The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-31
mrKrruRE sOUTH.

upon the under dog in the f 1ht. Start
amsn down hill and everybody gives
him kick, The poor make no new
friends. Even nations JON in crushing
ont n weak and deienseless neighbor.
1t is only success that inspires SYM
pathy, sdulat on and help. Twenty
years o the desolated South had no
friends. She was the under dog in
the fight, a I'd In order to complete her
deQrad o. and destruction, she was
subj .cted I the ordeal OF recon.truc-
ton more 'amitous to her material
interests than the rRvlges OF the war.
But with the advent OF home rule
came the silver lining TO the cloud,
and for twelve years the march Of the
South has been steadily onward until
she has reached prosperity. unprece-
dented in her history, and superior to
that Of any section Of the Union. Oh
course this prosperity hes secured for
the South the friendship OF the whole
country. Our people and sec
ton are not scourged by strikes
or any OF the social evils that beset the
country. All classes ars moving for
ward in harmony. Our industrial
growth has been marvellous, and now
the whole country joins in praise OF
the South. Col. A, X. Mcclure was
in Nashville q week ago, and he said
to reporter: Gust what ! predicted
four years ago, when ! made my first
OF four trips in the South, that 1t is
the greatest section Of this country.
] found prosperity and cheerful peo-
pie everywhere except at New Or
leans. A serious depression exists
there owing to the trouble about
sugar. We can do without cotton,
You know, bu, not without sugar. As
a whole the South is looking grand
and promising. The North is full OF
men waiting to G South, and they are
making their preparations now. More
than this, the surplus population Of
the East is beginning to think Of the
South as an objective point. The
South is infinitely a grander country
than the West, and whenever you can
get home emigration turned toward
the South the foreign will follow" in
these utterances Col. Mcclure vo ces
the general opinion of the North
ern people, that the South offers
greater inducements to immigration
than any section OF the Union. "The
North Is full Of men waiting to go
South" says CO.. Mcclure. Let them
come; they will be cordially well
comed. The industrial growth of the
South during the laEt decade lie only
the beginning Of the wonderful adj
vancement OF this section in adding to
her own and the nations wealth, for
the new wealth OF the South will be
largely diffused throughout the North,
and Southern prosperity means the
common prosperity Of the whole coun-
try. The opinion obtains everywhere
that the South will present for the
future o more prosperous industry
than either the North or West. There
are many natural causes to contribute
to that result, as the Southern people
are utilizing for the first time their
great advantages, Thee can be no
limit set 10 the possibilities OF the
South in the development OF its indus
trial interests. Ten years ago, when
the South FIRST emerged from the DESC
lRtion of war and the still greater
desolat'on Of the reconstruction era,
prediction that there would
be such wonderful prog
ress in the development of the agri-
cultural, manufacturing, mining, rail
reading Of the Southern States as has
been done, would have bsea regarded
rs the yagsry CT an enthusiast. To
show the industrial growth of the
South we have only to look at the fig
ures. Since 1879 the South has added
1000 miles to her railroad mileage,
the building OF which, added to the in
Vestments in old roads and their i'm.
provement, must foot up little, If any,
short Of s500,OO0,0O0. The assessed
value OF property in the S5uth, not.
withstanding the fact that assessments
are much less than the actual cash
value Of property, and that a large
amount of manufacturing property
that has been created since 1879 is not
represented in the tax assessments,
owing to exemption laws, shows
an increase Of $0OO,000,00O since
1879. The production of corn has in
creased from 1874, 100000 bushels in
1879 to 49S, 100000 bushels in 1854
gain Of 100000 bushels-a and of
oats, from AZ. 100000 bushels to about
100000 bushels, while of tobacco,
fruits and vegetables, the grasses, etc,
-the increase has been equally as sat
isfactory. In the raising of hogs aud
livestock generally the same wonder
full progress has been shown. In
manufacturing we have seen the
number Of cotton-mills increase from
$50 to 25S, and the number Of spin
dies and. looms from 7l3,9S9 and To-
222 respectively to l,460,697 and a.
004-a gain Of about 100 per cezt.
COttonaeed-oil-mills that in 1880
numbered forty, with capital Of S.
60I,500, now number lac, and their
capital is $40, 792, 45O. In 1880 the
South made S97,SOl tons Of pig
ironi in 1884 II made 657,599 |
tons-s gain Of 2eO,29s tors.
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