The Lake Charles echo., 1885-03-28
THE NEW SOUTH.
What ID Offers 10 Young gHen Of
Energy from the North.
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.

Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
Mr.. K. II. Davis, who accompanied
Col. Mcclure in his recent Journey
South, in an address recently delivered
at the Lehigh University, said:
THE war'was one of the greatest
blessings the Southern people have
ever known. We not only freed the
coored man, but his white master,
That great leisure class who lived like
princes and who regarded work as de-
meaning, were taught a lesson by the
war which saved them from them,
selves and which has made the South
the land of promise that it is to-day.
The condition of the young men pre-
sents the benefit of the war. Where
they formerly spent time in ideness
they are now the builders and workers
of the new South. But their eaergy
and youthful enterprise will avail lit
tie as long as they remain in need of
two things-capital and an increased
white population. The speaker could
not understand what had kept North
ern capital so long out of the South.
He did not believe it was prejudice !;
it was more likely ignorance of the
South's resources, and any fear from
political point of view was uncalled
for. You can travel throughout the
South to-day, and not hear one word
of politics except as politics bear on
the improvement Of Southern indus
tries. The sooner the Northern capi
talist understands that he can do more
with lis money by investing it in the
South than in letting it lie idle in
banks or losing it on Wall street, the
better for him and the better for the
South. And not only the capitalist,
but the emigrant, the farmer, the
miner and engineer
The South is no longer under an
oligarchy, cotton is no longer king,
and all Of these men can find employ
ment and be better paid for it than
they would be in the North. They are
making ironin Alabama, with fourth
rate furnace, six dollars cheaper than
we make it in Pennsylvania to-day.
In Tennessee they are shipping pig
iron to Pittsburg at less cost than the
raw material brings in Pittsbnrg itself.
In Birmingham, Ala, they are taking
out 1000 tons of coal a day, and it is
good coal and good iron; according
to the committee from the Franklin
Institute, it is as good as the best
Swedish iron in the market, and the
coal and iron and limestone lie side by
side within six miles of each other.
Yet with all these advantages they are
willing to share them; they do not act
like dogs in the manger about it. If
you will build furnace in Birming-
ham they will give you the land to
build it on. Not only do they want
the capitalists to build their furnaces
and to dig their mines, but they want
the miner, chemist and engineer to
work in them. | think, without ex-
ceptiou, every workman above the
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