The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-05
Looking Towards the South.


The northern newspapers are saying a
great deal about the south these days,
and what they say is almost always Of a
! complimentary character. Even the eX-
| IRENE republican papers that are not sat
! isfied with political conditions in the
south praise the soUth's material pro-
gress, and predict that she is about 10
have a growth in wealth and population
that will be a surprise to other sections
Of the country. 1t is known among bust
ness men that the south has stood the
business depression Of the last two years
much better than the east and west, and
that her financial institutions and bust
ness men weathered the money panic of
the summer Of 1898 wonderfully well. 1t
is now beginning TO be understood that
her farmers are much more comfortably
situated than those Of any other part Of
the country. The farmers are not bur
dened with debt The mortgages on their
farms are so light that they are not at
all anxious about them.
The New York Sun, in its Mondays
issue, speaking Of the prosperity Of the
south, says
From all parts Of the south come ex-
cellent reports Of material progress. The
southern corn crop is greater than ever
before; the cotton crop is large and of
fine quality. In Texas the latter is the
largest that the state has raised, and the
prospect of the market is assured. While
cotton is now cheap. it Will not do to over
look the fact that cents a pound for cot
ton nowadays is very different thing
from what It was few years ago Peo-
1-,, 4
into consideration the fact that the
modern bye-products of cotton are worth
nearly cents pound more, so that the
farmers cents Is really equivalent to
cents.
The corn crop is so large that the
south will this year have a surplus in
stead of being compelled to import corn
for her own consumption. The outlook
for her manufacturing industries, and her
cotton mills in particular is better than
ever before in her history, and in every
substantial and material element of bust
ness, the general condition of the south
Is most encouraging and satisfactory. Is
Taken for all In all, the business PROS
poets Of the south are at the present mo
ment brighter than those of any other
part of the country. IL depends upon the
people of the south themselves if these
conditions are TO continue. What they
need is unidentified industry and a
sound respect for law. If they have the
good sense TO abjure populism, and social
ism, and anarchIsm, and see TO it that the
rights of property are observed in behalf
OF great and small, rich and poor, they
can be as prosperous as they please.
There is no appreciable limit to their re-
sources, and with industry and honesty
going hand in hand, there should be no
limit to their development
There is good advice in the foregoing.
No southern state has had any reason to
complain of democratic control. That
control has been conservative and wise.
and under it the south has advanced
steadily in wealth and population. Debts
have been paid, credit maintained. schools
established and the rights of ali classes of
people protected. No greater mistake could
be made, therefore, than to give encour-
agement to the populist party, party
that believes In flooding the country with
a silver currency that would not pass for
more than half its face value, and which
proposes certain experiments that would
be certain to result in disaster and
ruin.
II the southern people are wise they
will stick to the Democratic party and
sound money. Both mean greater pros
perity, because both invite the conf
dence of the whole world. Both have
been tried and are all that is claimed for
them.
Now that we have the eyes of thewhole
world turned in this direction. let US keep
them in this direction by holding on to
those things which have the approval
of common sense and sound judgment.