The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-01-11
KE SMITHS ADDRESS.
|cuth and Its COMMERCIAL Future Ably
Discussed.
|To cur so REAL ESTATE BOARD
,endid Tribute TO the south.
wing Its Wonderful Resources
n aud Great Possibilities.

~ was uShNotu ny non. iOAc
i tonight before the Chicago Real
NJ board:
Chairman and Gentlemen; / wish
&k the business men Of this Won
8Fity for giving me an opportun "
k 10 dhem upon suOJeet near
heart, but were | TO describe what
I'll Pc early years of the present CEN
I've in store for the South, COM
py. IL would sound like a fairy
53(ever before have material inter-
~ attracted the attention OF our
M Never before has such conf
y been felt as to the future. Never
~ has there been such cause for
14dce.
the resources OF the South II was
LIE said by Judge Kelly OF
|f5Iyania: This is a sect on upon
MI the Almighty has with Lavish
ks bestowed His richest material
M The fruitful soil yields lucra-
turn for the cultivation of al
.<&ery product. Wheat, corn, rice,
I44f, tobacco and fruits of all kinds
4ffer the farmer a reward for in
'XHequally with any secuon of the
)tfk but cotton distincIively belongs
~ II uth.
teswonderful crop has sold in the
o4f hundred years for SIS, O00, 900 900.
sy4ited States ha9 received for the
E<2pf cotton during the same period
oq,Q00,000 The crop of the present
None will bring to the farmers
9Qos000, and still not more than one
800 the agricultural lands of the
Mare under cultivation. The de-
1 Afor lint cotton is growing with
rk9hle rapidtty. Modern machinery
u1ade 1t possible for cotton manu-
red goods to outstrip all rivals. The
8 are goods made from wool, flax
silk If We seek the reason for the
~ which has attended the in
ed use of cotton goods we can read
nd it. The price at which lint cot
can be raised and probably sold,
led with the development OF ma
Try suited for its manufacture, has
. the production Of goods made from
81 which rival in warmth those made
wool, which are as cool as those
} from fax and which are more
tiful than those made from six.
'ty3 years ago the manufactures OF
world used 100000 bales OF cotton
near they used nearly $4,000. 600
{. thus making the enormous increase
,usnmption in fifty years of 700 per
The cotton fields of the South fur
70 per cent of the lint cotton used
he manutactories of the world. Ed
Wilkinson estimated in 1895 that 1t
4 Mcguire at that time an annual
sof 100000 bales to raise the
d{B consumption OF cotton manu-
rcd goods to the highest standard.
the progress of civilization; with
evelorment of South America. with
'enipg of Eastern empires, the de-
W the world will soon call for
vmcusly increased supply of lint
IRON the South.
90 we exported $4,000 bales. In
!, W cropS~reached 4,S24,0OO bales.
!. g3fhe crop OF ever 10,000.60e' bales
Hing for 10 cents a pound. and long
g the middle OF the present century
1000 bales OF cotton VIII bring to
Southern farmers over s1,000,O00,OOO
year.
D climate of the South is ideal. 1t
'incs the best OF the temperate and
cal zones. 1t varies from the
Ing heights of the loftiest noun
\ west of the Rockies to the cool,
shjng breezes of the gulf. The
the study OF soil and climate has
amed vast areas of land once re-
"a as uninhabita'ble for the white
Artesian water has driven out
j and fever. and the wonderful In
be- In productiveness OF the lands
north of the gulf attests the value
no policy and privilege OF living at
d for plantation farming. With a
cspable OF furnishing to the farm
Yerxt hing that he needs. with agri-
raj pursuits that can give to"the
b al suitable foods. with every IA
4 for profitahly raising more stock,
8 and hogs than they can use in
d tconsumptioD, with advantages
Slpplying Chicago and New York
fruit, and with the cotton crop
j the surplus money crop of the
~. where is found field more in
: 10 the tillers of soil?
tcH is not upon It's agricultural
Ir6oS that the South is beginning
- 20 depend. The lint cotton raised
~ South, manufactured in other
trt6s. is increased in value by be-
abroad $500. 100000 an
h4a been said that the South has
4 h1challenge to the SINNERS OF
e that they can not hope to con-
/ 10 accumulate their millions by
1i1k Southern lint cotton 1900 miles
fhen manufacturing 1t into cloth. to
tie manufactured cotton south
!. o. do rot regard the competition
NAN England in the manufacture
nt cptton as true destiny for the
b.. AL of our States do not together
1factsure 80 per cent OF the lint cot
RACED in the South. am opposed
truSgles between parts Of our own
try. The challenge the South should
ianot TO part OF our sister States,
~ should be challenge by the
b AMI by all Of America to The man
'tlfArs of the lint cotton of the world
ItNhould let them know that Ameri-
vilk in the South, where the best
rtQpities IN the world are offered
heEnanufacture Of lint cotton pre-
fot Clothing the lint cotton of Amer
'ai4ed in the South, and ship II man
ux4d throughout the world.
10 1Dt mean that We will build COZ
uiW so rapidly that existing mills
f>th countries can not be profitably
/ tN ! do mean that experience has
Vac advantages Of maaufs cturing
tAt.cotton ALONGSIDE the fields where
eott4n plant grows. and that We
ID Hfepare to furnish from Southern
I che bu k 81 the worlds growth in
,nd'$or manufactured cotton goods
h strength OF The South as a producer
3 iron has been conceded for mum
"a 2ast. Carroll D. Wright has
sr4afement o. the comparative
n zen dis.rics in the United
I'd fh&e IS an advantage OF Sc
70 IA of OF the South. TIE price
IA y III Europe and America today
Gay the Southern furnaces. T. is
slep forward Is proposed shat
Efnds advise adherence TO what IS
In heir strpt and suggest the inn
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