The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-25
The south and ITS Prosperity.

The London Daily Mail recently con-
tanned comment upon change going
on in American affairs whose surface
Indication Is Of vast and pleasing sig
| nificance at home but which doubt
less is not understood by the foreign
ers who have made note of 1t. In
| speaking of the great horde of travel
eers from the United States in Eng.
this years incursion of Americans is
the great number OF visitors from the
Southern States. A few years ago
from the South. At the present mo-
\ ment about eight out of ten are from
places famous In the records OF the
them to the Northern visitor. They
approximate more nearly the English
type, are not so self-assertive and are
equally good business men and wo-
As to whether the Southcrners who
have been In England this year ZAP
proximate more nearly the English
TYPE h tnan % tbs the is
ture of interest, of import, of signif-
canoe at home is that travellers from
the South to Europe now outnumber
those from the North. European trav-
cl still is expensive, and those who in
dulge in 1t must have surplus money
money that is not reeded to keep
the larder full.
Commercial and business statistics
have been revealing. in their cold, aus
tere way, for years the rapid change
taking place in the South. The Post
time to time the evidences OF substaH
tial, solid, and conservative develop
ment In every section of the South
but nothing in the statistics or The
phasized the prosperity at the South
as the observation of the London pa
per. The South is coming back to its
own, and coming fast. The people of
lHnffnn fph Cfrf1 avxI
frugal by Inheritance, in spite of all
that has been fallaciously thought and
written OF them to the contrary. are
working out their own material as
well as intellectual destiny in their
own way and with their own resources.
NO such recovery from the paraiyzing
shock and ruinous devastation of war
Is revealed by written history /ak that
which the South is now and has been
for more than twenty years undergo
ing With courage unsurpassed in The
record OF the human race. the men and
women of the South have peen LAT
work these four decades building upA
the waste places, and with indomifable
spirit, which only the genius of a Mac
aulay could picture in it's true, colors
they have stuck to their tasks, not
forgetting the past, with its 'giories
and triumphs. and forgiving those who
assailed and traduced them either
tnrough ignorance or wanton pusillan-
unity. Theirs has been a hard task
indeed, but they are mastering IL
theyA have mastered it. While ii is al
ways extremely hazardous to mako
predictions about an individual or a
people, we make bold to indulge the
prophecy that 1t will not be a long
time now until the South resumes its
historic primacy in American affairs.
There is one awful problem facing the
Southerners, but now that the North
is showing a Willingness to let H..c
South work 1t out in Its own way, we
doubt not that that way will be wise
and lasting and good.A
The Afro-American is of the South, |
there he will stay Deprivation of the |
ballot and other temporary expedi- |
ents imposed by necessity may for a |
while continue to drive hordes of |
blacks to the North, but soon or late |
these hordes or their descendants will |
return to the South, because the North |
does not know how to get along with |
the negro in mass, and 1t seems that |
the North never will know how to do |
this 1ndustrial1y and economically, !
the North has no place for the black |
stretches of cotton and other agricul- |
tural lands at the South will always /
AFFORD opportunity for the negro to |
work to the best possible advantage. |
both to himself and his employer If |
he show aptitude for higher things, he |
viii find an opening at the South for |
the proper and profitable employment |
or this aptitude, At present his la |
Dor is being utilized in the best possf- |
Die manner for the Development of |
the South's marvellous resources of soil |
and climate and mines and citizen- i
ship.