The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-06
THE SOLID SOUTH.
Growing More Compact in Her In
dustries and Prosperity.
Cincinnati Comercial.

| CINCINNATI ComefcIa1.
Colonel J. r. Mcintosh, a prominent at.
torney of okolona, Miss, is stopping at the
Hotel Emery for few days on a business
visit to Cincinnati. A reporter met him
yesterday afternoon at the ofiee of the
Builders' Exchange.
The Colonel is a pleasant hammered gem
tleman, of fine physique, good conversation
al ability, and evidently close observer of
| things around him, as we'll as of things past
and things distant.
Speaking of the present business outlook
| in the South, he said that at no time since
the war had the Southern States reached so
encouraging business condition as at the
present. He doubted whether the cotton
and the corn crops OF this year had ever been
equalled "Bat another and an important
advantage" continued the Colonel, SIS in the
fact that our people will be able to make
more use of it, Heretofore we have done
business on credit. Our crops last season,
and even those of the year before, were poor.
You are familiar with our custom of
hypotheeating our crops before they are
grown. The poor crops taught US economy,
and we have economical closely. The
floods, too, early in the season, suggested
economy. The result is that our people
have nearly fifty per cent. less of liabilities
hanging over them than they have ordinari-
ly had, because of their more economical
calculations, and the result is a crop better
than any person ever anticipated. 1t puts our
people out of the position of borrowers. 1t |
is more than enough to pay all our debts, |
and it gives US the benefit Of a whole crop |
reserve to work on in future
"And you have not had that benefit here.
tofore p
"No, sir. And having once obtained it,
our people will be rich hereafter, as we
ought to be, with all our wonderful advant
ages of climate and soil"
The reporter informed him of discourag-
ing crop reports from the North, because Of
long continued rains,
"We have had the most favorable season
that could be desired" answered the Colonel.
'sThe overfows were really benefit to the
bottom lands, and the season was encourag-
ing in every way to the crop. Besides
that, we do not expect to lose on account of
The abundance. If the corn crop in the
North is not equal to the average there will
De no surplus. The war in Egypt reduces
,he cotton crop there, and increases the
Talue of ours. The present quotation of
'uture cotton in New York is an assurance
hat our farmers will realize ten cents at
lome for their crop, which meant $50 per
oale.
''Haye you much immigration ?'
"There are three very erroneous objec-
ions offered to emigration South. The first
3 that the laborer fears that he will find
IN equality only among the negroes. That
$ not correct. know that the number of
white laborers is large and increasing. We
ire necessarily an agricultural community,
md our laborefs arc mostly agricultural.
We have no factories and no minea, SO far
s Mississippi is concerned. But the pro-
PORTION of our white agricultural laborers is
Increasing, and they have all the society
hey seek. The second objection is that of !!
he capitalist, in our supposed unwillingness
0 associate with Northern people. That |
Id war feeling has entirely passed away. I
here is no more bitterness in the South, |
eallv, than here. We have Northern peo-
lie down there who are Republicans, who ! !
ote the Republican ticket, without inter !,
srenee, attend Conventions, and so on. i
We objected, at the beginning, to have
Tar of races stirred up, but We welcome
verybody now, We want Northern capi-
Al and Northern emigration, and feel sur
rised that its tendency is westward, where ?
here are none of the advantages of school L I
r society. As to society, We are beginning =
) realize, as Lamar said on Sumner, that it 7 7
ras unfortunate that we did not know each . .
ther better We will, in time, and hope I
70 will soon" :
stWhat is the other objection p /
"That people in the North and in Europe n
,ar that yellow fever prevails generally in = :
ne South. The fact is, that where it exists :
prevails only along the Mississippi bot Ii
ms aud does not extend at all to the :.
igher lands in the interior. We are just as !,
ZEE from it as you are here" 4
sBut, then, you have noticed the tenden- +
: of emigration to follow climatic lines, !
ave you not?'
Certainly. But even in that there is a
istake as to our Southern climate and
mperatnre The Signal Service reports
low that our average summer heat is
oout the same as yours in Cincinnati. Ii