The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-10-25
THE GLORIOUS SOUTH /.
A sAGE's OPINION OF HER.
A Promising AMI Prosperous Future
for the Southern States. sa 31as
baltimore Manufacturers Record.l

baltimore Manufacturers Record.1
The more the sayings of Judge kel-
ley, as reported by Frank G. Carpen-
ter in last weeks Manufacturers
Ref0rx, are studied, the more highly
VIII the wisdom of his suggestions and
of his forecast OF the future Of the South
be appreciated, Aside from the calm
philosophical discussion of other sub
jects that give interest and Importance
to the interview, there is one para
graph food for earnest thought. Judge
Kelley says "When the present local
and scattered development of the South
shall give place to such developments
as Mr.. Cowlam suggests, not only will
Southern manufactures be consumed
at home, but they will need to be vast
ly increased and of character of
more highly finished product, and it
will take the surplus of the North to
supply Southern demand. Southern
manufactures to-day are largely based
upon local conditions favoring cheap
productions, but without local demand,
and this forces their product into
Northern markets, whereas more
general development, based upon the
building of such railroads as would
connect the wealth of the mountain
wildernessesl o6the South with its val
leys and its existing railway system,
and thus, with all portions of the coun
try, would lay foundation for such
diversity and magnitude of mining
and manufacturing industry in szthe
South as would at once diversity South
ern agriculture. r.a --,. ay--
The foregoing is not the dream, Of
a visionary, but the prediction of a
venerable sage who has for more than
half a century studied causes and eff,
fects in the United States. When he
entered upon public life there were no
States west of the Great Lakes. Chica-
go was an Indian trading post, and
the Mississippi river was the frontier.
All the farms, the manufactures, the
great cities and towns, and the accum-
ulatcd wealth they represent had mo
existence The most ftrvid magma
E'tion could never have conceived of
the wonderful march of civilization
that has overspread half the continent
within fifty years, and created wealth
far greater than the aggregated ac-
cumulations of the entire country in
1890. The same causes that pro-
duced this tremendous development
have begun to effect the South, and
will continue their benehcent work un-
( til every part of it shall feel and be
prohted by them. So reasons Judge
Kelley. He goes further and asserts
that there 'sneyer existed in the West,
nor in any other portion of the coun-
try, anything like the natural wealth
! of the South" and he therefore -ex-
tpects that industrial progress and the
consequent increase Of wealth will be
even more rapid there than it was at
the West, and that this viii at once
! diversity Southern agriculture, and in
crease the profits of those engaged in 1t.
Judge Kelley reasons from true
premises They are facts, not :heo-
ries, upon which his prophecies of the
South's glorious future are based.
First is the admitted natural wealth I;
second, "the enormous energies, the
plant that, having done its work in
the West, is now seeking new field
of investment, and there is no spot on
earth sufficient for it and within its
reach but the South :" third, the drif.
of Northern immigration from the
] West to the South, which has already
assumed considerable proportions, is
! adding to its intelligent industrial
population, and will in time supply all
! the trained skill required for the pro
:. duction of the more highly finished
goods of every kind that the South
! now buvs from the North and West
| In other words, the entire North, from
i ocean TO ocean, has accumulated such
vast wealth that its capitalists are
compelled TO seek new fields for is
profitable employment, and there j:
no other in the world SO convenienr
or so certain as in the South. Some
! have already been convinced of thi.
! and have invested largely in Southern
enterprises but they are only the fore.
runners Of the many that will follow
their example. But one thing can in.
terfere with the present prosperity and
glorious future OF the South. Ofthat
Judge Kelley says: "Free trade viii
foreign nations, or lowering Of ouI
tariff to permit successful foreign com.
petition with our industries, would be
as disastrous to the North to-day a:
the war was to the South, and it would
|, stop Southern development and ruin
her new industries. 1t would not las
long, but year of i would undo ths
. work OF 20 years. For this reason i
will not come about. In the fore
going The Mannfafturers R<for4
! most cordially concurs. Whatesel
danger there may have been of a rad
ical change in the economic policy o
- T-r.,a.1 @sa.a~ bac t,s1s fsa15exst.