The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-06-19
THE FUTURE OF THE SOUTH.
Greatest Need is PopulatiOn-Mate-
rial Progress the Dominant Factor
In Southern Life.

Hon. Channcey Il. Black Says Our
Greatest Need is PopulatiOn-Mate
rial Progress the Dominant Factor
in Southern Life.
Baltimore Daily News.
The Hon. Chauncey II. Black, ex-
Licutenant-G Governor of Pennsylvania,
was in Baltimore yesterday completing
his arrangements to assume personal
charge as president OF the Southern
Immigration, Land and Title Company,
lately chartered under the laws of Vir-
ginia, with it's headquarters in Balti-
more. The duties Of this position will
keep Mr.. Black almost constantly in
Baltimore, bringing him into close
identity with tho city's business and
financial int5rests, and practically
making the distinguished Penusylva-
MAN q citizen OF Baltimore.
MIR. Black has been working over q
year in uniting q number of important
and wealthy interests to carry out a
carefrlly-planned movement designed
for the greater development of the
Southern States. His efforts have re-
suited in the formation of the South
ern immigration, Land and Title Com
puny. for the purpose of locating colo
MES of the better class of immigrants
from the North and Northwest, as well
as from Europe, in the South, and the
securing OF capital for Southern manu-
featuring enterprises and for handling
large Southern properties. Mr.. Black
has become actively interested in
Southern development, and looks on
the existing southwark tendency of i'm
toward that section that will become
one OF the most astonishing features of
the country's growth. Speaking of the
South to q News reporter, Mr. Black
said:
Through my political duties, which
have been national in their scope, l
have been led to watch and study
Southern conditions. A superficial at
tention ut first determined me to q
closer Investigation, and my expert.
ence, addt to being constantly thrown
in contact with Southern men OF affairs,
enabled me to estimate properly the
Southland. ! was brought to realize
the tremendous strides being made in
that phase of the South's advancement
its material progress. This has over
Swallowed all other considerations, po-
litical or social, and is now the domi-
nant factor in Southern life. Every
class and every section is permeated
and penetrated with this spirit OF pro-
gross. Day by day more attention is
being devoted to material things, and
business principles are shelving old
and picturesque customs which, how
ever pleasant and attractive in them
selves, are u of place in this busy
cycle of tho worlds growth.
Tho South is not alone in this move
ment toward industrial and material
development. Other sections and other
countries are in the race of progress.
Nature has lavisbly gifted the South
with a marvellous diversity of resour-
ces, placing it superior to any other
like area in the world in natural
wealth. Intelligent, liberal and con-
tinuous action 10, however, necessary
to prove this to the world. Cotton,
iron, timber, coal and all other essen
tial u for u country's life and
growth the South has in supcr-abun-
dance. Such Is it's wealth. Its poverty
lies In it's lack OF population. 1t wants
and must have moro people. To OPP
crate Its factories, open its coal mines, |
and equally, IL not more important, to |
till its lands 1t has need for and can as
simulate all the sober, Industrious inn
migrants 1t receives. The more con-
sumers thus added the more indepen-
dent will become it's factories and
farmers and the more solid will grow
its business interests.
1.-THE present Is the ripest time for
immigration to the South. Baltimore
should share in every step forward the
South makes and 1 am glad to SEQ that