The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-09-25

What a glorious exclamation to a rural
editor who believes that Georgia IS the
best country in the world.
It makes no difference that cold, prohi-
bition, water must assume the functions OF
Kelley Island champagne, or that the
Georgia hoecake and yellow legged
chickens supplant the menu OF city ho-
tells. The warm grasp Of the native
Cracka, and the unsurpassed, flowing
vernacular Of these glorious old noun
,ains touch the heart where it is wsrmest-
There is no purpose Of inyidious dis
tinction intended. Ohio people have
their noble impulses and peculiarities
aud in 80 far as wellfounded Impressions
could be developed by fortnight's inter-
mingling with people about their homes,
the Georgia delegation have no amend
ments to offer to their makeup. They
treated us with a touch Of fraternal greet
ing that blended into spontaneous mutual
ity. They are people that We can eordi-
ally welcome to our homes and to our
section. They are a people that we want
to Join with us in the development and
building up of section, which, wrought
to the perfection oftheir own, would smile
to Heaven in Its bounteous proyidences
forever.
Ohio towns have the prestige o. that
success which an unbroken era of a half
century Of energy, diligence and welth-
begetting affords, and show the beauty OF
ornamentation and preservation which a
refined taste and plethoric pocket-bOOks
suggest to home-loying people.
An Ohio man considers the world his
mart, and every town is loaded 70 the
breach with self-importance, while their
whirring wheels Of commerce lay tribute
without bounds Of locality. The Ohio
fields and factories blend their out-pOuR
ing products to a common purpose. The
factories make the tovns-diversiied
agriculture prosperous cOunry-the two
a States exhaustless wealth and prestige
They enjoy communion Of thrift
As Georgians we realize our condition,
and with loyal devotion 1t is BETTING that
a rough analysis should extenuate what
ever disparagement that comparison Of
the two States may suggest:
Ohio, rich in resources, settled BY q
thrifty, self-reliant population, was in
prosperous condition when the civil wal
began. This afforded an unparalleled
market for the products Of her rieh-Yield-
ing farms in their virgin freshness The
demands of war sprang factories, with big
army contracts, into existence, which &c
cumlated immense wealth. A consider
able percentage Of her citizens are pension
ers. Government'expenditures Tor public
buildings amount to millions Of dollars,
while, in point Of fact, she has suffered
no lack Of production from loss Of popula-
ton OF property. Ten years Of unparIal-
leled speculation and big profits, the
accumulations going into non-taxAble, in
terest-bearing government bonds. which,
reaching 4 specie bass, on a depressed
currency, more than doubled in purchas-
ing value. After this was ten more years
Of fair profit returning business before
reaching the present low interest pc
riOd.
At the beginning Of the war there was q
peculiar idea Of things which suggested
negro slavery as the basis Of wealth in
Georgia. More negroes demanded mort
land, and more land more negroes Ths
emancipation of one destroyed % per eenl
Of the value Of the other, 50 Is tha
Georgia actually lost not less than 70 PEI
cent Of her values. When the destruction
of Improvements, fencing. the loss OF al
stock, not even a barrel Of corn or q sid
OF bacon, no money and no credit O1lY q
a cost Of thirty or forty per cent, a larg
percentage Of our population lost ia wAl
large part disheartened and looking 3
the new west as q only hope, our labo
demoralized, and people not Injured to th
labor Of the field as the only resuseitAtin
element, with no rewards only from Ii
soil, while inflisted with AlI:the penaltie
Of war taxation and the comparison {
: conditions may stand as an arbtter Of Ii
States respectiveEmerits.
} These things are not reeko1ed car
I tiously; nor as a matter Of discussing pa.
: systems, or conditions arising thereiron
! The past Is buried, only as the memoirs
, which belong to the glory Of aeommO
country. They are presented 10 aceour
for things not done which would be don
{ with a stronger population
{ II Ge0gians, under such condition
a can add 10 per cent annually 10 their n,
{ able values. an open appeal stands 10 a
, thrifty farmer Of small acres. in OH
. who struggles with the problem Of dOub
} | ful profits on lands which have reached
. maximum Of value.
n Loving Georgia. one need not lore Oh
- "a IN f,,ru for an rnueh or,an-h -har1n