The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-10-24
A BRIGHTER DAY DAWNS.
SAM JONES SAYS He FINDS PEO-
PIE In BETTER HUMOR.

! Nine Cent Cotton Responsible-Sam
Says it is a Real Tonic to Travel in
the South Now and Mingle
aad Talk With the People.
What Sam Jones says>goes. People
not only love to hear him talk but
they like to read his writings.
His last letter to the Atlanta Jour-
nal is full of encouragement. Here is
what he says:
1t has been wisely said that circum-
stances alter cases, but that they
never alter human nature. II human
nature does not change it changes its
tune and changes its base.
have travelled much in the last few
days through the Southern States.
Eight and nine cent cotton has put a
move on the South, glow upon both
farmer and merchant, has hushed the
calamity howlers. With the prospect
of cotton going to ten cents, andaeven
higher, we will SOON forget the hard
times of the past and come to listen
to the calamity bowler on the stump
or in the editorial columns of our
newspapers. The South has made
the cheapest crop of cotton, perhaps,
she has ever made. though not so
much by three million bales as last
year. The South has made more C Drn
and wheat and meat than in any year
of her past history. The farmers will
have fuller cribs and fewer debts,
fuller pockets and fewer cares than
they have ever had..in her history.
1t is real tonic to travel in the
South today and mingle with the
people; to drive out in the suburbs
and out beyond and meet the wagons
coming in loaded with cotton, the old
farmer with bright face and hurried
movement headed towards the mar
ket, sometimes his wife and children
on the wagon, and they, too, all aglow
with smiles. And then To meet the
old colored brother with his stiff cared
mule and one horse wagon as he sits
complacently on his bale of cotton
driving along TO market that will
give him a just return for his hard
years work. And then drive back
fhto town and see the scores and
sometimes hundreds Of wagons loaded
with cotton, the active buyers, the
busy merchants and the buzz and
hustle. We can but join in the hap
pineSs of the crowd aud feel that
better times have come at last.
EVERYBODY FEELS BETTER.
There is not phase Of Southern
life that does not feel it. Our colleges
| and schools are fuller than ever before.
The machinery of our manufactures
starting up, the railroads running
more and fuller trains. the building
of new homes, the rebuilding OF old
ones, the stacks Of hay, the pens of
hogs, the cribs of corn, all tickle the
| fancy and please the mind and give
| evidence complete that the South
today is the coming section of our
| great country.
Isn't it glorious, after the tears and
| trials, the failures and liquidatiOns,
! the debts and depressiOns of the past
| four years, to feel that they have
| ended at last? They say it is a long
| lane that never turns; and that the
darkest hour is just before day. Now
| if we will use wisely the vantage
| ground we have today, and by indus
| try and economy each fellow stick to
his lob, do his work well and husband
his resources, we shall yet have solid
| prosperity unmixed with boOms. un-
| hurt by speculation and undimmed by
| fraud. Experience is a dear school,
! and they say fools will learn in no
| other. Then If we be wise as fools
( we have learned by the experience of
| the past that industry and economy
| are the only two factors that ever
contribute TO permanent prosperity
| and wealth; that prodigality and
/ speculation wreck both fortune and
| character; that the man who makes
| haste to be rich not only burns his
candle at both ends, but generally is
consumed himself by the flames
which he kindles. II the young men
who have grown up amid these hard
times have seen cause and effect and
| have learned the lessons of the day
they, too, will fall in line along the
currents of honor, industry and fru
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