Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-09-29
From the Southern World.
ON LABOR, OR ANY OTHER SUB
JECT.
Remarks Before the State Agricultural
Convention, of Georgia, by DR.. s.
W. Zealand, of Gainesville.
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK. J


Get rich and the South will no
more beg for settlers. For the sails of
your vessels will whiten every sea.
Emigrants will pour in, capitalists will
invest, and should the Yankees bring
their machinery to the cotton instead
of carrying the cotton to their factories,
and move here in force and adopt the
South as their home, with all their en-
ergy, thrift and industry, then would
say to our "Brother in Black" that
there will be no more romantic novels
written about him, no more addresses
published in frst-clasS newspapers with
reference to our duty to him. But in
that age of utility and progress, when
the old fogies of the South are dead,
he will find he is not the pet of anyone.
A poll tax paid by one in ten will not
send his children to high schools and
colleges. He will have to stir himself
and march to the motto of, Everyone
for himself, the Lord for us all, and the
devil catch the hindmost," or get up
and double quick from here not only
to save his hide from the lanyard but
his body from the compost heap.
Get rich and Georgia through her
watermelon start over the Southern
sisters, will not only be the Empire
State of the South, but in less than
half century will be the Empire
State of the whole Union.
The great labor performed by nearly
one.half of the inhabitants of the globe
is very seldom spoken of or written
about. l mean the unsel6sh, never
ending work of the women of the land.
And when | speak Of women l do not
mean those butterflies of fashion, the
female dudes of society they too work,
but it is the work of self.adornment,
and the older they get the more arts.
tic work they have to do, until they
get to be such experts that all they
want is frame to hang their dry goods
on, for she can buy soft and silken curls
to cover her denuded head she can
freshen up her faded complexion with
powder and paints; she can cover her
empty gums with white pretty teeth ;
she can make her shrunken form look
full and voluptuous. After great toll
she can sail upon the streets for an
evening promenade, with her full.
flowing crinoline, regular man-trap,
not made so by her Creator, but by
scme artistic dressmaker-there she
goes false on top, and false at bottom
false before and false behind, and very
often with false heart beating behind
false bosom.
If mothers they ever become, they
are the mothers of the educated boobies
and brainless dudes which infest thu
land.
The women l speak of are those du
tiful daughters who are ever ready tt
help and comfort their weary mothers
of those faithful wives who are help
meets to their husbands; of those moth
ers who with entire self-abnegation de
vote themselves to the raising of thei
children, only supported in their never
ending toll by that well of love tina
ever springs fresh and pure in moth
er's breast. Hers is the only real an,
unselfsh love that this world is blesse,
with. She nourishes and protects then
in childhood and when grown beyon,
her maternal care, she will watch owe
and pray for them. The world ma
point the finger of scOrn at them, tn
stern father may repudiate them, bu
she is always ready to fold the return
ing prodigal in her loving arms whethe
he be repentant Or unrepentant.
If they grow up to be an honor
her, oh, how proud she is but she wi
cling to them even in their disgracc
and should they die drunkards or fe
ons, she will go and weep over the