The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28

shlmmering waters of Mobile
bay, n delightful place to be
in these November days. l am
down here lecturing. On every hand
are evidences Of thrift, prosperity and
progress. The new south, which Hen
ry w. Grady saw by the eye Of hope
and faith, of which he was both the
prophet and the advance agent, is now
a veritable, visible, glorious, inspiring
reality. 1t makes even hard headed
man dizzy TO contemplate its future.
In no other portion of our marvelously
rich country are there so many differ
ent sorts of raw materials in super
abundance to be worked up into the
necessaries, the comforts and the lux
uries of human life. They excel the
wealth Of Ormus and of Ind. While
the northern region is nearly depleted
of white pine, two-thirds of Alabama
Is an unbroken forest of yellow pine
and other valuable woods. Think of
what that means in cold cash! In the
imNortal words of Professor Squeers
of Dotheboys Hall, Here is rich
ness!" Birmingham is as certain to
become the iron and steel center of
the world as the sun is to rise and
set. It's the only place on earth where
the three necessary articles in the pro-
duction of steel are found in immedi-
ate juXtaposition and in ineXhaustible
quantities-iron ore, coking coal and
limestone. Last year more than one
half the cotton manufactured in the
United States was manufactured In
the cotton states, and the per cent
manufactured in the cotton states in
creases annually and rapidly. So far
as that particular industry is concern
ed, '1chabod" is written over New Eng
land, and it is well. There never was
any sense in shipping raw cotton from
the south to New England to be made
into cloths and shipped back to the
south again.
Dingley Of Maine, for years chairman
Of the house committee on ways and
means, saw the handwriting on the
wall, and he undertook to prevent the
transfer of factories from the north to
the south. His proposed remedy was
q constitutional amendment giving con-
gress absolute and exclusive control
over all legislation touching the hours
of labor. What he really needed was
law to prevent God Almighty from
giving the south q more genial climate,
for the difference in climate, which
means commercially living at less cost
with equal comfort, Is the principal
factor in transferring manufacturing
concerns to the south. Therefore the
governor soon discovered that he was
fighting against fate and nature and
gave it up. What is happening in the
cotton business will happen in the iron
and steel business and also in other
lines. With increase of business will
come increase of population and all
things necessary thereto. So, taken on
the whole, one does not have to be
prophet or the son Of prophet to
predict that the greatest development
of the future will be in Dixie and that
It will ultimately be the richest country
under the sun per capita and per square
mile.
Not only is the south rich In material
things, but also and especially in her
splendid citizenship. Here Teutonic
civilization, miscalled Anglo-Saxon, is
found in Its best estate in the south.
The ruling classes are the descendants
of the men and women who laid the
foundations of civilization on this con-
tinent. What they were In the begin
ming they are now and always will be-
broad minded, patriotic, brave, cling
ing with unalterable resolve to the true
idea Of representative government capa-
Bile OF comprehending 1t, able to main
tain 1t and determined to preserve It,
In the south there is no Pretorian
guard to sell the republic at auction.
In the south money counts for less than
honesty, honor and clean living.