The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-09-03

erS more ground than any Guy III Uuo
Uoitsd States except Chicago and has
more homes than any city. Or course
there are fats and teae nenG houses IN
the city. but a vast maj )rlty OF the
neople own their homes. a shows
that the population, which Is ABOUT
oro ord a half millions. is mostly of
American birth and a thrifty people.
philadelphia has enjoyed great pros
neritv and steady growth up to recent
years. The business stagnati0n has
been felt there as we'll as elsewhere.
Goldbuggery is sapping the life out of
her people and Industries, More or
this subject later.
New York is the next stop. Who
can describe this modern Babylon2 No
one. She is the metropolis, the gate
wav, the ruler Of this continent. With
all her wickedness you are f~avorably
impressed. You feel the push, the n
ergy, the bull dog business pluck, that
| has made her what she is the moment
you enter the city. New York is moth
ing but a mass of countless skyscraping
buildings, costing vast sums Of money,
a pandemO0ium OF moving street cars
and elevated trains and moving people.
| Ojher cities have nearly as NJ my ship
ping advantages, as wise people, as
much energy. Bat New York was on
the ground first, she secured the lead
and has held it in spite Of competition
The mass Of humanity, good and bad,
that has been pouring into America
from the old world for years all come
to New York. Most Of the foreign
trade goes and comes through Ne
York. II you want to go to Europe
you go to New York and bagIn the
Journey anew. All the great railroads
have headquarters there. Nearly all
the insurance companies are located
there. Money coming from Europe for
American investment stops IL New
York. II a young couple gets married
and are abla to take q bridal tour, they
go to New York L ke a great whirl-
pool she sucks in every thing. Nine
tenths of the theatrical troops touring
the country start from New York. It
Is headQu 4rters for every thing. The
trusts are formed there and char
tered in New Jersey. ALI the big man
ufacturiDg concerns i'll New England
have their offices there. All this tends
to make the great city. Add to this
that many of the leading educational
institutions are located there, and the
great magazines and books are nearly
all published in New York. That is
why you find a city Of 2, 600, 900 people
surrounded by suburban cities and
towns containing three more millions.
II the entire population Of New York
was to leave the city and all the
people in the State Of North Carolina
b3 sent there the city would appear
deserted.
New York has a great many million
aires and thousands Of peupers. The
mjllIon8ires spend money freely, how
ever The people there are not stiDgy,
They spend m rney like it was a duty.
They go in debt the same way. The
fact that the real estate mortgage in
debtedneso for each man, woman and
child III New York State is 1868, is all
the proof you need Of the wholesale
way In which they 1u'h things. We
think we arc badly in debt in North
Carolina, but our per capita indebted
ness is only about $13, as compared
with 1868 in New York. This fearful
indebtedness will never be liquidated
in the regular way. Under the most
favorable conditions it could not all be
paid. But with goldbug rue in foIc9
a little longer the most Of this valuable
property will go into the possession
of the banks and other money loaners,
by foreclosure. But so long as the in
tereet a be paid promptly they will
not be in a hurry to foreclose.
New York has but few churches
compared to the population, tu5 some
of them are fine ones. The average
New )rker don't worry much about
religious matters. If he takes any in
tereet at all he prefers to invest in a
fine church to attract the attention of
strangers, employ a high priced
preacher and send the preacher off on
a vacation to the springs or to Europe
for about twelve months every year.
left New York over the New York,
New Haven ard Boston trunk line.
This is a magnificent road with four
separate tracks to New Haven, Conn,
and two tracks from there to Boston
via Providence, R 1. For thirty or
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