The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-09-08
The EXPANDING SOUTH.
ITS DOMINANT ANGLO
SAXON SPIRIT KINDLED !
BY THE WAR.
Attention Called to Immense
Undeveloped Resources
Amid a Population of Which
o5 Per Cent. Are Native
Born--Prediction of Great
Gains In the Near Future.
tNew York Commercial AGveriiser.l

RICHARD n. Edm0nds, editor OF the ia
timore Manufacturers Record, a persis
ent and painstaking exponent ofSouther
affairs, is now in New York, and bein
asked for his views on the subject. talke
last night with much earnestness an
vigor about the benefits the South ough
to reap from the coming expansion
American influence in the worlds com
meree. He said:
"ln my opinion, the most striking resul
Of the present war has been the far-reach
ing advertisement which il has given Il
America, the American people and Amer
lean institutions. 1t has brought about
deeper and wider recognition Of what the
sturdy civilization which we might de-
nominate as American AnglO-Saxonism
means 10 mankind. Ii has bros iened and
deepened the patriotism of our own people
and given us fresh conception Of the
vitality and strength of our country; it has
shown us as nothing else could have done,
that patriotism is not confined either TO
the rich or to the poor, either TO the North
or to the South, but that ali classes and
all sections are alike in their devotion TO
their country and in their readiness TO
sacrifice even life for its honor. 1t has
focused upon America The searching eyes
of wide-awake men looking for fields for
enterprise and Observation-Disclosures in which
the rights and possessions Of the individ-
ual are safeguarded to the utmost, and
where social, industrial and commercial
possibilities exist in the greatest number.
"From this general advertisement of
our entire country the South ought to be
able TO receiye the greatest benefits, and
these benefits will be in proportion to the
growing appreciation in which the cviliz-
ing, safeguarding force which we call
standing, as it does, for
aggressveness tempered by fair play, is
upheld and lived up to by the people of
hat section and in proportion to the
mercy displayed by them in the develop
nent of their resources. In this respect
he South, am sure, will do its part, as
'ver % per cent. of its people are Amer
can born.
''ln discussing this question of Anglo
Saxonisnl, the New York Ledger, seven
ears ago, seemed TO forsee its importance,
md, in speaking of the South in this con-
lection, said;
This homogeneity and intense Amer
cansm were shared by New England fifty
ears ago, but since the sweeping emigra.
# the New Englanders TO the West and
he occupation of the vacated places by
french Canadians, there is large and
rowing admixture of alien and unassimi-
ated elements in the New England popu-
alton. South of the Potomac, on the
Their hand, the chronological conditions
emain substantially what they were at
he beginning of the century. If we ex-
ept few descendants Of French Protest
Dts in South Carolina and of the French
atholics in Louisiana, all of the white
eopie OF the South are OF pure English
neage, or else are the OfishoOts of that
cotch Iris stock to which we owe Patrick
Ienry, John 9. Calhoun and Andrew Jack l
On. 1t should also be remembered that I
ne English and Scotch-Irish emigrants, :
ON whom the Southern whites are
escended, reached this country almost TO
man before the Revolutionary War. The a
suit is that if we should see the so-called f
alive American, the typical American,
re man who best represents the conioint
lects OF English or ScOtch-Irish heredi-
ry aptitudes and of transatlantic en- s
rOnment, we are most certain to find him @
the South. Whatever triumphs, there :,
re, in the evolution of natural resources
IN the solution of social problems NAV
achieved by Southern whites, have a n
culiar interest and Importance for +
nnine Americans all over this country. .;
"Thus this war with Spain, by showing Ia
e worldwide domination of the Anglo II
xon element, has opened the way for a .,
'st valuable Southern asset to be m
ought into activity and to exert it's in
oper influence in the development of the q,
sources of that section Of the Union. ~
In estimating the value of that asset in IN
light of the new and growing regard or
Anglo Saxon civilization, there is little "
niger Of ones going too far. Indeed, 9,
ere may be found those who will predict, Il,
er investigating the showing made by IN
latest census on this score, that the g.,
nth, with 30 per cent of its population III
i've horn, coupled with the fact that if Of
endowed with the most remarkable ow
resources, must soon be ~.
M occupying commanding position ga,
commerce aud exerting n controllino
nence in the worlds industry and en-.
ing to sach an extent all that makes for '"'
II prosperity that, enormous as was 80
loss which these States sustained in ''
civil war, it may be ultimately recoup-
through inhunces which the war now -
~ closed will soon actively set in mo.
l. And am almost prepared to con- 'O
IN such prediction. ="
VI course, so stupendous a gain could y"
be due directly to the waging Of war. :"
Will come partly from better appre- wv
ION OF the South ON the part of the "''
ID at large, while incidentally good re. ""'
VIII epsue from a complete realiza- '"''
oil the hnal obiitsration Of sectional p"S
nosity; for the extent to which mis-. INC
'epiion ON this score has initiated o'"'
INST Northern participation in the 9
lbs rehabilitation has ,ave. oou