The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
THE SOUTH HAS
 RICH PROMISE
Its Present and Future Set Forth in Glowing Terms by a Former
 Resident of Detroit.

do no work on Monday. Hence the stringent laws, of the black States which compel a tenant to carry out his contract for crop making. some- times twisted by the unwise into 'peon- age against which a Democratic Unit ed States Judge-ex-Governor Thomas G. Jones of Alabama, raised the law and punished severely his fellow Dem
 ocrats. So the planter must inevitably provide corn for his cotton hands. Usu- ally he buys much of this from the North. This year he will buy little, and, selling his cotton for cash, will have money beyond the dreams of av- arice. To illustrate: I visited a far mer in Covington County, Southeast Alabama, in October. Four years since he purchased 200 acres of cleared land
 at $11 an acre. or $2,250 for the farm.
 This year he grew seventy-five acres
 of cotton, beside corn, oats, barley. po-
 potatoes, sugar cane sufficient for his
 family 'sweetening.' etc. In short. all
 the supplies he will need for his home
 except clothing and tea and coffee. As
 I stood in his field I saw sixty three
 bales of cotton in his sheds for which
 he could, then and there, have realized
 $3,15O cash had he chosen. And this
 on an investment of about two-thirds that amount. And he has the entire
 investment left, with his entire living
 for the winter 1T. his barns and bins. Generally Law Abiding.
 Good order? Quite as good as we
 have. Somewhat differently adminis- tered than with us 1t Is true, but life and property are safe. The liquor question Is on a plane we could scarcely understand. In Tennessee but eight cities tolerate the open sale of intoxioants. In Tennessee 1t Is serious offense to expose small fire arms for sale. You will not see re- volver in a store window in the entire
 state. In Florida 1t costs $100 to be
 detected "toting" revolver or a knife with a blade more than four inches in length. And these rules are vigorously enforced. Georgia, I am
 told, is far advanced in suppressing
 the sale of intoxicating liquor. I am northern born and bred. But I have , never during five years of constant life in central South, been conscious
 of the slightest difficulty or received
 aught but the most courteous treat
 ment. Thousands of northern people
 are settled in the South. They are
 welcomed and made to feel at home. They have no trouble.
 The climate? The summers are
 longer in Alabama than in Michigan,
 but not more oppressive. A curious fact exists in this respect. There ap-
 pears to be a difference in the manner in which the atmosphere affects hu- manity. Ninety degrees in Montgom- cry, Alabama, does not produce, to me,
 as great heat effects as 75 degrees in
 Detroit or Toledo. No case of sun
 stroke or fatal heat attacks is of rec
 ord. And they have competent mortu- ary reports. Carefully Compiled. Throughout the entire fringe of the Gulf Coast. for 200 miles back in the
 interior. the breeze from the Gulf
 blows every night of the entire sum- mer and refreshing sleep Is always I to be had. I have spent the past | three summers in that section and I
 do not recall a night when cover was
 not required before morning came.
 In many ways the Central South Is
 a fascinating country to the man of
 northern breeding. The absence of
 the severe cold we know Is an impor i tant factor. Two-crops from-the--
 same-acre is common Cattle can and
 do get their living out of doors all
 winter. True, they do better with a
 few weeks feeding, but they will get
 through without a wisp of hay or a
 kernel of corn. Then, again, there Is
 no day in Alabama of the entire year
 which is not an out-of-door day. Tn
 other words-barring rainy days-one
 may be out of doors with entire com fort 365 days of the year.