The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-08-02
A BRAIN BOOM.
The South Always Led
and Always Will
Lead.
The Conditions Of Suprena-
cy More Marked South
Than Elsewhere
On Earth.
The Rede Laid Down by Hon. Kel-
ley for Industrial Supremacy
Unerringly Point to
Decatur, Ala, as the Destined Sea-
and Center Of Southern Develop
meut and Wealth.
Decatur Still on the Highway to Metro
politan Grandeur-Hsr Prospects
Bright and Cheering.
Decatur, Ala, as the Destined Seat
and Center Of Southern Develop
ment and Wealth.
Decatur Still on the Highway to Metro
politan Grandeur-Hsr Prospects
Bright and Cheering.

persons who have had the thought
20 investigate that the south is de-
,tined to be the richest country and
hriftiest part of the United States,
md this conclusion comes not sole
y from the evident tendency to-
wards that result already manifest
and from an analysis of the physi-
cal cause that are producing it, but
from an analysis also of the nature
and power and inclin atoms of the
southern people. The southern
people do not know their own pow
ers, so long have they been unac-
customed to their exercise, else
they could see in the achievements
of the past certain augary of su
premacy in the future.
We are accustomed to knowl
edge OF the fact that in the national
legislature and indeed in all deliber-
alive councils where the brain of
the two sections are brought into
friendly contest that the southern
man always dominates. The south,
always fewer in numbers, has ever
held dominion of brain in the con-
gress, except during the period
when she was shut out o. its DELHI
eratlons, and we may look and vain
ly for any other reason for it than
in the sheer fact of superior brain
force.
At the very inception independ-
ence was achieved mainly by south
ern arms and in all the wars that
have since ensued waged by the
general government, the rebellion
excepted, the south maintained the
brunt Of battle. 1t was southern
diplomacy and craftsmanship that
gave US Florida and that added
Louisiana, then broad and seem
ing limitless expanse of territory
reaching from the gulf to the north
ern borders and spread out over the
trackless west, ahd it was southern
brain aud bravery that wrested
Texas from Mexicos oppression. In
deed, it can be truthfully said that
not foot of territory has been add
ed to this vast domain that was not
the acquisition of southern energy
and acumen.
And now we are essaying con-
quest in another dominion-the de-
Velopment of natural resources and
their mitigation ia manufactures.
That the end of it is to complete
domination in the realms of manu-
facture, trade and commence is as
sure as that the same superior brain
force and energy exists in the
southern character.
We mean this in no offensive
sense, and indeed we are ready to
award to our brothers of the north
their full due in these peculiar char
acteristics that have enabled themtO
hold their own and more for so many
years in the domain of commerce,
to-wit: shrewdness and quick per-
ception, energy and business daring.
1t is the infusion of these ele-
ments into southern character that
is bringing about the change sou tn,
and we should be slower in reach
| ing our destiny but for these great
and serviceable forces that exist in
yankee brain, so fertile in expedi-
ences.
The Hon. VIM. d. Kelley IN an
article in the current Forum on
"Sources of National Thrift" pre-
faces a fine paper with broad idea
that lies at the foundation of devei-
opment, either north or south, as
follows:
The nation which has within the linn
its of its territory the amplest facilities
for producing the means of human sus-
tenance and enjoyment, of transporting
its native materials and the productions
OF its people with greatest speed and
regularity and at least cost of labor pei
unit of measurement, and the enter
prise and labor Of whose people is SO
generally rewarded that tAey age able
freely to consume one aaother's pro
auctions, must lead all other nations In
the race for intellectual, social and in
OuSLr1Al supremacy
The sonth is rapidly assuming
the conditions that are TO bring
about this excellent result. Here
| is the finest country on earth fol
the production of all necessary sup
plies for mans sustenance. here are
the finest minera!! regions on earth
by reason of their close juxtaposi-
ton, each adding corelatiye value
to the other because of their prox-
Unity and easy utility; here are be-
ing rap,ai ALL huilt q network system
of railroads that br;""00s them all
into one body and reducing to :.
minimum, not approached anywhere
else in the world, the cost of getting
them together for manufacture and
getting them to market for con
sumption; here are rapidly congre-
eating communities of people to
consume right at the point of pro
duction the product of the country.
Thus in pre-eminent decree is
Mr.. Kelley's hypothetical picture
given actual existence.
To refine still further upon this
idea, let the reader inquire, upon
his knowledge of the resources of
the country, taken altogether, and
the tendency of events as they are
now transporting, at what point in
the south is this development and
its results reach the highest point
of perfection. We unhesitatingly
answer
Decatur!
We have repeatedly shown that
it is in the center OF this rich agri-
cultural country, that it is 10 the
center of all the iron and coal re
gions of the south, that it is the in
evitable destined center Of trans
portation, its facilities being now
slmost perfect both by rail and by
water, and thus that it must be the