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with equal force, that of the Sammy Southland. II
these days Of seeking homes and business locations
there are more eyes turned Southwark than TOWARD
any other section of the United States and the
for this is manifestly obvious.
If war was the chivalry Of American manhood, and
reconstruction was the dark ageOf American politics.
that purified condition which followed them must be
the crOwning glory of commercial and social epoch
10 the history of our country For an hundred years
the South bOasted type Of civilization SO unique
and poetic in its tenor that it's vOtaries
withhold sigh when they think of its overthrow.
But following it is the swifter, gladden. stronger civ
iliEation purified by fire and devastation, rising in
it's might from the embers Of a pathetic struggle,
another form OF civilization, more gigantic, if not
more alluring to the fner senses suggesting a
broader utilization of nature's gifts to man.
This new inheritance is one fully in accord with
every other section of the Republic and there is no
longer any fear that sectional discOrd or differences
will rise up in the dark hours OF night to stay the
onward march. The music OF the saw and hammer
the spinning Wheel and the bright faces OF the fec
tory workers passing to and FROM their work, bids
the spectator realize that the New South s pushing
forward to reclaim the waste places and to take
its place side by side of all the aggressive sections
of this or and other country.
An inquiry into this new order OF things brings
the answer clearly that to modern methods and
modern ideas practical and sane, must be given
the credit. The people of the South, finding their
wealth swept away after an unnatural conflict turn.
ed to their loved ones and vowed to rise Phoenix
like from the ashes of their former possessions The
young men whose fathers had never known what
toll meant by their own hands, worked on the devas-
tated plantations, made a CROP and then went away
to school. Back again in the spring, they came to
work during another summer. In their intercourse
with the people they met while away at school they
found that sections not TO compare with their own
Southern cline were prOspering by diversified in
dustrial endeavor, and they brought home with
them when ready for the rebuilding the conviction
that in time the South could distance all other Sec
tOns with less effort To see meant to act, and the
South Of today is partial illustration Of what re-
building under modern plans mean.
Here we produce the raw material, not only for
thousands of looms away up there in the New Eng-
apd states but much of that which goes to the mills
OF the foreign countries. How quickly the problem
is solved when it is suggested that it s better to
bring the mills to the raw material than to pay
heavy tariff to carry constantly the raw material to
the mills two thousands Of miles away. The mills
have been coming year BY year, and they are still
coming, more and more every year. The South is
booming in every sense, in a substantial, lasting
and sensible way, not on wind, but on cotton, on
the products Of its vast forests and the unlimited
productiVeness Of its soils.
The potent, patient, determined, ever confident
factors most entitled to credit for this great trans
formation are the great railroads traversing this
grand section foremost among which, and most &c
tive and aggressive may be named the Southern
Railway company, together with ila Mobile 8 Ohio
nes which it viii be noticed carried of the pennaut
ct the recent Corn and Cotton Carnival at the cap
tai OF our state. The men behind this great rail-
road system, have figured wisely that as the South
is developed so will their business and that Of an
other common carriers grow md develop In proper
tion and there has never been an opportunity left
unimproVed a thought left unexpressed, word left
unapoken, or an act left unperiormed by this great
railroad system to advance aud carry forward the
work Of development The men at the head Of this
Southern Railway are country builders. All the