Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-12-05

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"a shimmering waters of Mobile
bay, 4 delightful place to be
- in these November days. am
down here lecturing. On every hand
are evidences of thrift, prosperity and
progress. The new south, which Hen
nv w. Grady saw by the eye of hope
and faith, Of which he was both the
prophet and the advance agent, IS now i
a veritable, visible, glorious, inspiring |
reality. 1t makes even a 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
immortal 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, "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.
y y Even in his day Governor Nelson
: 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 te
the south. His proposed remedy was
a constitutional amendment giving con
gress absolute and exclusive contro
= over all legislation touching the hours
W of labor What he really needed was
law to prevent God Almighty from
giving the south more genial climate
for the difference in climate, which
means commercially living at less cos
u with equal comfort, is the principa
factor in transferring manufacturing
concerns to the south. Therefore thu
governor soon discovered that he was
81 Il +,r-,, a NJ
j.. gave it up. What is happening in tn
al cotton business will happen in the irol
IN and steel business and also in othe
us lines. With increase Of business viii
ry come increase Of population and al
e. things necessary thereto. So, taken o.
IS the whole, one does not have to be
SIS prophet or the son Of prophet t
b, predict that the greatest development
NJ. of the future will be In Dixie and tina
n 1t will ultimately be the richest countr
nd under the sun per capita and per squaI
mile.
in Not only is the south rich in materis
ar things, but also ana especially in he
re splendid citizenship. Here Teutoni
lft civilization, miscalled Anglo-Saxon,
at round in its best estate in the soutl
nd The ruling classes are the descendant
Of the men and women who laid til
ar foundations Of civilization On this col
re-. tinent What they were in the begt
ar. ming they are now and always will be
in. broad minded. patriotic, brave, clinl
.r- ing with unalterable resolve to the trr
rs. idea of representative government cap
le- Bile Of eomprehending it, able to mali
81 tain 1T and determined to preserve It,.
81 In the south there Is no Pretoria
use guard to sell the republic at auctio
rst In the south money counts for less tha
on honesty, honor and clean living.
ng
"Boss" Lodge.
he It's far cry from Alabama to Ma
:ty sachusetts, but it so happened that
cit lectured liz both states in one wee
Everywhere find that the Democra