Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-22
THE BRIGHT OUTLOOK.
Clarksville Should Get Ready
to Enjoy the Good Times.
A Glowing Future is Predicted For the
South Under Good Democrats
Rule-Let's Hustle. ~

The LEAF CHRONICLE has given
a few of the reasons why the people
OF Clarksville and Montgomery
county should bestir themselves.
There is going to be better times In
the South and this city and county
should get ready to take advantage
Of them. Along this line the New
Orleans Picayune has an article that
should be reproduced in every paper
in ahe South and should be read by
every man. 1t is as follows and
gives glowing but true pictare of
what is coming:
Now, look out for an era Of great
material development In the South.
ern States. #ea& Hlff8
"rhat the Southern States OF the
Union are incomparably rich In nat
ursl resources is fact that cannot be
controverted. In coal, iron, timber,
building stones. sand other natural
material, the resources are practically
inexhaustible and almost untoushed,
while the soil thatsproduces all the
cotton, sugar and rice and is capable
OF competing in corn and other food
products with the other States OF any
section must command attention.
The Southern oyster and other fish,
cries are also important.
"With an abundance of money,
both in the Union and In England,
seeking profitable investment, there
is no other field that 30 advantage
ously invites it as is afforded by the
extraordinary resources OF our South.
ern States. There was but one cir
cumstapce that has initiated In the
last few years against grand tide OF
development in these States, and
that was the fear of general dis
turbance of the social and political
system and a complete unsettling OF
values and disorganiEing Of all in-
dustries, caused by threatened rad
ical legislation by Congress. s..-,.e
"When the Fifty first Congress COM
menced its sessions under the infiu-
ences which then dominated the
government the country was threat
ened with the enactment of the
Lodge force bill or other equally pro-
scrlptive and arbitrary measures,
Many of the Northern papers
sounded a note of alarm and warned
Investors to beware OF the South be-
cause eff the dangerous sectional
tendency of congressional legislation.
The force bill finally failed, aud by 80
mere a chance that nobody could
have any confidence that 1t had been
thoroughly defeated. On the con-
trsry, it hung over the country as .
terrible menace, ready al any mo-
ment, while the Republican party
was in power, to bring down calsm-
ity upon the country and particularly
upon the Southern people. aaa4
"This sword of Damocles was sus-
pended over the destinies of these
States until the great political revt-
luton of Tuesday, week ago, pro-
claimed from mountain to sea, from
river to plain, from the lakes to the
everlasting hills, that sectionalism In
American politics was no more; that
q government OF the whole people,
by the whole people, for the benefit
ot all had been re-established. ,af.f
There will be no more danger OF
proscriptive legislation, and the pe0-
PIE OF TIVE South, white and black,
with their mines, their FORESTS, their
qutrIies, their fisheries, their fertile
soil ami genial climate will he per-
nitted to work out their destiny for
the greatest good TO the greatest num-
Der and for the benefit and welfare
Of all, according TO good old Demo-
cratic doctrines.
"Now comes the time for invest
meDts in Southern property, for the
development OF Southern resources,
for 1t can be done in perfect security
and with the fsirest promise OF rich
returns for all judicious and intelli-
gent transactions"