Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-11-30
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Special washIngson Letter

Especial Washington letter.
EyYN HIS IS written ia sight Of the
III shimmering waters Of Mobile
III bay, delightful place to be
"a in these November days am
down here lecturing. On every hand
are evidences of thrift, prosperity and
progress. The new south, which Hen
ry ". Grady saw by the eye of hope
and faith, Of which he was both the
prophet and the advance agent, is now
q veritable, visible, glorious, inspiring
reality. 1t makes even a hard headed
man dizzy to contemplate its future.
In no other portion of our maryelously
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 Ornus and of lind. While
the northern region is nearly depleted
of white pine, two-thirds of Alabama
is an unbrolzen forest of yellow pine
and other valuable woods Think of
what that means in cold cash! In the
immortal words OF Professor Squeers
of Detheboys Hall, Here is rich
nessv' 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, "Ichabod" 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.
Even in his day Governor Nelson
Dingley of Maine, for years chairman
of the house committee on ways ana
means, saw the handwriting on the
wall, and he undertook 10 prevent the
transfer Of factories from the north to
the south Ills proposed remedy was
q constitutional amendment giving con
gress absolute ana exclusive control
over al leg. lation touching the hours
Of laboe What he really needed was
IA law to prevent God Almighty from
giving the south a 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 a
prophet or the son of a 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 Teutonie
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 We're 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 it, able to main
tain it 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