The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-18
THE NEW SOUTH.
Louisiana Mans Glowing Account Of the
Great Progress Made in Dixie.


Marshal Pitkin, of Louisiana, who is now
Denison House was asked by Journal reporter
if there had not been marked improvement
in the condition of the South in the last few
yearsln
81 find myself grossly misquoted, Mr.. Pitkin
replied. "At times during my present visit TO
the North, expression are ascribed to me to
which have not given utterance-especially IN
reference to Southern matters. While there is
an old South would have you understand that
there is a new South, quickened with rich
vitality, resentful toward mist and mildew, and
genuinely progressive in purpose"
THE New Orleans Exposition will have much
to do with strengthening the commerce of the
South. will it notl"
Eyes, and want to say that rejoice to note
the appointment of an Indianian Of such worth
and executive force as General J. R, Carnahan
to serve as commissioner for this Common
wealth at the Exposition, where she should
stand in the van. Indiana should display the
evidences of her achievements in the field of
labor at the great marine gate through which,
with her Western sisters, she can stimulate a
both Mexican and South American demand for
Western wares. The maturest intelligence from
New Orleans, alike in exhibits and progressive
men, and heartily as we may welcome the
swarms of visitors and the accumulation Of dis
plays from European and Asian lands, forecast
especial advantage from this intellectual impact
of all American nationalitieS In this exchange
and fellowship of their American thought; in
their industrial touch and ultimate commercial
lock Of elbow with our own; in the growth, in
fine, of an American cousnship that would 6ndits
Liverpools, Manchesters, Belfasts and Hamburgs
11Yant NtuY cid ~ fba fh1Ne
could do more to temper the South than will
this great exposition. Beneath all the heave
and dash of partisan pillows there is a tremen
dous Southern current of growth"
What are the evidences of this growth"
"In the new South there are 500 600 spindles;
there has been an increase of 5000 miles of new
railroad in three years. and 5000, 900 900 in as
sessable values in four years; there have been
prodigious yields, and there are vast coal, iron.
cotton and corn fields and there is at the Gulf
door of this new South $500. 600 900 Of Spanish
American trade. This new South is daily feeling
new faith in herself. daily thrusting hand
into her pocket for bolder outlay; putting forth
both hands. white and black, to her multi,
plying industrial tasks, exploring beneath
the plantation level to the mine, rear
ing the factory chimney and announcing
determined purpose OF independence. The mus
Gle IN her arms, the self-faith in her heart, and
the accumulative means in her pocket form her
capital Alabama has twenty three cotton mills,
Georgia sixty two. Tennessee thirty five, Vir
ginia fourteen, Maryland twenty four North
Carolina ninety-two. South Carolina thirty one,
Kentucky five, Louisiana seven, Mississippi
twelve, Texas six and Arkansas four. In the
iron and woods on and near the Gulf slumbers
the promise that that Gulf shore will yet be the
great American ship-yard. confess myself an
enthusiast touching these new conditions-this
new.impulse that, like acorn in fower-pot,
holds the certainty of growth, strong root bulk
and height, and will burst the old environ
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