Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-27

blood of the Puritan and the Cavalier, and history tells us in terms not du- bious, but unmistakably clear, that where the Anglo-Saxon goes he stays and where he stays he demands and
 sees a matter of common right that 1 he receives fair play on every inch of the ground, never at any time willingly submitting to tyranny or
 oppression in any form without reSlst- Ii ing vigorous protest against she ln- l justice in a decided way that goes ringing around and across the conti- nent. ever and always insisting on re- ceiying his rights until he comes in- to a full enjoyment of them.
 Development of 35 Years. "Forty-fy years ago, when the gal. liant Lee surrendered at AppomatoX to the generous Grant, the South, crush cd by defeat, awoke to the sicken- ing realization that her very traditions were gone,' that she was without money, credit, employment, material or training,' yet she did not become sullen or rebellious, but with heart of oak went about the task that 'en- amored her of retrieving her lost for tune and status, and to act we'll her part in being as loyal to the govern- ment as any portion of our country from Maine to Texas.
 When we begin to study the his tory of the South for the past thirty five years, you will find the story of a people who, in season and out of season, amid Encouragement hardly realized now, worked for the South's upbuilding. When leaders ill politi- cal economy and finance said the South would never become an lm- portant center of cotton manufacture. and even made Southern people be- lieve their doctrine, these men, some times blindly, perhaps, but always full of hope, went ahead building mills, or preaching the gospel that the mill must come to the cotton. When every furnace fire lighted ill Alabama was proclaimed ill an enyi- ous press, as but another waste of misguided capital, these men said that Alabama some day would enter the worlds market with her iron. This song, but the very essence of divine truth. They were words prophetic. It was prophecy that has been full filled and to verify the statement we have but to turn to the price sheets on steel and you will find hat the steel manufactured from iron produced in the great state of Alabama commands dollar more a ton than that price set by the trust.
 Every mill which turns your cot ton into finished goods and gives en- ployment to idle hands, every ship ment of Alabama iron to Europe, is a beautiful tribute to the men who thirty years ago in field and in fac tory, in press and on the rostrum began to fight the South's battle for industrial freedom. They are like the Southern Cotton association, they have, like the children of Israel, come up through great tribulation Start ing under the most adverse circum- stances, what has the South accom- plished? Comparing these facts to the general industrial advance of the United States, it will be seen that in nearly every line the South has made approximately greater progress than the rest of the country. In the last thirty-five years it has so developed its coal business that it is producing more coal than the entire bituminous output of the United States, as late as 1900.
 Twenty-Five years ago the South had 661,O00 cotton spindles, and the rest of the country had 1o,600.O0O spindles; today the South has S.O00,OOO spindles, showing an increase of near ly 1,5oo,o00, while the rest of the country has 13.oooO0o, Or gain of over 2,000.000 spindles. Considering the disadvantages under which the South has labored, she has wrought wondrously we'll during the last thir- ty-five years.
 South's Record for 1906.
 What is the record the South has made for 1906? As a boy I never tired of listening to the tales of the nursery; the account of Jack and the Bean Stalk in my boyish Judgment was the most wonderful story ever penned by mortal man, and the story of the growth of Jonah's Gourd Vine appealed 10 me with equal force, and was ever and anon a source of won- der, but marvellous as were these two growths that tickled the fancy of boyhood dreams, they are not to be mentioned in the same day with the growth of the South during the good year of 1906. When We go into the