The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-10-02

t's"NbHS-lA 4sllluE lkfyJBl
of Southern Progress and Of tho Promise
OF tho Future.
The following interesting review Of
speech by Hon. Jere Baxter, OF Tenn
essee, is taken from tho current numbe
Of Tie South:
Hon. Jere Baxter recently made
most powerful speech at Knoxville
Omlt,ing reference to tho political par
OF his address as candidate for the Gov
craorsaip OF Tennessee, " o repsoduc,
portions Of his telling review oil South
ern progress and OF the promises for tt
future.
Mr.. Baxter asked his audience Il the,
ever thought Of what the eleven South,
etn States lost by the war. 1t was foul
billions, six hundred aud sixty-twn
million dollars, which Is far greater
than the entire banking capital Of the
nation to-day. In twenty five years the
South has retrieved these losses, as is
shown by tho following statistics:
Tho population in 1860, including
elaves, was l~2,Gol,4i3: tho present esti.
mated population is 1858. 534, showipr
au increase OF nearly 7,000,0 eco. Olive
stock the Southern States produced in
1850, 3Sl,77S.60l head; in 1859, lS5,478,.
lSo, showing an increase OF l03, sos, 5Ss
head. OF corn, in 1860. the Southern
States yielded $50, 62G,7 7S bushels; in
1850, ill,0Sl, 600. Increase, l5a, l555 222,
OF wheat, in 1850, 3l,i4l,S!96 busflela; in
lsS9, 3l,oSl,Oo0 Increase, 3,402, l74. OF
cotton. in 1860. 4,GC0, 10 bales; in 1889,
100000. Increase, 1854, $50, OF iron,
in 1850, 5000 tons; in 1850, l,372,437,
Increase, 1,3a35.G47. O%fbituminous coal,
in 1860, $50 9G0 tons; in 1850, G 1853, 900,
Increase, $500 i0. III 1S50tle tumbrr
Of Southern cotton mills was $50;
value 81 product, sS,l35 ,0G7 1889, nnm.
Der at mills, $40; value of product,
SIS, 593 200. Increase, number OIL mills
ISL; value Of product, S;40,44S, 1888. The
aggregate Of all kinds Of manufactures,
great and small, in 1880 and 1850, in the
Southern States was: In 1850, numbtr 81.
5G3; capital invested Sl79,3 go; hands
employed, ol5,945; value of product,
S3l5 VA, 19+ 1889, number, 81, 1881; cap.
ltal invested, S507,3f5,0 600; hands en-.
ployed, 4SS.2G0; value Of product, 500.
3322,OOO. The railroad mileage in 1880
was 2o,6?l; 1889, 40,52l. Increase, 49,.
D0o. The valuation OF property in the
States in 1850 WIS S4'S55 OOo,.
DCo; 1890, S7,S00,0 900. GOO. Increase,
:3,d08. 060, 1000. Consumption OF cotton
in the whole world amounts to 1O,57l,.
)DO bales OF four bundled pounds each,
Of this the Southern States furnish
about seyen.tenths Of the whole, giving
these States n practical monopoly. TAX.
.ng the South Us Il whole, including Ken.
'ueky and West Virginia, the increase
n the number OF establishments in the
past ten years is GIT per cent; in CAPT.
lS5 l; in value Of products, ll3 S
Der cent. The number OF cotton mills
n 1856 was liz; in 1889, 34G,' and in.
;rnnse OF 1929 par cent. Cotton con.
in 1850 was 1S0,97l bales; ia
$3.50, 1860. an increase OF ia per
'ent. In 1850, there were AZ cotton oil
Mills. In 1859, $50. The pig iron pro.
in 1850 was l,9G3,274. In 1889,
2.991, 800, an increase Of 1868 9 per cent.
Mr.. Baxter claims this greath growth
IS the remit OF the efforts OF the South.
m people. He believes that the attrac.
ion Of Northern industries to the South,
N account OF superior facilities, will re-.
iult III establishing the center OF popu.
alton OF the United States on a line
from Roanoke or Big Stone Gap
o Birmingham or Sheffield, Alabama,
md this must soon take place. This
lew development OF the South must
therefore, continue because OF its great
natural advantages. It has the coal, the
ron ore, and the lime stone lying at
many points in j1xtaposition, and this
'annot be said OF any portion Of the
1t must continue to advance
'long this line until it controls the iron
industry OF the country, and this appears
he more evident when we make a COM
OF the relative cost OF making
ron ut the South and at tho North. He
outs the cost OF making pig iron at Birm-
neham ut SIS Is per ton, against SIG IS
1t Pittsburgh. Iron, he remarks, is tue
Us well as the motor OF civilization.
All trade is governed by its price, and
Is consumption in the United States is
Increasing annually not only in quantity
,ut per capita. In this county the per
'api.a consumption has doubled in about
years, and the population
every twenty.cisht years. This
lives a double geometrical progression,
md il these ratios should continue un.
il 1917, We should consume e., 100000
ons Of iron. Should this country con.
iume c. 600 tons ut that time, and
the South produce one.halt oil
hat amount, Or say $1,000 900 tons, and
it receive Sl2 q ton therefor, the
southern iron interest then would yield
enormous amount OF 1872, 900, 900, or
III amount greater than the present m.
lual income from the cotton crop, which
would result ultimately in giving the
country monopoly OF both
he cotton and tile lion markets; and
the South manufacture its own
crop into goods, the income from that
staple alone should be one thousand
millions annually, instead OF three hum
iIed millioEa now. Add to this the fact
that the South also has q mouopoly OF
rice and sugar, and that there are in the
Southern States POS. 800, 900 acrea OF TIM
Der land, or nearly one.half OF the total
amount Of tho United States, and We
can truly say that the South has in fact
the bonanza OF the future.
Mr.. Baxter refers to the great West,
and gives interesting statistics to show
ito progress. Population has been pour.
ing into that region, 4 large proportion
Of whom are Foreigners, ut the rate OF
from 10000 to 100000. Hero has been
the great trouble with which the South
has had to contend. The population
and capital that should have CONG South
has gone West, and the West has been
the South's great competitor. II has
been a national motto for twenty years
to "Go Wea., young man." Tho appli-
cation Of steam to transportation has
brought the Western lands which could
Ae bought at government prices in d..
rect competition With the lands OF the
older cettied States, which had their
higher values because Of crowded con-
di,ions. By the tilling Of these great
naturally cleared plains With all manner
Of newly invented machinery, steam
plows and the like, an over production
Of everything created by tho hand Of the
farmer has been brought about, until
this competition has well nigh ruined
the section. Tho great composition Of