The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-13

well as from the European sea front,
had to round the far sout.eIn capes TO
reach Into the continents OF the old
world When Europe cut her way
through Suez TO shorten the distance,
10 was then that the hint vas given
that we likewise had the same re-
/ sources at hand 1t is the development
Of that fact makes pertinent the part
the great south is TO play in the future
history Of the world. Already. without
the canal. inexorabie fate and the
march Of events have made CT the
Pacific ocean the scene OF pioneer en-
deavor. The rich trading points OF
the world are those which look out
from Asia upon her Pacific side. Look.
ing across from Toxic Hong Kong,
from Singapore, and even from sgd
ney Australia. these people stand in
need OF everything which We have %
sell. n by the new canal will be
made closer to US than TO any other
ports.
Taking the view OF the trend % COM
merce as IL leaves the Pacific ports q
Asia we will find that IL almost entire
~ starts from points which Will lead IL
by our gates. When that time comes,
will these ships go to Liverpool 10 de-
liver their freight. or viii they stop at
New Orleans. Savannah. or Charles
ton? IL may as well be admitted that
the people OF this continent Will be too
wide awake To permit themselves to
be passed by in any such manner. The
ships from Toxic all the way down to
Sydney will find 4 better port than
Liverpool before they have gone half
on their journey.
Looking On the other side the contf-
nent OF Africa, fresh from the hand OF
nature. undisturbed by the touch Y
enterprise, is just now awakin- from
its six thousand years OF sleep. an6 IL
-hA ~ snrs0 which - ., -
on her Atlanti front will fac Isrts
in the southern states.
Thus IL viii be that a circle Of one
thousand miles from Baltimore around
TO the Gulf will represent the active,
seething. w~rangling. restless. all-4b-
which viii come the shipping of reju-
venant Africa. OF Europe. and on the
other side OF japan. the Asiatic contI-
nent, and of Australia.
To satisfy the demands which this
shipping WIFI create. the factories from
81. Louis 10 New Orleans. from Louis
vile To Atlanta and Savannah. from
Charleston TO Norfolk and Baltimore.
Will have to be in constant OPERATION.
The forge Will have TO be kept al red
heat, the miner of coal and iron will
be grimy with his work. and the south
ern states heretofore purely agricul-
tural. will become the workshop Of the
world.
Some may say these statements are
e~xtavagant, but can they be any more
e~xtravagant than a cotton manufac-
ture increase Of 81. goo. 600 in 1850 TO
S125. 900, 600 twenty years later. When
a business such as cottonseed-oil mills
bounds and booms from SO. 500. 60 to
$40, 600. 600 who is there that can meas
ure what limits constitute e~xaggera-
ton? We live in a country about
which it is impossible to exagrerate.
We live in a time when the oundins
influences of trade and arc
moved by forces OF irresistible ~str.-Et.s
when no longer the king or his prem! =
talks, but millions upon millions Of Tto-
plei On the one side OF us there
stand 500, o 1000 people in need Of coal,
iron and cotton, without manuf. ctur-
ing skill, without artistic design. with
out mechanical disposition: they call
for these products in their m%anufac-
tured state, and when we trade for
them, il is not for a six cent pound of
raw cotton, but for the manufactured
pound representing anywhere from Is
to SO cents. The same is relatively tTuo
Of iron and steel.
We must furnish the shop and the
factory as well as the raw material.
On the other side across the Atlantic,
we find in Africa the same condition. n
condition that will be availed of by our
American shippers.
The south of the twentieth century.
then, Will absorb all that ever empire
OF ancient or modern time was able to.
accomplishing. j. Moran in Tn, sun
ny South.