern .States JIKewlse: mane maj-nen prunrnaa. 1 111 eanital In flour and rrlst mills Increased tftiOflflAna or nearly one-fourth of the gain In the entire country. This wss a mucn greater percentage u nruiri u In the eountry at large, notwithstanding the enormous emigration irom tne hjist and Europe to the grain fields of the West. At that time the South had near ly 15.000 manufacturing enterprises, with an aggragate capital of over H74.00O.0oO, it ta true that most of these undertak ing! were comparatively email, but so were thoae OI rxew nnaiana in innr early stages. The Bnuth s were mottea out of existence by the war; by the same war an enormous Impetus was given to the manufacturing Interests of New Kngland and the North generally. ADVANCE IN WEALTH. The general advance of thl section In wealth nt that time, Is indicated by the fact that the value of Southern property Increased between IffiO and lt0 H.MAOOO. W0 more than the combined grain In the New England and I Middle States. The South'a increase waa .4W),O0O.OU0. while the Increase In the New England and Middle States was S2.4a,000,OM. Look for a moment at another side of the South s life, even though It be an old story, that Is. the dominance of Southerner In national affaire from the birth of th Constitution In 178S to Its paralysis In 1861, a dominance Indicated bv the fact thot within the 72 years, nine of the II occupants of tha presidential office were Southern-born and their terms extended ever year. Southern valor personified in Oeorge Rogers Clark, in the closing rears of the Revolutionary War. made it posslme for Southern generosity to confirm title of the United States to an are, of about ir.er square miles of land embraced in (he Northwest Tstrltery from which aub sequantly were earned the great States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, , Wisconsin and Mlohigan, with a part to spare for Min nesota That achievement was typical of later deeds of . Southern valor, fore bandedness. diplomacy and statesman ship, which, in the 73 year of the old Constitution added t.ltf.tfo souar miles to the 800,008 square mile of ' The United States and rounded out our adjacent con tinental poesslon8.', The foundation were laid In the pur chase nnder Thoraaa JenVrsoa of , 000 snuare miles of Louisiana tn lsnt, balking Inchoate break-up of the Union, assuring the North American Continent tn what la known as Anglo-Saxon civi lisation, and determining 'that our coun try should stretch from oeean to ocean. Instead of oltaglng tn the Easisrn sea board. The rounding -out began with the Florida purchase of ISIS la the adminis tration of Jamca Monroe, adding about TSOO snuare miles. The nsmss of Presi dents Tyler and Polk,, of Generals Sam Houston, Wlnneld Scott and Zechary Taylor will always he Identified with such events se the treaty of 1M. which fixed the Northern boundary of the M6.00O square mile of territory now embraced In Idaho, Washington and Oregon, through which Meriwether Lewis and William Clark had trailed with the flag 44 odd years before, as the secession of lh MS.O0O square miles of Texas In U4&, end as the consequent wdr with Mexico, arhich left In tha noeseeslon of the I'nltod tiate after the oowelu sloe of the Oada- den purehase ef ! Oladaian being a fMi(h Cwrollnlaaweti.sne . sous re mi taan wiiwv now embrared in cwiromis, ptevana, Cotnrose, i'tah. AHsona and New Me too, The territory thus aostrlred it saere ttuin two-tf.'r lH i,f the'totui land aiea, of liat. la to-r.uy (mo in aa the continental Unlied State. lr la a monument to the empire-building- power of our forefath ers. Thn thought and eotlon of the Old Mouth for territorial ex pension had no "provincial" or "parochial" limitations. They were nation-wide, and, Indeed, world-wide In their conseuencea and were paralleled tn , thought and - action upon other lines. , . The cotton gin wss the thought of a Southerner, Hodgen Hqlmeav of Georgia, though perfected by.. a. Jaw, Englonder, It has not ceased to ' make history wherever -eetton Is growl! -61" cotton goods are made or sold. Cyrus II. McCormlok, a Virginian, rev olutionised agriculture with his reaping machines and made It, possible for. this eountry to work a world-wide economic development by the Increased production. tat Wheat. v: , 1 '.-.' , V"1,.1. v. ,v..v. Matthew F. Maury eras, perhaps, the greatest scientist of his . day, and the practical application of his science to, navigation and in meteorology have been effective for progress In all quarters of the globe. . t -.,," v.'-'-Cv Forty years before "M ergenthaler. James IX B. DeBow, a Southern, man, sketched the economies of the type-setting ma chine. And DeBow . shared with Maury the ability to map out commercial and transportation undertakings which have slnoe been put Into execution -or furthered by others. SOUTH' S BAD DREAMERS. Another bold, dreamer of practical dreams was Ambose to,' Mann; of Vir ginia, with hla7 plan for linking by steam ship and by rail the markets of Great Britain and th European Continent with the productive areas of the Mlsntsstr.pl Valley, by way ef Hampton Roads, Vir ginia and Kentucky, a plan which was left to a Huntington to make good. From Savannah In 1S17 Georgians sent flrat vessel tn iiu tem in trans- Atlantic travel, and tn an adjoining State, South Carolina, waa the railroad upon which ran the first locomotive built en tirely In this oountry. Turning from the consideration of uch as Washington, Jefferson, Marshall and Calhoun in statemanship. from the mili tary leaders and State bulldera to eareers like those or Maury, udo, Ruffln and Robert L. Dabney, one- finds in .vr Hmithern State men of the atamp of James M. Garnett. of Virginia, A. D. Murphey, of North Carolina, Jamai H. Thornwell, or Boutn t-arouim. . Meek, of Alabama, D. 8. Walker, of Florida, George Bustis, of (Louisiana, Crawford Long, of Georgia. Marlon Sims, of South Carolina, William Wirt, pf Maryland and Virginia, the LeConte. of Oeorgio, all natives of the South. Of others born elsewhere but from early life thoroughly Identified with the South we find such men as josapn viuioh, EllHha Mitcnoll, George Swain, In North Carolina: Abraham Baldwin and Alonzo Church and the Wadley in Georgia; Jonathan P. Cushlng In Virginia- Nathan R. Smith and A. . ADeil in jnarymiio, Edward Livingston and Henry A. Bui-ioi-i in T y.Miuluna Kaifeant S. Prentiss and John A. Quitman In Mississippi Al bert Pike In Arkansas. David S. Kaufman In Texas, and many otners wno aa ooum ernora made their mark In science, state craft, education, journalism, theology, transportation or commerce. Because these facts are not generally known, the Old South Is accused of hav ing lacked energy and enterprise; its people are even now often charged with having been Inferior to those of other sections In the development of their coun try and In the creation ot wmiui, i"; South of to-day throbbing with Industrial and railroad activity is but a revival of k. mith wt-idip commercial spirit of broad activity crushed hy the war Is again seen in tne Development, same lines of Industry to which this sec tion was bending its energies prior to 1SG0. THE FIRST I)OOMOTIWB. Nearly 80 vears ego the first locomo- I time constructed in this country was built for a Southern road. The people of this section, with that rar-seeing vision which had been displayed In war. in statecraft and In emplre-bulldlng, saw tho railroad of the future as the greatest fhctor In human affairs. (Seeing this they named that enclne "The Best Friend" to express their realisation of this new and mighty force for the world's advancement. But a negro was the fire man. Disturbed one day by the noise of escaping steam, he sat on the safety yalve. The wreck and ruin which foK lowed typified that mltrhty exploeton of l61-'65. when the negro again eat on the safety valve. Out of the wreck and ruin of that explosion, which shook the foundation of American government, the South has gradually emerged It has been a long and weary strupRle. It Is difficult to exaggerate tho magnitude of that destruction, difficult to give to eny who did not pass through It even a faint con ception of the overwhelming poverty of the South in 1866. The financial loss as expressed In the destruction of farme and factories, the blackened chimneys which marked the sites of former homos, the mine of cities, the utter disorganization Of mors than a century old labor sys tems, were In reality but a comparative ly small part of the total Far greater In magnitude than this money Inns, wns the loss of men men who had been lead ers In thought and In ae.tl ,n. Tho war cost the South by death and permanent Invalidism several hundred thousand of the very plok and flowfr of Its people. That was enough to stagger n country. But the condition which prevailed as a result of tho war and of reconstruction, the lack of opportunity and the almost hopelos despair for the future, forced out of the South a movement of people which In proportion to population has robably never been equalled In nnv oth er land except Ireland Since IRKS thn South has been drained of ubout I.6OO.O0O Of Its people bv emlaatlon To-day ther are living in other sections over 1.600,000 Routhern-brirn whites. Among them ar; lender In every line of human endeavor. They are dominant forces In New York and other Northern cities. In the West, and ont on the Pacific Coast to the far Northwest. Though other sections were f rowing In population and In wealth, hough they were receiving vast immi gration movementa from ijirond. the South wa giving Its very llfeblood to bjM to their strength and power. Political economists vary In their estimate of the value of a mSn to a country all the wav from 11.000 to tio.otio. If we should estimate the loss to the South through the death In war and through th emigra tion !nce at only $':.(KiO per capita. It stould ahow an aggravate loas of poten tial wenlth of between W.ono.mvi ooo and fs.OOO, (loft. 000. For this terrific drain on Its very life blood and for the magnificent contribution of J.500,000 of its people to the development of other sections, the South has never received due credit. Few people seom ever to have realised Its tre mendous Influence for retarding South ern development and Its equally tremen dous influence for helping to upbuild oth er sections. As we review the material advancement since 18 we may well congratulate ourselves upon the great work accomplished, but this very prog ress should cause us to pause and see whether the South of to-day Is quite equsl In "tardiness of character and abil ity to master every obstacle us was that heroic remnant of the South left after Appomattox. Of late year a fair meas ure of credit is being given to the men tal and physical ability of the men who planned and for four yeara fought the almost ceaseless battles of 1K1 to Wi. But the full measure of this titanic struggle has never been quite grasped by the world. For ten year before the he ginning ot the recent war between Rus sia and Japan, the latter country had been making ready for the coming struggle. Bringing to this task every la tent power that wonderful people. Japan had been training Ita soldiers, building Its warships, preparing every detail fmm the commlssunrvtp the medical depart- oirni, ii nnn Dinf . It financial interest and formtoi International! alli ances tn order te ne ready 4r this Hfe and death struggle. But with all this preparation, with a population of W,VW. 000 upon which to draw, with th world's sentlraj-nt In It favor and the world's flnancThl Influence ready to take It se curities, with Its domestic trad unham pered and Its foreign commerce free to the world, Japan at th end ef 12 month was pmcllcaPv facing bankruptcy, and the treaty of Portsmouth rn largely doe to It financial Inability to carry on th truggl. . , . . . . CONDITIONS CONTRASTED. Contrast these conditions with the floath of 1K1 Mdjftsi With only asOSOuS white people scattered over a vast terri tory, from Virginia te Twa.ee, without eny preparation whatever ea land or on ea for th war, without any army or a navy, with a new government that had no credit abroed and no means at home on which to bsse a financial ayetem. th South for four year met in battle three to four time s many. anMlar a Una s' nut Into the fletd during the It month of the war between that country, and Japan. WHh domestic trade practically destroyed, -gllhout ferwigo xttra4e, her coast btookaded from end to end, Knout means . to- utujse' eotton har ehlf ouroe t Wealth, tjCot four year the South met en the bs-ttleriM The Keatoet armfa which th modern world I tees. Frua Vh-gmia te leaas tu "far flung 1 ntt! lln" had to meet a force vtmtly siipeiinr In numlmrs. In equipment and In-commlHSHry supplies. Only when vlewad in some such UKht as this do we boln to get on Idea of 'what supreme teat vt character and strength which tor four year enabled the South to meet such overwhelming odds.. Coming out of that struggle brokenhearted, bankrupt, weary In body and mind, the men who were left took up that equally heroic struggle of redeeming the South from the thral dom of poverty and reconstruction.' They saved the South to Anglo-Saxon civiliza tion; thoy solved problem such a no other oountry, on earth had ever faced; they gave to the world the final answer aa to the stuff of which the people ot the Old South were made. It Is to them that we should give credit for what has been , accomplished. . They are the ones who biased the pathway out of the wild erness: thev relit the : umace Are of yUetbnme -and Virginia fend Tennessee ana nentucsy; mey , commenced tne re building of our eotton mill Interests, and all thai ws are doing to-day ss not one thousandth part so difficult a was the work which- they wrought t Strange to say,' of recent years there ha grown .up among our people a class who, Instead of holding up to the admira tion of the world the wonderful etory of th men who made the Old South and tb men who, after IMS remade what for a better name we msy call the "New" South, are giving their time to besmirch ing the country which gave them birth. However much these men may be heard on the platform. In the press and in some of the literature ; of the day, I am sure they do now represent the thought and life of the great masses of Southern people. They think they do, but the time will come when the voice of the real South shall ones more be heard. I believe that the best of the Old South will yet reassert itself In the develop ment of the strongest manhood of Amer ica. I believe that that re-oad horizon with which the leaders of olden times looked) out upon world-affalTm iwhfch gave them the Imagination to see and to seize the opportunites to add to this country ne large a portion of our nation al domain, will yet have a dominating Influence upon the maintenance of Amer ican government. I believe that the ge nius for iron-making born in the dar ing men who opened the mountain re gions of the South to civilization will be rekindled, and that In this section, large ly by the genlua of Southern men. there will be developed the greatest Iron and steel interests on eartn. i neneve mm the genius which was harnessing for the old overshot wheels the water pow ers of this Appalachian country will be born again to develop through tho highest engineering and electrical skill, every available water power between the Po tomac and the Rio Grande. I believe that the teaching ot scientific agricul ture, in which Ruffln, of Virginia was a oremost exponent vprior to 1861. will once more make fertile every acre of worn and wasted land on all our barren hillsides. No one ean appreciate more fully than I do the work of people from other sec tions end other countries, who have come South. No one can bid them a heartier welcome and a warmer God speed in their work, for their own and for the South's prosperity No one can demand more etrongly than I do that every dollar of capital which come here for Investment to its own profit and to the profit of the South shall he guarded with zealous and sacred care, and. If need be with even more scrupulous caro than our own. Every dollar that Is un wisely invested proves not only a Iors to its owner. but a greater loss, a curse, to the South. ITS GATES OPEN WIDE. The South rightly opens wide Its gntcs and bids a hearty welcome to that broad eat generalization of capital, the capital of money, of hralns or of brawn, which comes In order to enrich Itself by utiliz ing the magnificent opporiunmoa ur money-making and for home-buililing af forded bv this great territory. But, sure ly the South with Its Imperial wealth of resources, wun in -n. more ranidlv every day than the wealth of Great Britain is Increasing every week, needs not 10 ssk m iniininiinir). whatever may be its motives, any char ity either of money or of brains, itn he revlvsl of tne oest oi m um um, alth tne incoming oi beginning to realise that this Is the D..mi,Ji,inii for the development of the , , , , , . 1 , V. , A highest type oi oivuibiii. i..r ... Hi, on hnnav the land of abund ance, for every willing worker there will come a material nnvancwuimn " " " has never benn seen on earth. Here na ture has crowded her stores of wealth as nowhere else. Here she has placed vast riche in coal and iron n oil in phosphate rock, In timber and In cotton fhe has given uti n great seacoast. Kislng in our mountain ranges she has given us many Over which as "they go laughing to the sea" furnish million of available water power. We have been bleed with a soil, which nccordlng to Ita kind needs but "to be tickled with a plow to laugh with a harvest" of cotton or com or wheat or rice or sugar or vegetables or fruits of every variety. We ha e a wide range of climate from that of the high mountains of your own State wher Canadian temperature may be found, to ,..;JLh of the far South where ros es ' ever blossom beneath a winter bhiv If standing on Ml. Mitchell, the highest peak east of the Rocky Mountains, you f-ould take a bird s-eve view of the re gion which '.trotche. from Maryland to Texa you would see a land which con tains more coal than all Europe, which contains one-half of all the known Iron ore of th United States, one-half of nil itV standing timber, and which In addi tion to cotton can by better farming methods duplicate the entire agricultural mTerests of the United States. As vu ook at this splendid panorama give , fr-e reln to your Imagination and It would paint for you a picture of the future of he South, it would paint you a picture of a land rich beyond the dreams of o day a land where villages have grown n to towns and towns Into cities and cities Kto Seat centers of wealth and art and science. It would paint you a picture of abounding agricultural prosperity, a land from which The electric car line, tho tele phone good reads and other Improve ments have banished the loneliness f oountry life. But while your Imagination ST tainting this picture of material pros rVrtty bid It paint as a background on the canvass of vour soul a God-fearing People "whnae school, and churches "dot i ha landscape o'er." a people who. wheth er to the manor born or whether they hnve oome from choice rather than by tha accident of birth, emulate the good Qualities, domestic and public the honor 2nd self-reliance of the men, the virtues ad charms of the women, which have forever hallowed th memory of the TOld South IN INTKREST OF TRUNK LINE. Public Service Corporation Rxprocn tatlvc Lay lToJw Before Spar tanburg l'oople Mr. Culp a Mslt or. gppclal to The Observer. Spartanburg. 8. C. March 7. C. R Vanetten. . K. Kelaey. of New York and U M. Pinckey. of Charles ton, promoter of the Public Service Corporation of South Carolina, which company proposes building a trolley line connecting the varloug cities and towns In upper middle and Western portions of the 8tate with. Charleston, held a conference here' to-day with prominent business men. Te rep resentatives outlined, the general plan of the proposed, road, , exhibited maps and told of the wellsnt bene fits to be derived trom such line. The plan wss recelred trltn. modh encouragement maa ihhw anc will be lwithf prtject The party left for Cberlptte ttjf-nltt . r 3 M. Culp. 1hra rtce : president and general tfW Jb gouOiern. spent,, too a rn .the eity, the oWsct of hU'H -being to get acquainted ' with, tfpplnf Interests In Spartanburg. . y - TO BE OAOTONTAB M.iTOW. Mr. C. II. Armstrong Receives ' Use Nomination In the PrUnartae Ore Mr. Joseph H. Sperai- The Crowd - Large and EnthuaUurtto and Inter est Intensei. ipotdal to The Ohaerver. . Gestonla. March 1. Mr. Charles B. Armstrong, ei-sherlff of Gaston coun ty, was to-night nominated for mayor ta the primary election. Mr. Arm strong received lit votes to the J II votes of, big only opponent Mr. Jo seph H. Separk. Both are. among the town's best cltlsens and either would make the Iowa aa excellent mayor, hence Interest In the outcome wee In tense. . The primaries .were held tn the opera hows from t to P o'clock and ttrrteted d am,---"-'"- COMEUCE AND FINANCE . v , ------ ' ' : The Money , Starlet .''. ' New York, March 7. Money on call firm. i to per cent: ruling rate &', cloning ld l; offered at (ft. , . Time loan dull und Arm; W day t to per cent. ; DO day and six months t per cent Prime mercantile paper b to 8 per cent: sterling' exchange steady with actual business in bankers' bills at 1484.60 to $484.06 for demand and at W0.20 to 1480.25 for 60 day bills. Posted rates UHl and 4KHi, ' Commercial bills t4Wtt. Bar sliver 6)H. Mexican dollars M. Gov ernment bonds easy. Railroad bonds Ir regular, ' Cotton Seed OH. 1 ' ' Nw York, March 7. Cotton seed oil was steady for spot but easier for fu ture. , Prime ' crude f. o. b. milt 44; prime summer yellow 40Vfc; off summer yellow 44 to 46H: good off aummer yellow 46 to 4tt; prime white 56; prim winter yel low Ml - ,".' Tlie Dry Goods Market New York, March 7. The dry roods market I steady, but activity Is being curtailed by a growing scarcity of goods. Some goods have been withdrawn from sale pending th filling- of order now on the books. Raw silk 1 advancing rapidly The lobbing- trade Is active. Charlotte Cotton. These figures represent the prices emoted to wagons: March 7. Good middling.. H Strict middling U Middling.. .. W Tinges and stains S9 Comparative Port Receipts. March 7. To- Last tsy. Yesr. Savannah 1,913 Charleston 264 Boston 960 Interior Receipt. " March 7. To- Last Day. Year. Houston 8.15B THIS DAY IN HISTORY. 1635. First legislative assembly con vened In Maryland. 1748. The British squadron. Ad miral Knowlea, attacked and carried Port Louis, In San Do mingo, which he also destroyed. Tbe French lost about 180 killed: British lose. 20 killed and 60 wounded. 17Q6. The bill repealing the Ameri can stamp act received the royal assent and was passed. 1775. An Inhabitant of the town of Bllarcla, Mass., tarred and feathered by the British troops. The Britjsh were the first to In troduce this practice, which afterwards became a popular mode of punishing Tories. 1815. Action between the British ship Tiger, Captain Dacres, and the American privateer Leo, seven guns, 93 men, Captain Hemes, which resulted In the capture of the latter. 1830. The first regular newsboat to Intercept packet ships for for eign Intelligence put In com mission In New York. 1854. A commercial treaty with the United States finally, concluded bv Japan. 1855. The first steam fire engine 1655. The first st'nm fire ngtne, built for thn city of Boston, ex hibited at Baltimore. 1862. The battle of Pa Rldgc ended In the total defeat of the Confederate forces. Union loss. 212 killed and 91. wounded. 1S64. General r.mt formally pre sented bv ) ' President with his commission a.' lieutenant gen eral, and on the 12th astlgned tn the command of the armlpn of the United 9tato. 1865. Reports from Washington, D C, stated that 2, MO deserters from the Cnnfe-Wate lines had reported and taken tho nnth of nlleglance within a month. Forty of these wer officers. 1R71. Ex-President H"lllmrtr 'lied. 1898. Congress appropriated $50.- I 000.000 for war purposes J 1901. President r.ooevrlf holding many conferences with political callers, and general outllre of campaign and platform Is fairly well understood. lf05. Congress Just ended appropri ated $318,478,914 for venr 1905 0. 1906. President Booievelt directed bureau of corporations to report evidence of violation of law by trusts and railways. Use a little KODOL after vour meals ml It will be found to nffonl a prompt snd efflcleht relief. KOPOI- neerly an proxlmstes ths digestive Juices. It di gests what you eat. It, m sold on a rtisrsntee relief nlsn. PnM har by Hawley'a Pharmacy. Lard is no respecter of stomachs No one on this green earth can eat lard-soaked food day after day and not feel its ill effects eventually. You may have one of those iron -clad stomachs which will prove unsusceptible for a time, but the hog-fat and its accompanying indigestibility will do its work sooner or later. It is an absolute fact that lard simply hog-fat is indigestible, and that it is not fit for the human stomach. Cottolene. on the other hand, is made from pure, refined cotton seed oil a product of nature which is thoroughly palatable, digestible and healthful No other shortening contains the digestible, COTTOLENE wu granted a GRAND PRIZE (highest possible award) over all other cooking fats at the recent Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and food cooked with COTTOLENE another GRAND PRIZE. me HW m eeeA or 300 cAofee recedes. eJree! y Airs. Aorer, U yoerr for m 2 cent tttunp, if jreei uddr Th N. K. Falrbmnk Comtpmny, Chicmg. A NEW FEATURE The fcetee alr-tifVl lep ea tkls pall I for tke pwrpeee ef keeping COTTOLENE clean, fresh aa) wholaeassei II alee swereaU It frees abeorUnf all dWafreeebU oelors el tt (recery, sMa as Ash. oil, eta.' Nature's Gift irom the Sunny r' Agreatmaaypeopleluvean Wea that old sores exist merr.lv because of a diseased condition of the flesh where the nicer Is located. They patiently . apply salves powders, plasters and other external apnlica tiona, but in spite of all guch treatment the place refuses to heal. When- !T5t 1fe otrJ,not readily thc Mood ls falt this vital fluid j filled with ImpuriUes and poison "Wch ajt constantly Mag discharged into the v place, feedlntr i it with noxious nutter which makes it impossible for the soreto hcal.t Old sores may be the mult of an inherited blood taint, or thej effects of Slonfirapellef sickness, or again the circulation may te contaminated with the Collections of refuse matter which the different members have failed to expel through the channels of. PURELY VEGETABLE trouble because they do not reach going to tne very bottom of the trouble, driving out the impurities and poisons and purifying and building up the entire circulation. When S. S. S. has removed the rnn.te-tho Viliwl fnraa -rVi i,ut. t. . i , " 7 - - uwujvo uvi ucanujr, iuc sure Dcglllsl td heal, new flesh is formed, the place scabs over arid is soon permanently STRAIGHT WAWSTssd vmsbb ths hatkwu boob mwAKDoauo acts. tm'pmu'o. RctxY co S1SHMM, VA. Look for this guarantee that goo44 direct when yoa buy tract tors to th consumer, ft n -ws,. -am . shipped ia eeati' plaUvpackage. . C Bxpreia ckarge prepaid Many point at tM Money ctMarfully . HUiraciaT. special r a I booklet, complete price-list ,T hw (bast tbe woMd B, I - , SJ klmlM lOia Cam WMilnwt alJ AXJ. Dm aid Keaay Malt 4 J A Rldia (Va. rloren PUvaS Rye (Baltic la Band: Or. Le Barrea 's BucsuWn 2V ITrirt .p lap JaP ' I ! Jag 1 1 A' 1 1 Illi. oai! ll OaSoa . . . SVyaaeeM Kentucky fVy OallaorW . . .SyaaseldN. C.Caen OaJloa 'rfr, 4yar old Appfe Brandy OaJloo .474 eld Paaoh Brandy OaiUn ........... flolland Oln Mr The Phil. G. Kelly Co1k. Zrzzrrz Fine Liquors, JMA1L ORDERS FraBaJln andl7th8t.'" aa iWewM rwM ins. Richmond. Virginia. 1 m A Drinh The highest standard of quality is uniform ex cellence. Hagan's Root Beer is a most de licious beverage made from the best selected materials, carefully brewed; and has a uniform goodness that places it above competition. It contains absolutely no alcohol or "dope," but Ib pure, palatable and refreshing. For the outing, on the RrTSfflSBBTI sideboard, on the train or In the sick- aaKejaefaJ that ia the delight of bold at grocers, founts, elc. See that bottU beam name of Va!V4V THE H ED ATLANTA, GA. BaSenefled lack few weeks and never go back I t 1 ' f . ' ' ' : ' 1 ' ' TW" TT H5TTH V Til f LL H ULLU. JJlaL. w nature, wnatever the cause the blood be comes steeped in poison and a cut, bruise, scratch or other wound often develops Into, a. sore, fed and kept up by these impurities, causing it to eat deeper into the surrounde iag tissue, inflaming, festering and cans ing pain. External applications can only the blood. S. S. S. cures Old Sotcs by THE SWIFf SPECIFIC C0.9 ATUXTA, CJU KES Stem yoallflna on all our good. It meant Unele Semi are par and straight. Yoa boyi u. W are wholesale dittrlb. C AH goods named below an priee named, under oar loll guaran- refunded If goods ate not entirely . . , , I ft , I P-l.- , .1 pnexa on iiras uiuci. . u. , nvc ui , and lull information. ty-4x-ry$ ever r 63 lO .TV IS eg . . f 00 rn wniaaayr a ov . .".. vs ,'.T. 7 SO Malt Whiskey , 3 JS . 85 .f.'.f 0 t.Maenllb) ... 0. .. . f 7 SO .?.W.f II SS d) r.''iM.,i. .'res.-.f.Mii se , . .'... .'. . ,V.'.V' a o .'.v.' s s.'.!&SW 09 AH Charges -J2.50- Prcpaii PROaJPTLT FILLED. " '"W J'w.iu-lJJ i of Quality young and old. ' HOCK CO. nourishing and healthful qualities of Cottolene. Even pie, that nightmare of dyspeptics, becomes easily digestible when made with Cottolene. How many people can eat lard-laden pie? Ask your regular grocer for a pail of Cottolene and start tomorrow on the way to "lardless cookery." It will insure both for yourself and your family better food, better digestion and better health. Cottolene shortens your food and lengthens your life. Try it according to directions for a you'll to lard.
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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March 8, 1907, edition 1
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