The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-11

and certainty the North wholly believes e, outside energy which has come to us of today Fsr be it from ' me to e"trses detrecs one iota from the credit due to the peo- nle from. other sections who have come its upouilding., All honor to them and to the good which they have accomplished. l,,s ! wouid m that we could double and quad seeking the most attractive spot in which to make home for himeslf the South ever extends a hearty welcome; But pie from outside, let us not withhold the let gs not, fsil to make make Known to the tying iu inc South today about 75o, 900 white people born in other sections. but 4Quble what 1t has received from them. nearly 1,6oo,Ooo Southern born whites. and the most active and successful business New York. where many oi the foremost or. to the Pacinc coast. or to Chicago. or other Western centere, or gions of the West, everywhere you will find Southern-horn men ranking as lead CTS in finance, in industry. in agriculture,
 
 est from what the 75e.ooO outside people living in the South have accomplished for this section, the 1,500,0O0 Southern-born more in the general material advance ment of the whole country. And thIs ctn- dition does not simply apply to the South S tSday s 0% the earliest nnessr of tn G9 of the Anglo-Saxon. and in some cases by opposition to slavery, Southern men pushed out into the North and West end "A lak4 aI Ah,~ tions. In isS5, sS0. 900 southern-born white people were living elsewhere, against soeo0 born In other sections living in the you may. whether By %te't mere numbers ssaeq or by material accomplishments, whether in the past or the present, the South has given to the ,upbuilding the nation far more in numbers, in energy. in brain and brawn, than 1t has received from other sections.
 Brify, we have seen some of the evi- the new South proved itself worthy sue cessor? Its progress must be studied in the light of the poverty and demoraliza- with the prosperity of other sections. % s'isy By reason of heavy Immigration, of which the North and West got the full benefit, the increase In population between 1880 try. than In the South, the gain in the latter section being A per cent, against 62 per cent: for the country. In the de-
 
 tween 1880 and 1900 the South made an advance in the value of farm property from n,r $22so,s64.sA to $s,s51 ,ss, ,ss2, or a. the same peod fh the pereentase Res Ssa of ing crease of the farm property of the entire country was s7 per cent. The value of lands with Improvements increased s7 per cent. in the South and 62 per cent. in the whole country; of farm implements 12O per cent. In the South and 84 per cent in the the country: of live stock ss per cent. try. The value of Southern farm products in 1880 was $660, 131, ,452 and in 1900 q ,2n,- 6S,273. an increase of nearly 100 per cent though the increase in population was but
 Industrial Interests.
 In industrial interests the progress of the South has. been even more striking In 1880 that section had Se67, ,244,ssl invest sr sfessed s d@asfessrGE to sy s sah this of saS @ t riod the. capital invested in man1faotur- M aPS from in n ss xaS5s to s0srsEy ssS esTs ed 6 gain of Bs per cent. The valu, of the Rrodusts, of nsheTa Igso faeteTiss adyanced isS Sain of s @ 4o6 sS or @s per cent in During the same period the value of the products of manufacture for the whole sssS sSSnty tsy ed, only a per cent In cotton manufacturing. with 1s0 mills hav- ing e67,o0o apindles; this industry now counts more than DO mills with a total $17b, ,0o0.oOo. In 1891 the consumption of cotton in Northern mills was 2,097, ,862 bales and in Southern mill 6o4.6Si bales; in 1902 6s Sas 9 nGrteSsn sSs mills was S 1881. and in Southern mills 1,931 .SS1 bales or three times as much as in 1891. The increase in. capital invested in cotton States was from t2OS, ,O0O GOO in 1880 to $46O,- 100000 in 1900, gain of 120 per cent. For the same period the increase in the South has been 30 rapid in the South that this difference has been still more marked.
 In 1880 the South made 39 900 tons of From production of s.coc 600 ie tons of 'ccs cos in 1880 the South's output advanced to over 6o 0Oo, 900 tons in 1902 The lumber in- dustry increased from 6,62s esta bllshments i4:062 establishments, with a capital of &1s1. 702626 in 19n0.
 Let 1t not De imagined from these state of industrial advancement or of prosber- fly fly, s4sh & as is seen in the North or Cen but what 1t has accomplished gives ' a trial world and defnonstrates more forci- inherent advantages of this section and the strength and force of its own people For, be It remembered. that the South lhuSl gwen Luo credit for by, far the larger part of this upbuilding. In this work the old South and the new are united. Run down the majority there will 'be found as Presi- have created them; These men have come fropa all walks of life-from the rich and, tIorn the poor; from the leaders in ante-belium days and from the eener- ation born since Appomattox. Take the ger with its s2,Oco,oOO of capital and its the brain of a Charlestonian of ante-bel- the same, city. The Olympia of Colum- born of the energy of a charlestonian. when the war closed. The same man Is ts now building for New England people One North Carolina family owns about successful of South Carolina's noted mills Is controlled by son of one of the great economic leaders of the south of 1S40-5O while there recently passed away a South time of his death the controlling power ital of oyer $1, GOO 600: and now to his sons has descended the management of these concerns. The cottonseed oil industry which twenty years ago was represented by forty mills. with $3,50O QoO capital. and W {fe ho