The age-herald., 1899-04-21

chinery plants, woodworking establish ments at Augusta would possess freight ad- vantages over any other southern point, be- sides having no competition in that terri tory at present. Augusta has direct trade with all parts of the world, her foreign ex- ports being cotton and cotton goods doors, sash and blinds, the products of a nursery, cotton seed oil, flour, beer and live cattle.
 In the development of gold mining in Georgia Augusta is near enough to the gold veins to reap direct benefit, and the day will yet come when smeltng works will be located there.
 In all this, Augusta is only example of what almost every southern community is capable of.
 And yet the east has been blind to the open door at it's very threshold. With fatuitous self confidence New York and other great final cial and commercial cen ters have expected without further effort to continue in the enjoyment of the busi- ness that has enriched them in the past. They have allowed the great tides of im- migration that have poured through Castle Garden to sweep past them into the almost limitess west instead of turning them south where they would build up a section that is their natural ally. The last impress sion of these people as they journey to their new homes is of the magnificent cities of the west The east is but dream and the fruits of their toll go to enrich the newer trade centers. Their friends and reiatlVeS follow the beaten track.
 Turning Toward the Southward
 Gradually stories of a greater land of promise have reached their ears; thousands have turned to the south. bringing the south and west in closer touch at the ex- pense of the east There have been many factors at work in this movement. Every national political convention for many years has been held in the west. Every exposition since the Centennial at Phila-
 
 In the past year thousands of soldiers from the west have been camped in the south The result has been that the masses have mingled and exchanged ideas. The peoples of both sections are an agricultural people and they have naturally affiliated. The east has felt the change in commerce and politics. The western roads soon granted home-seekers rates to the south and there have been active southern agencies af work advertising the south in the west. As a result there are forty inquiries from the west where there is one from the east
 would do nothing that would discourage these friendly relations. On the contrary, the hope of the agricultural development of the south is in the west I will do all in my power tc awaken the east to the unbounded wealth of the south that needs not the civilizing touch of the sabre and rifle or the fertilization of nations heroic blood
 The Seaboard Airline Is doing a magnif- cent work through its industrial depart ment in which they should have the en- couragement of the people of the east and the south and look to them to inaugurate home-seekers rates between all parts of the east and the south; it will do much towards further developing the trade re- lations between these sections. Then the merchants, the manufacturers, the capital ists of the east may be brought to more fully realize the opportunities for safe and profitable investment in the south.