The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-02-13
IN OUR OWN STRENGTH.

TIE S.:ut;, with ail its great progress.
Is not ri as The Et.,:th aud West II
has worked It's way NJ as.t1st trench
doas odds: against good deal 81 o.'
preston and robbery committed ~
northern n:er, az, L: !;as done So
through. he exercise If lie SINE heEol:
ou.l:t'cs :i,,t i: s:.r:"ea c:!ri:?g the
war-:nrti:uie, energy, courage.-Ihe
New York Times.
1t is peculiarly gratifying to have
such frank expressions from paper
like The New York Times. It shows
that the time is coming, that in a
measure it. has already come, when the
South will be recognized at its true
worth.
In the foregoing quotation It ls we'll
said that the South is not SO rich as
the North. tut it may be doubted if the
history of the world shows 4 parallel
to the wonderful. seIf-recuperaiiye pow
ers which have been exhibited IN the
South during the past third of GEN.
tury.
At the close o! The cval war the
South, which had been laid waste b,
fire and sword, set bout regainins
the fortunes that had been lost in the
awful strife and so we'll has i. succeed
ed that verify the world locks On in
wonder at tie III :r:aous and match
less achievement Her noble sons who
had waded through u, smoke and fire OF
a hundred battle fields, turned from his
toric Arpoula:oX with purpose more
firmly set than even they themselves
then knew, and lnsnfuly have they
labored all these years tor the fulfil
mert Of that purpose. The wasted
fields have been made fertile again
the once happy and prosperous homes
that were then dust-heaps Of despai,
and ashes @! desolation, have been re-
built the factcriss, whose humming
machinery had been stopped ana seem
ed slienced forever, have been reorgan
lied, reopened and a thousand times
multiplied until to day this great South
land fa;,iy throbs and pulsates from
one side to the other with the tirele.s
wheels Of unnumbered industries
Yes, the South Is showing to the
world not only that there are bound
less resources within its borders, but
that the Leop!e here are inbued with
a ';forti.ude, energy and c,urage' @,
which any people on earth might wei!
and justly feel proud.
THE tremendous cdds" and the
"good deal of oppression and robbery, ;
in the lace Of which all our progress.
and achievements have been wrough,
cut, cannot be appreciated and under
stood except by those who have been
here in the thick OF the fight for thirty
five years and have sean and felt thing.
together. -
We are indeed passing into a grane
era of Southern history when thu
Southern people in their own Iare
and IN their own way are bringing graa
things TO pass. And we haye not We
seen the full light of the good day o
OF Our greatest prosperity. 1t is onl,
jus. dawnlng for Judging the futur
by the past, we may we'll hope an.
believe that the SoutE, one day will b
the equal Of the. North in intelligence
culture, n1auufactr ra, wealth and VII It
ever makes Il ole great.
We DO not indulge in these prospect
with any disparas Of orr brett
rem a. the North The rather are u
glad to he able to see indications ie
this, our great future. because as tt
citizens Of the same great country
will be good tor them, as we'll as goo