The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-06
TIME To HALT
A CALL TO CONSERVATIVE CITI-
 ZENs OF THE SOUTH.
The Great Damage Done by Radicals and Extremists--DemagoE nnd Politicians Have Driven Capital
 EIeewhere
Richard Edmanda in rha Raltimor


 Richard Edmands in The Baltimore
 Manufacturer's Record.
 keeps on yelling fire even though there be no fire, he will soon stampede the audience and create a panic in which many may De Injured and some tram lot of politicians yelled fire so often that the whole country became panlc stricken and made a wild rush under land was in danger of being destroyed by the money kings and the railroads. Many of these politicians thought. or
 stheT 1aey fb undsr the nae tSe railroads which by no possibility could prosper unless the country through which they ran was prosperous were prosperity. It might well be said of such a suggestion as put forth by many politicians that 1t was the air claimed from the housetop with sucn an air of sincerity and of devotion 10 the interests of the people" that IL the lower world felt that he could take lessons from such experts in the art of deception. Not all who denounce corporations could be so chased. Some any man could be. But sincerity is no proof of knowledge.
 The captain of a great ship may be perfectly sincere in the belief that ne Is guiding her course to harpor or safety, but if his compass is wrong he may be driving her headlong 10 the and yet be, doing 1t all with entire sin cerity in the correctness of his course: Everybody knows that the -aod old ship Prosperity which yea; ar two canvas stretched. has struck the break CTS and is in great danger. Every body knows that year ago the look out was was steaily & crying AIS h wsi
 ed through storms in former years who had studied the tides and the winds and the compass of economic | the passengers that they were rushing to ruin instead of to safety The oft- cers denounced those who uttered the They told the passengers we know all about guiding this good ship, we are | going to land you in harbor where you will have such prosperity as you warning of those who point to wrecks of the past as reason for changing our course, better than any one else you w And on they guided the ship, but | they failed to reach the port of pros perity: In fact, they guided the ship | straight from prosperity to ruin. Everybody knows what dismal fail- ure they scored. and everybody now knows that the stranding Of the olo ship was just what those who hau per sistently sounded the warning cry had I said would happen.
 Will the South continue to follow | those who have proved false leaders ! l will 1t stlll have. faith in those who | to present conditions, or will it follow | those of it's own people who warned II thousand times of the certain rum 1 that would follow its adherence ro | faanhnra 0f falca dnFfrina9 In of old there were false prophets wuo | led the chosen people of God astray. and their descenda nts are in leglon, Of what avails our magnificent re- sources unless they be utilized? We | cannot utilize them except to lim+ tied extent unles we draw to the for investment in the building or raII- roads. the opening of mines and the | establishment of factories of all kinds.
 The greatest loss to the south by the civil war was not the fearful des- l truction of property aggregating DiI- | lions of dollars. but even the loss by death and permanent invalidism or men Even Tron, tte aconon,tc s,sn1. | point the latter was greater than the | former. but the two combined were not as great as, the loss sueered by | the south through the practically en- forced emigration due to a Jack Of ceIa 1865 to 1900 of 2,5OO, 900 southern born 1 GSLl- mate the wealth value of man to a county all the way from $l,000 10 $IO,- l 900. Suppose we put 1t at only $2.- ] 900. and thus emigration meant on thls basis an actual loss to this section oI over S5,000. 900. or six times as mucn as the total national banking capitai of the United States These people | went out from the south because they | could find no adequate opportunities for employment here. They have beer leaders in development. in finance, 1T
 manufacturing and in trade in~every part of our country few years agC
 there came a change. Increased indus
 trial and railroad activity created. new
 ern boy was no longer forced to seel
 employment in other sections, tn,
 farmer, the day laborer and the me.
 chanic all found ample employment al
 home. Even more, the tide of emi. grafton was turned back on itself anc
 immigration of strong, virile business men was started south. Does the | south want to go back to the old con- dition when it's young men had tC i leave home and seek employment else where; does 1t want once more to be drained of it's very life blood as 1t was during the time when 1t was giving ur other sections? If not, then it must right about face" 1t must turn us turn upon the sgitator; II must give to capital a protection as | solid and enduring as are It's match | less resources; it must make the world | know that nowhere else on earth can | 1t find a safer place for investment. | When 1t does this 1t will see such pros perity as will make that of 1902 to 1907