The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-18

In the remarkable industrial revival which is in
progress in the United States at this time it is
worthy of note that the South is making Guile as
hluch progress In the up-building her achieve
H'eh'S III the past fifteen years would warrant
expecting In common with all other sections the
South has at least for the past three years partakeu
OF the general depression That fact was less notice
able at the outset than it became later on when the
market in the principal staple of the South reached
condition of depression which alarmed the entire
country. Recent events, however, have shown that
the South has entered upon period of revival espe-
cialIy IN the direction OF manufacturing industries
winch Is source of genuine wOnderment i'll com
mercial and industrial circles
In the one direction of cotton manufacture alone
the figures show that the development in the South
within brief period has been simply phenomenal
abulaon of special reports this behalf recently
made 10y the New York Journal of Commerce shows
that for the five months of the year ending Nav 81
hity new cotton mills have been built or projected
IN the South at cost estimated $11 800 600 This
involves the employment approximately of 100000
new Splndles. Thirty-nine of these mills are max
ing or preparing to make engagements at a cost Of
SHG00o00 and to employ 100000 new spindles MI
this involves the Investment OF $17O0O00O of addi-
uonal capital i'll the cotton manufacturing Industry
III the South i'll the short space five months This
carries with it, too, the establishment of 11OO000
new spindles engaged i'll turning out exclusively cot
ton piece goods yarns
This addition is nearly great in volume as the
entire extent of cotton manufacture in the South IN
1o5o while at the end of last August the aggregate
OF spndles in operation in the South was but 66e-
ooO 1t will be subject Of much surprise to those
who regard the South hopelessly lost in the race
for industrial supremacy. Moreover the social dis
turbances which are still so frequent in the South
had the effect of creating the impression that the
people of the South still stuck fast in the lts
of post-bellum social strife. The mistake is ex-
pEned by the fact that general attention is not to
any extent cenered on the South except in the mat
ter of her unhappy problem
Her industrial advance, great as it is is far from
extraordinary especially when takes the facts
of the situation into account The exclusive manu-
facture OF cotton goods in New England involved an
economic fallacy Where the raw material is pro-
duced there have existed all the conditions necessary
to its most ready transformation into manufactured
form Coal is there in abundance. Labor is there
III abundance and it is cheap The facilities for
cheap transportation to the coast there more
numerous than elsewhere. Climatic conditions arr.
favorable to cheap living The soil is productive
and altogether the eXgencies of daily life are much
less exactng than they are in a Northern climate
What is true of manufactures of cotton is equally
true of those of iron enduring need for wears
OF the South an abundance of capital to stir its IN
duStrleS to life, is now apparently realized.
We all rejoice in the welfare of the South With
the development of new manufacturing industries
the solution of the problems of racial differ
ences and social backwartlness is certain to secure
an early adjustment and that favored section in
stead Of being it for almost a quarter
of a century after the war; an object of pity
il not of scorn is destined take its true place
Which it bore for the first half century of the national
existence, portion of country more
favored by nature than almost any other all that
works to the enrichment and happiness it's popu.
lation.