The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28

Allow me a few words in your
columns. since The Progressive Far
mer has been engaged and it's edito-
rial columns have been given to the
1~nbuilding of our agricultural and
;n5ustrial interests. 1t is really
wonderful TO notice in our agricul-
tural papers that our State has ad-
vanced so much in the development
of her natural resources. feel that
with the extreme rapidity with
which the country has gone up the
pathway of prosperity in the build
mo of 40 many mills and factories
throughout our section, and the
building of school houses, colleges,
academies, and the consequent up
lifting of education, that it will
realize all of our hope and we shall
be a greater State and a greater PEG
pie in the future.
We have had some great and mar
velous changes in the South since
the year 1890. We have made prog
ress in industry,we have realized the
prosperity for which we have been
long striving. The Old-time South
with our fathers that led us in the
valley of the shadow in the time of
fortitude and adversely has faded
away with our new industrial enter
prises that are booming and bloom
inc the bud of life. The rapid dis
coverv and development of mines,
the building of factories, the laying
of railroads, the Improvement of
labor methods, the establishment of
mills and the vast commercial sys-
TENS which result from these new
resources, make Il new era in the
South for progress and capital. The
times demand the utmost GOODNESS
now on the part of those who are to
guide the new civilization among us.
The genuineness and extent of our
new will indeed make US
a greater and more prosperous peO-
pie, but already there seems to be
an excitability of temper among us
which endangers u highest inter
est. That is the liquor traffic, the
intemperance of the ordinary labor
ing classes.
A new railroad crosses an old line (;
at the junction a village which has
lain in sIumber for d quarter Of a
century wakes into life. Better
farming lands are enhancing in value
according to location. A prospect
ing party enters North Carolina to-
day perhaps tomorrow the buzz Of
the saw, the whir of machinery, the
glow of the furnace, answer to the
scream of the locomotive from afar.
Towns are constantly springing up
in North Carolina and the capital
from other States rushes into invest
ments. Products of all kinds, hu-
man toll of all grades, seem to be in
great demand and money is within
easy reach of the enterprising. All
this is constantly turning mems
heads to the South. Everywhere,
and in every line the South seems to
be at work. The people are endowed
with d spirit of thrift and energy
never surpassed, her vast resources
r being opened up, and its develop
ment is adding to the prosperity in
every part of this land.
Time brings every youth to 81
period of maturity. When that
period is reached, the youth becomes
q Young man and realizes that he
must abandon the rules and the
ties that governed him in his
OUNCE days for his entrance into
the affairs with full grown men. In
the development of nations also
there come periods when changed
conditions must be made. This
nation is face to face with n of
these periods to-day. We cannot
stand still we must go ahead or go
backwards. Under a system of pro-
lection we have already developed
our manufactured products to such
an extent that the domestic market
can no longer absorb them. Indeed,
under adverse influence we have
already delevoped a very consider
able export trade. 1t is this trade
now that is relieving our factories to
considerable extent. If we continue
toextend this trade, we may continue
60 build mills indefinitely, and still
prosper if we lose this trade, we
have too many mills now. If we