The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-24
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 The Baltimore Sun quotes the follow ing from The Philadelphia Telegraph:
 If the white men if the South were able and willing to work steadily and the t North. their section of the country oSs %Sula Ss Slfa ssa ps
 sssrS Sr %ss nsssds se. Dr ss ssns men of the South, white and black alike. do not like to work and will not work if they can avoid 1t.
 The Sun very properly reminds its fauit-nnding contemporary that all sec tions of the country have their propor- ton of men who are not in love with hard work. and that the idle and shift less are not the product of climate, tra- dition or heredity, any more than the political corruption and rascality for which Philadelphia has long been noted are the result of heredity and tra- dition in the Quaker City. As far back as history goes in the United States
 there have been men in every commu-
 nity who were averse to making their
 bread by the sweat of the brow. Hence
 the large number of persons who live
 by their wits, the green goods. bunco men, confidence men and "get-rich. quick rascais who abound in the large cities of the North; hence the hangers on of the political machine in Philadel- phia-men who never did an honest days work in their lives, but subsist on the crumbs which are thrown to them by party bosses. There is no question of heredity. tradition or climate in. volved in the worthlessness of these un- speakable creatures. No sane person thinks of judging the honest.s indus- trious and worthy men of the North by types.
 The Sun goes on to show by the fig- ures that of the total exports from the United States 41 per cent were pro- ducts of Southern States. and thus 1t hands this array Of figures to The Tels- graph: I
 If our Philadelphia contemporary really wishes to be honest and fair In its discussion of economic conditions in the South. 1t might study. with advant- dress made at the meeting, of the New York State Bankers meeting on July l4 last by Mir. Joseph c. Brown. Prest. Raleigh. N. c. Mir. Brown showed that last year the value of the cotton crop was well in excess of $500, ,00o; that ssss sss y9ue Of of ws sss e0ss fsSP gas ana sie c oats, $29,7s0,1ss. The total production of corn, wheat. oats. Irish potatoes, rye and hay 3 in 1se4 was was s6l2:iai;9oo. to the North Carolina banker. other prod ucts estimated at $550,000, ,000, making the value of the South's agricultural 600. The manufactured products of the o,ooo. fine mining, manufacturing and agrieultural production of the ss,5oo, ,ooo, ,ooo. Since 1880 fhe soath's coal production has increased from 5000; 900 tons to ee,oeo.oo0 tons in 1904. iron today as the whole country pro duced twenty-five years ago. Tn 1880 the capital invested in cotton mills was in tSs South ep PepEesens @ :ssoo @ Hppsea of capital. The lumber product last year was s200,000, 900. The railroad mileage has grown from 20.000 in 1880 to 65.OOo
 Such figures as these ought to hold The Telegraph for awhile. All these products were not the result of slaves nor peons. nor other enforced 1aborers. Such results as these cannot be achtev. ed by men, white or black, who do not like to work and who will not work if they can help 1t. The lazy. the shift less and the Idle do not send forth to all parts of the civilized world so many millions of dollars worth of agricultu- ral and mechanical wares as these fig- ures indicate. Such results are only to be found where people work, and work willingly and intelligently.
 The Telegraph, like some others in that section of our country, seems not to have forgotten or discarded the false of half e century ago. Then 1t was the fashion of the abolitionists in the North to speak of the Southern white people as indolent and brutal slave holders, who never did any man. ual labor, but depended for everything on the enforced labor of the slaves Some of them seem to have the same opinion of Southern whites now and are to put the negroes in the same category. If The Telegraph and those of its kind will pay more heed to the present and forget the false teachings of the past. 1t might come to do even the South and It's people justice.