The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-29
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| 1t remained for New England paper
| to tell the reason why Mr.. +. II. Thur
| Der went to Atlanta to lecture ana ira
duee Southern men. II says:
"The South is receiving good many
| lectures from northern men nowadays on
some of the hindrances TO southern com
mercial development Quite often these
| hindrances consist in refusal 10 ADOPT
| the particular economic views of the
sneaker. +. Il. Thurber, Of New York,
smoke Mt ATLANTA Tuesday ON this sub
iect. and found one great hindrance i'll
the South's backwardness in voting for
+. Il. Thurber's pet shipping bounty
scheme
That is the milk in the cocoanut
There is no more justice in granting a
ship bounty than there would be IN yot-
ING to give every farmer one cent for
every noun. of cotton raised or
merchant one cent for every yard of call
co sold, or mechanic one cent for every
lick struck with his hammer. Besides,
there is no constitutional warrant Tor
such use of the public funds. The South
ern statesmen have never been educated
to believe either that the constitution as
a league with hell and a covenant with
the devil or that the general welfare
clause permits Congress to vote pubic
money for private schemes. And they
will not vote for subsidies, even to please
Mr.. Thurber and stop his malicious and
slanderous tongue.
Gov. Gambler, of Georgia, speaks out
plainly in refuting Thurher's misrepre-
sentations. In answer to the question
How about the credit of the South
he said to the Atlanta Journal:
well. Thurber is away off there, Just
as he is in other parts of his speech.
To prove this, it is only necessary to say
that not long ago | borrowed Sloo,uuG
for the State of Georgia right i'll New
York. where Mr.. Thurber lives, and all
| had to do to get the money was simply
to write my own name MS governor 81
Georgia. That don't look much like the
credit Of this sections is i'll bad way.
Money is coming into the South at
low rates of interest from the north and
east. Witness the great buildings like
the rquitahle, the Austell and the Pru-
Dental. that have been erected on capl-
tai borrowed up there. Is it safe!
reckon so, or it would not have been
loaned down here. Witness, also. the
factories that have been and are being
put up by northern capital here. the iron
mines. the coal mines, the marble quar-
ries that have been opened up in south
ern States by the use of northern money,
to say nothing of the plants, steel plants
and rolling mill plants, which represent
the investment of northern money IN
many instances by northern men who
have come down here to live and grow
up with the country.
.'Ihurher is in the growing business.
He has made big fortune by selling his
stuff. and great sums Of money have
gone ont from the South to help him to
do it. Does he think II it safe for his
men to travel the South and place his
groceries. Why. certainly he does. or he
wouldn't make such earnest efforts To.
get the Southern trade"
Concluding a strong and vigorous edi-
torial replying to Mr.. Thurber, the At
lanta Constitution isfequally plain and
sensible. We quote:
There is not State in the South but
which, in every development Of govern
ment. has manifested an equal patriot
ism and an equal appreciation of condi-
tions with any sister State in New Eng
land. There is mot a single community
in the remotest sections of any one Of
the Southern States but can equal iii ylr-
tue, in thrift and n common sense some
corresponding community in New Eng
land.
80 come down more to direct terms
with Mr. Thurber, we can take the
Georgia legislature of the present term
and it will compare man for man with
the membership of the New York assem-
bly,. Without being inyidious, we might
say that it would be much harder TO find
the price of the Georgia legislator cham
it would be to find that of the New York
assemblyman, il the New York papers
themselves are to be believed. The
Georgia legislature, which is only used
as Il type OF southern legislatures, is just
as careful of the rights Of man as against
man. as can possibly Zoe that of the State
in which Mr.. Ilhurber lives. Going on
from the legislature to the business and
farming community, there is honor for
honor, and virtue for virtue wherever we
may 20. 1t may be in some community
in Georgia we will find a drunken man
with knife or pistol, but will Mr..
Thurber be forced to leave the State of
New York to find some man guilty Of
some offense equally as heinous? After
all, it is but difference in the form Of
offense, with perhaps more of intentional
intelligent culpability entering into that
OF the man at a distance, who is more
successful in yelling his crime. What
is here intended must be perfectly plain
to Mr.. Thurber.
at is time that this patronizing man
ner and offer of unsolicited advice
should come to an end. When people
from the South 90 to an assembly held
in New York they recognize the fact
that they are among men who under.
stand their own business and who need
no lecturing. When the case is reveas-
cd. and gentlemen come South of the
line" they do not come downs among
babies or men who need direction, but
| they must recognize the fact that they
are among men equally capable of taking