The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-03-27
THE OUTLOOK FOR THE SOUTH.
The Comets Annual sermon for the
Spring.


I Spring.
Text, lie that sows shall reap and that whic
: he sows, that also shall he reap Solomon.
We believe that the South has en-
tered upon an suspicious epoch. Every
sign indicates that we have reached
"the bottom" at last, and now comes
= the long hoped-for and prayed-foi
rebound. Every part of the country
feels the thrill of Il reviving prosperi-
ty. We have rs Il nation, largely in
y debt and sorely afflicted by eXtrava-
f CANT and corrupt administrations,
D aided and abetted by the wildcat and
, plundering schemes of dishonest
men in power, encountered all the
trials of resumption, and overcome, to
great extent, the hardships and pri-
vations which that premature policy
entailed upon us. The sterling virtue
and the incorruptible integrity of the
great American people have risen
superior to the artful wies of the con-
tracted, the erasping, the one-ideaed
bond-holders, and they will save this
grand country of ours and preserve
the inheritance from our fathers in
spite of them.
Foreign gold, in immense sums, has
poured into the United States the past
season for their products-for their
grain and their cotton. The great
West opens up Commissary store
house for the World, and the Great
South can supply the Worlds Quar-
termaster's department. We have a
sound and stable currency, notwith-
standing its inequality and injustice,
and as the tide of prosperity begins to
set Westward and Southwark the ac-
cumulated hordes of money, locked
up in Eastern vaults and in the bonds
of the government, will struggle for
freedom of action and seek more re-
munerative investments in the reviv-
ing South and the teeming West.
Then we will have enough of money
and good money too-without resort
ing to the wild financial revolutions
of the Kearneyites, or of a certain
class of communistic so-called Green
hackers. When these great sections,
the South and the West, identified as
they are in material interest and in
sentiment, (when their real sentiment
is KNOWN join hands together they
can control the government and arrest |
the insidious and remorseless en-
croachments of the bondholding and |
moneyed power.
The large influx of gold for the pro-
mense stimulant to that section, aud
enhanced its values and raised the
price of labor % per cent. Think of
this, Southerners, for one moment,
and cipher out the reason for it. If
the receipt of less than fifty millions
of foreign gold for it's products gives
such buoyancy and enhancement of
all values to the West, why is it that
the receipt of over two hundred mil
lions for the products of the Southern
States should not be followed by like
happy results? Why is it that the
West booms and the South glooms
when the West receives not one fourth
of the foreign nutriment that the
South gets? Here is great problem,
but we have only time to glance at it,
Here is matter for profound dis
course from the political economist,
but we can only skirmish upon its
borders. The West is rich and is
growing richer because her people
support themselves and leave this
immense surplus to be added to their
increase. The South is poor and has
been growing poorer for fifteen years
almost half Il OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES {
her people have neglected the cardi- !
nal principle Of supporting them y
selves, and allowed all the products Of 6
their magnificent surplus to be con- |
There can be no doubt about the h
fact that we have the finest country Fl
on Gods green earth. The West can
not compare with it. No ground in Il
the word can equal it. a genial Il
climate, a rich and varied and boun- Il
teous soil, with monopoly almost of if
ba sta,N1a nf ia tn h
hinder us from becoming the richest h
md happiest people on the globe? b
There is nothing except our own in II
rita. Let the doctrine which. we il
ave been trying to hammer into the t.
reads of Mississippians for the last t
thirteen years--the sublime doctrine ri
# raising our own hog and hominy- W
nee obtain, and the problem is d.
olved. We have written and printed al
more sermons on the necessity of
,lanting corn than any other man in n
Mississippi. Every spring our text has b
,een "PLANT CORN" We have f
yrung all the changes upon it, and o.
pointed out all its obvious advantages.
t has been and still is the slogan of
'ur appeal to the farmers. "PLANT
JoRNW The words are magical, and
mean revivification, restoration, indie d
,endence, heath, prosperity, happi- II
less and wealth. When corn enough u
5 planted, and we raise as conse- d
Iuence our own stock, and live at
lome, then when forty or fifty mil 81
ions of dollars pour into the laps of u
Mississippi farmers for their surplus II
,roduct Of cotton, what is to prevent W
hem from becoming the richest, most u
and lordly people in the v
World? With all these marked adj "a
antages is it not humiliating to re- u
1ain in our present condition? We u
ay it Is, and that it is the result \
{ thriftless imbecility if we con- "
niue to grope in poverty and want. W
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