Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-12-08
WE GO FORWARD.
The South as She Is and as She is
Seen: Bright With Promise: A
Home for Industrial Effort.
LET GoLDsBoRo "cATCu ON

The future cf the South her un.
failing resources aud unequalled ad-
vantages- been tireless theme
of The ARGUS through all the years
of its existence; and now We believe
the time is rife for the vintage Of its
| hope, that has ceased not to keep
peace and grow with the rolling
years.
But now other papers-papers
from great marts of progress and
industrial development and success,
are turning their eyes towards the
South wide with wonder at the
beautiful picture of promise that
greets them here.
And right here we pause to sug-
gest to the business meu of Colds
boro to ponder well the situation
and weigh wisely the advantage Of
coming together in business way
and making Goldsboro home of
united effort for our common prog
ress aud prosperity.
Here is how the st. Louis Repub
Tic, which is a competent observer,
looks upon and sizes up the South
ern situation:
The rise in cotton during the past
few weeks has made the South about
| $100,00O,OO0 better off than it was
at the middle of October. Any body
can figure it out for himself on the
base of a 6,00O,0 O,00O-bale crop and an
advance in price from Z cents a
pound to 10 CENTS.
The results TO the South of the
great Democratic victory cannot be
SO easily calculated yet, but they are
worth in actual money value many
times $1OO,0OO,OOO. The policy of
tariff for revenue will he worth a
great deal to Texas, as to every other
Southern State, by enhancing the
exchange value of its cotton crop,
thus helping to pay off its land
mortgages to Scotch money lenders.
But the threat of Force Bill and
other elements of Radical misrule
affected Texas less than any other
Southern State. Texas has always
felt big enough and strong enough,
and maybe bad enough IN bad times,
to take Gale of itself, no matter what
mi ght happen in Washington. Texas
made short work of the carpet bag
gers while other Southern States
were goirg through the mill of re-
construction, and it Isn't likely that
Texas would have lost many nights
sleep on account Of another attempt
to reconstruct them on the Harrison
Lode plan. Like Caifornia, Texas
has, in its renloteness, a great Safe
guard against unNeicome meddling
from Washington.
But in the South Atlantic States
aud the gulf States East Of the Mis-
sissippi, Harrison's proposed policy
of enacting the force bill, for the
sake of the "dozen tariff bills' that
were supposed to be in it, acting
with paralyzing force that can be
estimated only by the manifestations
of joy and renewed energy that have
followed the Vests crushing rebuke
of that hard, narrow and lavless pol
icy.
In all that region the election of
Cleveland and Democratic Congress
changes the impending nightmare
of oppression, misrule and race con-
flct into the certainty of peace and
constitutional government. That
means for the South moral, intellect
ual and material progress. Certain
Of the fruits of their industry, in
genuity and frugality, the Southern
people are ripe for progressive
movement in many branches of COM
mercial, industrial and agricultural
activity. But they will not have the
field all to themselves. The South
being safe again, millions of North
ern and Western capital will seek
profitable investment there and
thousands Of energetic men
from north of the Potomac and
the Ohio will carry new methods to
enlarge the volume and vary the
character of Southern products.
Already the renewed hope and
energy of the South are felt as Il ton
ic in almost every commercial center
of the North and West. Obliterate
the South from the map of America,
as the Republican party apparently
tried to dc, and the northwest would
starye outright, while the West
would again resort to n-burning
Tuin the South loose and let it
grow, as the Democratic policy pro-
poses, and it will of necessity always
be a most profitable customer of tie
North and West, especially of the
West, hereafter.