The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1894-03-03
AN APPEAL FROM BULUTH.

n 'o''er was received this week by q
gentleman of Greenville, inquirlng
aoou' the soil, climate, crops and peo.
PIE Oh this country, and the advantages
ohered by Greenville and the DeIts as
held for settlement or investment
Inc letter came from far away and
frozen Duluth. that city immortalized
oy 'be wit Of Proctor Knott, aud was
replied to by q clear and concise array
OF facts which will doubtless arouse a
isely interest in the mind of the
gentleman OF Duluth. 1t is hard for
our people to realize Duluth. or to
understand how life can be tolerable
in country where spring commences
Win the iirst of June and the land ia
locked in the embrace of Winter again
by the first of October. No doubtthe
conditions of life there are preferable
to those of the Esklmos on the coast
OF Labrador; but to our minds the
natural advantages are not much
greater. The Northwest has reached
Its prosperity and afiluence through
energy and intelligent effort which II
expended on our more responsive
lands and in our kinder CLINE would
long ere this have produced a condit-
ion as far IN advance OF the northwest
OF to-day as the fourishing cities of
that section are superior to the aver
age southern country town. But our
turn Is coming-has come. Southwark
"the star of empire takes Its way If
people can build magnificent con.
dition of prosperity, with great manu-
factories and regal cities in a land
where bitter Winter reigns for six
months in the year and every step
must be made after desperate strug-
gle with reluctant nature, what could
these same people not have accomplish.
cd where their work could be pursued
during the whole twelve months of the
year, and where nature is only too
eager to help the efforts Of man. This
Of nature Is positively a
disadvantage to our development. All |
earnest effort thrives best on opposit.
ION. Mans greatest and best victories
have been won over obstacles which
the most stubborn resistance.
This Is a quality implanted IN the ma
lures Of oil earth's coDquering races,
and when man finds no resistance be
Is too apt to lapse into indifference.
This popularity of the south is noticed
and commented upon by every travel
or. In the south trains run on a slow
Dr. schedule. They wait longer at lit
.lo stations. Idlers lounge in the sun
1t depot doors. Nobody Is ever in a
hurry. Laborers lie down and take a
zap in the fields, or leave the plow In
he furrow TO 60 squirrel hunting.
There Is plenty Of food, plenty of fuel.
rhe weather is so mild that ii is not
necessary to mend the broken window /
'anes or build houses to keep out the
Winters cold. Consequently the labor
ng classes in the south become more
md more careless, and their surround
ngs more run down as each year goes
". The appearance presented by the
arms and cottage homes of the south ,
o the northern traveller is not the Of
ect of poverty, but of rank, criminal
sziness add carelessness aud for this
aziness the climate may be in some !
MEASURE 10 blame. If our people were
ompelled to house their stock aud {
uild weather proof houses for them. |;
elves we should have no more of these !
ilapidated chicken coop cabins and
rush heap stables to disfgure the I
lndscape and be reproach to us and i
Encouragement to the thrifty workers q
Tho wish to come among us. I
might be that these seductive South
IN climate would influence even the q
aergetic and aggressive northwestern L
,ttlers, but they would work a won a
rous change before succumbing 10 \
g Establishments.
The execution Of Preudergast has o
Zen fixed for Friday March 23d. This d