The Progress., 1898-09-17
COuilH't SHIT in Church

Couldn't Spit in Church.
A bishop Of a church conference in
Georgia told those delegates who used
tobacco not to eXpectOrate on the floor
Or on the handsome new carpet, which
had recently been put down. He told
them that if they must chew tobacco to
90 outside and they would find nice
aew curbstone and plenty of fresh sand
20 eXpectorate upon, or they could bring
their cuspidOres, and in case of an
emergency they could use their hats.
The indications are that when the
present war with Spain is over we shall
control Porto Rico, the Philippines and
Sandwich Islands, to say nothing of
Cuba. We must maintain a larger
standing army and large, efficient
navy. We must build canal across
the Isthmus Of Panama. All this
means that thousands and hundreds of
thousands Of able-bOdied men will be
Withdrawn from ordinary pursuits, that
new fields will be opened for the enter
Drising, that the unemployed may have
employment if they will, that period
of prosperity for the farmer and for the
artisan and consequently for the whole
country is near. How long the boom
will last or what will be the ultimate
result are other questions, but it be-
hoOves the wise to have their wits
about them and be up and doing. That
some sort of reaction will come in
time there can be no doubt, says writ
er in a Louisville paper. The farm
ers of Kentucky and Of the South now
have their greatest opportunity. They
were left PROSTATE in 1860 and were
unable to gather together the wreck Of
war and take advantage in it's fullness
Of the flush times in the latter half OF
the SOS. When they did begin to stand
alone immigration-sometimes half a
million a year from the crowded popu-
lation of Europe flowed into the un-
broken prairies Of the West. The vir-
gin soil was broken. American inge-
nuity invented improved machinery OF
every kind, and a flood Of wheat and
corn and cattle and horses poured out
from the West, undreamed of, unexam-
pied in the history Of the world. III
Ola, Argentina and Russia added to the
store of golden grain. The cheap horses
from the West killed the mule industry
in Kentucky, the cheap wheat and corn
and the fat range cattle from the bunch
grass drove the price of Southern cattle
and farm products down to such q tic.
'ure that no longer were they profitable.
Cotton went down in price, and tobac-
co. except the better class of burley,,
dropped. But at last the West was full
at least SO far as free lai.0s and farms
open for the taking. The South had
turned IN a measure to other things.
Finding farming profits cut down, she
dug into the bowels of the earth for
coal and ore, furnaces and factories
sprung up, and the hum Of industry
vas heard. And even before the dec
.aration Of war the South was begin
ming to have her inning. She was. as it
were, beginning to catch even with the
shooting, jumping, popping, growing
West, with the North, boom-sick Ar.
gentina, despot-cursed Russia and
plague-ridden, but rich and productive,
India. Wheat was going up, corn was
going up, hogs, cattle and horses wero
bringing good and increasing prices. All
this and better things are now at hand.
Having learned the bitter lesson of ad.
versity the South should be prepared
America should be prepared to grasp
her opportunities. We have no famines
in America, we have no pestilence as
known to other countries. Those who
do not move forward may blame them
selves. We have the most productive
country on this globe, and, avoiding
wild schemes and foolish speculations,
we should produce and lay up store
against the rainy day, remembering
that ''he is farthest from market who
has nothing to SELL"
The Stars and Stripes are doing bon
orable service In tae public schools of
Chicago. Little celluloid flags are Of
fered to the pupils at five cents each.
The proceeds are already sufficient to
maintain three vacation schools, which
for six weeks Of the summer bring un-
mixed happiness and no little profit to
the children Of the very poor. Long
may our flag wave over not merely the
land Of the free and the home of the
brave, but over a people whose rich
come into kindly contact with the poor,
and where the learned and fortunate
share their requirements with the ig-
aersnt and the Sorlorn.