The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-02-25
OUR OPPORTUNITY.
VIII Tennessee Get Her Share of the New
Enterprises Seeking Locations
in the South?

WIN Tennessee Get Her Share of the New
Enterprises Seeking Locations
in the South?
The supreme opportunity that comes
to all, States as well as individuals, has
come to the South. That tide which,
if taken at the flood, leads to fortune, IS
full upon this section. A combination
of causes have led to this result. Even
that which burdened has brought its
own relief. Unequal taxation, through
the operation of tariff laws, stimulated
production until the mills must come to
the mines, the forests and the fields to
save costs and meet competition. The
sectional spirit that developed the West
at the expense of the South; that swept
the tide of foreign immigration to tho
West in swollen floods while the South
lay fallow, is potent no longer, and
thousands of eyes and hearts are turn
ing from rich fields but strange tongues
and cold climes to the sunny lands of
the South, where the mother tongue of
our revolutionary ancestors prevails
and the Anglo-Saxon race rules SUI
preme. The New England mills are
shutting down and moving South, the
victims of that protective system that
so long robbed the South and finally
forced this section into competition
with Northern spinners. Northern
furnaces are shutting off, while new
ones are blown in daily in the South,
where the raw material lies in parallel
veins and the conditions of labor are
more favorable. Woodworking fac
tories are running on shortened time or
lying dead throughout the North, while
new enterprises in woodworking are
springing up all over the South wher-
ever forests of hard and soft wood in
vite the AK, the saw and the plane.
Thousands of people, weary of the hard
conditions of life in the North, North
east and Northwest, are seeking homes
in the South. They are coming in fam
lilies and colonies-English-sp
people, born and bred in American
ways and laws. They are settling in
every Southern State and waste land is
being made to fruit again, and thrift is
taking the place of waste, and hope is
springing up where encouragement
long held sway. The Southern rail
roads are alive to this great movement,
and they are organized and working to
encourage and utilize the same wherever
they find public sympathy and the ac-
tive spirit of Incorporation.
Is Tennessee reaping her share of this
''run of good things?" Is she prepared
or preparing to reap the fruits of her
great exposition? Is she organized or
organizing to utilize the supreme OPP
portunity at hand-to take the tide of
development at its flood?
There is evidence conclusive that the
railroads of this State are alive to the
| situation and ready to cooperate on the
most liberal scale with the people and
communities in timely and effective eff
forts to gather in for Tennessee a goodly
share of the enterprises and the home
seekers coming South. They are main
tanning industrial and immigration bu-
reaus and helping locate land com
panies literally, and are now cOntem-
plating larger efforts on broader planes.
| Only one thing is needed. That is the
cordial cooperation of communities
and the people. With this and the cul-
tivation of mutual good-will-the spirit
of fairness and equal rights-Tennessee
will enter upon period of unprece-
dented prosperity.
Give Tennessee, with her noun
| tains of minerals, her forests of
| hard and soft wood and her fields of
| diversified production, one decade of
cooperative effort-the railroads and
the people working together for pro-
| gress-the urban and rural commune
ties pulling together and vieing with
| each other in efforts to promote the
| common interest-and then call the roll
of honor among the States achieving
most for humanity, and Tennessee's S
name will come first and lead all the
rest.-Memphis Commercial Appeal.