Evening journal., 1890-05-03

drop to the ground and the similar effort
to give currency to the more improbable
story that the negro Finley was whipped
by a boy with piece Of barbed wire
have failed lamentablY. Senator Chan
der made a speech on Fauz and Repre-
sentative Kelly made a speech on Finley,
but they could not fire the Northern
heart. " The Northern heart does not
seem sensitive and susceptible now.
It is possible, too, chat it is somewhat
difficult to convince the Northern mind
that these outrage stories are not exag.
gerations or plain lies II is possible
that the Northern mind has intelligence
enough to know that the negroes could
not be treated with brutal and useless
cruelty while the industries and wealth
OF the Southern states were increasing so
marvellously. outrsges, race-oppres-
sions and cotton cannot be successfully
cultivated together.
Within ten years. or since the South
ern states were fully redeemed from the
horde Of rapacious carpet baggers, they
have enjoyed an abounding prosperity
that never occurred before in the history
Of the world to any country No other
set of states has ever equalled their un-
precedented prosperity
In 1850, when the improvement was
beginning, the assessed value of the
property Of the fourteen Southern states
was ouly s2 913, As8, 095. In 1889 it was
$4,22O, 1856, 400. Accepting the estimate
Of the census Of 1880 that the assessed
value is only Al per cent. of the true
value, we find that the South gained
over 5000, 900. 600 in property during
that short period
In 1880 its production of pig iron was
only 397, ,30l tons In 1889 it was
1866, 7O2 tons The progress /. in this
industry is going on at an accelerated
pace, furnaces capable of turning out
over million tons annually, being now
under construction or contracted for In
the region.
In 1882 the South produced 6, 500, 316
tons Of coal In 1889 the output was
10, 9,497 AIS tons. The coal fields of the
South, extending from Wheeling, in
West Virginia, to northern Alabama, are
practically inexhaustible.
The production of cotton was
1893, gl6 bales in 1865; in 1888 it was
6,g3S 200, and for the present year 1t Is
estimated at 1850. 600 bales. In
other words the South is now
producing 100000 out Of the
10O00,000 to 1900, 900 bales which
constitute the whole cotton crop Of the
world. Freedom is doing far better than
slavery In the raising Of the great
staple.
The number Of spindles in cot
ton manufacture at the South was only
667, s54 in 1880 IN 1889 it was z. .O35 26S.
The number of mills during the same
period has increased from 1el to 355.
These potent facts give the lie to the
outrage stories, SO far as they do not
show the ordinary friction that is to be
expected and that occurs anywhere in
the world between the employe and the
employer. Even in that respect, and
with two very distinct races living to-
gether, there is less crime, less dissatis-
faction, and more harmony, kindlness
and good feeling than exists between the
workingmen Of the North and their en-
ployers.
The bloody shirt candidate cannot sue
coed. There will never be another Prssi-
dent shaken from its folds. The bloody
shirt campaign will fail. The spindle,
the pick and the pillow are too busy.