San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-04-06
do South, Young Man.
.sa Greeley was so intensely An

.o",a,ate the idea OF giving any recog'
'.;an 10 the people or country where
h. ' institution existed, hence his uni
t n eyhortarion was Go West, young
In the change OF things, il is
ma permissible TO give other and diff.
NV advice, and We would say with
~ ~ the cincerity and honesty of opinion
a. aver possessed Mr., Greeley's heart,
~ ~ south, young man, for We believe
tbe next ten years there will come to
.ha south greater changes and i'm
'n.ovements than have ever been expert
posd or dreamed of in the history of
.h;s country. John II. Inman, New
vnrk capitalist and representative of
millions of dollars, has very recently
made tour of the South, and says his
sav 10 A representative of the atlanta
Coustitt,tion. after this manner:
1T is my opinion that the whole
,ountry will develop very rapidly
w;tbin the next ten years. The i'm
mense amount of capital in New York,
Philadelphia, and Boston, as well as
,hrouphout the smaller cities of the
North and East, uninvested, or in use
at low rates will, inevitably seek invest
ment in sections of the country that are
rst undeveloped and not supplied with
.on;tal. There is little to do in the
way of development in New England,
and capital looking for investment
mnst seek the West or the South. The
West has already been occupied, so to
sneak, the best points having been
taken, and the most promising projects
carried out. The South on the other
hand. devastated by the war, has suf-
lered ever since for the lack of capital.
aMost of the region that is marked
unsettled on the maps of the Western
States. is composed of alkali plains too
moor to be worked, of virtual deserts,
or of prairies too cold to live upon.
The recent droughts and fires in even
those parts of the Northwest that are
occupied, show how terrible the sum-
mer is, and the terrible suffering of
last winter, when whole villages were
showed up and hundreds of persons
perished through the cold, can give us
an idea of their winters. Of course
capital will hesitate to seek section in
which there are such troubles in all sea-
sons as these. In the South there is
nothing of this. The climate is equa-
ble. the crops are certain, and there is
no occasion for anything like general
failure. The very fact that the South
ern farmers have been compelled to
produce the cotton crop, and at the
same time, pay for supplies fifty per
.x,kn f<v Of
eight months on the immense amounts
they have paid out for fertilizers, farm
Implements and provisions, which is
over six per cent. a month-the fact, 1
say, that they have been paying this
ruinous interest for the past fifteen
years, at the same time contending with
the untried labor and new condition of
things, and have yet managed not only
to keep their heads above water, but to
make money, is perfect proof that
this is the best section for the farmer
in America. AS soon as capital comes
into the South, and farmers can pay
cash for their supplies, getting them
at cash rates-as soon as they have
mastered the new science of farming
with free labor and with improved ma
chinery and scientific methods, and as
soon as they learn to diversity their
crops and adopt the exact and prudent
management of the Northern farmer,
they will become the most prosperous
people on the earth. in my opinion.
Where the farmers are prosperous
there is always little risk in lending or
investing capital"
will not the epidemics that the
South is subject to count somewhat
against herr"
"Not at all. AS soon as better health
regulations are adopted in the cities
and stricter quarantine established
along the coasts we will have seen the
last of yellow fever, cholera and SINH
lar troubles. New York and Philadel-
phia have at enc time suffered with
yellow fever as the Southern
cities do, but they are not troubled
with it now. This shows that it is
not the fault of the climate, and that
BY prodence it can be avoided. Even
now the heart of the South, the great
Piedmont region, is not subject to any
'Piuemlc, anu III lew years we snal
see yellow fever and cholera disappear
from even the limited territory that it
visits occasionally now"
What are the greatest agents of
Development in the South?"
Il should say the railroads. 1t is
commerce that builds up and develops
any country. In olden times those
portions Of the coasts on which there
we're the best bays and harbors became
sites of great cities simply because
taey were points at which the products
OF the interior were collected and sent
to market. The railroads are to the
interior just what the harbors are to
me coast, and will just as certainly de-
Selop the sections through which they