The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1903-08-13

ItCNGIOplllGlll Vi UeI law pIO(lllct.
When, at the last Democratic Stat
Convention, was proposed d reSOlutio
calling for amendment to our conSt
tuition, by which counties or tow
Should be permitted to exempt Il
taxes, or make reasonable appr0pri;
ti0n to encourage new industry.
failed to pass the committees. bacalS
ii was said the farmers will never cor
sent to let manufacturing be eXemp
nor money appropriated to advert is
the State. Now, why should we fe;,
to go to he farmer with Il pr0poSitio
Of this kind?
For every factory that comes, Their
is added a demand for the farm pre-
duct. Within every county where
factory town has been built there ha
been a marked enhancement of valu
to farm lands The Southern farme
Is rapidly becoming factory MAJ
himself, as employer or employee.
It is not for Georgia to hold bach
longer; it should be her province tC
lead i'll the march of progress which i
sweeping the Anglo-SaXon race into
position to dominate the w0rid'S com.
merce. and it is up to us to hiStef
that time when capital will be either
from
abroad until. for every bale of cotton
rolled out OF Onr gins, there will he
rolled out of our mills bale of cotton
cloth: FOR every saW-mill there " i'll be
erected Il box factory a furniture fac
tory, or sash, door and blind factory
for every blast furnace or rolling min
III Alabama, there will be a foundry
or machine shop in Georgia, turning
lSlA "a II
Just as natural 10 see the name Macon,
Atlanta, Rome or Augusta in raised
letters upon pieces Of machinery,
! Showing where manufactured, us it is
! now to see Providence, Pittsburp.
Boston or Brooklyn.
The South already manufactures
nearly One-half the volume of cotton
goods made in this country. but She
ought to manufacture so per cent of
all the cotton goods produced in the
world, instead of. as at present, manu-
| featuring less than per cent.
| There is one thing that the SOut h
has not yet cOmprehended in all that
it means, it is, that the cotton crop
and the negro are essentially ours,
and the thing to do is to make the
most there is of them; for with these
two properly handled. we are in posi-
ton TO master the world of finance.
+ One more generation will see the
South the negroS warmeSt defender,
and the North his bitterest foe.
That the white man must govern
this country is but fixed law of ma
ture, which both races are coming to
recognize without regard to section.
Ii the white man guides the black man
to Il better life, to higher plane of
citizenship, then will both have
rounded out their destiny: and the
better element of both races are fast
Igetting together in the South for the
uplifting of both on practical and edu-
catiOnal lines.
| Before this comes to pass complete
| ly, or the South reaches its highest
development, the narrow political
prejudice, both North and South, will
have to be broadened, Whenever the
Solid South breaks up, then will the
walls of prejudice come topping down,
and then may capital roll in faster
| than 1t has ever before. So long as we
place party above country, and reject
those things that would develop our
resources simply because the suggeS-
ton does not originate in the domi-
nant party of the South, Just 50 long
Will we be regarded as ultra-radcal in
our feelings: Just so long will we be re-
garded as intOllerant of the rights and
feelings Of those who might come
among us differing in view us to the
general policy Of our government.
I The way to settle the negro question
is TO quit talking about it--educate
them along industrial lines, encourage
! them to be sell-respecting encourage
them to be hODle-0WnerS: let them UNI
derStand that we propose to take care
OF them and support their efforts at
better citizenship, while we rigidly
enforce vagrancy laws impartially
against all idling, shiftleSs people.
! The black folks mainly see to pro-
ducing the cotton staple, which the
white folks of the South ought TO be
making into yarn, sheet ing, shirting,
prints and thread: sending it abroad
t. the world, mixed with the brain and
Drawn Of our own people, securing
therefor the tribute OF gold that Is to
make the p0Sterity of those who live
Iii the South now the richest people of
all the future.
! = ten-milliOn bale crop, at $40 per
bale, is worth less than d half billion
dollars. but made into the coarset
cloth it Is worth billion, and for
every increased grade it nearly doubles
I the value.
Our cotton seed, it is said, were they
Tall utilized to their fullest extent,
manufactured into all Of their BIZ
. products. would be worth annually ia
the South the enormous sum OF ten
billion dollars.
The South is an inviting field for
capital, because besides undevaloped
raw mat erial, climate and health con-
dit ions. the labor trouble here is less
, acute-more likely to remain SO, for
he reason that We are training up o
generation Of our own boys who are
not afraid to work, who are rapidly
assuming the helm Of great CONNER
cia interests
: Our technical schools are turning
, them out rapidly: these boys know
how to mandgS our own labor, and un
2 derstaud Southern conditions. No
; here in this country do we see thu
. white man and the black man WORKING
side by side as it is In the South, an(
= together they are going to work on
, tile southern SalVat ion
/ But perhaps the greatest one thing
. Just nov We'can DO 70 encourage capi
: tai to come into Georgia is, 10 bulk
, among our own people stronger spirit
Of Greater Georgia: TO develop tina
T. sentiment until it shall peryade th
! Nely atmospheric Of the whole stat,
/ with high confidence in our great flu
= ture, 50 that it will impress tn
. stranger Immediately when he az
+ pears in our midst,
T. Let us develop that sentiment whicl
v at all lines and in all places will In
j pei u 70 hold w the hands Of thes