The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-10-27
.THE NEW SOUTH AS THE EAST SEES IT.
The Old and the New South ContrastedA Most w on
derful Awakening and Remarkable Industrial
Development-AI Eyes Southwark.
From the New York Commercial.

"Let me picture to you," said
Henry Grady in his world-famous
speech fourteen years ago before
the New England Society of New
York "the foot-sore Confederate
soldier, as buttoning up in his fad
ed gray jacket the parole that was
TO bear testimony to his Children Of
bis fidelity and his faith, he turn
ed his face Southwark from APP
pomattox in April, 1865. What
does he find? His house in ruins
bis farm devastated. his slaves
\ set free, his stock killed, his barns
empty, his trade destroyed, his
money worthless, his social system
-feudal in its former magnificen-
ce-swept away, his comrades
slain, and the burdens of Others
heavy on his shoulders-without
money, credit, employment, ma
terial or training"
1t was in ruins and ashes like
these that the great new South
was born. As devastation was
never before so overwhelming,
never was restoration swifter.
For nearly two centuries the old
South had staked everything on
agriculture and slavery. In thT-
ty-fve years the new South has
Established an Industrial and So
Dial system absolutely unlike the
old, but infinitely its superior-a
system whose present achievement
challenges the admiration of the
world and almost bewilders the
imagination in its possibilities of
matchmaking and power.
Prior to 1880 the American cot
ton crop had never reached 800,
900 bales and under slave labor
its maximum was but triHe
above $500, 1000 bales. Only ff-
teen years after the planters had
stepped from the rife trenches
INTO the burrows they had nearly
donbled the average crop of ante
bellum days. since then they have
tfebled it, and more; and to pre-
diet that this generation may see
Sit increased skiold is IN nowisc
extravagant. The $500, ,000 900
md more a year that the South
has been taking in exchange for
her raw cotton has been making
her rich meanwhile, because she
has leaEned how to raise or ma
Nnfacture at home most of the
supplies, the tools and the ma
ehinery that go into the making
of the crop.
Self-contident and strong in her
awakened energy the new South
sent out an early challenge to the
Spinners of New England, and last
wear her own cotton mills consum-
ed almost 100000 bales of the
crpp--only 100000 less than the
mills in the rest of the country
turned into manufactured fabrics,
and an encrease of about 100000
bales over her mill consumption
of the previous year.
The ironmakers Pennsylvania,
too, there went out a challenge,
and today the furnaces of Alaba-
illa and the other States of tho
middle South are shipping the me-
faI across the ocean and fast max
Ing Birmingham, Admission and
chattanooga as well known in
Europe as Pittsburg.
Ehe new South mines her own
coal for manufacturing, railway
md domestic purposes. In her
oHn forests she fells most of the
ttNlbert that goes into the construc-
tion of her mills. bridges, ware
lipnses, business structures,
cliurches, schoolhouses and homes
and sells the surplus not only in
fle United States, but in nearly
every Foreign port within the belt
p} civilization. Her fruits and
vegetable have made this coun-
tfy and the Canadas almost forget
that there are changing seasons.
Prom beneath her soil crust and