The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-22
THE SOUTH IS IN THE GAME.
EFFECT OF THE WAR IN sTIMULA-
TING SOUTHERN BUSINESS.


carnpment and EmbarkatiOn of
Troops.
From the Detroit Journal.
Going to Cuba has ceased to be a foreign
trip. 1t exctes no more interest than
though one had said that he were go
ing TO Chicago, st. Louis. Detroit or to any
other we'll known American city. 1t is
really a short trip and one that is much
more easily made than are many rail-
road trips between states. It requires
only day and a night from the tier of
Northern cities to reach Tampa, and
from most of them the trip can be made
with only one change of cars. From
Tampa it is only two nights and day
10 Havana.
When il comes to making the little ar
rangements for the trip, one is apt to feel
as though he were about to undertake
unite a journey If you make the re-
mark a few times that you are about TO
take a trip to Cuba, the clerk at the
hotel the man on the street car, your
acquaintance at the news stand, or others
with whom you may have established
some sort of connection, merely remark:
us that so; how long do you expect to
be away?" and then he goes on about
his little or big business just the same
as though you had said that you were
going to Pittsburg.
In the minds of the people, Cuba is now
a part of the United States. 1t may not
he bit of our real estate in the minds
Of the officials of the government, but
with the public generally it is accepted as
an absolute fact.
There is one place where the late war
has made a greater difference than in
Cuba or in the peoples estimation of Cuba
and Spanish wars. That is in the South
In the minds of Southerners the war Is
a big thing, was a big thing from the
start, and is getting to be bigger thing
day after day so far as they are con-
cerned At no place is this more noticea-
he than in Savannah. OF course that
civ has been chosen as the embarkation
point for the soldiers, and the old city
is naturally big with importance on ac-
count of this preferment. But that is
not the really big thing to be noticed. To
saw that all differences between the
North and South have been forgotten is
really not telling it. The North forgot
all differences long and long ago. The
South did not. A Northerner could not
be in the South for a day without hear
ing more or less about the civil war and
the results of that war. 1t was in the con-
versation of business and social matters.
No one in the North ever thought of dis
cussing the civil war unless the CONVEX
sation should lead up to the subject for
some special reason. The war would not
be mentioned in one business converse
ton in a thousand. In the South the war
was a more prevalent subject of CONVEX
sation than the weather. There might be
no bitterness or no prejudice in what was
said but something was always being
said
Now the war between the states is not
heard of. The writer first noticed 1t In
Savannah, and later on the same thing
was noted everywhere Business is on
the tongue of every man and woman. The
men talk of the business they are going
TO do and explain why they are going TO
do it. I heard the civil war mentioned
only once during a short stay in Savan-
nah, and that was when l asked Capt
D. G. Purse, the president of the Board
of Trade, why the pedestal OF a really
fine monument was made of sandstone in
stead of an appropriate marble or gran
ite. Well" he said, I'VE got that sand
stone from Canada when we We're not
feeling towards the Northern states like
we are now"
1t is not a stretch of fancy to say that
the Spanish war has given the South
new business spirit and the men of af-
fairs seem to be taking hold of things
with more energy and intelligence than
they used to display.
There is one thing about this war that
makes the SOutherner feel good. 1t has
always been a sore point, even If only
from an economical standpoint, that all
of the pension money went to the North.
Even though the business of the matter
We're not questioned, it meant quite
good deal to the South that the larger
part of $14 900 900 a year was going to the
Northern and more prosperous states,
when in reality they were getting very lit
tie of it. These millions of dollars meant
the putting of a lot of money into circula-
ton. They have not lost sight of the tact
that nearly all of the money for the army
Is going and has gone TO the South. Inc
soldiers came from the North, that is,
large proportion of them, but they were
nearly all encamped in the South and
that is where they spent their pay. This
has counted up into millions. The two
months stay of the army in Tampa made
That town rich. A large proportion OF the
provisions have been purchased in the
Middle North. The South from now on
will be the camping ground of all the
soldiers kept within the borders OF the
United States for use later on in Cuba
or Porto Rico. This in itself is an honor
that the people of the South are appre-
eating Ii makes their cities and towns
and railroads important in the eyes OF
the whole country. 1t keeps their names
IN the newspapers and keeps a great many
men travelling to and from the camps to
their homes in the North and other points
OF the country.
TINS may sound like a trifing mat
ter but after knocking about little
down here and finding that about every
third man is travelling on army business
It's significance is a little clearer. The
following incident is told as explaining the
lar-reaching virtues of advertising:
While at a hotel in Tampa some one
across the table in a very miserable sort
o. voice said:
Don't you think this is a perfectly
dreadful placer"
No not perfectly dreadful I think
me suburb of Soho in Pittsburg is a good
deal worse"
Well 1 am dreadfully disappointed I
saw the name of Tampa in the newspap-
ela SO often that / began TO think that it
was really quite remarkable place. l ac-
tepted an offer to come down here and
take share in, Wi friend