The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-11-11
STAY SOUTH.

When all comes to all, life is little
more than a bundle Of habits anyhow.
Don't get in the habit of changing
your base. 1t is poor policy. 1t is
uncertain, risky, dangerous.
| Make up your mind to pay your
own way and take a mans part in
this play of everyday life. To-day.
even now, settle the question, once
tor all, and stay South.
: The stars never rise to look down
on better country for people to live
in than this. That is not fancy it is
truth. The South is especially invi-
ting and attractive to young men
when you come to think over the
matter and take practical view of
the situation.
Very true, our systems of trade
and industry and commerce are far
from perfect: but even in this imper-
lection there is advantage for young
men il you will but look and see it
that way. Set about to improve the
old machinery, unfold new ideas and
make some methods of your own.
Have opinions and convictions and
honor them. Play for keeps and
stay South.
In spite OF pride, and in spite Of
the show of progress and advance
ment already made, as a people, we
have much to do and many things to
learn. What the country wants and
the age demands is more grown men
at the iront-men of energy and
common sense and practical push and
go. Here, as elsewhere, and in fact.
everywhere, there is profit in all la
Dor, whether OF brain or of muscle.
Young man, take hold true hearted
~, meet the issues as they come, face
the music, and stay South
In the strife and tumult Of men
and times the South is unfolding and
MISUNDERSTANDING from the bud
into the full bloom, so to speak. I'll
is the best place under the sun to-day I
to get rich, or grow great, or be hap
Ply, just as you wish and will. 1t is
still very rich in the riches that ma
ture gave us-the wealth of wood |
land and stream and hill and valley.
of field and forests and mines and
mountains. Its seasons are delight
full, and the soil is varied and pro-
ductive and luxuriant 1t is the land !
of the peach and the pomegranate, |
the pine and the palmetto, the sugar
cane, cotton and corn. All you have
to do is to take hold intcllgently and
industriously and appropriate the
materials and re sources that the God
of nature placed about you, and right
here you can make anything and
everything from a cotton fake to
bale of bleached domestic, from
cypress single to a ship-mast, from
SIX penny nail to steam engine
These are facts that stand up and
talk out and speak for themselves.
The forest tree points upward to the
mountain, brown and bare, but preg-
nant with its weight and wealth Of
precious ore, and the mountain looks
down upon the hills and the valleys,
where the cotton fields are white I'M
to the harvest and 'the withered ban
ners of the corn are still" And all
seem to say, "Young man, stay
South"
Come to think about it, the South
is great country any way you take
it. Yes, that il is 1t always was.
1t grows on you, so to speak. 1t has
vast variety Of wealth and resources
and attractions, natural and artificial. |
The wonderful combination of sur
roundings, and the harmonious blend
ing of many things is what makes the
country wholly pleasant to live in |
and altogether lovely to look at. 1t
is harmonious in structure, marvel |
Gus in beauty, abundant in resources. |
tull OF life and promise. Fortunes
are wrapped up in its forests, and |
buried down under the sod and the
daisies. Its storehouse is the green
earth's mother breast. The doors
are not all open yet. Some of them
remain closed and barred and bolted
Young man, look tor the keys. Get
on the inside and find the treasures.
Have a finger in the pie Don't ride
= bubble back to the unknown and
leave the world to wonder why yop
were ever born at all. Dig while It's
called day. Do about diligently |
Think and work, sow and reap; and
stay South.
No matter ,,ho you are, or what
YOU mean to DO, or what you hope to
be, young man, stay South There's /
none other like it. And in the South
there is SO much yet to come, and
G much good work for the clear
head and the honest heart and the
willing hand to do. Every hour
brings its opportunities. After all,
Ton an average, and as rule, men arc