The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-10-28
Port cDOuth
The North and the South.

The Chicago Prairie Farmer of August 81
contains editorial articles of striking merit and
characterized by broad and liberal views. We
have space for part only of what we would
be glad to quote:
IF sectional luminosity is not to be buried
now, in the name of peace, patience, joy, faith,
hope and charity, when will the proper time
come for burying it? Will it be when there
are no more politicians But as long as there
are living organisms in the world there will be
parasites, and as long as there are spois of
office there will be politicians. A politician is
necessarily, If not naturally, liar and infer
entiallv trickster and knave. If the people
OF the North and of the South would believe
only one lundredth part of what is said against
The respective sections, aud multiply what &C
cldentally drops in favor of each other from
the partizan press by one hundred, then some
approach to the truth would be made and re-
Cancellation would be possible. Reconcilia-
ton and mutual trust and esteem would be
beneficial to both sctions The East has mon
ey to invest in government four per cent
bonds, quoted at 109s. This investment Yields
IN income of about So So on hundred dollars
What a rate of income in this new continent!
With our material resources the rate could be
ten times as great, and yet be in the line of
healthy business and safe investment. There
is money rotting in the East and North which
would enrich both sections But upon issues
that are little less abstract than the realism
and idealism of the Medieval schoolmen, a
clear sectional division is made and maintain
ed by party cries to fire the Southern heart
and the Northern heart, and both sections are
kept jealous and distrustful of each other, to
the mutual injury of BOTH
"The Southerners are not blind to their own
interests; they court immigration; they de-
ofat hoe d1c f1axyr
to draw away their black labor; they present
the natural advantages of their section in
glowing but modest and truthful colors They
want capital they say so.-The money paid
to take away their raw staples is a dead and
direct loss to them. The enhanced value of
those commodities in a manufactured form,
which goes to enrich distant communities, is
an indirect loss to them. They knew it, and
are remedying the evil as fast as their poverty
and the politicians will let them. The manu-
facture of an article cannot long stay away
from the section where the article is raised
The silk manufacture followed the mulberry
leaf to France in spite of the head START in
favor Of Flanders and Italy; the making of
linen chung close to the flax of Ulster, not
withstanding all the discrimination of England;
and if England had not sheep to compete with
the f1eeces of Ireland, France and Germany,
even her differential duties would not have
killed off the wooden industries in which Ire
land originally excelled her. And, just as
pork-packing Travelled from Cincinnati to Chi
cago, and iron industries hug the spots from
which the ore is taken, and sawmills affect the
timber regions, and Touring mills grow up
where they belong, in Minnesota, just SO will
cotton mills and smetering- works, and sugar
refineries, and furniture-factories and distiller
les, and cattle ranches, and sheep walks, find
local habitation in the South-that is, if the
South is not invincibly silly
The views contained in the latter paragraph
are of special interest and Importance to the
people of Virginia and the South.-We hope
and believe they will not be found "invincibly
silly"