The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-26


an artist in embryo or a finished pro-
dnction Bnt an ugly failure in the
poeticaI line for Poe is preferable to
an eIahorte assault upon the charac-
ter of the poet by a critic of parts.
The North has some right to think
meanlv Of the South when a half
dozen 81, more of it's educated sons are
husv in exposing its imperfections and
shortcomings and holding it up 70
the derision and contempt of writer's,
Of monthlies. weeklies and dailies in
the great. rich, dominating, imperial
section. Considering what was the
condition of the South when the
VaudaIic hordes haa completed their
outrages and destruction, and poverty,
gaunt and hungry, waved it's leaGen
sceptre over a land that was indeed
the Goshen of this continent and
where dWelt the highest types of man
kind, men and women, 1t has done
grand and most commendable work in
reSuScitation in development material
w. and in educational progress HaV
ing aforetime brought out more than
one illustrative fact showing Won
derful growth and progress on right
lines, 1 let the affirmation go now for
no informed person will dare to ha-
card character for intelligence and
candor by gainsaying it. Only recent
Is a writer to the south of us, in the
''Sewanee Review" a Quarterly of dis
tinguished merit, took five States
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana-to show the
great industrial development. He gave
figures to show that the capital invest
ed in manufactures alone had in
creased 100 per cent in the decade
ending with 1900. The increase was
from $1S1,971,417 to $376,407, 915.
North Carolina can probably make as
good a showing as any of the five,
but | have not the figures by me as l.
write. The number of establishments
in the five States mentioned had
grown from 49, 55 to IS, 990-86.2 per
cent increase. North Carolina greatly
leads all Southern States, except South
Carolina, in cotton manufacturing. 1t
has more than 200 mills, but the
precise statistics are not at hand. All
this shows great progress in the ma
terial. industrial line But alas!
There are some native sons who find
fault, censure, and defame. For tWen-
ty years this has been going on, and
it gathers impetus with the passing
years. There are a half dozen or
more who think they can gain the ear
of the anxious North by casting Slurs
upon the South that was pillaged and
p!ucked by the envious, unciVilized
covetous North. i am always sorrow
full when / see native sons engaged in
detracton and essaying to expose
what they consider the nakedness and
poverty of their section. The charges
are many, and one they like to iterate
and reiterate-that the Southern peo-
pie are intolerant of public opinion
ard because they are ignorant and
unprogressive. Because millions of
their equals do not subscribe to their
baleful accusations hurled at them,
but sometimes strike back fiercely,
they cry is in chorus blythe half dozen,
that the Southern people are ignor-
ant, puffed-up, arrogant, blind and
deaf and sensitive to cenSure and
SANDER. The men who stood in the
trenches and died on the fireline are
not the men to be abused tamely and
misrepresented and ridiculed with
silence. North Carolina can we'll af-
ford to dismiss from it's recollection
and favor any son who dares to make
capital for himself by ridiculing and
insulting the noblest manhood and
the purest, highest representatives of
lovely womanhood. Northern organs
are always glad to copy anything that