Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-25
A NEW SOUTH IN FACT
THAT IS THE PLAIN MEANING OF THE
 ATLANTA EXPOSITION.
Fraternity Is the watchword-Big Colony From North and West to Start Up In the Near Futnre--Greater Prosperity of the Negro.

From Nofth ana " est to Sterb up 1n
 the Near Future-G Greater Prosperity of
 the Negro.
 The most impressive and beautiful side of the great Atlanta exposition is to be | found in the street scenes. The other morning q squad of gray haired Union veterans from Ohio were wandering along Decatur street when a fat, ruddy, old Con l federate soldier stopped them and insisted on shaking hands with the northern visit ors. Then he backed off the sidewalk into the street and poured his heart out to the strangers.
 "We're glad to see you, ' he said We want you to see this great southern coun- try of ours We want you to come here and make your homes with us. Yes, siree, we want you to study us, to like us, to | join us. The war is over; yes, sir. Thirty years ago you came to Atlanta, and you didn't leave one brick on top of another. Now you sec ten sto2y buildings. Come back 30 years hence, and you will find a southern Chicago with 20 story buildings. This is genial cline, a genial people. Here we raise sugar cane, cotton, corn, to- bacco, vegetables horses, mules, sheep and cattle. We have priceless forests of timber and exhaustless mines. We have l health, and we have enthusiasm.
 l Look at me; yes, sir, look at me. l have 14 children, all doing well. My name 1 is James Dunlap. I'm so years old and 1 haven't an ache or pain or grunt or groan or grievance. I eat well, sleep well, feel we'll My only ambition is to marry a pretty widow and have another son for my eldest son, who is 50 years old, to take care l of. This is a glorious climate, a gorgeous realm. Come down from the north and live with us. The wars over"
 Whereupon the grizzled Ohioans moved on into the hurrying exposition throng, not knowing that they had been listening to the father of the United States marshal of this district
 Everywhere in Atlanta you witness these extraordinary spectacles of fraternal feeling between the north and south. It is the realization of Benjamin H. Hills dec 1aration in 1876: i've are in the house of our fathers. Our brothers are our com panions, and we are at home to stay, thank God y
 The exhibits in the exposition are not nearly so significant as the fact that there is an exposition and that it is intended to be a means of bringing about better un- derstanding of the resources and neeessi- ties of the south. It is not southern in l feeling; there is hardly note of the south in it.
 At the woman's congress I complained to one of the most brilliant and beautiful women ill Georgia that I missed the touch of southern colonial architecture, with its wide verandas, spacious corridors and hut- ed colonnades, and the picturesque old time cotton spinning, rice milling and sugar making. She turned her lovely face up ward with pout We're reconstructed, , she said. Ne are getting away from the past The foundations of our old life were demolished and all the rest must go. I'm reconstructed too. 1 am earning my own l living, and I ride bicycle.
 This exposition is serious effort to att tract northern capital and skilled labor. l The old days of pistol carrying and dueling, 1 of intolerance of political opinion and jeal- ousy of northern enterprise have vanished. 1 Billions of dollars lie on the earth and un- der the earth awaiting northern settlers and capitalists, yet money is scarce and brings 10 to 19 per cent interest on first class security.
 The prodigious efforts of Georgia to in duce northern men to inmigrate to the south are already bearing fruit. A colony of 12, GOO families, comprising something l like 50, 900 persons is to move in a few weeks from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska, the Dakotas and Kansas into d tract of 10000 acres oi 1 high, level country which has been secured 1 in Wilcox and Irwin counties The col onists have $500, 900 in their treasury and have bought railway Is miles long and planned city to be called Maryopolis. Two thousand of the immigrants are al ready on the ground. They have turned their backs upon tho droughty west and have taken up life anew in the Georgia fruit and timber country.
 The whole south is reviving, but it is a new industrial south Even the negroes share ill the change. In 1879 the total taxable property owned by negroes in At lanta was S5, 182, 39S. Last year it amount ed to $14. 3S7, 730. This exposition is only impressive to those who can sec the inside as well as the outside facts. 1t is not among the dancing girls or even in the art gallery that one may look for the face oi the new south, but in the Minerals and Forestry building and among tho displays of manufacturers. There is hardly an ex- | hibit in the grounds outside of the Gov ernment building thatis novel or imposing unless it is remembered that these are first l fruits of the labor of Q vanquished and ruined people; that all this wonderful change has been wrought without aid from the north, and that it is time for the money bags of New York and New Eng land to be opened to this regenerated, ear nest country. There is not, for instance, a subtreasury in the south, and one Allan ta bank alone pays 5000 year in ex- press charges upon silver dollars sent north in exchange for paper currency. Atlanta Letter to New York World.
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