The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-19

progress around the world affords such
attractions as home for men with lives
before them as DO these southern states
OF the union. II is demonstrate beyond
question Here the observant traveller
VIII see on one farm the luNuriant beauty
OF our royal staple, the dark rlch green
OF the Iuolan cora, The golden glory OF the
Z ripemng grain OF every KIND, the sweet
yams, irish potatoes, peas, hay, ground
peas, soTS mum, Watermelons, apples
pears, ugs, pOmc grallIes, grapes, plums,
ana other crops ald fruits all grown 10
perfection in Jno same soil. OF late years
tIe IeoFsia peach Tor It's uaNOr ana It's
beauty, commands the market. Georgia
/ Is especially ntted for small farms. In
the mountain county Of Habersham, where
IS my summer home, there are a number OF
Swiss and Germans. They were very poor
Wnen Few years ago they purchased
small holdings of land on what was known
70 De barren ridge. They planted the
grape, and while many OF them were IN
udhSef OF starvation until their
vines Hai became productive. 1 DO
nor know now anywhere a more
thrifty rural community. The in
come from wine and grapes OF a man who
Win MS VIE does the whole work OF the
vineyard ana farm, MS plow beast an OK
without the pride of ancestry, is annu-
ally from Sl,5OJ 10 $500 net. Inc indusIri-
Gus people are ali living in great com
tort. These are object lessons which
might be gathered from every county OF
what may be accomplished IN this ge-
MAJ cline under circumstances the most
uniaNorable. AT this moment the rivers
OF Georgia flow idly over admirable lOca-
lions FOR water powers which would turn
the spindles OF the world. The mountains
OF North and the sWamps OF South GeOr-
ga are luXurtant with a great variety OF
rare ana beautiful hardwood. The Geor-
ga pine IS famous throughout the world.
1hefS IS scarcely a farm in the state
Whlch mas not a copious water supply,
even Tor the hottest season of the year.
The authoritative figures of the cotton
exchanges and other business assocla-
lions bear out and sustain all have said
win regard to the productiVeness Of the
south.
The truth is the south is beginning to
thlnk more OF Its interests and less of
Its rights. We have more earnest work
ers and fewer grand stand performers.
Inc most important fact of all is that
our people have at length learned the
iheSorable necessity of raising their own
food crops. This was always easy. An
immense acreage in cotton had a de-
lusiVe charm which for years they could
| not resist. They bought their corn and
| meat and when the cotton crop was
! sold and the cost of production paid,
| no proht remained to the farmer This is
no longer true. The great packing houses
| ike that of Armour have commenced to
| order meat from Georgia farmers The
| estimate furnished me a day or two
| ago by the largest commission house. in
| central Georgia states that since 1891
| the sale of corn from other states has
decreased Il per cent. and meat 80 per
cent. The estimate is taken from the
| books and railroad delivery records OF
| the house. These figures are most sig
llluCdnl ana demonstrate IldL our people
Almost ehurely depend Tor support upon
their own farms, and yet the trade of
the cities has largely increased
Surprising as the statement may seem
! to the uninformed, people of the south
| are distinctlvely religious people. They
are temperate people and are friends
or temperance. They remember the Sab
bath day TO keep 1t holy and in the en-
forcement of the law they make it ex-
ceedingly uncomfortable to persons who
students of the late war will recall how
many battles take their names from the
churches OF a p1OuS rural peopie-ShilOh,
Bethel, New Hope. Ezra and a multitude
of others. No man will long hold a rep
resentatiVe station in the politics of this
state If he Is either immoral or Incorporate
or lawless. In the country the entire pop
ulatlOn assemblies when there is preach
ing at the unpretentious church, and woe
be unto those 'biggity youths who attempt
to attract attention by misbehavior in
church. The next session of the grand
jury Will certainly present them for dis
turDlng congregation OF persons law
| fully assembled for divine service and
the prisoner may as well plead guilty, for
conviction is certain. So too, with keep
ing open tipling house on the Sabbath
| that true American, Theodore Roosevelt,
may Wen study Georgia methods.
I'VE are trustees for humanity, the trust
is free government and the beneficiaries
of that trust are our fellowmen every
where. For myself l do not doubt that
the American people will be worthy OF
their trust. 1t is true that never in the
past did there meet so many different
races in so broad an arena. 1t is true
that multitudes of those who seek our
shores to better their condition have no
conception of the character of our gov
eminent, and therefore, no devotion to
the Institution of free men, and this is
one of our greatest dangers. Our respon-
sibilitieS are tremendous, but we must
in the future, as in the past, see to it
that the American stock which made the
country shall dominate its institutions
and direct its policy and work out its
destiny on the lines our fathers marked.
excrescences, the growth of the last half
century, which have well nigh poisoned
the whole body polite.
We hear much of the dangers of organ
lied labor. but to me when we see the
appalling power of organized capital it
seems altogether just and proper that the
men whose labor is the foundation of ali
our prosperity shall themselves organize
that their consolidated energies may by
lawful methods, protect their rights or
advance their interests. So rapid has
been the development of corporate power
in modern times that the laws are wholly
inadequate to control its excuses. In
deed, that statesman who will mark out
a system of public law which will prevent
the unholy rapacity of injurious trusts
and clothe in the stripes of the felon the
wreckers of railroads, which will wisely
and righteously adjust the differences be-
tween capital and labor and compel ODE
dience to the adjustment, will be hon
ored in future generations like Columbus
who discovered America. and like Wash
ington who saved it.
Let us afford the procedure which will
enable the people to ask redress for gil
gantic modern abuses our fathers could
not foresee and all will be well with the
republic Whether it be the plant of the
widow against a conspiracy of wreckers
who would reduce her and her children to
pitiable beggary, or the protest of a
brakeman against the tyranny and preju-
dice of his superior, or the prayer for re-
lief of a taxpayer TO whom ruin is i'm
minerft from municipal corruption, or
corporate greed, or the just appeal of the
corporation itself when it's business and
its existence are threatened by rascally
legislation or by the passion or prejudice
of the hour, in any event the law should
point out the avenues of justice.
"And if we had succeeded and de-
stroyed the union. what then? Two pow
erful Anglo-SaXon nations with all the
hatred and resentment resulting from
separation after internecine strife could
not have confronted each across an
imaginary line without frequent wars and
the most exhausting preparation for
them. The resources of the people would
have been consumed by the expense of a
strong military government.