Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-06

atively few years of diversified industries,
under the benign and quickening stimulus
of the American system of protection,
have been preparing for revelation OF
the South to the rest of the Union and to
the world, that will make the old issues
and politics as ancient and obsolete as the
England of the Wars and of the Roses is
to the England of to-day. The best brains
and bravest hearts of the South are already
prophetically rejoicing in the success and
in the results of this splendid demonstra-
ton of the revitalized energies and con-
quering enterprises of the South that is to
be to the rest of the Union for the next
generation what the Northwest has been
to the generation that, with gloomy and
reluctant hearts. turned from the gladden.
ing triumphs of peace, to a struggle as
tragic as it was essential and inevitable"
Of what has been done in the South
within few years under the American
system sustained by the republican party.
through the energy and enterprise of
progressive economists, the following elo-
quent facts are presented: .a
ain Alabama there are 20 cotton mills !;
in Georgia there are 81: ia North Carroll
ma there 92, in South Caroliua there are
81; in Tennessee there are SO; in Virginia
there are IA; in Maryland there are "a;
in Louisiana there are Z; in Mississippi
there are IL; in Texas there are 6; in
Kentucky there are 5; in Arkansas there
are 4, and in Florida there are 2.
In 1880 there were made in the South
$50, 1892 plows-one-quarter of the entire
production of the Union. In 1888 this
branch of production had doubled, Geor-
gia alone making 100000 plows.
In the new South there are 900. 900 new
spindles. and 5000 miles of rails have
been laid in three years. The assessable
values of the South have increased $780,
00O, 900 in four years. During the first
two months of 1884 1925, 900, 900 were in
vested in the erection or extension of
Southern factories, and down to the first
of last July $70. 1000. 900 had been so ex-
pended. In ten years the increase OF the
Southern wool product, under protection.
has been 43 per cent. In ten years, I'M
protected, it was only 8 per cent. Ken
lucky has put 81 900 900 into new enter
prises since this year began; Alabama
has put in $5.0OO,0O0; Virginia. %, OOO,-
900; Texas, 81 900, 900; Georgia. 90, OOO.-
900, and so on.
From 1870 to 1880 the coal mined in
Georgia rose from nothing to 154, 900 tons.
1t was II, 900 tons in Alabama in 1870,
and 1922 900 tons in 1880. In Alabama,
Georgia, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee
and West Virginia. the output of coal rose
from SOC. 900 tons in 1870 to 3, 700, 900 tons
in 1880. In Alabama. Georgia, Tennessee,
Virginia and West Virginia, only 10000
tons of iron ore were mined in 1870. In
1880 there were sos. 900 tons mined
These facts are but few out of a vast
multitude that could be presented, all
eloquent as to the fostering influences of
the American system which Clay spoke
into benignant vigor and Blaine would
expand into the noblest proportions. 1t
is this sort of new growth that has given
success to the bold project of Worlds
Fair at New Orleans, of which promi-
nent journal of that city significantly says:
1t will point the way tor us to indepen-
dence through the diversiication of our
efforts and through those arts of frugality
and patient perseverance which have
made other agricultural countries rich
and so doing. this exposition will have
done the noblest and most important work
of the century. 1t will sponge out the
errors, the blunders and the superstitions
which have so long held us in their cruel
grip, and bestow instead the splendid
recompense of emancipation.
After presenting the South these pic
lures of real prosperity, of industrial
growth and the superiority of the progress
sive policy over that of bourbonism, the adj
dress touches upon the matter of suffrage
as follows:
"But il would be neither honest nor re-
spectful to the intelligence of Southern
men to tail to state. in this connection,
that the establishment of genuine and last
ing concord must be on the solid founda-
ton of the security of the suffrage from
menace, fraud and violence. 1t is with
the earnest desire that all sectional differ
ences and prejudices should disappear
forever, that the republican national COM
mttee urges the necessity, for all inter-
ests, of the disappearance of those obsta-
Giles to full and fair vote and honest count
that have deprived large existing repub-
lican majority in three States of its right
full power and weight. No legiti.
mate interest, of whichever section, can
long profit by such violation of the fun
dameutal law of our republican institu-
TONS"
The feeling of Mr.. Blaine toward the
South. and what the South may expect,
should he be elected President is represent
ed in the following: THE republican party