Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-06-13
H,l6usbsp 6e aslsslf 1ro1ne city inS now has
more than zoo ia IN have III 81 ia 1915.
Haiesbug is spending n6N uensy ents than
II any other city in the state Is oowth has M z that few
III people realize the fact that = 1ex close # Meridian
III and Vicksburg--the third ~ IN Miss prospect
Of taking FIRST rank within the next Two or thI N
II -Four railroad systems radste u seven dill excellent
transportation facilities. Two cher ralros prospect \
The weekly pay rolls Of The r7A NJ actoH sburg dis q
uict aggregate than thoss II a Of the combined
Twostoy brick buildings arc being torn for
FIVE and six story Office structures il l1aties M
Property values increasing Nvah amos 1s4-y a
n There BOOM but vigorous rapid 81 Kear
gain with each succeeding year

federate graves should be flower
strewn on Memorial Day. 1t was Pres
ident Roosevelt who, but few weeks
ago, paid tribute of lofty eulogy to
the leader of the Confederate armies,
Robert e. Lee Both these Chief Mag
istrates. like Mr.. Lincoln, spoke the
mind of the American people of the
twentieth century.
1t is, however, required that the
North should give to the South some
thing more substantial than sympathv
Through four decades that region has
paid in poverty heavy debt of suffer-
ing for its secession movement. The
time is at hand when it should have
larger chance to taste the high pros
perity that has come to the rest OF the
land
The enrichment OF the South mot
a Southern, but an American ques 5n
The full development there of all ile
possibilities of wealth means almost
as much to the North and the West, as
it does to the Southern people them
selves.
| The South has a monopoly OF the
cotton crop, which pays great por-
tion of our debt to Europe. and there
can be no doubt that the crop can be
almost indefinitely enlarged. The re-
gion also has something like monop-
oily OF genial climate that permits
the growth OF mulaitudinous articles OF
value which can not be produced at all
in the colder States. But much Of the
best land in the South is only half
titled, much is not titled at all, and SC
mighty opportunities are wasted. large
4 ly because of the want Of capital and
Of efficient labor.
There are also countless millions Of
acres Of timber tracts down there
waiting for money to bring the stuff
u to market which offers high prices
because Northern timber is swiftly
disappearing.
= liz k5putliVih BcOpiC iiCSu iiioi y S<sP
ital. They need better utilization o
} the negro labor which is now often idl'
or half useless, and they need an In
: fiax of new laborers. Probabl,
| Southern industry would find stroni
i stimulation IL more of the Europeal
) workmen who are coming in here, a
i the rate Of 100000 year, could b
I diverted to the Southern States AM
) offered an opportunity to labor.
II While the South is still far benin
D 1.-THE North in wealth and industrial
E achievement, there is really no caus
i for discouragement. Forty years, ate
Y all, - not long time in which t
work out recovery from the devasts
E tons Of one of the most terrific war
5 that ever scourged the human race.
eli Something has been done IN IL
oil Luilding up Of extensive cotton mani
I fracture. which thrives so that man
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