The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-30

host next door 10 them lay country
equally as rich in natural deposits.
valuable beyond compare in agricultural
resources aud with vast tracts of the
most valuable timber land untouched by
the axe Of the lumber man.
What reason can be assigned for the
discrimination?
The reason may be rejected and in
dignantly denied by our Southern friends
but II is the true reason, and the one
which has hindered the South from pro-
crossing as rapidly and from developing
as fast as the other sections of the coun-
try.
IL Is the bitter prejudice against the
Northerners that still exists at the South
ana while 1t exists there can be no such
development there as in other sections.
lt is true that Northern capital is
welcomed, but not the Northern capi-
talist nor the Northern man of business.
Thousands of Northern men have gone
down into the fair Southland with their
families and have engaged in business.
Inc men were welcomed by the South
ern men, who bear less bitterness
toward the North than the Southern
women, and they gained business friends
ana acquaintances but their families
received no recognition and were social
outcasts. Life was unsatisfactory and
the Northern women could not stand
the insults and the snubs constantly put |
upon them and in many, in fact in the |
majority of cases, the business enter.
prise was dropped by the husband and
return was made TO the North.
This social ostracization was found in
church and school as well AS in society
ana explains in great measure why
Northern men and Northern money
have not looked toward the South.
Southern woman in explaining why
the women of the South were so bitter
said: "The women of the North gave
their lovers, husbands and sons TO the
support of their cause, but save as the
;askets containing their dear ones or
he crippled forms came home, pale and
they knew but little of the
eal horrors of war when compared with
he women of the South. We saw our
oofs burned over our heads.
ur children without shelter.
ur property destroyed, our sons shot
own before our eyes. We were eve
as well as participators, and it !.
lakes us more bitter ana the generation
the sixties can never forgive nor for .
et"
Y ntil this feeling dies away, as it >
radually is doing, there is l4.tle TO in
uce Northern men and Northern capi-
llists to invest in Southern enterprises. :,
III men and women from the North
'uld go into Southern cities and towns -,
ldsettle, and be recognized and become. to
they can in the West, a part and dc
'rcel OF the place itself, the South
ould enjoy prosperity never known. dl
id It's magnificent resources would not G.
: idle and undeveloped for the want of til
orthern capital and Northern energy.
Those who have visited the South and 70
ceived the delightful cour tesies of the pr
r-famed Southern hospitalities. can of
rdly understand the charge that the
uthern women are inhospitable, but an
'hey should locate in the South and mi
ieavor to enter into social intercourse in,
Ia the Southern people the difference pa
uld quickly be made manifest.
l cordial welcome, willingness to
get the horrors of the sixties. a dis
ition to make the life in the new me
ne us pleasant as it was in the old pr
the part of the Southerners would ne
tiy more benefit the South than all ~,
exhibits that could be placed in ,bo
thern cities. 1t is not q lack of fro
wiedge of the Souths wonderful pri
urces that has hindered North sur
capital from flowing below sho
on and Dixon's line, but the inhos- hd
bic treatment accorded Northern Tre'
ers. One family happily settled in t'o'
uthern town is better advertise oou
than a whole building piled high .,'",
samples of corn, tobacco and cot Io,i
ores and coal specimens. Wn
oman is as big factor in political
commercial life as she is in the VIII
world, and especially is this true ",
Q Southern woman, who unwisely y;tI
prosperity away from herself and s,h,
-. O''''i iNeniolies Oh a whis