The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-19
South @ arol lima.

10 mako Benjamin r. Tillman a more
potential factor In the AFFAIRS OF South
Carolina than Hutledge OF 2 nrens.
5Ilayne Or Calhoun dcDufi b or AZ ia
moDl, Hampton or Butler had q ever pee1'.
The speech or Mrs. Johnson & to WI men n
referred was delivered In the National
House OF representatives, Juno 2ss 1906,
3 His theme, TOO, was South Carolina but
q was industrial. rather than political,
In character. He began With n eulogy
Il otyiIis State at once modest e and lofty.
There was no effort a decla ma ION Or
rhetoric; 1t was not an oratlon..SSs.t was was
only a simple statement Of facts. First
he made tribute to the marked indy dual
8ity OF his people, the intensity with which
they feel, the sincerity With which they
ayow and the intrepldlty with which they
act He then called attention to tho
3poltylof South Carolina forbidding d.
Byorce, the only Notwithstanding COM
Smiinltyf on the globe that does, ana per-
#haps in no other community in. the world
Il are the person and tho fame OF a chaste
woman hold 30 sacred.
ss But Mr.. Johnson addressed himself 70
material things. Where In all America
has been tho most bount!ful Yield OF 4. GO IN
on a single acre OF ground Z One Will say
IN the Cumberland River bottoms in Ken
lucky: another will answer the Scioto
Valley, Q. The Wabash bottoms, the fer-
tile prairie OF ll,::nos. the Missouri bot-
toms, and the prolific plains q Iowa.
Kansas and Nebraska will all bcSselectcd
for the distinction ere the average a lner-
lean gives a thought to South Carolina
And yet the greatest Id or an acre OF
soil planted to corn in the history Of that
H cereal came from the farm OF z. y. Drake.
OF Marlboro county, S. c., the season OF
1864 bushels and 4S pounds. There
4 is no question as to- the fact, md the
full story of 1T Is related In the Amer
lean Agriculturnllst for March. 1900 tho
publication founded and SO long, ably,
and advantageously conducted by Orange
Judd, to tho profit and the benefit Of
tens of thousands OF American farmers
The narrative of the preparation OF the
ground. the planting tillage the har-
the authenticity OF the yield Is a chronicle
that has Interest for every American
reader OF whatever calling and condition.
1t was not on tho rich. alluvial bottoms
OF mississippi. or Arkansas or Louisiana
not on the banks \ of the Warrior OF
Alabama, or OF the Brazos, OF Texas, that
B the greatest Yield OF cotton per acre wns
had, but It was on the farm OF G. A.
Murphy Of spartanburg county, 8. q.
who produced on one acre 4, 2S4 pounds OF
seed cotton. There. were fourteen cdn-
was 1895 pounds. Tho total yield on four
& teen acres was 5000 pounds, and the
average reached tho astonishing amount
OF 27sl pounds OF seed cotton
The Industrial awakening at the South
reads like the story Of Alnddin's lamp.
Soil climate water power, coal. Iron,
stone, timber, cotton, petroleum and other
advantages are there to stimulate manu-S
featuring regardless Of tariff schedules.
Here are some figures from one of the
leading Industrial publications OF tho
country that challenge and stagger the
Imagination, 81
In "a hazyl sort OF way many. persons In
the North have lodg been aware that the
Southern States are giving their Northern
sisters close race In the fight for In
5dustrial honors, The fact s, however,
that In the course Of the last quarter OF
a century tho progress made by the New
South" has been little short Of phenon,-
email, This will be readily appreciated by
all who glanca over the following exam
pies Of commercial growth The ngures
for 1880 nre from the government CEN
sus OF that year, and those for 1905 have
been obtained by, r. II, Edmunds, the