The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-06-03

The new growth and development OF the
south Is at last recognized even In Europe.
tn. English papers havo hitherto been de-
c-ived by tue stories told oy the repub,i.
can papers OF the south ana have formed
the moet error eous ideas about us: but
tbey nov appreciate that u new era has
dA ~ned here.
The London Standard, the second lsrges,
paper Ia the world, recognizes how the tide
mas turned. Perhaps" 1t remarks, "the
holding Of q great exhibition or
Worlds Fair at New Orleans this
year may tet the tide running in
tbs new direction all the more rapidly for
having been no long held back. New Or.
leans Is moving az all the South moves
aud has caught tbs fever OF progress. SO
welt has its Worlds Show been adver-
tised that thirteen foreign nations
have applied for space aggreg,ting
2O9, 900 square feet in It's coming exhibition.
Holiday trips from all over The Unio- al
least, and p,rnaps ircm many paris Ol
Europe, vii this year lbs toward the city
that gunrus the mouth OF tho Mississippi
The .aies az d territories OF The L uion, TOO,
will vie wi u each ctngr in tins display oil
tbeir proauc,s; sud 10 this oomp-Eltion,
n lscted though they have been. the
ortneru states will bol1 place oi
wh'os they need not oe ashamed. In many
respec " has ueen good Tor them thHt they
hsva Teen lets aibne. rhey have pro
crossed more slowly, but also more surely
Insa IL they h al neeG exploited by the cap.
ita.ikt and CON pan f-monper from the
northern states OF irom J. Iglnnd. Blu: their
pros res4 hts been solid. The coal and iron
induautes OF Alabama, tor example, are
healthier to-day han those Of Pennsylvg.
mia, la olhrr industries, als', the pro sress
has been little less remarkable. Toe south
ern s,a.ea enjoy, OF cDurss d prsctioai mo.
lpoly IN the production ot American cot
Ion. and IL would be foolish to institute
comparisons with regard TO that branch of
agr culture. Till lately, however, some
of tn, 50 states nave done II tie moro than
grow tho cotton, but Low the cotton mills
vi the south, Principally In Georgia, have
mace rapid strides toward equality wish
those OF Now England. A recent es .imate
places thr capital invested in these
southern mills at fl0,0Oo c0, and the in
crease In the amount OF cotton mennfsc.
tur d has been more than 90 per cent with.
Ia the last half dozen years. At the same
cotton has been such that the average crop
10 nov fully double what IL was IN the days
Of slavery. "A panorama Of THE kind might
be Almost indie finitely extended. We might
descabt on the orange groves Ct Florids,
the VAT forests Of Arkansas, fast disappear.
ing, on the cattle ranges OF Texas, and the
rice fields OF South Carolina and Louisiana.
Euough. however, has BEEN said to indicate
the abonnding wealth OF this hslf-forgotten
region In the United States"
The Standard believes that the time oil
the eouth has como again, and II calls a..
ieption TO the fact that the Capitalists OF
London are turning their attention to
southeru investments, and that company
alter com pnny Ii being organized TOR the
exploration OF the old south.
srn states. 1t warns us, how
ever, not 10 fall into the error OF the
M rth and build railwSys fer beyond our
n. ces-ities--not to mortgage the future. 1t
IL better tho: the south should develop
SLOWLY inst I'D o attempting to force An ar.
iiticial snd premature growth. The
s,utb," II Gays, rs MT the country for
huse lsnd.grnbbiDg comp anies, nor for
railroad icbemss like those that have de-
m ,lized The north ana west. Its rivers
nrs its natural highways, and IT'S fertile
s,ii Yields the nest result in the hsnus
of the small ruliivStor ~ tho succ. 81
vt the negro cotton tanner proves. We
trust, therefore, that the attention TO be
given lhis car 10 these southern states VIII
not lead to the generation Of u speculative
rush OF the kind whose inevitable end is n
financial collapse. should it not do so, we
may exp ct to see them make great and
lasting progress ~ithin the mex few year..
Immigrants will flow toward them, Undue.
tries will spring up aud expand, weslth
will accumulate Until, II may be, this part
of the Union will resume its place 40 the
dominant section OF the great Federal ro'
public, ~ Galveston News.