The Russellville Democrat., 1876-01-06
An Unexpected Note of Prog
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it NttS oii iaoo Ntti Ni'"S ehS unhappy political condition of Arkansas enlisted the sympathies of right minded people all over the country, and gave occasion to most serious apprehension that the state would be plunged into the horrors of general civil war. To day Arkansas stands among the foremost of the States which haze set III motion their recuper ative energy, and have lifted themselves out of the slough of despond by their own effort. The reople of Arkansas have not a little reason to take credit to themselves for what they have accomplished in the face of so many adverse circumstances, and the determination which they still manifest shows that they are resolved to follow out the career which their judgment dictated when the clouds were darkest about them.
 A recently published address delivered by Governor Garland Dcroie Cnc " Uottrun County Agri cultural and Mechanical Associa- tion~ makes showing of the prog ress of the State, and present prosperous condition which would be creditable to the most highly favored State in the Union, and coming from State which only ten years ago passed through the vicissitudes of the great civil war, which for years after the war suf fered unmeasurably, not only from a sudden revolution in its labor system and means for producing the crop to which its whole people were accustomed and which was it's main reliance, but was com pletely prostrated oy political disturbances and domestic civil commotion, is an episode in the history of that people which has few parallels in the experience of the world. The endeavor whit h caused such a change of condi- tion must have been the result of earnest reflection, and the refec- tion which led to such endeavor taught the people of Arkansas two facts which they had been some what inclined to ignore, viz.: that political agitation is not remuner ative, and that because one field of industry can not, under a changed state of affairs, be profit ably cultivated, other fields are not open to industry.
 While Arkansas is not neglect ing her cotton, she has found that there are other staples that prom isc reward to her husbandmen. This new range of agricultural industry has produced demand for q wider area of tillable lands, and Governor Garland points with unaffected pride to the fact that every county in the State has in the past year added largely to its cultivated lands, while some half dozen which he mentions have added as much as five thousand acres each, while one has added over eleven thousand acres. He tells us that small grain, hereto fore almost neglected, has been sown, and the results have been q surprise to every one; that large vineyards, a business heretofore scarcely known in the State, have been and are being opened and cultivated, with every prospect of handsome remuneration in q short time, and that last summer fruits, vegetables and grain were sent to St. Louis, Chicago and other points--a thing never done before with most satisfactory returns for them. One lawyer in Little Rock, the governor tells us, sent seventeen carloads of watermel- ons to Chicago, and confessed that his outlay and labor brought q better return than his cotton and law together.
 Behind all this lies a theory. It is the interdependence of what the political economists call trans mutation, transformation and transportation, and which Bacon long since indicated in more pop ular language when he said; Those things which make a na-