The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-20
souTH'S GREAT RESOURCES.
,pNER M'KINLEY TALKS OF WHAT
HE SAW ON HIS TRIP.

40 Needed-Wonderful PossibiIi-
development That Can Be Accom-
,t,sbed Through the SeabOard
railroad System-COtton and I'm
migration Discussed.
Nov York. Feb. 19-Mr. Abner McKin-
lev brother of President William McKin-
lev. returned to-day from trip to the
south taken for the purpose of looking
,r-o The industrial and economic condi-
tions in that section. Mr.. Mckinley was
aeeompanied by Mrs. Mckinley, his
daughter. Miss Mabel Mckinley; Miss
laws all of New York city, and Mr.. w.
Davis. one of New York's capitalists.
MT Mckinley seemed to have been not
only deeply impressed, but even enthusi-
astic in his observations upon the South
ern industrial situation He expressed
great qualification at the cordial reception
accorded him by the business men of
Southern cities in which he stopped, in
GLIDING Raleigh, N. c., Columbia, S. c.,
Atlanta, Ca, and Charlotte, N. C.
Il suppose L might say that the first
impression made upon me- said Mr. Nc
Kinley was the lack of what l might
call the economy of land in the South. l
think in this connection what. is most
needed in the South to-day is what Min
nesota and the Northwest already have,
namely, German, Irish and Scandinavian
farmers. l mean small farmers, and that
is why 1 use the expression economy of
any political connection whatever, but it is
hard 10 speak of this phase of the situa-
ton without speaking further of the OBJ
stacles which have thus far prevented and
are now preventing, perhaps, these small
farmers from coming South
Whenever there has been a movement
OF the white element toward that section
the cry has come that in the field of labor
they must be side by side with the negro
II these people were treated as they are
in Ohio I do not believe that such a ques-
ton would arise. In Ohio for example, we
choose our political leaders from the me-
chanics in the mandatory, and not as in
New York from gatherings at the Waldorf
or Delmonico's at IS a plate. These men
made school and church trustees, be reek-
oned as citizens, and. should each one
be thus treated, doing his own work, as
he does in other states, and there would
result a diversification of agricultural
products which would soon change the
conditions at work in the South.
Early Shipments of Truck.
For example, there is no reason why
from all the section of the country be-
tween the Piedmont region and the sea,
from Portsmouth through Atlanta and
Columbia to Florida, there should not be
sent up to the North vegetables of all de-
scrptions a month or over before we get
them in the North. This trucking feat
ure has been looked after with profit in
the sections of tidewater and Eastern
Shore Virginia, and there is no reason
why such conditions should not be put at
work in sections further South. The
North is waiting for this early produce
and eager to consume, if the South viii
only send forward.
But do not misunderstood me, these
foreigners, if brought to the South must
each enc be a bread winner, and in or
der to be a bread winner contentedly,
each one must be treated as citizen in
some such way as l have outlined above,
and so as not to bring up the suggestion
that he is in any manner brought in con-
tact or competition with the negro. l re-
call now a little town in Pennsylvania of
eco, inhabitants where each man tills his
own ground where each man has bank
account. And would you believe it in that
little town there are two national banks
only ten years old each, with $4,000 CAPT.
tai each, with a surplus of $4,000 each,
paying a dividend of per cent. per an
mum with a combined deposit of over ST.
V0O00. | need not speak Of the possibiltN
ties of grape and other fruit culture but
! do wish to lay emphasis upon the pos
siblities of sheep raising. In a mountain
county in Pennsylvania l could point you
to places where under hard conditions,
men have gone to work picking stones
from the fields, which were used as ball
last for railroads in order that there might
be grazing land for the sheep, which are
now proving greatly remunerative. You
can make the application yourself.
On the Cotton Industry.
Il observed with great interest the de-
ve.opment of cotton manufacturing in the
two Carolnas, and l do not hesitate to
predict that in the early future these mills
will be doing something else besides spin
ming cotton. They will be weaving cotton
cloths. There is no reason why they should
not be turning out lace curtains and other
finer fabrics. Under the present trend of
events whereby it is likely that 100000 or
100000 of people viii be added TO this
country, people of tropical climates who
wear almost exclusively the product of
the cotton factory there will be a demand
for this class of goods which cannot be
reasonably calculated at present. When
come 10 think of this interest coupled
with other manufacturing interests of the
South and of this country, l feel almost
safe in saying that we have not already
even fairly entered upon the great indus
trial boom ahead. In the shipyards of
Norfolk and Newport News there are now
orders for eighteen months ahead. In
Camden there Is under construction the
largest shipyard in the world, and the
great Scott shipyards of the Pacific coast
that turned out the Oregon are now being
enlarged as rapidly as possible to meet
the enormous orders in hand.
In 1895 there were 1000 vacant houses
IN Wilmington, Del; to-day there are 1000
additional houses being erected for the
use of the increased force of workmen. In
1910 there was As per cent. of the popula-
uon of New York city unemployed; to-
-.