The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-10-11
THE SUNNY SOUTH.
Judge Kelley says it is the Eldorado of
a Bright Future, and it will Readily
Support Great Population.
Correspondence of The World.)

Correspondence of The World.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-It is Won
derful how Judge Kelley holds his own,
both mentally and physically. He
came to Congress twenty-eight years
ago, and he has been leading figure
in every Congress since then. He has
for years been the father ofthe house,
and now in his 18th year he is thor
oughly posted Oh every move upon the
political chess board. He studies not
only Washington matters, but those OF
the whole United States, and he has as
much interest in every part of the
country as though Uncle Sans do
minion all belonged to him. There is
nothing Of the pessimist about him,
and he thinks the present the best OF
times. He has faith in the growth OF
the country, and especially of the south.
I talked with him last night about the
conflicting interests of the United
States, and asked him for his views of
the general outlook. He replied:
lone who has seen as much as I
have of dangers overcome and of the
country's growth in wealth and pros
perity, of the ability of our people to
meet as it arose any emergency, how
ever great and terrible, and deal with
it successfully, and of their adaptability
to constantly changing conditions, can
not doubt as to the future. Compared
with the task of the past. under all its
difficulties and dangers. the work of the
future is but child's play. The results
achieved since 1861, under all the stress
and loss and destruction of war, and
through years or disturbance following
the war, are wholly unparalleled and
unapproached in the worlds history.
The rewards which the future offers US,
if we wisely take them, will be, COM
pared with those of the past, in pro-
portion as our greater strength il ex-
perience, skill, capital and labor to do
with, will be to the lessened difficult
ties to be overcome. To doubt that we
shall take what the future holds for US
is to distrust the common sense of the
American people and the overruling
kindness of Providence"
"But," asked, "have we not already
taken up and occupied the largest and
richest part of our field?"
"By no MEANS" responded the judge.
"We have barely laid a foundation for
broad and harmonious development.
When first carle to Congress we were
two people, with interests and feelings
as hostile and with conditions as an
tagonistic as those which divided the
Spaniard and the Moor. To-day we
are one people, our interests are COM
mon, 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 development
OF the North, and particularly of the
Northwest, will be found to form only
broad and solid foundation for still
greater growth. The agricultural pro-
ductions Of the West and Northwest,
like the manufactured products of the
East, are in excess of present mar
ket, but the development of the South
will give to the West and the North
west new market in which to profita-
bly, exchange its surplus bread and
meat for timber and minerals and the
earlier and different productions OF
southern sell and climate. Southern
development will also afford to the
Eastern States profitable market for
its surplus capital and manufactured
product by like exchange, and to all
parts @: tie North a field for its surplus
labor"
"Do you think the Southern field
broad enough to afford development
sufficiently great and rapid to meet the
necessities of the North?' T asked.
"Most assuredly," was the reply.
s'In the closing paragraph Of my little
book, The Old South and the New
two sentences have caused me 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.
My friends have thought me too san
guine. 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 a
continent, a wealth so vast, so varied in
its its elements and character, so ad-
vantageously placed for development
that these States alone can sustain g
population far greater than that of the
United States to-day. Their products
would be so different from those OF
other portions of the country as to
afford the most profitable exchange ad,
vantageous to all. And it isin these
States that we must find tho new and
greater market for Northern surplus,
whether that surplus be in the shape
of the accumulated labor Of the past, ol