The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1888-10-12

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Correspondence n. o. States.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.--l is won
derful how Judge Kelley holds his
own, both mentally and physlcally.
He came to congress tweHty-eight
years ago, and he has been a leading
figure in every congress since then.
He has for years been the father of
the house, aud now in his 18th year
he is thoroughly posted ON every
move on the political chess board,
lie studies not only Washington mat
ters, but those of the whole United
States, and he has as much interest IN
every part of the country as though
Uncle Sans dominion all belonged
to him. There is nothing of the pes
simist about him, and be thinks the
present the best of times. He has
faith in the growth of the country,
and especially of the south. talked
with him last night about the con-
dicting interests of the United States,
and asked him for his views of the
general outlook. He replied
"One who has seen as much as l
have of dangers overcome and of the
country's growth in wealth and pros
pOrity, 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 adapta-
buity to constantly changing condi-
tions, cannot 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 tie stress and loss
and destruction of war, and through
years of disturbance following the
war, are wholly unparalleled and unap-
preached 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 in ex-
PerienCe, skill, capital and labor to do
with, will be to the lessenod 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 oyer
ruling kindness of Providence"
But" | asked, shave we not al
ready taken up and occupied the Iarg-
est and richest part of our fieldW
"By no MEANS" responded the
judge. 1--WE have barely laid a foun-
dation for broad aud harmonious do,
velopment. When l first came to
congress We were two people, with in
terest and feelings as hostile and with
conditions as anlagonistic as those
which divided the Spaniard and the
Moor. To-day 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 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 productions
Of the west and northwest, like the |
manufactured products of the east,
are in excess of present market, but !
the development Of the south will
give to the west and northwest a new |
market In which TO proftably exchange |
its surplus bread and meat for timber |
and minerals and the earlier and diff
ferent productions of southern soil |
and climate. Southern development |
will also afford to the eastern states a |
profitable market for its surplus capi- |
tai and manufactured products by a |
like exchange, and to all parts of the |
north field for it's surplus labor.n
"Do you think the southern field |
broad enough TO afford a develop
meDt sufficiently great and rapid to |
meet the necessities Of the northP II
asked.
"Most assurndly was the reply. "In |
the closing paragraph of my little |
book, The Old Sonth 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 adyentnre.' |
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 8 wealth great enough for q
continent, wealth 50 vast, SO varied |
in its elements and character, So ad-
yantageously placed for Development
that these states alone can sustain q
population far greater than that OF
The United States to day, Their pro-
ducts would be SO different from
those of other portions Of the country
as 70 afford The most profitable ex
change advantageous 10 all And it
ls these states that we must find the
new and greater market for northern
surplus, whether that surplus be 10
The shape Of accumulated labor Of
the pasl, that is 10 say. capital, Of Tbs
future productions Of labor, or of Ia
Dor itself, because 10 these southern
states more than elsewhere The natural |
conditions of success exist
As q the Fapidity with which il
can be done the past growth Of ihG /
west fege!shes TIE hest ansReg "a l
vas the bpilding ot an empire in the !
Weal that relieved end enriched the !