Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-10-25
DON FOOL WITH OUACkS.

AS the Wilmington star says,
there is no section of the United
States to-day where the people
as a whole are more prosperous
than they are in the South. and
we might go SO far as to say that
there is no section in which they
are as prosperous. Prosperity
does not consist altogether in
having money or the equivalent
of money to ones credit, for the
man who has the comforts of life
around him, lives we'll, owes no
man anything that he cannot pay,
lives in his own house and on
his own land. AND u always sur"
of enough fo ..a1 aud wear. and
ot trniu" ;hl. to maintain aud
feel his Independence. * tn all
lnlcntS and purposes on the top
ruHS OF prosperity, it he diun
have Seventyfive cents in his
pocket. He is like the man who
has a gold mine on his land from
which Re can take whenever he
needs it as much gold as he needs
to meet his wants. We have
known just such men in North
Carolina, men who worked farms
on gold mines, and used the mine
as a sort of a savings bank to
draw from if they should hap
pen to need more money than
the farm yielded.
But the South is more than
ordinarily prosperous this year.
because she has abundant crops,
the largest cotton crop and corn
crop ever produced, the cotton
crop rather too large. if any
thing, but the corn crop none
too large, for there will be use
and demand for all of it. And
this corn was grown on the same
farms that produced this enor-
nous crop Of cotton
Cotton is down in price, it is
| true, but corn is up and the prob
! abilities are that on the whole,
the gain from the corn will more
than offset the loss from the fall
in cotton. The all cotton grower
may feel somewhat blue at the
outlook for him, but his neighbor
who exercised wise discretion
and raised his foodstuffs, with
some to spare, does not and need
not feel so blue, nor blue at all.
But they have all learned by the
results Of this years labor the
mighty possibilities of the South
as an agricultural section. and so
have others learned it, a fact
which will prove Of inestimable
value to the South, for it disSi-
pates the delusion that so many
labored under. that the South
was little else than a great cot
ton field and adapted only to the
raising of cotton.
The solid condition Of the
South as q section is being recog-
nized generally and is being
freely commented upon by trade
and other journals in the North,
aud this of itself will add to the
prosperity of the South for il
will have q great influence on
turning capital and people this
i way. There is one feature OF
the condition which they all
i dwell upon and that is that dur.
ing all the late financial upheavels
and business collopse the South
held her own and showed the
fewest financial failures and
scarcely any business collapses,
which shows plainly that while
the South might have less capital
within command than some other
sections, she did business on {
more substantial basis. Another
feature which they comment
upon favorably is the fact thai
| the relations between the en-
ployers and the employed
in the South are so gooC
that strikes are of very rare oc
currence and never of a genera
character, that the labor agita
tor and anarchistic firebrands
have made but little headway il
this section, which encourages
capital to come and stay.
Watching the signs of the
times as we do. noting the pro
gress the South is making in The
various branches of human in
dustries, and the recognition this
) receives from those who no
many years ago could not be
, persuaded that there were suel
latent'possibilities in this section
it is our firm and. honest belle
), that there is no section of this
country to- day where the peoplt
! as a whole are as prosperous o.
, where the prospect for the com
ing years is as bright and en-
couraging.
| There are some who may no
5 feel as we'll off as they woult
like to be, who have been taugh
, to believe that prosperity AM
l wealth can be created and dis
) tributed by legislative enact
| ment, and by methods that wer
5 never dreamed of since the frs
settlement of America until tn
} past few years, when a ne1
3 school of statesmen, which es
c capped the lunatic asylums, cam
g to the front in politics, Thes
q are all the South has to fear, til
J. only obstacle that may come be
e tween her and increasing pros
It perity. Other States have trie
these kind of statesmen and hav
i paid the penalty. Colorado trie
n them, and the result has been
9 depreciation of S3OO,0 600. 900 i
r the values of the State. Kansa
d tried them and the result has bee
y the withdrawal of millions {
6n}1a1c from that State OrQpO