Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-18
Monday Morning. April IS. 1881.
THE DIFFERENCE.

Southerners are getting frst-rate advice nowadays from some of the newspapers of
 their section. The vicksburg (NIiss. Herald is conspicuous for telling its readers just 1 what they ought to be told, and now another Herald, of Dallas, Texas, comes out boldly
 upon the subject of the difference between
 the North and the South, and the reasons therefor. The points in favor of the North, as stated in the Texas paper, are our great variety of manufactures everywhere distribu-
 ted ; our diversity of agriculture in grain,
 root crops, orchards, textile materials, vege-
 tables, small fruits and ''truck" generally
 our capacious and convenient farm buildings,
 dwellings, thrifty villages, rich cities, public
 buildings, charities, churches, schools, libra
 ries, newspapers, books, railroads in checker
 work, steamboats on all our waters, center
 prise. business, trade, commerce, bustle, stir,
 activity, plenty in every nook and corner of
 the North'' And then, it is added, ''the peo-
 pie of the North are not by nature any
 more intelligent than the people of the South, nor are they of better physical devel- opment They have much more inhospi- table climate, and by far fewer natural ad-
 vantages than in the Southern States" Why, then, the difference? The HeraW says that the people of the North are not naturally
 endowed with more push than those of the South that .the southern climate IS not en-
 ervating that physical and mental organiza- tions are as active and promising at the South as in the North, and that slavery, the real cause of such enervation as there was, is
 l1r,<Ys of the people, the methods of moulding and developing character, are and have been diff ferent, and in these lie the difference in re- suits. The Her6Id says: While the south ern people were idling away the years, the northern people were delving hard and making slaves of wood, and water, and iron. and all the bounties of nature. Northern boys and girls were brought up to labor and toll, and consequently to self-reliance and practical knowledge of life and it's duties and requirements. Southern boys and girls were brought up in idleness and to spurn labor, and without adequate ideas of how to strug gle with the world, how to build up and ex- pand the advantages about them"
 Then comes the question of remedy. A new generation is rising in the South that has been educated in new school Want has suggested industry, and now it remains to force enterprise and to utilize the opportu- mites that nature has so bounteously sup piled. There is water power in Texas. Set it to work on mill wheels. There is land that can produce as rich crops as the lands of In- diana; but the Texas farmer is content with half as large yield. Deeper ploughing and better cultivation is necessary. The mule and the OK must make way for the locomo- tive; the highway of ''sloughs" for the firm roadbed of the railway. These are the ma terial methods pointed out by the Dallas Herald, and so far as they go they are excel lent. They need, however, to be accompan- jed by general education and decent politics. When the people of the South learn how to work to good advantage (which they are evi- dently doing) and to have more tolerance of freedom of opinion and of political action their part of the country will be a fine place to dwell in.