The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-02
THE NEW SOUTH.

| Philadelphia Bulletin: Neither the poll
thickening rush Of T.%ac ' Of war from
over the sea ave been allowed TO inter-
fere. with the business Georgia has on
hand. Visitors at the Atlanta Exhibition
are of one voice and verdict regarding the
wonders OF the fair. If half the reports
are trustworthy, 1t Is clear that though the
Georgians may not have created the
achieved wonders. The Liberty Bell
could add a stirring tale to the events It
had witnessed IL its tongue were endowed
with a phonetic power. The President Of
the United States, as well as our own civic
thief Magistrate. has witnessed the mar
vels OF a recreated people: From the Pres
ident down the tale Is the same. An or
DERBY Babal Of activities c"omprehending
the achievements of all the Gulf States
with hospitable thousands eager to do
honor to the visitor from the North. For
when the Southern hustler undertakes
his warmth and welcome are entirely I'M
like our measured Northern demonstra-
don. 1t is almost impossible to reconcile
the majestic pageant going on today in At
lanta. with another spectacle that enlisted
the attention of the civilized world on the
same spot thirty years ago.
The campaign begun in May, 1864, had
brought sherman, after n summer of
march and battle, of ambush and man
Oeuvre, to the then most important city Of
the gulf. The intrepid legions of Johnston
had been worn out and dispersed. Thu
fiery Hood had gathered the remnant of
all the. armies dispersed In the South and
daringly confronted the Northern masses.
Atlanta and It's environs for a space of
thirty miles was a war-devastated ruin.
Whole armies were at rest, the rest of
death, between the Northern base at
Chattanooga n the tortuous streams of
the Chattahoochee. Miles of pitfalls that
had been entrenchments defaced all the
south land-from the mountains outward.
Atlanta itself bore no semblance of a city
So, tl- canal - - -, ,A,,,
operations demanded that the place should
afford no more refuge or resource to the
dispersed armies of the south. Though less
ravaged by the carpetbag regime and the
and its capital, Atlanta, were suspended in
development until northern foresight
pointed out the ways and means of re-
Mobilization. Added to this, a native
group of clear-sighted pioneers, who in
sisted upon the elimination of past doc
trims, past hates, worn-out methods, and,
presently. Atlanta began to share with
Chicago and other western boom towns
the curiosity of the country. Her Journal
lists began to be quoted. Her delegates In
congress identified. themselves with the
interests of the whole union. instead of
their own state. The boom of Atlanta
has gone on steadily, until today the
whole country is called to witness. the
reality of her quarter of a century OF en-
lightened effort.
These swift contrasts in so short a
space have no parallel in the history of
peoples. For the spectacle the visitors
eye rests upon as he pushes through the
penetralia of industrial wonders would
have been considered astonishing in Paris
Or Vienna thirty years ago. Such work
done, such exhibits gathered, such gran
diose evidence of human recuperation
evince an extraordinary evolution. 1t is
not only a recrudescence of ancient apt
ness: 1t Is a revelation of a new growth.
AS France is never so thoroughly France
as when the Gaulish spirit revives-the
South is never so thoroughly American
as when it revives the characteristics OF
its forefathers, the men who transformed
the dark and bloody grounds into growing
plantations, industrial entrepots for the
emulation Of the aptitudes which have
made the North a workshop OF peoples.
Nor can the most strenuous partisan pre-
tend that any political line of demarcation
Is responsible for this magnificent trans
formation. The forces and impulses that
make Atlanta to-day a twin wonder with
Chicago reside in the practical good sense.
the rare sagaclty, the ~tireless energy of a
tractive element of the chivalric and pic
turesque in Southern character which
gives the present pageant its charm, per-
haps its humor for the less impressible
Northern spectator.
The South Is to our Northern ATTITUDES
What Italy. Spain and Provence are to sep
central Europe. There are music and
HldlflSdis dIlOilS tHc dpuiuutS u the
Southron. He Is orotund In speech; he must
move to the cadence of a melody sung per-
haps In his own buoyant sense. He has
learned the impressive art of doing moth
Ing by halves. lie loves praise, and merits
1t, since he has shown himself worthy of
1t. He can be wildly. madly wrong In
economics and finance, but his aberra-
tons have all the fascination of a charm
ing girl. coquetting between ''dare not and
would" The election being happily over,
oil the state officers from Maine to Ore
gon. could do no better work for the whole
people, than take a vacation trip to At
lanta. 1t would be education and revival
to infinite industries-to say nothing Of
being brought face to face with new types
of womanly charm and manly grace. In
fact, every man, woman and child who has
q week to spare would be prouder of his
birthright, fonder of the republic. by a
glimpse of the New South n its grow
Ing acropolis, Atlanta.