The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-09-08

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/ products, intensive farming, the reduced
/ cost of fertilizers, the South seems to b.
prepared for as radical change in its agri'
cultural as IL has accomplished in the last
ten years in its Industrial advancement
|, Moreover, when the situation is studied
II Is seen that the South with its genial
climate and even rainfall, it's magnificent
rivers and great water powers, the near
ness Of ifs ports to the productive centres
Of the West, furnishing the most direct
outlet to foreign markets, presents a pc
culiar combination, one that believe has
which / am sure must have a more far
reaching effect, not only upon our own
country, upon the world in general, than
has yet been fully grasped either by our
Northern friends or by the people of the
South themselves.
81 am sure that study of the South's
advantages will cause any one TO be more
and more impressed with the fact that
there has been centred in this region posi-
sibliies for the creation of wealth, for
the development of enormous industrial
enterprises and great shipping interests
and for profitable agriculture, that cannot
be duplicated in any other equal area on
earth. | am sure that these facts are
more and more impressed upon the people
Of the North and OF Europe, now that
every trace of seciionalism has been
botted out by the war, those who have
held aloft from that section because of
the sectional question will see that in this |
favored land are unequaIIed opportunities
for the display Of energy and for The de-
velopment of business such as can he
found nowhere else. The development
and enrichment of the South mean greater
prosperity to the North and West the ex-
pansion Of our commercial power and
vast Strengthening Of the dominating in
huence of the AngIO-Saxon Oh the worlds
future. For we have now entered a new
period in the worlds affairs. Every day
brings out more clearly the commanding
position that our country is to hold, and
shows how our great financial and bust
ness institutions are to play the leading
part in the control of the, ever-expanding !
rade and commerce of the whole world
fhe very magnitude of our great institu-
ions and their splendid management, |
acquired through years of training fit
hem now to enter into the struggle for
lie worlds trade, and so we see that the
'olicy of combination and consolidation,
Thch is but the working out of an mex r
rable economic law, has put US in posi- =
ion to enter the markets OF Europe and
STA as "a power TO be reckoned with To =
he extent that the South appreciates this
nd takes advantage of its opportunities
i'll be its share in the rapidly growing |
collaborating trade.
Coming back, however," said Hr. Ed
Onds. "of course, the fact that our
Duntry as a nation will more and more
tract attention, greatly strengthens the
outh's position. 1t has been well said
lat no other country, no other age in the
orld's history, can show such progress
the creation Of wealth and such wide
'read prosperity among the people as
e United States Our natural resources,
eater than those of all Europe cOmbin-
!, have only been touched on the edge, p
C outcrops. so to speak; while in Eng n
nd and some countries of continental
nrope, the cost of production in nearly
industries is increasing because of de- #
easing supplies of material and their l.
Increasing cost With us
C cost of production is decreasing dav IL
day, and We open up our richer regions
capital and labor. We have more than
II the railway mileage of the world and
ter transportation by sea, by rivers and Pr
lakes, and have only to adjust our
red productions of the farm, the
tory and the mine, to right proportions, -
order to permit unlimited increase i'm
alth and prosperity. We have the ~
terial, with every natural condition for NJ
king it useful in the highest degree;
have over 70,OO0,00 people to work it
we have the skill, intelligence. indus No. no.
, thrift and enterprise to carry on work D"i
a scale never dreamed of in any other Sun
ntry or age. The ability of the Ameri- a; N
people to adapt themselves to the -.
* in hand, to catch on has long been ~ ~
ven to be superior to that of any other II
pie. The results they have attained in II
creation of wealth, comfort and prog y
are entirely without parallel in the u
DRY of the world. What they have Il
e and are doing is the best guarantee |
hat they can do 20
With all erea equal to that of all %
ope and natural resources far greater. "a
a homogeneous population working 81
err common laws, we must in time ex- 40
not what combined Europe has, but -
she might have had if she had been
the start single country working
armony, instead of divided into score
atoms with artificial and unnatural
'dries and still worse, divided by
uage, law, prejudices and old grudges,
wasting their energies and resources y