The Forrest City times., 1888-02-25
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The universal prosperity of the South is now attracting the attention of the whole union Notwithstanding ridicuie. and sometimes defamation. even in high places, the South is going on a grand career of conquest-but not with the sword. That implement of hlood has been sheathed in its scabbard to rust until it is consumed with corro- sion. so far as any more fratricidal wars are concerned. We have got better implements than those throat cutting knives with which to fight the battles of peace, and they embrace the plowshare, the reaping-hook, the mat took and spade. the handsaw and the iack-plane. the trowel and the plum met. with all the forces of steam and horsepower. These we are utilizing in clearing up forests and turning our native wilds into conditions for good houses and barns, into mills and gin houses and other resources of comfort and wealth. While Sherman and Chandler may fight the bloody shirt in the United States senate with the unfaltering courage of Falstaff, we can rest assured in the fact that we are doing our duty for oar family and our countrymen generally.
 What we want now is to invite the honest laborer from the North and West to come down here and take pot luck with us in "hog and hominy" The many acres of rich lands lying loose everywhere, and the unequaled climate is an inducement to workingman afraid to tax it with industry seldom offered. We do not say he will get rich in day or year, but, as sure, as the thunder follows the flash, he will Get there, Elin-not with his pockets filled with rocks, but his trousers and coat pockets brimful of the silver dol lars of the "daddies." We have got the land and the forests. and we have got the water, the hills and the noun tains, the plains and the valleys. We have got rocks, or marble, or saw logs, to erect cosy cottages or palatial man sions. Then we have mineral waters to arrest and cure all diseases that flesh is heir to-hot enough to seald a pig, or cold enough to freeze a fish. Besides. we have coal and iron, and some people will believe we have .oodles" of fine gold and silver in our mountain passes. but We know that we have them in cotton, corn, wheat, rye, potatoes and beans, and all that is wanting to get these precious treas ures is to tickle old mother earth in the right way. and she will smile all over her broad face in gadsome recognition. What more has any State2 What more should she have, but brave hearts and willing hands to convert these gifts of providence to our own use and benefit. Besides these we haze good churches and schools, doc tors and lawyers, merchants and farmers and the prettiest women this side of the golden haired Circassians. What more, ye men of snow storms and blizAards, in Dakota, Kansas, Minnesota and other arctic circles this side of the north pole? Pick up your duds and come right along and fill up our State with hard-working, honest people, and we will promise that your youngest child, when he arrives at maturity, will rise in the United States senate If he should happen to get there), and declare that the best thing he ever dld was to move to Arkansas. This is the sort of country Arkansas is made of.