Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-02-20
M'KINLEY'S TRIP
TO THE SOUTH.
Continued from Page 4.

in order to be bread winners contentcd-
~, each one must be treated as cit
lien in some such way as have out
lined above, and so as to not bring up
the suggestion that he is in any man
ner brought in contact or competition
with the negro.
~ CASD IN POINT.
Il recall now q little town In Penn
sylvania of 5000 inhabitants. where
each man tills his own ground where
each man has a bank account And,
would you believe 1t, in that little town
there are two national banks only ten
years old each, with $4,000 capital each,
with surplus of $4,000 each, paying a
dividend of six per cent per annlim
with a combined deposit of over 500, :
600.
II need not speak of the possibilities
or grape and other fruit culture. but I
DO wish to lay emphasis upon the posi-
bilities of sheep-raislng. In a mountain
county in Pennsylvania 1 could point
you to places where, under hard condi-
tons. men have gone to work picking
stones from the fields. which were used
as ballast for railroads in order that
there might be grazing land for the
sheep. which are nor proving greatly
remunerative. You can make the an
plication yourself.
COTTON MANUFACTURING.
ODoCk fCQ Will great interest the
development OF cotton manufacturing
In the two Carolinas, and do not hest
tate to predict that in the early future
these mills will be doing something else
besides spinning cotton-they will be
weaving cotton cloths. There is no rea-
son why they should not be turning
out lace curtains and other finer fab
RIGS. Under the present trend of events,
whereby 1T is likely that thirteen to
fourteen millions OF people will be add
ed to this country, people of tropical
climates who wear almost exclusively
the product OF the cotton factory, there
will be demand for this class of goods
which cannot be reasonably calculat ted
a. present.
======= INF fees'v+ ED CONDITIONS.
when / come to think OF this inter-
est. coupled with other manufacturing
interests of the South, and of this coun-
try. feel almost safe in saying that
we have not already even fairly entered
upon the great industrial boom ahead.
In the shipyards of Norfolk and New
port 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 be-
ing enlarged as rapidly as possible to
meet the enormous orders in hand
I'm 1896 there were one thousand va
cant houses in Wilmington, Del To-
day there are one thousand additional
houses being erected for the use Of the
increased force of workmen In 1896
there were forty-eight per cent. of the
population of New York city unemploy-
ed. To-day there are four and half
per cent. of the same population un-
employed.
A BRIGHT PROSPECT.
''I bring these evidences of general
thrift back to the South in it's various
departments Of Industrial DEVELOPMENT.
involved in the project of an Isthmian
Canal. or without touching upon the
political complications which, if they
may be more complicated under the
new order OF things, will yet be inter-
esting, come to the main fact that the
South is at the threshold of a devel-
opment of which believe it does not
dream. in which, as SAID before, the
chief factors will ne the economy of
land built upon the individualizlng of
the foreigner as citizen, upon the
higher grade of cotton fabrics turned
out by your mills and upon the rela-
ton of the railroads to these different
classes of interests.
S. A. l.. MANAGEMENT.
at believe there will be under a new
order a plenty of freight and passen-
gers to insure good dividends for the
systems of railroads now traversing or
about to traverse the South: Having
made my journey BY the Scaboard Air
Line, my attention has naturally been
directed to its intentions, Its possobili-
ties and to the recent struggles through
which it seems to have passed in order
to effect the consolidated line from New
York to Tampa and thence to Cuba.
While knowing little about the details
of these matters. 1 do not hesitate to
say that the young president of the
Seaboard Air Line, Mr.. John Shelton