The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-07-14
THE NEW SOUTH.
Where the Magnolia Blooms and
The Music of Industries
Hum.
Southern Life Reviewed from
an Agricultural, Mechanical
and Political Standpoint
by Bright Young
Journalist.

"Mr. JIG. Sitton, of the Knoxville,
Tennesse, Tribune staff, who is spend
ing his vacation visiting relatives in
this CITY, was seen by a BAzoo report
er yesterday, and in reply to the
question: "What Of the times in the
New South" said:
"The south. so far as the develop
ment Of her great mineral and other
resources are concerned, is on q boom
that has never been equalled in the
history of this country.
within the last few
years the attention of north
ern capitalists has been turned in that
direction and as a result towns
have sprung up as if by magic
with their varied industries, and
thousands of skilled laborers with
their families have settled in that God
favored section.
"While northern capital has and is
doing much, that of the south has not
been idle. The southern people have
long since learned of the treasure
that their mountains contained, and
have not been slow to prosper by it.
The employment of common labor
naturally follows the erection of
factories, and no man who wants to
work needs to be idle long at time.
"Whst catches the people from the
north more than anything else is the
climate. Words fail to describe it.
I'VE have DO winters to speak of.
Shows are rare and Billiards are un-
known. L,wns are green nearly the
year round. In the spring and sum.
mer the weather is simply delightful.
The air is laden with the perfume of
the magnolia ard the rose. There the
cheek OF the consumptive flushes and
the eyes grow bright again, from the
effect of the mountain breeze. sun
strokes are never heard of there when
the people are falling dead because OF
heat in northern cities.
The products of agriculture are be-
coming more varied, and the truck
farmers are making fortunes with q
rspidity that astonishes even them.
SELVES. Vegetables of all kinds find
ready sale and good prices.
occasionally you see letter in
northern paper from a man making a
tour Of the south, and who from q
few hasty observations writes many
things that are not true, especially
dose this apply to the differences
brought on by the VIZ. When the strife
was over the southern soldier accepted
the situation, and went to work to
build up his shattered fortunes. The
horrors of the reconstruction period
we're covered without murmur-
to-day where the chimnies stood l Ike
grim sentinels over the ashes of
homes destroyed by the ruthless in
vader, coy residences and signs of all
that 60 to make people happy, are to
be seen, and the once barren fields
make glad the eye with their promises
Of Q bountiful harvest. The southern
veteran has worked as he fought, with
all his might, and he is as loyal now
to the stars and stripes as any who
followed that banner through the val
lev and the shadow to victory, and
no one would resent an insult to its
fair name quicker than he.
lin the hurry of money making
the people have not forgotten the
moral and religious part of their
nature. The public school system of
many states cannot be surpassed in
its liberali,y toward all. Churches
adorn many a beautiful knoll and val.
ley. The cities abound in schools
and structures dedicated to the SER
vice of the Maker.
"The fever of rapid transit has
caught the south and every town of
importance, has its electric and
dummy lines.
1.-The race question, if left alone,
is all right. There is not man who
owned slaves but is glad to know
that they are free. As far as I can see
the negro has more privileges in the
south than here.
The education of his children is n. t
neglected, for in every city, town and
country district you fiaed houses built
for that purpose and they are sup
piled the same as those for the whites.
The value of the property owned BY
the negro runs away into millions.
"The political belief Of q man need
not deter him from settling anywhere
in the south. Toe people will always
extend hand of welcome to those
who come among them to help them
build up common heritage.
SURVEYS THE POLITICAL FIELD.
what about politics down there?"
was asked.