The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-03-05
The south's Prosperity; It's Danger.
BY r. Il. Edmunds, Editor Manufac-

turer's Record. &
&4 During 1906 the wealth Of the south
increased 81, 100000 for every lday
Ct; the year, Sundays included, Or q
: total Of $4,000, 100000. The actual
increase in assessed value was l,O76,-
479,788, and this was on the average
OF 40 per cent. Of the true value. The
amazing magnitude Of this gain of
$1,3OO,0OO day is strikingly shown
by the statement Of the London Ex-
press which, bemoaning the inability
OF Great Britain to keep pace with
Americas growth, puts the increase
III Great Britain's wealth at $7,0OO,-
600 week.
Contrast the south s increase of
$7,3OO,O0O a day with Great Britain IS
$7,00O,000 week and then think of
the future.
Great Britain, with comparatively
few natural resources, dependent up
on the outside world for nearly all
its foodstuffs, for much of its iron
ore, for all of it's cotton and a large
part of its lumber, and with only lO,-
O0O square miles Of coal of which
large portion has been worked out,
has 40,000,000 people crowded into an
area equal to that of less tham half
of Texas.
On the other hand, look at the
south with the worlds cotton trade
III its absolute domination, with g.
OOO square miles Of virgin coal fields,
with iron ore sufficient to duplicate
Tor years to come the whole iron and
steel trade of all Europe, with almost
imitless soil capabilities already pro-
ducing over 90O,OOO,0OO bushels of
grain year and several hundred mil
lion dollars worth of diversified
farm products, able to produce food
stuffs for hundreds of millions, able
to clothe the world, able to do more
manufacturing than that of the whole
country today, with millions of avail
able water power, 100000 horse pow
er for electrical transmission being al
ready under development and when
you have catalogued these you have
mentioned only a few Of the south's
strong points.
Who Can Measure Possibilities?
Who can measure the limitless pos
slbllities of the southq Who can fully
grasp the fact that the south is rapid
ly pushing forward to the time when
its own wealth will exceed all of the
vast wealth accumulated by Great
Britain through the ages, and by
which it dominates the finances of
the world7 Surely the vision is one to
stir every southern heart, for it is,
indeed, reality.
The growth in wealth during the
coming years will far exceed the Won
derful story of 1906.
"Unto whom much has been given,
OF him shall much be rcquircd' is as
true as when first uttered. The
south's responsibility is as vast as
are its resources and it's gain in
wealth. The world has right to de-
mand of such a country the highest
order of citizenship, the highest type
of strong, self-reliant people, who
realizing their power and duty, build
for time and eternity a character
which shall be worthy of imitation.
Such people should be eivers, not
beggars--givers not simply of money,
which counts for little, but givers to
all mankind Of honor, self-reliance,
independence and undertaking devo-
tion to the highest principles Of life.
Beegars! beggars of money for any
cause when bountiful Providence is
pouring more than $7,000,000 a day
into their laps, seven times rs much
as the present increase in Great Brit
AIMS wealth And yet the south may
come under the charge of begging
charity when too many of it's people
stand, with hat in hand, askin" aims
OF others and pledging themselves to
almost any conditions in order to win
few paltry dollars that are doled
out by those whose charity is, to say
the least, not free and open but has
a string tied to it.
Beggars and yet $7,30O,O0O our
daily growth in wealth.
Pray that South Be Not Ruined.
Better n thousandfold that every
Christian soul should be much in
prayer, asking Divine guidance that
the south be not ruined by this enor-
nous incoming wealth. Every fiber
of our moral being will be tested as