New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1904-08-06
CHAMPION OF SOUTH'S PROGRESS.
st. Louis, Mo. July Is, 'O4.

st. Louis, Mo, July Is, '04.
Talking the other day with one o
the best informed friends the SOutl
has, | was struck with the high ap
probation he expressed of the valu,
of the work done in development
way for the South by S. F. b. Morse
for so many years at the head of the
Southern Pacific Railroads passenger
department for the Southern States.
Having known Mr.. Morse for mum
Der of years, and being familiar with
much that he has achieved this ex-
preston was not in the nature of re-
vaiation, although | will confess that
until then did not know the great
extent of the efforts MI Morse has
made throughout many years in be-
half of higher prices for cotton while
it is yet in the hands of the man who
raises it,
Morse was bull on cotton even
before Sully," said he, land while
he was still connected with the South
ern Pacific Railroad | had a long tai k
with him while riding on railroad
train, in which | was impressed as l
had never been before with the mis-
take the farmers and planters had
been making in selling cotton at low
prices | imagine that no man in the
country is better posted on the posi-
bilities of cotton than he is. He
knows the increasing uses of cotton,
he knows the limitations to it produc
tion in this country and abroad, and
as always, whenever he is interested
in a subject, he has gone to the very
bottom of the question in his study of
it, and has an array of facts and logic
which is overwhelming. Whenever
the story of the up-building of the
South through the advancement in the
price of cotton, as we'll as through i'm
migration, is fully told, in these two
factors Morse will hold leading posi-
ton AS the man who made possible
the wonderful development of the rice
interests in Louisiana and Texas-by
far the greatest development of any
new agricultural line in the South
and the greatest immigration move
ment to any part of the South, he is
recognized as the leader in that work.
For years before he Joined the firm
of Sully & Co, he was increasingly
using his broad acquaintance as the
passenger traffic manager of the South
ern Pacific to impress upon the world
that cotton was selling too low, and
when he decided to become a member
of the firm of Sully & Co., he had al
ready made throughout the country a
high position for his unceasing fight
for better prices for Southern cotton.
When he joined Sully he, of course,
an active factor in the fight Sully
made for higher priced cotton, and the
success achieved was due in no small
part to the work Morse did. And
their success, as all the friends of
Sully and Morse know, was under
mined only through the world wide
fight against them as representing the
idea of better prices for cotton.
However, the broad educational work
that Morse has done cannot be destroy
ed and if he never does anything
more in their behalf, which is incon-
ceivable, the people Of the South will
owe him perpetual debt of graft
tude for the part he has played in
lifting the level of cotton prices to a
point which has added untold mil
lions of money to the wealth of the
South.