The evening times., 1896-11-26
SOUTH -FOUR YEARS HENCE
Not Likely to Be Allied With
Western Populism.
BRYANITES ARE MISTAKEN
Alliance With the West Dates Back
to the Force Bill Scare of the Har-
risOn Administration Increasing
Prosperity VIII Dispel All Desire
to Renew Cheap Money Agitation.

1t is evident that the renewed agitation
planned byiMr. Bryan and his chief advisers
with Il single view to its effect upon the
Presidential election OF 1900 is based upon
their belief that a united West, combined
with u solid South, can be organized by that
time, in the interest of cheap money and
Populism, against the remainder of the
country and American common sense gen
orally.
Asrar as the South may be concerned, the
slightest analysis of the conditions obtain
ing in that section will show the futility of
such hope, unless, indeed, IT be assumed
that the operations of the executive and
legislative branches OF the government, and
of the principal financial and business influ
ences of the county, are, for the next four
years, to be conducted with degree Of
idiocy hardly to be expected under exist
ing or any other conceivable circumstances.
FORCE BILL THE FACTOR.
The apparent growth in the South of a
tendency toward political affil:ation with
the West, which has been more or less
marked for several years, had its origin in
something quite different from common
interest or common grievances.
1t was horn of the feeling of irritation
consequent upon the political mistake OF the
At the South it was GENERALLY believed
that the East and North promoted and
pushed that measure, and there still exists
fear in many Southern minds that il may be
revived under the Mckinley regime.
on the other hand, the force bill was killed
in Congress with the aid Of, if OF entirely
through, Western votes and the : south has
been grateful. but Observation-Disclosures
Will not be suffIcientto perpetuate any un-
derstanding which is rot "bv.oCsly to the
interests of both parties 10 II. and, III the
present instance, il appears plainly enough
that the account Of the South does not lie
in occidental entanglemcnts.
ern nkindHeSsonacritiCal coca 5. on may he and
kindness on a critical CCcas on may he and
remain, that alone VIII not serve to bind
the South to course and policy opposed
alike To her material interests, prosperity
and manifest destiny. Let the force bill
apprehen sion he at Cnce allaycd, and the
South VIII speedily and naturally return to
its normal condition of alliance, association
and co-Uperat on with the capital, enter
prise and business organization of the East
and North i'll the task of developing its own
great and still largely normal virgin re-
sources.
But for the unfortunate oitical apita.
ton referred to, IL s ! ot pol able that the
South would have departed fIom its Old
time conservatism and lent 80 much of its
voice aud aid to the Western cIeap-moncy
and Populist movement. Because intrin-
sically, it had little excuse for 50 cong.
SOUTH HASN'T SUFFERED MUCH.
Although the South has felt the pinch oil
thelate hard times. on the whole II has >uf-
fered less than any other part of the Coun-
try. was better prepared TO meet them AT the
START. and actually has demonstrated prog
gress and S.cadily advancing prosperity IN
spite Of them. In the history of this
growth during the pa st three or four years
nothing is plainer than the evidence of on
SANITY increasing Southern independence
Of Wes.ern products.
Inlsy3 lie -tr lrrOp ofthe SoUtl crn States
amount ed To 435, ,.54, COO bushels; in 1895,
10 COS, $685. bushels, an Increase in two
years Of l62, 2,911 OF bushels. This in
crease was principally cCnfiEed 10 the ut-
ton States which formerly drew largely
on the West for food supplies.
During lie present year Grecnvillc, Miss,
has been shipping train load of { orn to Kan
sas City Georgia and Mississippi each in
creased their production by nearly 10000
600 bushels. Alabama's crop increased
Is, 100000 and that of Texas 10000
900 bushels.
The statistics of hog production in the
South are equally suggestive. The number
of hogs reported for the Southern States cn
January / 1896. was greater by 2,17J,27S
iIlt II On the IKE tdlt bl 1890 L Ht slUSle
city of Charleston. s. C.. during the year
ending September 1895. shipped in from
extra State sources 1850 900 Iourds
less of bacon than it received in he previous
year. The South grows cornand raIses hogs
to eat, and to that section an ample sup
ply of pork and corn meal means agricul-
turii independence. with other productions
j surplus and largely profit
SOUTHERN COAL AND IRON.
The coal output of the Southern States
inlS95 exceededthat of S94 by ,2T6 ,236
tons. Southernpg production increased
by 433 ,663 tons in the same period, while
for the first half OF 1896 ii is rt ported as
262 .606 toms greater than during the cor
responding period of 1895 promising ex-
port trade IN pig iron has been established
for Alabama. Shipments and engagements
abroad from. Birmingham furnaces are
stated at over 25 900 tons SO far this sea-
son.
While the tobacco crop of the Eastern.
Northern and Western States for 1898, as
with that of / 1s94. showed a de-
cline in production of ,196 900 pounds,
and in value OF SO ,975 .301, that of the
Southern States scored an increase Of
80 ,7S4 900 pou nds, and S394,O7s in
value. The good fortune of the South in
connection with the current cotton crop has
been phenomenal and notorious. The prog
DI
fruit culture on an extended scale truck
farming, oyster and other fisheries: TIM
ber, lumber, quarrying, mining and manu-
featuring enterprises also have been re-
markable.
Compared with any other portion of the
United States, reasons for discomfort with
the situation are hard to find in the South.
a nd, economically speaking, its future ap-
pears all bright.
If Mr.. McKinley's administration should
give some early assure nee that the force.bill
agitationis not to be renewed with its con-
sent the forces of nature and Southern in
dustry and enterprise may be counted upon
to do the rest, and in the warm sunshine
of material development and prosperity, the
miasma of cheap money and Populism will
be disinfected, dispelled and forgotten in
the Southern States long before the Presi-
dental campaign of 1900.
To Resume Her Maiden Name.
Judge Cox yesterday granteda divorce to
Lillian p. Bird from Henry r. Bird. The
wife is allowed to resume her maiden
name of Atwell and is given the custody