The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-06-05
Til, south as viewed In Europe.

Thou,v growth aud development OF tho
south IL at last recognized even IN Europe
Tbs English papers have hitherto preh q. .
ceiyed by the storits tcid py inc rebuoH'
can papers OF the south, ana nave ioihloa
the mo.t error eous insas about us oaI
thew now appreciate that new cru has
dawned here. ,,..,
The London Standard, the second largest
paper Ia ,ne worlc, recognizes how 'ne .ius
has turned. Perhaps" II remarks, the
holding at great rxhioluJ or
Worlds Fair at New, Orleans this
wear may cot the tide running IN
This new direction all the more rapidly for
leans is moving 10 oil the South moves.
and has caught the fever OF progress. SO
veil nns iIs Worlds Show been Gdyer.
tised that thirteen iorelsn cations
have applied for space .sSregat!ng
oOe 900 ,ouare feet in its coming sInipiion.
Holiday trips from all over the unioD al
LEASE, and p, rnsps iron many, parts oi
Europe, viii tnis year ilo~ toward the CITY
that guards the mouth OF the Mississippi.
The states aud territories 81 the U uion, TOO,
will vie with each other III tho display oil
their prouucts; and In this composition,
reslected though they have been, the
.outhern states will hold a place oil
whicn they need not pe ashamed In many
r,.pec,r II has been good for them laat they
have heen left alone. Tney nave pro
creased more slowly, but also more surely,
tnsn IL they had oeen exploited by the cap
itnlist and company -mopger from Tho
northern states or from England. But their
progress ha, been solid. The coal anu iron
industries OF Alabama, Tor example, are
heallhisr to-day hsn those OF PebnsylVa'
mia. In other industries, also, the progress
brs been little less remarkable. the south
ern states enjoy, OF course, prsc!lcA mo
nopoly In the production OF American COT
ton, and il would DO foolish TO institute
comparisons with regard 10 tnat oIancn .,
Agriculture. Till lately, however, some
of these states have done little more than
grow tho cotton, but low the cotton mills
OF the eoutb, principally In Georgia, have
made rapid strides toward equality with
tno.e OF New England. A recent estimate
plxces the capital invested in these
southern mills at El0,OU,OOO, and the in-
crease in .he amount OF cotton mAnufac'
tur d has been more than w per Cent with
in the las, half dozen years. AZ tue sAme
time the expansion In the cultivation OF
cotton hiss been soch that the average crop
is nov fully double Whist 1t WAN in the day s
Of slavery. "a panorama Of this kind mignt
be almost ind. tiuitely extended. We might
d.scant on the orange groves OF riorus'
the vast forests OF Arkansas, last disappear
Ing. on he cattle ranges OF Texas, anu tho
roe fields OF South Carolina anu Lon'sisnn.
Enough, however, has been said to indicate
the Astounding wealth OF this hali-iorgotten
region in the Upited States"
The STANDARD believes that tho time Of
the south has come again, end &c calls o..
,ention 10 the iact that the capitalists OF
Tendon are turning their attention 10
southern Investments, aud that company
after com pany ~ being organized Tor the
EXPLORATION Of tho old south
srn states. 1t warns us, how.
aver. not to iali into the error OF the
north and build railways fer beyond our
nrces.ities-not to mortgage the future. IL
ia better that tine south saouli develop
slowly ipst-ad o. attempting TO force an Or
tificiAl and premature growth. "ine
soutb." 1t says, lis not the country for
huge land-grabbiDg compsnies, nor for
railroad scbemes like those that hsve do
NOR. lized the north and west. lts rivers
are its natural highways, and It's fertile
s,jl Yields the uest result In the hanos
OF the email rultivstor, as the success
OF tho negro cotton farmer proves. we
trust, therefore, that ths attention 10 o.
given this year to these southern states VIII
not lead to the generation OF speculative
rush OF the kind whose inevitshls emu Is
fiuspcial collapse. should 1t not do so, W.
may exp ct to see them make great and
lasting progress within the next IeW years
Immigrants will flow toward them, indus
tries will spring mp and expand, wealtt
will accumulate until. IL may be, this par
of the Union will resume it's place ss th'
dominant section Of the great Federal re
public. "-[Gsiveston News.