The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-12-03
NOTHING IN HISTORY
Parallels South's Wealth Producing
POwer-Thfs Years Cash Receipts
Greater Than Was the Total Ma
tionaI Wealth OF the JEitcu States
I'm 1860.

TIE edrtn.
In the intere5- Of minute accuracy
this statement may De qualified or
| limited TO products and possibilities
that are attached 10 or der-Tcd from
the cultivation OF the sCi!. Applied in
( that sense the Language is n5t only
| not TOO strong, but there is 10 hing
in words that can 10 81 justice to he
situation as it really exists here iii
/ ,hc south.
Consider how mapr arc the pro-
duc,s that are ezc.Gs5 rc'- southern
| ncm a practical p.:n- - Jew, and
| then try analyZe their value and
status in the economy Of life. Among
these may be named. CcttO1. sugar.
rice, melons. gccaer peas, Bermuda
| onions. pecans, berries anI various
| fruits whose earlie~ maturiy hire
gives them pTacticai'T r3OGopJiis-
tic value to the south IL their c2n-
sumption by the people Of the United
States.
Few are aware Of he fact that tho
Cnce despised goObec pes Brings an
| rually to those wkO - So i in the
south the sum OF xIJ.2uH,lG0. while
the Bermuda onion, 5y leaso1 Of the
superiority of our dcmes ic >ultiva-
tion of it, has disp,,t:d the imported
article and brings I si.1iiar sum to
one state alone.
Then, again, by r'c:-y,. % tier su
perior quality, and "a. :eG maturing
the south has a monopoly in water
melons, and these are claimed to have
an annual value to those who raise
them of SIS coo, 600. There is one
county in Florida that cultivate tobac-
CD under shade, and this is said to ba
almOs- a mint in value, the returns
being from $3.50 to $3.50 per acre.
The sugr and molasses crops Of the
south are likewise almost without a
rival from outside sources, with an
nual money value % their producers
OF s75,OO0.000
Tie domestic yie.c cf rice has like
wise almost to-ally displaced the for
elgn pr0G&Ct, anu the annual value
OF this crop aDprcI ?at-5 $50 900 900.
Ii there is not inapiTa OK il these facts
where can one go 10 find it?
1t must be borne in mind that we
are not considering other products of
the soil which are common to other
countries, all of which howeve8, can
be produced in the south with greater
ease and less labor ad expense than
elsewhere.
Il was in the south that the great
est yield of corn per acre was pro-
duced that was ever raised in this
country; neither are we considering
the marvellous progress that has been
made in manufacturing in which this
section holds so proud a record, but
we are taking only those products In
which the south has practically a mo-
nopoly, for it is these that are sutfi-
cient' of themselves to endow a ma
ton with untold wealth.
It was these that enabled the south
to so quickly recuperate from the raw
ages of the war that would have prov
en- fatal to the energies of a1mose any
other people on this earth. There is
really no parallel in history for such
rehabilitation as the south has made
after such disastrous conflict and
within the lifetime Of so many of
those who participated in it. The en-
nual receipts of the south today from
all sources are greater than was the
reported wealth of this nation in
1860.
With climate riva1ing that of Ita-
ly, with a thousand wales and plains
as fertile as the Valley of the Nile,
with fruits and flowers in rich AID
rare abundance, with fields of gold
grain, with rivers and springs and
hills and dales, everywhere a land
scape of transcendant beauty, and
withal, a f1eecy staple that aids in
clothing the world and which The
world has vainly sought to share in
its prOduction-where in all this void
are these sources for inspiration"
such as these?
To stimulate just appreciation and
a proper utilization of these God-given
blessings is as high a privilege thai
has ever been placed in human keep
ing and it is thus we view our mis-
sion as southern journal. We care
nothing in comparison for what 9TH
ers possess. for as ourselves, there is
inspiration enough and glory enough
in exploiting these matchless treas
ures which belong to the south and in
the peerless record of development
it's people have made, to satisfy our
highest ambition or fill to the limit the
measure of our Observation-Disclosures
ga Tradesman.
silence, Sflence-make no sound or stir,
Silence Silence-make no noise or stir.