The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-26

In middle old age at Clermont, England,
these murderous attempts at regicide be-
came decidedly farcical. The numerous
more recent attempts to retire monarchs
from business has not given any degree
of importance to the undertaking. 1t
may be taken as a fixed result of modern
progress and civilization that ballots are
more fatal than bullets to crowned heads.
CINCINNATI INTERESTS LIE SOUTH.
The Southern cotton crop of the past
year is estimated to approximate
5,750,00O bales, being the largest yet
grown since the culture of that staple
was introduced into this country. Not
withstanding this large production, how
ever, the price has ruled high through
out the year, although slight falling off
is reported recently at the Eastern sea-
board, possibly from temporary causes.
The sugar crop of Louisiana and Texas
is also an important interest to those
States, and with cotton brings a large
sum of money into the South to aid in the
development of the vast area of fertile
land scattered over this wide section,
much of which lies uncultivated and un-
occupied.
What the South needs is capital and
population. Industrious population
creates capital, but capital can not create
population. She has the land fertile as
garden, cheap and abundant. There
is no reason, therefore, why she should
not attract reasonable share of the five
hundred thousand foreign immigrants
likely to swarm hither from abroad
within the current year, if but the
proper effort is given to make known the
advantages which the states of the
South, with their genial climate, pre-
sent Upon the line Of our Southern
Railroad between here and Chattanooga,
and along the roads connecting with
this great artery, extending all over the
South Atlantic and Gulf States, may be
found millions of acres of cheap land,
the product of which every pound
would have profitable and ready
sale ii occupied and cultivated.
Why should not reasonable
share of this vast wave of
emigration be diverted there for the
benefit alike of these at present sparsely
populated States and of Cincinnati that
expects to thrive from the business that
she will find to do with the section ly-
ing between her and the Gulf and be-
tween her and the South Atlantic, and
now for the first time penetrated by her
Southern Railroad and its connections?
Let the Great West take care of herself,
of which she is abundantly able; the
interest of this city lies in build
ing up and populating the waste
places of the territory lying to the
Southwark and in developing there a
great system Of industry, and wealth, and
intelligence, whose welfare shall be re-
ciprocally intertwined with those of Gin
cinnati in the prosperous era now dawn
ing unmistakably upon the country.
The duty therefore of Cincinnati
journalism is to seek out and present
the important advantages that the South
affords to foreign or domestic emigration
and keep these persistently and contin-
uously before the public. This is aduty
to herself and duty to the great section
with which now for the first time she is
brought into really intimate business re-
lations that promise to be enduring,
pleasant and mutually profitable.