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THE SOUTH S RICHES.
What Its People Are Doing
And Going to Do.
A special corresDondent of the
Springfield, Mass,, Republican;
writing from Nashville, Tenn.,
says:
■— To describe adequately what
Nature has done for the South
would be to give the contents of
many large and small" volumes
made at Washington, D. C., not
to mention compilations at the
various slate capitals. Personal
investigation leaves one amazed
with the extent of the natural
riches, much of them lying un
developed. For days on end one
may travel by rail through fer
tile farming lands. On horse
back one may go for scores of
miles through forests of valuable
timber that have scarcely been
touched, beneath which lie un
broken veins of coal awaiting
only development to become
large producing mines. The
traveler comes upon deposits of
iron ore, of copper ore, of phos
phate and cement rock, all of
which are now yielding valuable
products. He sees'great streams
that in the future will" furnish
enormous quantities of-power for
manufacturing establishments,
and striking beginnings at this
development. In a word, it
seems that the South alone can
provide growing space for the
United States for generations to
come.
Without some knowledge' of
the history of the South it would
be difficult to understand why
its resources should only now be
really developing. Slavery is to
be placed first of all among the
retarding causes. Before the
war in a large part of the South
the profits of agriculture with
slave labor estimated at 15 per
cent, were enough to prevent
the investment of capital in
manufacturing as we know it to
day. Under slavery the South
did a large amount of manufac
turing, but the products were
those of the home, practically all
the articles used there being
made "on the place." When
the civil war came the South was
dealt a staggering blow and
emerged from the strife terribly
impoverished and with its mode
of living utterly changed by the
abolition of slavery. On top of
this came the "carpet bag" rule
when if the southerner had any
money he did not dare to invest
it. The diversion of funds to
other sections because of the war
was an important influence
and since the war the enormous
pension payments have had the
effect of drawing great sums
from the South to be sent to
other sections.
The recuperation of the South
began about 1875, and such pro
gress as has been made since
then has rarely been seen in
this world. Already the 11
southern states are manufactur
ing as much cotton as all the rest
of the United States; but they
are are not content with that.
Why, they ask, should not the
Sojth have unquestioned supre
macy in the handing of its own
products? Why should not
manufacturing be highly devel
oped in a country which has so
many natural advantages? It is
manifest from the appearance of
the southern cities and from act
ivity in many projects that the
South is pushing along its manu
facturing interests. Fuel is
cheap, for there are immense
coal deposits; water-power may
be had for the mere developing:
the raw materials for many kinds
of manufacturing are conven
iently plaeed; transportation fa
cilities are growing. These
facts have only lately won full
appreciation, but now that the
South has started on its new
course there will be no checking
it.
But the South still has great
Vote as Prey.
Sez Aldrich, sez ftk
It's ez plain ez kin be
Them loway
Air nothin' but jealous. j,
They can't grasp llie idee
That thfs thing's up to me! f
Hain't I made evegy tariff? /'
Let 'em sputter an' swear, .if
That is their pleasure. wait
Till the votin' an' "then, shre ez
fate, /
They will notl>e in it,
No, not for^Truiip;.
I know an' you'll see
That the majority
In my footsteps will leap
Like a lot o' shorn sheep
And do ez I say—r
They'll vote as they prey!
—lndianapolis News.
needs. I interrogated a promi
nent Tennesseean, a man who
khows his state better than any
other man in it, and has a good
knowledge of the whole South.
He summarized the needs as fol
lows; "The South most of all
needs capital to develop its great
resources. It needs fine schools
of technology. It needs more
men who are skilled in lines of
manufacturing ia which the
South has not'yet embarked ex
tensively. It will Readily be
seen that the lack of such men is
one of the most important ob
stacles to the development of
manufacturing in the South, and
it is only a matter of time, with
the progressiveness of the sec
tion, that the South will develop
or attract both the men and the
manufactories. A greater di
versity of industries is needed in
the South, also a diversification
of agriculture in much of the
farming territory. For example,
in some of the cotton states,
through the lack of such diversi
fication. not nearly so great a
proportion of needed supplies is
grown at home as should be.
When the South takes its corn
cribs out of Kansas, its smoke
house out of Chicago and its
looms and shoe factories out of
New England, it will inevitably
be the richest country in the
world. What we have done in
cotton and iron we can do in all
agriculture and in most lines of
manufacturing, and we can now
sell iron products in Pittsburg
and manufactures of cotton in
Boston and Lowell. 1
"The recognition by the South
itself of its own resources and
the possibilities of its people is
another of the great needs. It
wanted the cotton business and
took it. When it determined to
make iron cheaper, it took that,
for it found that the coal, the
iron ore and the limestone, the
three necessaries in the produc
tion of pig iron, were all within
sight of the furnace. A greater
diversity of live stock is needed
in the South and packing houses
to care for it."
Recognition of the South as a
place for investment is rapidly
spreading among the capitalists
of the North, the East and of
foreign countries. Almost
every large enterprise enlists
capital from outside and this
flow of investment is naturally
becoming more noticeable as the
resources of the southern states
become more widely known. It
may be northern money that
puts through a power develop
ment project, Boston men or
New Yorkers may be concerned
in a big public service corpora
tion in some lively southern city,
or foreign capital may be invest
ed in an immense tract of coal,
iron or timber land. Whatever
the sources, the capital is wel
comed in the South. More of it
is always needed and the more
varied the investment the better
for the country.
The store bill can climb faster
than a cat after a bird's nest.
AY, JUNE 24, 1909.
Senator Simmons.
Red Buck, the Washington
correspondent of the Charlotte
Observer had this to say about
our senator:- .
Ten years ago, when Senator
Simmons drove out the Republi
cans and Populists, united under
one banner for pelf ani pie, the
average North Carolinian who
did not know him dismissed him
as a political wire-puller, and a
nincompDop, unfit for anything
else than to manage a red shire
campaign against Southern Re
publicans and their allies, which
were composed of a horde of il
literate negroes and several
thousand carping Populists, but
today he is seen in a different
light. His colleagues point to
him as one of the most formid
men in Congress. His everlast
ing industry, his ever ready
pugnacity, his never failing
courage, physical as well as
moral, and his genius for organi
zation have caused him to be
ranked with the best. Keen
insight, daring courage and
combativeness are his greatest
asset?, He convinces the on
looker that he has convictions
and pluck. Standing in the
open, every day in the week, he
is ready to be counted. The
fence does not appeal to him,
nor will he take refuge on it in
time of distress. There used to
be, and I believe there is yet,
something in the Tar Heel blood
that made a man admire the fel
low who fights for what he
thinks is right and does not re
treat under fire. In the cam
paigns of 1898 and 1900, when a
real general was needed, Sim
mons was in the saddle, to which
he had been elevated by crying
Democrats. At that time many
called him a bluffer but his bit
terest enemy would not apply
that term to him now. He is
anything but a bluffer. The
scrapping spirit is in his bones.
Newspaper men who did not
know that his name was on the
list of Senators have become in
terested in Mr. -Simmons and
whatever he says is considered
good copy. The brilliant Bailey
compels attention, and so does
the rugged, original Tillman,
and, now and eyermore, the
fighting Simmons.
The President's Cost.
According to the figures given
out in Washington, the cost of
maintaining the President dur
ing the fiscal years amounts to
$229,530, including his present
salary. The various items in
cluded in the budget are as fol
lows:
President's salary SSO 000
Glerk hire 69,920
Contingent fund 25,000
President's traveling expenses 25,000
Maintenance White House, horses-,
vehicles, etc. 35>°°°
White House grounds 4,000
Fuel 6,000
Care of greenhouses 9,000
Repair of greenhouses 3,000
Printing 2,000
Lighting White House grounds 510
Total $229,430
The largest item mentioned,
$69,920 for clerk hire, includes
not only the salaries of Secretary
Loeb and two assistants, but
those of about a score of clerks,
stenographers, messengers, some
of whom are telegraph opera
tors, others of whom attend to
telephones connecting the Exe
cutive offices with the various
governmental departments.
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Ever observe that the boy and
girl who "forget," never .fail to
remember anything that will
add to their own personal com
fort?
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