The National tribune., 1908-07-09
THE cREaStr ISJuRr TO GEORGIA.

THE cRh$&r SJuRr TO GEORGIA.
If Georgia waits Northern people to
come in and degelop her great natural
resources she will suppress the Daught-
ers of the iGonfedcracy with firm, de-
cisive hand. Their agitation of the
wirz monument has hurt the State as
badly as Abe Night Riders have hurt
Kentucky. J. Capital is proverbialIy
tinid. Men seeking homes in which
to pass their lives, build up their for
tunes and7reari their families are prop
erly careful in the extreme in the Sc
lection of localities which offer the
greatest security and peace and the
most agreeable surroundings.
There are millions of Northern peo-
pie anxious to go South, where th"y
car get good, fertile lands in an agree
able climate. There are hundreds of
millions of Northern capital eager for
investment in the development of the
wonderfully rich natural resources of
the South. The way Northern men and
Northern capital have poured in and
are pouring into Florida, Tennessee,
Missouri, North Carolina and Texas
shows this conclusivcly. A still greater
movement southwark than ever is i'm
pending. but the Incorporate, fanatical
Daughters of the Confederacy are do
ing as much to prevent Georgia from
receiving any benefits from it as the
Night Riders are doing for Kentucky.
Nobody will think of migrating to
Kentucky. where the nights are made
hideous by bands of marauders gallop-
ing about at midnight. burning proper
ty, and shooting down people by the
glare of their burning homes.
No sane, prudent Northern man will
feel inclined to settle his family or in
vest dollar of his money in State
where the hatred of Northerners seems
so intense that the women have gone
deliberately to work to apotheosize the
man of all others, most flagrantly
odious in the memories of all loyal
people-a man whose sole claim to no.
toriety is that he starved to death
$4,000 of the sons and brothers of those
loyal people.
If they were putting up monu-
ment to a man who had distinguished
himself by valiant service in the Con-
federate armies, we could understand
and sympathize with them. We could
say:
"Longstreet, Gordon, Lawton, or
whoever the man might be, was GER
tainly splendid soldier, and a great
man. Circumstances took him to the
wrong side, but he bravely did what
he conceived to be his duty to his peo-
pie, and you do well to honor him"
- But they have passed over all the
magnificent soldiers that Georgia sent
to. the field, and selected as Georgia's
representative, as the man whom the
State should most honor, an -insignii-
Cant little foreign mercenary. who apol-
ogized for having been in the Confel-
crate army, and whose whole claim
to distinction is that he was the prison
keeper att that frightful Golgotha, that
he was the active and INSCRIPTIONS
agent in Iterrors more dreadful than
those of the inquisition, and that he
went beyond his official duties to COM
NIT personnel acts of outrage and cruel
ty on helpless men, for which he was
deservedIy found guilty and sentenced
to be hung, furnishing the only judicial
execution growing out OF the war.
Is this an advertisement to attract
Northern capital and Northern home
seeEers2 Could there be anything de-
vised that would more .effeetuaily
switch OFF immigration and capital to
the more inviting regions of A!abama.1
Tennessee and Florida? Nothing short
Of absolute madness could deliver such
cruel blow to the prosperity and ne
velopment of the great state of Georgia.