Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-23
VIEW FRIENDS AND NEW BUSINESS.


There is no reason why the business of
the Southern and Northwestern Indus
trial Association should not interest ev-
cry enterprising citizen in the South At
lantic and Gulf States. The establish
ment of the general Office in this city
and the class of citizens who have been
selected to manage its affairs is sutTi-
eient warrant for the active cooperation
which will be found in this locality.
We are asking thrifty farmers of the
Northwest, who are seeking a more sa-
luxurious climate, to buy new homes in.
Ala bama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louis
lana and Tennessee. Thanks to the eff
forts of our railroads and few enterprise
ing citizens, many have already come
and are today aiding in building up the
agricultural South by teaching our farm
ers new methods and greater diversity of
crops. A number of colonization compa-
MES have been formed in the South. There
is room for many more, and an associa-
ton like the Southern and Northwestern
should be the clearing house, SO to speak,
of this great work in the South
The era of industrial activity and great
prosperity may not come SO soon as some
expect; it will hardly come SO soon as ev-
cry one would have it come. That it
will come, and that the South will get it's
full share, there is not the least doubt.
The splendid record during the past three
years of unprecedented depression, the
natural advantages which are now at
tracing the attention of the whole coun-
try and the great success of the Atlanta
Exposition justify great hopes for the
future. The Northwest is taking great
interest in the South. 1t is from that sec
ton that we are getting our new citizens.
Chicago is the metropolis of the North
west; it is not far from being the metrop-
oils of this country. Chicago is above ALL
an American city. Its business interests
are not dominated by any political fac
ton; its controlling element Is neither
dogmatic nor dictatorial, but strictly
American. Chicago and adjacent terri
tory Is several hundred miles nearer Bir-
mingham, Atlanta, Chattanooga and
New Orleans than New York and other
competing territory of the North Atlantic
seaooard. The manufacturers of the
Northwest should be given a fair and
equal opportunity to deliver their prod
ucts to Southern consumers.
Capital and enterprise of the Northwest
is looking to the South for a new field of
operation. The era of steel making in
the South is near at hand. and the eff
forts of so reputable a financier as Bank
err Enslen, with the active support of Mr..
Skaggs have already turned the atten-
ton of Chicago capital in this direction
in that particular line.
We have found pleasure and profit in
entertaining such distinguished citizens
of the East as Elk Mayor Hewitt of New
York and Col. A. X. Mcclure of Phila-
delphia, who have said many nice things
about us. Now let us be given the oppor-
tunity of giving a hearty welcome to
such distinguished citizens of Chicago as
William Penn Nixon of the Inter Ocean.
Ex-Congressman George E. Adams. S.
W. Atherton, E. S. Conway and others
who are interested in this new associa-
ton and its particular line of work
Ex-superintendent of the census,
Robert Porter of Cleveland is numbered
among the directors of this company
and his support cannot fail to add
strength to any movement The local di-
rectors are well known in Alabama :, and
the advantages that will accrue to Bir.
mingham should not be overlooked
Speaking of the organization of this
company several weeks ago, the Chicago
Inter Ocean, S aid:
Tradition long bound the South to the
East, but the great Columbian Exposition
was an object lesson to the progressive
Southerners, and the generous sentiment
of Chicago on the matter of the monu-
ment to the Confederate dead and its
hospitable treatment of distinguished
Southerners who have visited it have
strengthened the commercial instinct by
the social impulse
Such an organization cannot fail of be-
ing productive of good. The South can
produce much that the North needs: it's
resources of lumber are vast, and brit
fundamentally developed; it can manu-
facture pig iron more cheaply than we
can; in fact, Southern pig iron has been
sold to large makers of steel in Pennsyl-
vania and Illinois"
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