The great majority of the Southern counties do not have the wealth to provide these services. The South needs industry. The South needs more industrial wage earners to buy its fare produce and to build prosperous cities. To got these things the South needs cheaper power and needs it badly. I think that it is coming to the South.
Wages paid in a community stay in the community.
Profits paid to absentee stockholders go wherever the stockholder lives, and do not contribute to local trade or help to bear the local tax burden. I an mindful that if another President had spoken as President Roosevelt did about the South, you might put it down as just another political speech. But you know that his record is one of action. I happen to know that he is determined, with the aid of like-minded people in the South to overcome the forces which have retarded the development of the South.