Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-30
Southern Industries.
A Big Boom on at Decatur
Alabama.
GRAND OPENING OF ENTERPRISES.

Attorney General Shields the Orator of
the Day-He Represents the President
and Talks of Politics and Policies from
Republican View.
DECATUR, Ala, May 30-Decatur cele-
brated yesterday the opening of number of
new and important industrial enterprises,
among them the new shops of the United
States Rolling Stock company new shops of
the Louisville and Nashville Rail- DAD COM
pany, Charcoal Iron Blast Furnace and Char
coal works, American Oak Tanning Extract
works, Decatur Cotton compress, Ivens &
Sons Foundry and Machine works, Southern
Horse Nail factory, Decatur Car Wheel
works, the new works Of the Decatur Gas
company, the new plant of the Decatur Eec-
trio Light company, Decatur Water works.
and many other industries, including large
wood working plants Invitations generously
distributed had brought large number Of
distinguished people to the city, among them
Governor Seay, Of Alabama; Governor Cor
don, of Georgia; Senators Morgan and Pugh,
and Congressman Wheeler. The orator of
the occasion was Hon. George H. Shields,
United States assistant attorney general,
who had been sent by the president to repre-
sent him. Gen. Shields was enthusiastically
greeted when he arose to speak
Harrison's Southern Policy.
In the course of his speech Gen Shields re-
ferred to the policy of the administration re-
garding the south as follows:
My mission is not to indicate policy nor to
discuss partisan politics. Much has been
written about southern policy of this admin
istration. The president has shown a remark
able ability to convey to the people his views
In his own way and at the proper time, and
you may be sure that this admin istration will
be broad enough to embrace the whole coun-
try and will conserve the interests of the south
as well as the north, and that both he and
his cabinet take the greatest interest in the
advancement of your material interests and
continued prosperity.
MIR. Shields said that the best evidence that
the president felt no partisan hostility to the
southern people was found in the fact that
he appointed a representative of a southern
state secretary of the interior.
Republicans Not Enemies of the South.
On the stump and in the press the Repub-
licans of the north had been denounced as
enemies of the south, and these statements
had engendered a feeling of alienation be-
tween the sections which was unjust to
both. The Republican party believed the
national government to be supreme: that
issues settled by war could never be re-
opened; that the citizen had a right to cast
his ballot and have it counted as cast; that
the children of the country shall receive a
liberal education at public expense, and that
the best interests of the country demanded
the enforcement of the American system OF
protection to home industries. There was q
deep sympathy with the southern people in
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mendous problems confronting them
New Adjustment of Parties.
Individually, he said, he believed that
these questions would be solved in the near
future by parties recognizing on economic
and industrial lines. He believed that the
material development of the south so rapidly
occurring would furnish the key to unlock
the situation.
With the development of the mex hau stibls
natural resources within nearly all the south.
ern states, new issues, new interests, new
policies, new views, will constantly demand
the attention of the business men and of the
young men Of the south, and MS these ques-
tions are wisely considered in the light of rea
son, and not of prejudice, in the light of to-
| day, and not of yesterday, your intelligence
Will bring correct decisions, and your pros
perity will rival in its luxuriance the rockies.
prodigality OF nature in your hills and val
| leys.
Brilliant Future Predicted.
When this country, north and south, forget.
| the differences of the past and realizes thai
/ its destiny is before ii and not behind it anC
rises to the eXigencies of the present, accept
/ ing the results of the war in good faith ther
the astounding progress of the first centur,
| of our national existence will pale before tn,
| magnificent grandeur of the next century. Il
the expectation of realization to some ex
| tent of these results we hail the new sta
| which has arisen in the south and extend boil
| hands to welcome you within the circle of tn,
| industrial states.
The Voices of the Past.
The voices of Washington, jefferson Madi
| son, Hamilton. Franklin, and others, the foun
ders of our country, thunder down the cent
| ury, bidding the people of the United State
| encourage and foster manufactures. A
| they reverberate along the course of time
jackson, Webster. and the gallant Harry O
| the west" with unselfish patriotism and far
| seeing wisdom. re-echo the strain. Lincoln
| Grant. and Garfield catch up the refrain, ans
| with the added experience of 100 years call tn,
present generation, not only of the north bu
| of the south, the east and the west to bind OF
the brow OF the American goddess the legend
| american productions for American mar
| kets.r
Can Produce Iron at Low Cost.
| BALTIMORE, Md, May 30.-Speaking O
the manufacture of iron in the south, Tn,
Record quotes paper prepared by ]. T
| Smith, president of the British Iron Trad
association, in which he calls the attentio,
of English iron makers to the development
in the south and says that Abram s. Hewitt
of New York, told him that iron can be Orc
duced in Alabama for 80 ton Smit
claims that the economic effect of this iro
development in the south will be much NOR
seriously felt in the eastern states than
England
Moonshiners and Commentators Captured
CHICAGO, May SO-United States secrs
service officers returned to the city yestel
day from southern Illinois, where they mad
an important capture OF counterfeiters an
moonshiners The men arrested are Harve
Fields property owner of Versailles: Lou
} Mcfarland, and two brothers named Mo:
and Zeb Ravenscroft They had been ,
work only short time, but had flooded tt
section with counterfeit dollars and dim,
and were selling quantities of illicit whisk,
|, The Time-Lock Suspended the Bank.
i SHARON, Pa, May 3o.-The First N,
tional bank here, the largest institution {
the kind in Mercer county, was forced
suspend Tuesday from a queer cause. II
time-lock was set by mistake the night b
fore for forty eight hours, and the safe coul
not be opened until yesterday morning.
, The salvationists Can Walk.
CHICAGO, May 3O-In the case of John Tro
ter, Salvation Army captain, against Il
city Of Chicago, Judge Moran, of the appella'
court, yesterday ruled that the ordinanc
prohibiting parades in public streets withor
permit from the chief Of police is invali,
THE CHARGE AGAINST TUCKER.
| 1t Seems to Have Been q Flimsy One
Gen. Boynton's Influence.
WASHINGTON CITY, May 3O-The Pos