The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-10-12
Our mining industries have had

cally nOtnlng, no" VIC Cuin ouO anu
ally 2,oOO,O tons. Of coal we min
ed practically nothing, now we furnish
the world with $4,000 tons per
annum.
Our transportation facilities have
grown with our industries. In 1860
there were 9,897 miles Of railroads in
the South. In 1897 we had 48,967
miles traversing our splendid fields in
every direction, carrying and making
wealth.
To sum up this grand achievement
we take the census figures. The total
value of all the property by the CEN
sus reports is as follows: For 1860,
Sc, 1872, 100000 For 1870, the nearest
period to the close Of the war, this
had dropped to "a, ,4o1, 100000, show
ing approximately as the material loss
to the South by the war the stupen-
dous sum of 1881, 100000. Assum-
ing that the increase of values was the
same from 1890 to 1897 as from 1880
to 1890, the present value of all the
property of the South reached at the
end of 1897 the magnificent amount Of
$14. .259, 600, 900. The gain over 1870
is s9, 1853, 900, 900; or since 1870, We
have recovered all that we lost during
the war, and have accumulated, in ad-
dition, nearly eight billion dollars Of
property. This is not what we have
made, but what we have saved, after
paying all of our living expenses.
Think Of it, comrades, eight billion
dollars saved by the people Of the
South in twenty-seven years. That
you may appreciate not the immensity
of the figures, our minds hardly take
it in, but what the whole South is
doing, think Of what you are doing.
Your share, and it is more than your
share, is under your eyes. The taxa
BILE value of all property in Spartan
burg County was, in 1870, 81, ,237, 300,
in 1897 it was, including the parts Of
the County cut off for Cherokee
County, s12, 900. The wealth of
your County has increased ten times!
Compare the city Of Spartanburg, the
many factory villages around it, the
condition of your farms, with what
they all were when you came home,
and you will appreciate what you and
your brothers of this County have ac-
complished. Measure what the rest
of the South has accomplished by
what you see and know has been done
by the people Of Spartanburg County.
You will then be able easily to take
into your minds these facts which I
have stated, so largely to the credit OF
the whole Southern people.
Would you call them lazy or inert?
You Veterans will remember that
before 1861, whenever the Southern
man was represented in the pictorial
magazines Of the country, all Of which
were published North, how he was
drawn. To the Northern mind is de-
picted Southern characteristics. l
see it plainly now. A lazy man in
shirt sleeves, head covered with wool
hat, seated indolently on rail fence,
corn cob pipe in his mouth, and a
cowhide in his hand, while his darkies
were doing his work.
The artists and the people did not
know US. 7
1t took more than four Yankees to
make this old fellow come down from
off that fence, and he did kick might
ly in getting down.
Have I not shown to you the won
drous achievements of the South since
the war? Am I not justi6edin saying
that in them the Southern people
have even more nobly shown their
greatness than when they were parts
of the splendid battalions Of Lee and
Johnston? They have fought and
conquered fate. Not made money for
moneys sake. instance only dollars
as the measure of their deeds.
The tide of prosperity has turned
South instead Of West. See to it,
men of Carolina, that the stream is
not only not diverted, but more capi-
tai and more enterprise is drawn to
our Southland.
To no people can repeat this with
greater surety that my sentiments will
be endorsed, and my advice needed,
than those of this splendid County.
Nowhere in this State has wealth and
prosperity so closely gathered as
around Spartanburg. Look at your
far-reaching business enterprises, your
magnificent institutes Of learning, and
your prosperous and paying cotton