Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-09
CD. A. Tompkins ill the June
 Worlds Work.

1 tndt tne present industrial develop
 ment in the South is a revival and 1 not an initial movement. Mir.
 Harry Hammond of Beach Island.
 $. C., has said that in 1910 the
 manufactured products of Virginia,
 the Carolinas and Georgia exceeded
 those of all the New England states
 taken together. Certain it is that
 in the colonial days and in the 1 early days of the republic, the
 South had well-developed and l thriving system of manufactures.
 In transportation the South also led. The first steamship that
 crossed the ocean went out of Sa-
 vannah. The South Carolina rail-
 way, constructed from Charleston to Hamburg, LAO miles, was prob- ably the biggest engineering en-
 terprise in America when it was
 building. The thing which hin
 NSA SA oA0 01tAA4dLC4y ASII3y ui.Gu
 up the manufacturing an] comr,er-
 tial interests of the SoGth was
 ti institution of slavery. The in-
 t"oduction of cotton production into
 H.. South enhanced the value of
 sIages and, with slave labor. cot ton production required jess effort and yielded more profit than manu- factures and commerce. Following the invention of the cotton gin, the number of slaves in the cotton growing states was rapidly in creased by importation, largely from other parts of the United States.
 The constantly growing influence of slavery finally stopped white immigration altogether, and went further. It stimulated tide of white emigration from the south Atlantic states to the Northwest. Lincoln, Harrison and others were in the Northwest tide, it stimulated another tide of emigration to the Southwest. This was made up of the sons of shareholders, with slaves, seeking more land. By 1880 the production of a few staple crops with slave labor was prac- tically all that was left. Cotton, tobacco, rice, and sugar, all with slave labor, absorbed the time of the managing white folk in the South, and the industrial workers who did not get away settled in the or became very poor in the low country.
 We often hear that the immi grant ceased coming South because of the negro. This is a misunder standing of the subject. It was the of slavery and not the negro which dried up manufactures and commerce, which stopped white to the South, and which stimulated white emigration from the South to the Northwest. The negro has lad no more infiu- ence on these movements than the Indian had. The negro is here still, in greater numbers than ever. and in his presence manufac lures and commerce have revived, and white emigration has ceased and white immigration has set in anew.
 It has been estimated that with in 60 miles of Charlotte, N. G.. there are available water powers sufficient to develop 100000 horsepower. Reckoning one horse power as the equivalent of 10 this would make the power of these rivers capable of doing as much work as 10.O00,00O common laborers. This is probably not more than one-third the powe" in the piedmont region in Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia.
 In the first three decades sue ceeding the civil war, little prog ress was made. In the sourth de- cade the tide turned, and things are now going better than at any time preceding, before or since the war. This may be shown by the following general facts about the !, production and price of cotton per annum in the four decades succeed ing the war:
 In the first decade 2,50O,0OO bales, at "A cents a pound yielded $3OO.O00.O0O.
 In the second decade 5,0OO,OGY