The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-11-23

so"4 10Y over foot in height and looked
Inv uo''u potato tops, covered with. small
whi0e pals. Yet even here. in this bar
reh oountry OF red earth and weedy pas
ouie' anu scattering log huts and tum-
oieu-oWh farm houses and primitive
Villages we saw plenty of evidence that
1ne New South" is indeed reality. On
1nao oay ride from North Carolina into
Northern Georgia we saw at least four
pis prlok cotton mills in process of cree
tlon. 1t was significant of the fact that
the future will see cotton manufactured
where 1t naturally should be-close to the
coeton crops and within easy reach of un-
illnloeu coal BEDS AS for the cotton mills
OF ehe north it is really getting to be
something Of question whether the free
labor OF our mighty streams and rivers
can maintain their supremacy.
IN our train, also, we saw plenty of
evidence Of the reality of the "New
South" With the glimpse of the coun-
try and the farming people and the me-
groes, from the car window, had come the
eager desire for glimpse at the rulers of
the country, the representative men, the
successors of the old land owners and
shareholders; in short the aristocracy
In the smoking-room of our car group
of men were talking. Several of then
were railroad and steamboat officials.
They were going to sort of transporta-
tion convention in Atlanta Among them
was Vice President Baldwin of the Great
Southern railroad
There was also short, stoutly built
m iddle-aged man, with clean-shaven,
strong face, very suggestive of that Of
Henry Grady, Atlanta great orator and
editor. He took prominent part in the
conversation. 1t was soon evident that
he was lawyer and citizen of Atlanta.
also that he was Southerner by birth
and ancestry. The command of language.
the aggressive, deliberate utterance and
the force and energy of an experienced
Northern lawyer were his and also there
was something more. There was snap
of the eyes and a dominating something
that doesn't belong to the Northerner
and never will.
| They were talking, of course, about At
lanta and the Exposition and the New
South and the lawyer dwelt at some
length upon the spirit of the times and
| it's great significance He declared that
| Southern men are waking up, that the
| disposition is to break away from the old
| order OF things, from prejudices and
conservatism, and to make organized end
energetic efforts for industrial and COM
mercial prosperity. He declared iii at the
disposition was growing to invite and
welcome and cooperate with northern en-
terprise and capitol and to meet it half
way
| Vice Presid emit Baldwin had something
to say about the attitude of the leading
men in Atlanta He is northern man,
it should be understood. He said that he
had met and heard them frequently at
banquets and other public occasions
| They all seemed to be actuated by tho
one strong purpos. to pull together for
the advanoem emit of Atlanta. They don't
leave the work for one or two who are
willing to go ahead, but each man is
strong and aggressive. He had seldom,
| IL ObCl SOOA 6O lfAl go hunOOI u I6DI6
sentative men, each one Of whom have
the qualities of a leader.
"They don't allow one to get fal
ahead of the rest, either he added. Ell
one of them attempts to take too much
of lead, yon'll see how quickly the resi-
4 will call him down."
i 1t will be seen from what the lawyer
had said that he is one of those who have
broken away from the old order of thing:
4 Later the conversation turned upor
4 Speaker Reed and he spoke of Reed s ait
to the Exposition enterprise and declared
\ that nothing had pleased Southern mer
Il more than his famous statement thai
Y hitherto SoutheIners had always beer
coming to Congress for their rights bu
now that they came for their interests he
would do what he could to help them.
"There are plenty of Southern men wht
have long ago realized the meaning O
that statement, but none of US had thu
wit to express it, said Mr.. Glenn, TO.
that is the lawyers name.
1t must not be supposed that this new
spirit has entirely rejuyenateo the South
erner or that he has entirely broken ava.
from old-time prejudices 1t was on
privilege and pleasure to call upon Mr.
Glenn at his elegant and busting Office
in one of Altanta's big and beautiful
modern buildings and to see that he i
a very able and successful lawyer and &
) be assured in the most convincing wa,
of his kindness and hospitality and cour
tesy and of his many attributes that be
\ long only to the true gentleman and tn
I man of affairs. Yet in talking with hin
about the negro colleges of Atlanta ant
3 their white teachers from the North, h
3 said "We do not recognize these teacher
7 socially in Atlanta. 1t is not becaus
4 they are teaching the negroes. We ap
, prove of that. But they have some idea
in regard to the negroes that we canno
agree WITH
1t is possible OF course that the northern
teacher may have some ideas that tn
Southerner is justified in not agreeing
with. But even if that were SO, it is Ger
ta1niy to be regretted that these mino