The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-06-13

pay and les, Of the dlsconiort- # lif,
But it viii give YOU In return a hiche
order q eklll. create. productive
ability and better citizenship. And yol
can then afford T. grant demands which
would lie suicidal nov This j. exeu.
pliiied II my own State. where bette
and moro work j. performed in on
mills under the fifty-elgbt hour lav
than in the South under -ixry-t9ur an,
sixty-six hours per week lou wil
find in the Iuture what we have fount
from actual experience. that All right
eou- labor LAWS which work for the
amelioration Of the condition Of th,
laborlng people, work To the benefit o.
all But there should be no hast,
strides in such direction They must
come slowly and be well considered.
| do not believe the South can ever
| supplant the East as manufacturing
centre. nor do | believe that any con
| siderable number of Northern enter
prises Will have to locate in the South.
| do believe that the conditions OF sue
cessful manufacturing will become
more equalized between the sections.
That each community Will ascertain
and apply itself to the production Of
such commodities as it is best able 10
produce cheapv. That they will
become allies rather than competitors
in the markets of the world This Will
be brought about not alone by the ex-
igencies of trade but by the natural
dependence of the sections upon each
other. The East and the South are
natural allies. The skirts of the great
storm of civil strife are drawing off
Our people are beginning to realize
the grand opportunities which your
country affords. The tide Of lmmigra-
ton from the thickly populated North
is even now setting toward the South.
1t is not made up Of artisans, Tor you
offer and cen offer at present no induce
ments to them, but OF Young men with
thrift and enterprise ground into them
by the bustling friction of Northern
business life, and they will carry with
them many of the hard rd-earned dollars
Of their slres. They viii become cti-
zens of the South. They will learn Of
you habits of ecouomy which you have
acquired, not through parslmony but
of necessity, and they Will teach to YOU
the lessons of a more persistent energy
and a keener ingenuity. The inter
mlngling and intermarriagc Of the peO-
pie of different sections Is always the
surest and quickest route to social and
intellectual advancement. The better
qualities of each are preserved and per
petuated those that are OF less worth
are eradcated. The history of the world
has shown that advancement follows
the cosmopolltanism of ideas and stag
nation is the result of that narrow pro-
vincialism which would keep out the
new and the strange. The future lies
with YOU. You now greet the North
erner with open arms and fair words.
See to it that you safeguard his inter
ests when he ha. become part Of YOU.
| remember / was much Impressed
in travelling through the Southern
States. as many NOrtherners are. by the
appearance of poverty and lack Of thrift.
And / saw, or thought | saw, that The
latter was the result OF the former.
Without sufficient means, the people
seemed to have lost hope. And yet,
lvlng beneath their feet, aching TO be
utilized, was a wealth greater than IN
anv ether section OF our country. CON
sldering the extent Of Its mileage.
Tlmrod. the sweetest Of all your
Southern poets, speaking Of the end
less fields of white" says
AN unhewn forest girds them grandly
In whose dark shades future navy
sleeps"
In the days to come there may be no
need of warriors but the ''unhewn for
ests" should speak TO you Of those
countless undeveloped industries which
not only grid your cotton teld= grand
~ round" but reach out their welcom-
ing hands to you even from the body
Of the earth