The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-19

f .s... ....It this change was just as in-
 evitable as that night follows days, un- | less our wild agitation should De checked Tn fact, any man who, during the last twelve months. should have invested q dollor of money in building railroads In the South, except where contracts have already been made. or where he was putting a new dollar to try and save dollar he already had. would by that very act have indicated | the necessity of his family asking for commission to inquire into his sam ty.
 At least ssoo,0 GOO is needed. and needed badly today for the proper de- velopment Of our present railroad fla
 cilitses. It would probably take over
 sfoO, 900 900 to do the work of double
 tracking and cnlarging its facilities.
 which need to be done by the South -
 ern Railroad in. order to properly equip that road to meet the growth
 of the South. Every other road in
 this section needs to spend money on
 a large scale; single track lines ought
 to be double tracked, not only for the
 safety to life in travel. Not simply
 thousands. but tens of thousands. of
 miles of new road ought to be built
 In this section within the next few
 years to meet the necessities of tn
 country. and if the legislative condi-
 tions were favorable 1t would, I be-
 lieve. be possible to see expended with
 In the next ten years upon the enlarge.
 nlnt of the railroad facilities of the South more. money than has been ex-
 pended upon building all of the rail- roads now existing in this section. It is in the power of the South to bring this about. It Is in its power to create such development that every boy and every man in the South would have ten chances for profitable employment to one he has today. Every town and city would thrill with activity, all farm land. and city property would, be en- hanced in value by hundreds of mil- lions by reason of the general. pros perity which would follow such an era of railroad manufactures that coulo be brought about by the investment of outside money in this section on large scale.
 Pat the world on Notice.
 eff the South wants to see these possibilities made q realty, if 1t wants to see every wasted water power utilized for the creation of electrical energy. if 1t wants to sec it's rail- roads .double-tracked and thousands of miles of new lines constructed, if 1t wants to see It's cotton mills hum with activity to such an extent as to iurniSH prOtitanle market Tor every bale of cotton that can be produced if 1t wants to see every coal and ifon mine taxed to it's utmost capacity. and every mechanic and day laborer busy at high rates of wages it has only to right about face and say to the world in tones so loud as to be heard in every finarcial center that hence forth and forever the South will stand with the conservative lipbuisding forces of America. rather than be swayed by agitation. The supreme opportunity of the South fs here. Are we of this section equal to it? Are we willing to stay 90 far behind as we now are in the great industrial march which is creating such bound less prosperity in the North, West and on the Pacific coast? The South ought to be the leader of the conservatfve force of the country. It ought to be greater in wealth in coming years than any other section of the limited States. in proportion to it's vastly greater resources, and just in pro portion as we turn from unwise leg islatIon to upbuiiding and constructive work shall we see the tide of pros pArity turn this way again.''
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