The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19
TOIRGEL,S IILE


Judge Albion w. Tourgec who used
for several years TO write great deal, and
was always turgd and bilious when he
wrote about the South, has made his
re-entry as critic of our section, and
with something of the old rancor and
bitterness. A few days ago he wrote
that
1.-THE South Is on the mp grade. not because her
people believe In progress and are willing
10 ret behind and push, but because the world Il
MOVING and no matter how heavily Il hangs back
In the breochug the south must move too. Tho
progress of the South, morally, intellectually aud
materially, l. very largely the result 0t more ific
ton with Northern enterprise expiration and sym
patty. Northern capital Northern buiin, and very
often Northern buWu have fought th1r way
through the crust oi Southern life aud made un'
accustomed stir among It's Particles which seems
phenomenal TO the PEOPLE"
There Is scarcely word OF truth in any
line Of this paragraph. The growth Of the
South since the war is due TO the foresight,
energy, push, enterprise and capital OF
'3OulllNlu iu'hs il pIOoi w NhlH' w haNo
the testimony OF Northern man, an ex-
Union solder, Col. McGowan, the editor
OF The Chattanooga Times, one Of the most
competent and reliable Witnesses rs TO the
industrial progress Of the South. lIo says
Mr Tourgcc clearly knows nothing Of the south;
he draws on his pnconccptions projudlcos aud
Ignorance whenever he writes " talks ou southern
mon aud Affairs. u he was of any account as an
observer ho would know that not only are Southern
mrn az the head Of the majority u great Southern
industrial operations but that they have risen 10
the top Of the ladder In commercial aud financial
affair In New York, baltimore and Philadelphia.
Il b ludIcrously uuruc that the young men Of The
South Who found themselves Impoverished by the
war iu 1861 waited for ~ needed the stimulus ol
Northern example. They went 10 work at
once, aud soon convinced The 0wncr of North.
EN- capital that they could De- safely trusted
Ia hrnilc hpc investments They have
handled them aud the million. II southern mud
Northern money Ia them, with sllll. enemy sue.
ocss Southern business talent, Southern uNocu.
tive talent have manipulated the building ~
nearly ~ 900 miles OF southern railway linr' In the
lat ten ycar4 southern men manage nearly all
our furnaces irln mills cotton mill, and the like
fNNN'N NllHfH VI NNlllHf NN'N fHNIlNA wv NNNN NI
compllshod much but Tor the aid OF Northern con.
hicncc and cash. aud the controllers of Northern
cash have hccn Wiser than tho Northern scribblcr
Ia this n'gnrl The bankers uud Investors NJ New
York, Philadelphia ct ohio. Indiana aud Illinois
learned Soon after the war that the southprnCt was
n man 10 PIT mith Ia, aud they have acted accord.
iugy Thry know there Is no csscntinl difference in
American cligcns in respect Ut business srusc aud
integrity, a. their Southern Investments prove
Tho difficulty with ~, Northern Wltcr. ~ "a rule.
who essays to tell OH about the South Il that he Is
incapable ui cpmprhcudIus the impusibility OF
the phenomenal growth uf tho South. materially.
mumlly, financially, socially and IN population.
without the hearty conpcniiiou Of Southern hmNu
aud bhin with the wcldcr of Northern money.
The Northern editor, us rule. u a hopIus bDur.
bon wherever southern mcu aud maiicr arc con.
ccrncd lie cannot comprehend the fact 1T tho
New south. ia achievements aud possibilities. lie
can src nothing but the South Of l~l1i.
This is a true picture, though except as
10 railroads We incline to the belief that
ihs iimcs cxaggcraics tho amount Of
Northern capital invested a, the South.
Here in Memphis thcr are no such in
vcsimcnis, nor in Nashville. nor in New
Orleans, Galveston. Mobile. Savan.
nah, Charleston, Augusta, Atlanta, Rich
mond, Noriork, Raleigh or Wilmington.
The very fact Of the abnormal growth Of
the South iucc 1850 proves that It waited
upon the accrcton OF the capital that has
been acquired by Southern men as the
net profit Of their earnings since 1855.
southern prosperity Is the result of South.
orn pluck aud industry, and owes nothing
to the North for Ia existence.