The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-26
The Star of Empire,

For years before and after the war the
section of country which attracted the most
attention was the great and growing West.
wv estward the star of empire takes its
course was a familiar and favorite ex-
preston. 1t is not heard quite so frequently
now. This expression is taking its place:
"Southward the star of empire takes its
course"
All over the North and West the South is
now attracting attention The newspapers
and trace journals are devOting more at
tenlion to the South than ever before. The
merchants of the great commercial cities of
the North are looking carefully after the
Southern trade and caoitalistS are seeking
investments in tie Southern States. The
South's advantages are being generally I'M
derstood and appreciated
1t would naturally be supposed that
Western journals would devote all their at
tention to their own section. Such, how
ever, is not the case. Almost every day
some of them have articles commanding the
South. In late issue the Chicago Journal
Of Commerce published an editorial article
Of which the following is an extract AT
last the tide of the South's prosperity has
set in to the fullest, and this should be the
signal for general prosperity of the next
ten years to the whole country. The chief
thing now wanted there is machinery, tools,
mechanical appliances. hardware, struc-
tural and bridge and railway outfit aud
equipment, and this the Eastern States
were never in better condition TO
furnish At the same time it relieves
the Central and Western States of
the overconpetition Of the East, gives
the new manufacturers and new
States good profits, and stimulates the en-
largement of capacity. The overcrowding
of the Central and Western and North
western States is relieved, the tide is going
southwark and the prosperity of the coun-
try Is assured. The low valuation of lands
at the south Of the Ohio. compared with
that of lands north of it, gives capital con
fidence to invest, whilc that investment an
nually doubles the value of the country.
Now that the fear and dstrust of southern
climate, southern institutions and pecu lar
tiles have vanished into thin air, and the
country is found wholesome and possessed
VI dil VIC maui ldl itrcuiCtS VI d iOuDl1
profitable industrial condition, the wonder
comes up most vividlyas to why the same
convictions were not apparent enor fifteen
years ago. For the next ten years the old
shops will have all they can do to furnish
new machinery and appliances, newer and
more economical processes by which the
new country will produce and provide for
itself. During the next ten years the South
ern States will make their cotton into cloth
for export instead of exporting the raw ma
terial; will have a sugar product ten times
the present; will raise and make the lutte
bagging for their cotton; will produce ramie
for a product rivaling silk; will produce
raw silk for our silk mills, and 5000, 900
tons of iron, and have a new process for
providing their own structural and railway
steel. The beginning of the traffic North
and South, instead of East and West, will
have developed in a manner unmistakable,
and the exchange of products natural to
climate which is to be Americas future
commerce"