Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-04-13
OPENING OF THE SOUTH.
Postponement Of the Inevitable and Why-Fu-
ture Prospects.

Postponement Of the Inevitable and Why-Fu-
ture Prospects.
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post.
We are to see in the near future a
great change in the distribution Of i'm
migrants in this country. For quar-
ter of a century the tides have been
flowing to the West and Northwest,
but great numbers are henceforth sure
to go to the South. This rich part Of
rails and soil-has attracted far more
people from other sections than 1t has
settlers from Europe. Several facts
explain the reason. In the first place,
the trans-continental railroads have
had their agents busily at work in Eu-
rope, and have operated in connection
with the steamship companies. The
immigrant in buying his ticket in Eu-
rope generally bought it to some West
ern or Northwestern point. Another
thing was the large number Of lynch
ings, which, being reported in Euro
pean newspapers, gave the impression
that in the Southern states life was
not secure and property was not pro-
tected.
These influences are passing away.
The South itself has for sometime been
taking steps to show how false the
general inference is. AS a matter Of
fact people live as securely in the
Southern states as in any other section
Of the world. The few cases Of lynch
ing are horrible, but they do not por-
tray the actual conditions of the differ
ent states Of the South.
The industrial branches have done a
superb service in showing the opportu-
mites open in the South, especially In
the way Of manufacturing, and they
are still adding to their usefulness in
this direction. But best Of all, proba-
bly,, in the way Of new business inf1u-
ences, is the coming Of practical bus
mess men from Northern and Western
sections. Go to Southern city today
and you will find these men not only
making money rapidly, but taking act
i've part in the social and political life.
Then, too, the large profits which the
cotton mills and other factories are
making will attract in greater measure
those who have moneys to invest and
those who wish to utilize the opportu-
mites.
It is in it's way a fine thing that the
Southerners are to hold a West Indian
exposition at Charleston, S. c. There
is no purpose, so far as the managers
have expressed themselves, to do any
thing but to encourage the commerce
of the West India islands to trade with
the Southern states. But when the ex-
hibits are shown we predict that there
will be a curious result.
The South will show that 1t can pro-
duce practically everything that the
West Indians are raising, and that 1t
can show manufacturing products
equal to the best of the North.
The exposition at Atlanta years ago
was a success in demonstrating to the
country the beginning Of the new life
of the South. Bad management made
the New Orleans exposition failure,
but the other expositions that followed
it had their need of prosperity, and 1t
is quite likely that Charleston will reap
the rewards of it's enterprise.
The figures Of the growth of the
South since the Civil war seem more
miracle than fact. In many states val
ues have increased ten fold; in some
particular spots hundred and a thou
sand fold. There was a time, not
many years ago, when .the South re-
ceived a setback second only in it's dis
astrous effects to the Civil war, and
that was through the outbreak OF spec
ulation and the almost universal eX-
ploitation of land booms. But all that
has gone The people have recovered
and settled down to the normal, and
now the growth is legitimate develop
ment, and that all who, wanting to
change their abode, have gone there,
are finding it a goodly place, inhabited
by goodly people.