The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-16
THE MEANING OF HlGH-PRlCED
COTTON IN THO SOUTH
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and churches should be built, many
thousands OF miles Of good roads
snould be constructed and every ave
nue OF business activity should be feel
the thrill OF the new life that comes
from this great influx Of n
ana then too, it is not cotton alone
mat Is this year blessing the South.
grain crops as a whole have beer
good; n orange crop Of Florida will
probably run to 5000, 600 boxes. or
DO per cent. more than last year: the
apple orchards are yielding in many
sections a harvest to their fortunate
owners while fruit and trucking
CARRYING and kindred pursuits are al!
ne!plng to enrich the South with large
yields and good prices which have this
year prevailed.
Moreover, to the prosperity of the
farmers is to be added the increasine
prosperity of industrial interests. The
Idllroads are once more crOwded with
business, and everywhere there are
indications of coming car shortage and
OF facilities to meet the
growth of traffic. Coal mines are be-
coming crowded to their capacity a,
advancing prices for their output; the
consumption demand for iron is ex-
ced1ng the producing capacity Of the
farmers. In the lumber regions there
is a gradual trend to better things and
though at the moment cotton mills
claim that there is no margin OF
profit between the raw material and
the finished product, the cotton
goods trade of the world must ad-
just itself to the hig,er range ct
values and give to the sp;nncrs a fan
measure of profit.
Into Texas thousands of well-to-do
western farmers and investors from
NAM sections are DO1rlnO h1oCCino
that State with a great influx Of ID
d1tlonal energy and capital, while in
Florida the same movement is under
way on a somewhat smaller scale.
n other Southern States here and
there new settlers are coming. al
though the movement is not on such
a scale as in Texas or Florida. The
whole South, however, must soon be-
come the center of immigration act
ivity, just as Texas and Florida and
Oklahoma now are. The outlook is
cheering; it is optimistic in the high
est degree.
The South is on the high road to
prosperity. Let it utilize it's great
wealth wisely; let its people avoid
speculative dangers which are sure to
come; for wherever great wealth
suddenly develops the unwary are sure
to be led into many wildcat enter
prises by men who make a business
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Of others.
With all his wonderful wealth
which is coming upon the South, with
this billion-dollar cotton crop now be-
ing gathered, let us forever Danish
from every mind the thought Of the
South being q poor country; let us
forever cease to talk poverty. Let
US, on the contrary, rejoice in the
boundless wealth that is coming upon
the South; hat has already come
upon it, and let us come into a full
realization Of the fact that in the light
of such wealth no greater disgrace
could come upon this section han to
permit any of it's people to pose be-
fore the world as seekers after either
charity or philanthropy from out
siders for school or churches, or even
for the eradication of the bugaboo Of
the hook worm from the South; let
us forever Danish the hook worm or
mendicancy which has been used by
many outside people, and, unfortu-
nately, by some Southern people, to
| give to the world the impression that
the South is a land of lazlness and OF
poverty. What a travesty upon a land
of such boundless withdrawing,
wealth-producing resources!
If we could Danish the mendicant
mind from many people who for the
sake of notoriety or the desire to
share in the pap are forever pratt
ing about the South's poverty or about
sickness in the South, without excep-
ton the healthiest part of America, or
q bout lack Of energy, this section
woo1ld stand erect before the world,
With q backbone that neither asked
nor received the ~patronizing gifts of
the rich, and, thrilled with the
etreneth Of it's own possibilities, the
south would lead the world in man
hood and in wealth.
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