The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-11-25
THE PROGRESSIVE SOUTH.

contemporary Of the North country
says: The comparative backward
ness of Southern industries was in
duced and primarily entailed by
past conditions for which the South
was not entirely responsible, and
which no longer existing, leave her
free to develop her illimitable pos
sibilities for manufacturing such as
have been vouchsafed by nature to
no other country on earth. The
South possess IN overlooking album
dance, and far IN excess of any
other country in the world, mex
haustible supplies of such raw mat
erial as coal, iron, cotton, timber
and oil, a fertile soil suitable for
the production of every variety of
agricultural produce, and equabie
climate and uniform rainfall, and
with the example of New England
before her, her opportunities and
possibilities are indeed illimitable
and inexhaustible
If cut off from all the world and
limited strictly to her own resour-
ces the South would lack nothing
essential to comfort and happiness,
nothing that Is now in use and for
which she relies in whole or in part
upon other sections of the country.
Practically everything the soil pro
duces IS grown il some part of the
South and within the past few years
manufacturing industries have
sprung up all over the country so
that now the South manufactures
practically, though not on a sufi-
GENTLY extensive scale to satisfy all
her needs.
Through diversifcation in the
field of agriculture the South has
learned to produce many things for
which she formely depended upon
other parts of the world. For
long time the one crop idea prevail
al aud fhe Southern planter raised .
cotton with which to buy corn,
meat and potatoes. Now the South
raises corn and potatoes to sell and
has her own packeries. Texas, for
example, used to depend on out
side markets for such ordinary pro-
ducts as are now being shipped out
of the State in large quantities and
Texas farmers are growing rich
from the production Of fruits and
vegetables, such as peaches, pears,
berries, tomatoes, onions and cab
bages where such things were hard |
" grown at all few years ago.
Announcement was made in the
Express the other day of the ship
ment from the coast country near
San Antonio of carloads of poultry
for distant markets. 1t is not
great many years ago since the
Texas markets were supplied with
chickens and eggs, as well as but
ter, by the Western farmers. For
many years the Texas press urged
the Texas farmers to live at home,
TO raise their own foodstuffs, their
own poultry, their own hog and
hominy. They are doing 1t now
and they are making their butter
and using fresh milk instead of the
condensed article put up outside
the State. Now we have our own
rice mills as we'll as sugar mills and
there are factories OF all sorts scat
tered throughout the State.
The conditions to which our
esteemed contemporary refers eX-
listed before the war" and the re-
fex influences lasted for a long '
time after. But the South has made :
great progress in the last quarter
of a century, has made greater pro-
gross within the last few years and
is going ahead now faster than ever
before. The South IS rapidly at (;
tanning an independence which :
comes of industry and thrift and !
she can snap her finger at politics
and politicians as long as she Is III