The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-08-20
PROSPERITY
FOR SOUTH
e South Coming to the Af-
ter a Very Long
Journey.

.bwu editor OF the Manufacturers
Icord, passed through Atlanta yes
.day en- route 20 Baltimore from
Srn Springs, Ga. White in Allan
Mr.. Edmonds gave the Constitu
Il an interesting Interview on tn,
sent prosperous condition of tn,
th and reviewing the Constitu
bis editorial of yesterday morning
the Subject of cotton warehouse,
the South.
Mr.. Edmonds, who is perhaps il
s Ter touch with conditions in the
hth than any other man, declares
d the South is coming into its own
r weary journey. His inter-
N is of most optimistic nature:
Gr. Edmonds says:
1T is almost time to begin to sing
Sllelujah, and Praise God from
bm All Blessings Flow, as we see
South is at last really out of the
|derness and is entering the prom
land, A long journey it has
but we have reached the land
hilk and honey, the land whero
hiding prosperity will dispel the
blessness which for SO many years
ged down the energy and life of
huoh of the South.
Henceforth Stanton's poems of
and happiness will strike re-
psive chord among thousands and
OF thousands who for many years
no pillar of fire to light their
way out of the deepest darkness
he wilderness whare poverty's
was almost MS deadly as the SER
It's which the Israelites met in
journey.
The South is coming now into it's
pntinuing Mr., Edmonds said:
Ghe editorial in today's Consti-
IN reviewing the plans of the
n planters convention of 1851 to
|lish broad warehouse system
hghout the South in order to
eOme the conditions which pre-
Rd then as now Ill the cotton
and secure more uniformity in
and more profitable prices to
Powers is but another illustra-
pf the far seeing power of the
pf ante bellum days. We talk
the new South as though the
OF today was country in
by broader plans and greater
ties, as though it were coun-
greater energy and more bust
Pbillty than the old South, but
uld hardly make greater mis-
We have SO long permitted
to write our history and have
ly accepted their statements that
We done ourselves and done the I
puth great injustice. All that
I'VE done is simply take up the
projected by the old South.
is scarcely a railroad of impor-
IN the South today which was j
ojected prior to 1860. Every l
we are making to develope our 8
mills, iron and coal interests t
Ping urged by broed minded a
halt century ago. In many S
ries our progress has not reach i
pod basis as compared with the O
the country as we were in U
At that period we were build
lroads far more rapidly than
W England and Middle States.
re advancing in cotton manu-
ng, in iron and machinery s
at a greater percentage of s.
hough New England, OF course il
\ ahead of US in these lines, be- a
between 1910 and 1850 the enor- h
Profits in cotton growing at the O
prices which prevailed for a E
part of that period had caused J
nth to largely concentrate it's a
and capital in agriculture. Il
lest report ever made on the v
u an isthmian canal was writ a
9 before the war by Commo- 7
aury, a Virginian, the first To- st
ve ever built by an American Il
was for a Southern road, the s,
O'mile railroad ever built was b,
South, the first steamship Al
The world saw cross the Allan al
ed from Savannah. Illustra- W
ithout end could be given of T