Bismarck weekly tribune., 1888-10-05

wisely tttke 1ue1u, VIII Oe, compared With
those of the past, in proportion as our greater
strength i'll experience skill, capital and
labor to do with, will be to the lessened Diff
culties to be overcome. To doubt that we
shall take what the future holds for us is to
distrust the common sense of the American
99sSgs 9ssgss and the o7s'ra!ns kindness of P'0v'-
"But," asked, "have we not already
taken up and occupied the largest and rich
est part of our fieldp'
"By no MEANS" responded the Judge.
"We have barely laid a foundation for broad
and harmonious development. When first
came to congress we were two people, with
interests and feelings as hostile and with con-
ditions as santagonistic as those which divided
the Spaniard and the Moor. Today we are
one people, our interests are common,
and every day is making this more clear and
real to all our people, We are everywhere
at work on this foundation. Our greatest
and most varied natural wealth, that of the
south, is almost untouched, but it will be
opened to enrich and develop the south and
to be exchanged for the products of other
portions of the country, while the great de-
velopment of the north, and particularly Of
the northwest, will be found to form only
broad and solid foundation for still greater
growth. The agricultural productions of the
west and northwest, like the manufactured
products of the east, are in excess of pres
ent market, but the development of the south
will give to the west and northwest new
market in which to profitably exchange it's
surplus bread and meat for timber and min
erals and the earlier and different produc-
tions Of southern soil and climate. Southern
development will also afford to the eastern
states profitable market for it's surplus cap
ital and manufs stured product by like ex-
change, and to all parts of the north field
for its surplus labor"
"Do you think the southern field broad
enough to afford a development sufficiently
great and rapid to meet the necessities of the
north7' asked.
''Most assuredly," was the reply. "1n the
closing paragraph Of my little book, The
Old South and the New,' two sentences have
caused Inc much questioning. say there
wealth and honor are in the pathway of the
new SOUTH and again, she is the coming
Eldorado of American adventure Ny
friends have thought mo too sanguine But
the states south Of the Ohio and east Of the
Mississippi with their half million square
miles of area contain wealth great enough
for continent, a wealth so vast, so varied
in it's elements and character, so advan-
tageously placed for development that these
states alone can sustain population far
greater than that Of the United States today.
Their products would be SO different from
those of other portions of the country as to
afford the most profitable exchange edvan-
tageous to all. And it is in these states that
we must find the new and greater market for
northern surplus, whether that surplus be in
the shape of accumulated labor of the past,
that is to say capital, or the future produc-
tions of labor, or of labor itself, because in
these southern states more than elsewhere
the natural conditions of success exist.
"As to the rapidity with which it can be
done the past growth of the west furnishes
the best answer. It was the building of an
empire in the west that relieved and en-
riched the east as well as the west The enor-
NOUS energies-the' 'plant'-used in that task,
unparalleled in the magnitude of the work
and the greatness Of the reward to all, is now
seeking new field of investment, and there
is no spot on earth sufficient for it and within
its reach but the SOUTH"
'sBut tell me, judge" said I, chow do you
weigh climatic influences, the mountainous
character of large portions of the south and
the labor system, SO largely composed of the
colored people, as obstacles to southern
~ have Travelled much in the south since
the war;" said Judge Kelley, sand have al
ways been keenly interested in every step Of
progress she has made, and eager to learn all
j could of southern resources and ad-
vantages. have urged my friends to 20
there, and my son is there now, with
al that he possesses embarked in q
manufacturing enterprise I do not consider
that there ever existed in the west, great as
its wealth Is, or in any other portion Of the
country, anything like the natural wealth of
the south. A very large part Of the south
is blessed with q climate unexcelled if
equaled elsewhere in the world. As to the
mountainous region of the south, it is richer
in natural wealth and in advantages for the
development Of that wealth; it has finer
climate better water and higher conditions
Of health than any region of which have
any knowledge, and is withal one of the most
beautiful regions in the world Whoever
win read the little pamphlet written by Mr..
George B. Cowlam, Of Knoxville, Tenn,
The Undeveloped South will get some
specific information that is valuable because
based on accurate knowledge and facts, and
when the present local and scattered develop
ment of the south shall give place to such de-
velopment as Mr.. Cowlam suggests, not only
viii southern manufactures be consumed at
home, but they will need to be vastly in
creased and Of q character Of more highly
dnishsd product, and it will take the surplus
Of the north to supply southern demand !,