The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-15

mind against mind we need the stinu-
luz Which, Immigration would bring, the
stimulus that will force us to develop
every latent power 81 brain and muscle,
and In this, MS we'll as IN, every other
good work. the bankers Of the South
Rhould be the leaders.
Your financial power and your position,
social and bilslt,ess In your community,
throw upon you o greater burden OF re-
sDonsibility than rests upon any other
class of business men In the Sout h. Study
well your community and your country
take NO narrow view of affairs, but Know.
the past and the present and then you
may the better forecast the future. 20 u
may Justly boast Of what the South OF.
ito-dayai Is doing. II but stop long enough to
Glcok back to the Old South and Its won--
'dsrful business Eareer, stop long enough
to study the character of It's great leaders,
and you will realize that Il the South
of the present and Of the future IS TO
be worthy Of the Old South 1t must, In
deed, breed men of broad business abif-
ity, of a world horlzon, looking beyond
the petty politics. and petty ideas 81 mar
row-vlsioned men. y GU hear much or the
New South, but I for one want to be re-,
corded as having no sympathy with sueh
a title as 1T is usually interpreted. me IN
South OF to-day is but n revival OF the Oid
South. The New South is but O. child child
sot the old, and owing to the peculiar con-
ditions attending Its birth 1t is not yet
so strong, so virile. nor SO rich IN pro-
portion to the whole country as was tho
z Old South. Ei
Some or our boasted Southern orators
either through ignorance OF Lhe past or
III order to curry favor with Northern.
audiences, have talked Of the ante-belluma
South as of land lacking in men Of
power and world-inlluence In business
They have told us that we had great.
statesmen and great warriors. but they
have made many believe that we were a.
sothful, a thriftlss people, given only to
agriculture with slave labor.
On the contrary, We should boast as as
much of the business leaders, OF the
scientists. of the inventors of the OLD 10
South as OF our statesmen. His skill
as an engineer and the years OF train
ing in following his profession through
the tracKless forests gave to Was'ning-s
ton much OF the training which fitted q /
him to become the first In war, as wei
as the first In craftsmanship. His father
was IN fronrnaker, as were many, OF the
foremost men Of the day. u
The pioneers Of those days who over r-
ran the mountain country Of y irg1nla,
the Carolinas and Tennessee We're. as
Swank has SO nptly said, dorm 81 VIII VIII! ~ .
genius for ironinhking." We are prone
to forget that many Of the most1Si m
portant inventions Of the world came
from the brains fofi Southern men; that hat
the cotton gin had been invented before
Whitney perfected ut; that the self bind bind
Ing reaper which made an economic
revolution in the world and enabled the
wheatnelds Of the West to feed all
Europe. was or Virginia origin: that Y, the
weather bureau system Of to-day IS PVT i.
the outcome Of the work Of that great
Virginia Scientist, Commodore N1aIry' me
pathfinder Of thestseas; We forget that
during the decade between 1850 and 1850 $50
the South built nearly twice as many
miles of railroad as. the New England
and Middle States combined; that during
the same period the value 81 Z. property
Increased s3;4s0;ooo, 900 IN the South.
compared with s2,4eo, 900, 600 in New Eng
land and tho Middle States. We rejoice
in the railroad activity Of o-day and
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