The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-11-13
The Prosperity of the
South.

South generally ere SO markeO INA
they would excite wide comment wer'
it not fer the overwhelming interes
felt in the political campaign and it.
results. 1t has been noted for severn
wears past that the spirit Of narrow
sectionalism is dying out in the South.
We do not say that the people of the
South were altogether to blame for
their sectionalism. Perhaps. under the
circumstances, il was an inevita BILE
heritage Of tho war and the passions
engendered by It, 1t was not strange
that those who had console ntiously
fought for the lost cause should for
years hold aloof from those who had
defeated them. Doubtless, too. there
were individuals in the North who did
not always meet the South in con-
ciliatory spirit, and out of the .verv
excess of their loyalty forgot the virtue
of gsntleness. Be that as it may, the
North today is both more able and moro
willing to bury the unhappy hatreds Of
the past than it was at the close of the
war, and to recognize the nobler spirit
Of National unity and brotherhood
which is finding utterance in the South
as in the North In nothing has Major
Mckinley more truly reflected the SEN
timents of the North to-day than in his
messages of sympathy and good will to
the south.
Bnt it is not alone in its feelings that
the South is giving evidences of new
life. Its commerce and industries are
showing healthy growth, and in
some States its farmers are relatively
more prosperous than those of Northern
States. Last year the progressive city
of Atlanta surprised the world with its
creditable exposition, which, in all
likelihood, would have been even more
representative had it not been for the
local jealeusies of other Southern cities.
The State of Tennessee is to have a
great centennial exposition at Nash +,
vile next spring which promises to be .
a close rival of the Atlanta exposition. .
The fact that such industrial fairs can
be held in the South at all, with it's
sparse population and urgent need Of $
more capital to develop it's resources, /
argues well for the energy of the peo- q
pie. The spirit of the new industrial T
age has decended upon them. and they
are no longer content to sit down amid
the ruins of the past and dream over l
the things that have been. i
The expansion of trade and commerce a
in many Southern cities has been note n
worthy during the last few years. The Il
st. Louis papers say that that city has t
felt the present industrial depression r
less than many Northern cities. New n
Orleans 10 building up great COM u
merce. and has now line of steamers
running direct to England. Its business
men are far-seeing and progressive, and
they are fully determined to make the u
city not only the social but the com. :,
m ercial metropolis of the South. But
they are not going to do this without a r
struggle. Galveston, Texas, small in
population as yet, compared with New a,
Orleans, is dreaming dreams of future E,
srea ness that it intends to make real 50
ties ore of these days. 1t has just =,
fine line of steamers run Az
ning direct from Galveston. to Ham eh
'urg, Germany, and in many other or
ways is showing that it Is ready to 20
make good showing in the race of Al
Industrial development in the South. al
The same thing in measure is true of TO
'ther Southern cities and towns, while,
IS We have said, many Southern far
ners are prosperous "The Canton,
Miss Times says of the Mississippi
armers:
Mississippians are to-day financially hi
q better condition than at any period wi
lnce the war. 1t is strange, ther, to us, ri.
lat our people are not satisfied to let an
veil enough alone and try no expert iiv
heats, for, as the darkies say, ga trick ar,
atried is unjustified." There is a he
teady, healthy and permanent upward he
sndency in the independence, self tn,
Glance and self-sustentatio of our II
armers. We never have a failure in VIZ
rops. and with all the disadvantages &c
ais year, we have made three-quarters 81.
crop generally, at least, in the dry
'gion. Why clamor for change?
Yet it is these men who have been
I'D by Mr.. Bryan that they are the
retched slaves of the money power
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