Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-10
KIND WORDS AND TRUE,

Now that day is breaking we can see that the night of depression, through which the country has passed, has not been without it's compensations. The hard times in all sections of the country has drawn attention to the South. It has stood the strain with out breaking. The panic was good thing for us. The South has plucked the flower, prosperity, from the nettle, disaster. So conspicuous has been the strength of the South that the truth has been wrung from those heretofore unfriendly. For instance, the Boston Journal has an editorial that is full of kindness and good will, and is ac- cepted in the spirit in which it was writ ten. The Journal Is not only moved to confess the truth about the South because of spirit of fairness and justice, but 1t no doubt feels a sort of proprietary interest in the South, for three of the large cotton mills of Lowell, which is near Boston, have recently decided to build branch mills in this section. The Journals editorial is so full of truth and fairness that we cannot forbear reprod ucing it.:
 The great prosperity of the South during the past few years, and especially the last eighteen months, wEen business in every other section of the country was at a standstill, seems won derful to contemplate. To those who are not acquainted in that section 1t Is great mystery how they have gone on building mills and establishing other new enterprises during this period One of the grand chara cteristics of the Southern people Is their loyalty to their friends. If gentleman is friend to you 1t means that he will leave nothing undone in your behalf so long as you do not abuse that friendship. Any person who has ever accepted of a southerner' s hospitality never forgets it. It is not equaled anywhere. Neither is the h tion. He believes in the South, and nowhere else does the air seem pure and sweet to him.
 The secret of their increasing business and great prosperity is in no little measure due to their great efforts to develop their section. But back of all this is their supreme faith in their great natural advantages, which only need development to produce tue most ample return in the way of riches, consequently, to a man they are at work to open up their re- sources in every direction. They do not allow any opportunity to escape them to induce the people to locate in their midst and to parties who do so they take great interest in pro- noting their success. Instead of being always on the alert to take advantage of them, they are constantly seeking a favorable opportu nifty to give them helping hand. This mode of doing business tells every time. It means success to man or corporation where his
 
 mine or water power does not undertake to hatch up some scheme to inyeigle men of means and then cheat them out of their in yestment. The Southerner is ready to put his shoulder to the wheel and to profit or lose, the case may be, with the rest. He has no idea of shirking his responsibility in the mat ter.
 A section possessed of the natural adv ant ages of the South and peopled with such class of enterprising men is bound to become rich, and that very fast, too We predict that the child is now born who will see more wealth per capita in the South than any other portion of the world. We wish them all prosperity and success. They merit it, and therefore it is sure to come; and when that time shall come 1t can be said that it has not been done by foreign capital, but that it has been ac- complished through their own exertions and great business sagacity. They see wealth in their own land, and but few are aware how fast it is increasing.