The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1907-08-16
|lR|0IGRESS0F
| GREAT SOUTH
! ..,,,s Show Amazing Strides
'''' IA Every Direction.
(Hf LEADS TRE WORLD
I'D fu,ure of the South as
|'o '.,.,d BY the Philadelphia
North American

p,., the history of the United States
d, ninteenth century shall be r'gh'
"s,,sn there will be few chapters
n interesting than those that tell o. /,
|, ,.,oyer of the South from the eff
.,oi,he Civil War. Even the mer
lived in the North during the quar-
I century in which the good work
v, On have very little knowledge OF
.,.iation of the true chatacter OF
4, ,,bsvement. But the matter de-
os attention, for the southern peo'
are our people, and both the senti'
,,,l and commercial interests Of al
r,tcans are involved with the pros
stydthe South.
hts been said truthfully that nc
tsy land in modern times, with the
,sDtiOn Of Ireland, has been 80 i'm
,r,t,hed and covered with desolation
,Ap South at the end of the Civil
N. Not only was the wealth of the
sSn gone, but probably 300, 900 of
s,best men had been slain and a mil
NOR more had been forced by neces-
Into begin life in other parts of the
sNH Of the world. 1t was from this
usO next to nothing that the start
h made toward the new South of the
|N years of the twentieth century.
N The available assets were a fertile
b, practical monopoly of the power
rVw cotton, and the same brave
pit that impelled the people to mira
|sd vaor on the battle field. Sta
hnS are apt to be repellent, but the
}, Of what the South has done cannot
khiry told without them, and this
we Of the cases in which dry figures
Nnaly charged with something like
sof eloquence
lake few examples; How many
Fnfeans know that the population of
f'@athern states this year is quite
|'1sxths of the population of the ma
'n ISOO! The capital invested in
A'alaelureS in the Southern states
fiyear is $1,000, 900, 900; but the cap
pISmvested in all the rest of the
Pl'yl 1880 was but 50, 500, 100000.
'"alh has made amazing strides
|"m IN manufactures. She is fast
Fag Inequality as a distinctively ag.
el'a'al region. Pennsylvanians who
~' closely regard such matters rare
@ak Of the South as an ironmaker.
|. Aa0ama is now producing as much
D0n as Pennsylvania did a quarter
'','so'ury ago. In 1887 the South
-, y Ou'a trlfie more than 500, 600 tons.
swear she made 3, 800, 600 tons. The
w nas about one-half the known
y, ~@es0i the United States. A great
Y, y INDUSTRY has sprung up in Ala
ny ~ within the last ten years, and for
". .'a''n Is urged that it produces
I W. steel rails than the North and at
!. y I.',' cost And the South has the
Ms"a which to manipulate the iron.
y !" ABOUT 42,OOO,OOo tons of bitumi-
NV, Wa' was the output of the entire
wy Last year the Southern states
a produced $4,000, 600 tons. The
\ ~ |, has a mined So, 600, 900 tons of soft
NJ. ,ne last ten years, and the pro-
n, a." - continuously increasing. We
s.. I'eu 10 thinking of the South
M sa. producer, but the corn crop
' NJ last It census year was worth s225,.
n ,h., ."e wheat and oats and hay
~. 9o wy sl2O,OoO,OOO and the potato
4 ~. In 1906 these crops,
a ,S'o o.. rice and rye added, were
1s,,s IaI,' , The production has
!, s'I IN some cases at the rate of
N '' au tlght along for a series of
Ken a All Indications point to an un.
h n ,p,, for the future. The
d p,a ,'on could be edupon Southern
Ne /. 49,. er crop of the South, of
d, I,s v''oh' In this it beats the
al ,h "u'a and Egypt grow cotton,
\ 4. "e u, tropical lands are trying to
sQus, W. the world depends for
ssutbS s's @ OF its supply upon our
tcn., ''n States. 1t is one of the