The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-03-05

been greatly blessed in her natural
gifts to invite every diversity of le-
Ultimate industry, and the hopeful
promise of her future is in the very
general interest exhibited by all
classes of business men to promote
the development of her vast wealth.
Instead of discussing politics or
wrangling over cabinet aspirants or
postoffices, the one question most
earnestly discussed in public places,
in the clubs and in social gather
ings that draw the men of substance
is the best method of attracting in
dustrial emigrants, of securing cap
ital and business experience to
multiply producing mines, furnaces,
factories, farms, railways and
schools. An evening spent as pro-
ftably or pleasantly at one of the
clubs of the city, discussed only the
question of hew to make the strang
er most welcome as q citizen of the
state. The young business men of
Nashville were at the front, and
with them were the college profes-
scr, the journalist, the minister and
the politician of the south. They
HAVE BURIED THE PAST
and its death they have buried with
it the traditions, the teachings, the
prejudices which made the south
the home of few in luxury and the
home of many in poverty. They
discuss slavery as one of the sad
errors of their fathers, and the wei
come emancipation as the Olsen
thralmeAt of the blacks. They are,
as class, the men who learned IN
bOyhoed, by the terrible sacrifices
of war, that 'hardiness ever of har
diness is mother" and they have
grown to manhood since the story
Of AppOmattox was dated. They
have grown up self-reliant and ener-
getic and they are about to assert
themselves in the political and bu-
siness policy of the south.
EVEN SOUTH CAROLINA
has : governor who has won his po-
sition as the founder of the liberal
educational system of the Palmetto
state and not as a Confederate war
rIor, and the sudden and Irresisti-
BILE impetus about to be given to the
material development of the diVersi-
fed wealth of Tennessee; the early
completion of her great waterways
the opening of her coal, iron, cop
per and marble deposits; the en-
ployment of her immense waterpow-
ers to whirI the spindle and drive
the loom and forge-hammer, and
they want just protection for the
industries of the nation. More
than that; they will have what they
need if united and manly effort can
attain it,regardless of partisan lead
ers and free trade dreamers.
ANOTHER RIVAL TO PENNSYLVANIA.
No intelligent business man from
Pennsylvania can carefully examine
the natural resources OF Tennessee
and Alabama without seeing the
hand of destiny that is soon to
make a revolution in the iron and
coal trade of this country. While
in the single struggle for the mas
terry in iron and coal prodnct, Ala
bAma has in some measure the ad-
vantage of Tennessee as a great
centre of those commodities, this
state surpasses Alabama in the
surroundings mineral wealth which
can be proftably developed by man
ufacturing.
THE SOIL OF TENNESSEE
is better than that OF Pennsylvania,
and capable of every growth we can
boast of in the Keystone state, with
cotton added in large belt of the
southern portion. 1t has all the di-
versity of hills, valleys and water
courses, with a more congenial eli
mate. East Tennessee has as just
claim to be called the Switzerland
OF America as has Northern Penn
sylvania. In addition to her IA, 900
square miles of productive land, it
has one hundred and fifty miles of
navigable waters leading to the
great commercial centres of the
south. Middle Tennessee, although
an inland country, with nearly a
million people, has five hundred
miles of navigable waters, has four
thousand square miles containing
iron and ore, and was an iron pro-
duciug region before the war of
1912. West Tennessee borders on
the Father of Waters, that will ever
more, trust, ego uavexed to the
sea-" and these natural highways
are certain to hasten the
MASTERY OF THE SOUTH,
in mineral products which have
heretofore been most successfully
produced i'll the north. l have in a
previous letter explained how the
opening of the Warrior, at a cost
of less than is annually wasted in
the river and harbor bill ON mud
creeks would open the great Alaba
ma coal and iron fields to the world.
1t was urged by John Quincy
A dams when oresidant INIT diVArsi