The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-13


 rotate upon it's own axis, but that this one motion would be self destroying unless there were the second motion in an orbit related tV other States. If there seems to be a tendency towards centralization, the fault lies not with the center system, but with the lag. gard motion of some of the members; and that iagsard motion in our region Is related to the weak voices of the real South, hidden under the raucous believing of demagogues.
 Demag0gues Arraigned.
 e.. S@ommercial @ bodies of the southern states distrust demagogues and charge them with so constantly emphasizing and reiterating the issues of '61-'65 that our young men settle back with the sssas sna asst that n. the hsrsS is .s. past $, 20 worthy of the history of their long lineage. Instead of these men pointing the finger forward ,aoing pathway
 Sr o stsss SSTs sa rs sss 1sR sse present-day questions by appealing to prejudices and passions that have dis- appeared totally from the hearts of the strength against strength and mettis
 .aThe commercial bodies of the South ern States distrust demagogues and young men as to remove from them the strength of statesmanship which might be theirs If they realized that each age has It's own problem and that the opportunity for far seeing states manship and work Is as great now as try. =
 States distrust demagogues and charge them with narrowing for our young men their views of lite and responsi- bility, thus opening the way for the stranger to come in and possess neg were to realize that in this matchless Southern country rests an opportunity to lead the world in manufacturing and agricultufa! development. that within of education and of advancement in ev- cry line are to be fought out, then they wonld not finger around the of that which profiteth not. but would be like the giant men of the earlier years of the country. turning their thoughts and their souls ambition to- in the problems of this day. How in- deed can commercial bodies trust for a moment these throwers of vitrioi that blinds the eyes to the real things of years ago these demagosues were con- demned by the question, Why seek ye the living among the dead7"
 ArouslnE Glass Hatred
 There tg Governor in one Of the Southern States who has seen it to array the different interests of the State against each other. From q pos liticai point of view he was wise. for outn1mbered others. he would come to power If he had the farming people with him. This man has deliberately tried to arouse antagonism between made it appear that the cares of the State rested upon the farmers and that compared with them the Interests of the busiress men Of the State were slight. He represented the farmers as standing to their duties at the CapitoL waving their hands in the faces of inc business men of the State and saying these words: Go back and attend to ours The insineerity of such talk lies In two directions. Tn the first place the men to whom he was talk ing were not farmers. Seventy five per speaker of the occasion an absentee- landlord; so that appealing to them a farmers was for effect only. Tn the see4nd se place. all the clements of the responsibilities and the man who tries to show that only one part of our so- cial body. Is the governing part 10 lwr3png " png, and aeiiberateiy wrong No one ment the statement that the farmers enable Us to live. We know that wa could not live unless the farmer raised thought to the conclusion that the far mer is the end-all of society fs denna. gogie The prosperity of the farmer rests upon the fact that there are non- comes from the fac,eth there are men who do not raise crops: the very beaI,- tincatiop of his home, now rapidly be- coming centre of refinement and taste in decoration, is due to the fact there IS A demand for what he raises, ensb. ing him in return to buy the products or those who do not farm. If. by some magic power. all the urban facilities of the United States could be wiped out, all the railroads and other trars-. portation facilities destroyed, the far- ner would still live but how would ne ne live? To. himself and for himself? bends upon the broad mind of the far, ner added to the broad mind of inc man who does not farm. They are who arrays them against each other is either ignorantly or deliberately a de. ceiver. Long before we drew the breath of life, 1t had been proclaimed and in that body IS to be worked out the answer to the awful question, sAre all republics faiIures?"
 The South's Outlook.
 .s What is the tremendous vista shin. can be summed up best by quoting from The Manufacturers' Record:
 Give free rein to your imagina- ttOu anu tot it picture the future Of section which has one-half of the iron ore of the United States. nearly three times as much coal as Great Britain Germany and Pennsylvania combined. which holds a world monopoly on cot- ton products and is rapidly becoming great. cotton manufacturing center, which dominates the phosphate rock and sulphur trade of the world. which has much of the richest oil territory Enown; ssaog,a which M has one-half of the stanalng tlmper or the country. which produces all the sugar, all the rice. most of the tobacco, and adds to these oVV,VOQ,0Ou bushels a year of grain: and then think of it's water powers it's splendid rivers. it's sea coast. it's expanding commerce. and remember that it's cotton crop alone annually ex- ceeds the total gold and silver pro- auction of the world. and that every dollar Of gold annually mined on earth is not enough to pay the South's bill against Europe for cotton. and you ture.s
 ITO what extent Is the voice of tbe South heard in controlling this vast problem Politically scarcely at all, our voice in Washington is weaker s9ta shah tt snoulo De because tt is not the diineuItles and of space have been greater than ir any given century since the time of Caesar. The mafesfic result of the Revolution was secured by men who looked forward and not backward, who realized each year some new problem, some new testing and ever fought and struggled onward.
 Fnty years ago this country was brought to another great testing and heroes sprang up from every hill:ide. Whether sons of the soil or. sons of leisure. men struggled back and'forth for four years with equal sincerity for the prevalence of their ideas. So far as the South in its relation to the