Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-26
REHABILITATION.
Aggregate popul.
Southern Industry.

The Cotton Planters Association of
the United States will hold its annual
convention this year at Little Rock,
Ark, on the 18Th of October, the meet
ing of the convention being happily
arranged so as to enable its delegates to
witness and attend the Arkansas State
Fair. 1t is possible that no such favor
able time for visiting the State of Ar
kansas will occur for years as this one,
when there will be gathered in Little
Rock the largest number of representative
Southern men (nOt politicians, but men
representing all the industrial interests of
the whole Southern States), ever assem-
bled at any point Every branch of indus
try will be represented on this occasion.
The whole Southern people have become
interested ia the fact that their material
interests have been hitherto overlooked,
and that the agricultural interests are
deeply concerned and connected with
the mechanical each directly tending to
promote and develop the other Labor
saving is an important item in successful
agriculture, and nowhere has this fact
been so largely and proftably impressed
as it has been upon the people of the
South, especially in the cotton produc-
blOus haDJ1- saving ID nO6 81 NdludbIG
in the respect that it enables producers
to dispense with labor as it is because it
enables the same amount of manual
labor to increase its production to an
enormous extent.
The visitor to this convention will at
the same time have an excellent oppOr.
tunity of seeing something of the pro-
gress going on in Arkansas, a State
wherein an unusual variety of all the
natural materials for immense industrial
productions are to be found in mex
haustiDle quantities. There is no reason
why that State should not become a per-
feet hive of industry, having all the ia
cilities and materials in prOfusion within
its own doors. We think politics
is very well in its way; we think
all men ought to have opinions aud vote
them freely, but politics is not of it.
self alone either a profitable Or useful
production, that it should furnish pre-
text for negleeting other and material in
terests. Labor engaged at produ etion
and labor engaged in politics are not the |
same things, and State fair exhibiting
the successful progress of Arkansas in |
the productions of her fields, her mineral |
resources, the capacities Of her forests.
the outcOmings of her furnaces and of |
her workshops, must Of necessity be of |
greater enduring value to the people of |
that State than all the conventions to |
nominate candidates for Office that are |
so numerous in that region.
Arkansas has been in the Union nearly |
nifty years her corporate existence is |
older than that of the city of Chicago,
and twice as old as some of the North |
ern States. She has been freed from |
slavery, and provided with a laboring |
population peculiarly adapted to her in |
dustries. Blessed with fertile soil and |
great natural productions, she needs only |
industry and peace within her borders to |
become one of the most productive |
States in the Union. 1t will be of |
great interest TO persons from the |
North to attend her State fair, especially |
as it is held this year at the |
same time with the great National Fair |
Of the Cotton Planters Association, and |
it will well compensate the time and |
expense of trip to Little Rock The |
attention given Of late years at the South |
to industrial pursuits other than mere |
cotton planting is the most encouraging
of all the signs of a coming prosperity |
such as the South has never witnessed or |
enjoyed. 1t is sign of the blessings |
which free labor brings in the place of |
slavery, and in that prosperity Of the |
South the Northern States ale prepared |
to welcome q national prosperity and |
national union of interests tending to |
obliterate the difficulties and antagonisms |
of the past.