Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20
Ne Makes a Speech in Sal.
isbury Today That is
4 Classic.
A Look Into the Future Reveals All
the Industrial Energies of the
South Cordially Allied for
Mutual Advancement.

Salisbury to day President Finley. CT
the Southern Railway Company, took
. very optimistic view of the future OF
agric- ltLre in the Southern states. lie
began " saying:
40 tne can look forward into the
future with greater confidence than
can the farmer, and in my opinion
there is no area of equal extent in
the world where the agricultural out
look is better than in our Southern
states"
He directed attention to the depend
ence of all the peoples of the earth
upon the farmer for food and cloth
low prices for farm products in the
nineteenth century in large measure
to the opening up of extensive areas
to agriculture and expressing the be-
lief that such relatively rapid in
crease sin the supply of farm prod
ucts in the future were not probable.
Showing by comparative statistics
the rate at which the demand for cot
ton goods is increasing, he expressed
the belief that eve may look forward
to time in the not distant future
when the world will call on the Amer
lean cotton planters for 100000 bales
annually" while at the same time
there would be an increased demand,
at home and abroad, for cotton seed
products. Yet he did not counsel the
growing of cotton to the neglect OF
other crops, but advised that the in
creased production needed to keep
pace with the demand of the world
should be secured by more intensive
cultivation and by the growing of 9TH
er crops with cotton.
| Speaking from the viewpoint of one
in touch with the relations of supply
and demand affecting different COM
modities in the United States and in
foreign countries, Mr.. Finley, with a
view to making suggestions of prac-
tical value, emphasized the opportun-
| tiles in the South for the production
Of grains, hay, fruits, vegetables, live
stock, poultry and dairy products, CIV
ing special attention to the market op-
portunities for Southern grown cab
bages, Irish potatoes, and sweet pota-
toes. He showed that farmers in
some localities in the South were
shipping these products both to
Northern and to Southern markets
and were finding the business so prof
fable as to warrant increased pro-
duction.
Referring to the dependence Of ag-
ricultural prosperity on supply and
demand, he pointed out that "the con-
dition most favorable to the farmer is
one in which widespread prosperity
fprevails in our own and other lands,
and that ability to reach a market was
equally important as the existence
of the market. The farmer, therefore,
had a vital interest in the highways
from his farmyard to the markets of
| the world. After referring to the i'm
portance of good country highways,
Mr.. Finley pointed out that the in
terest Of the farmer in good roads ex-
tended beyond the wagon road from
his farm to an Industrial or shipping
centre, and embraced all the railways
and waterways over which his prod.
ucts moved to- reach the final con-
sumer. Pointing out that adequate
transportation facilities were essen
tial to increased production and that
the present railway facilities of the
South were now little more than suffi-
cient for meeting present demands
and were relatively less than those
Mr.. Finley said:
cit Is manifestly to the interest of
this section that the railways, as in
strumentalities of transportation,
should be built up and strengthened.
Even superficial glance at those
Isections which are most prosperous
will demonstrate that their prosper.
/ ity is largely based upon the perfec-
ton of their transportation facili-
ties. Those producing communities
. which have the easiest, quickest and
most reliable ways to market can sell
quicker and more certainly. and thus
POSSESS commercial advantages over
communities less favored with means
of transportation.
i. cit is, therefore, short-sighted in
any community to permit any othei
section, by a larger, more stable, ol
more conservative policy, to stimulate
and encourage, to greater extent
than it itself does. the development ol
transportation facilities. To. the ex.
tent that any community permits this
it surrenders to its rival the CONNER.
cia; advantage which differentiates
the growing and prosperous from the
I1aggard and stagnant community.
I'm ciew of these general consider.
atoms, which are universally accepted
as sound by thoughtful men, it be-
comes important to inquire what the
public in any locality can do to pro-
mote this important interest.
"The fundamental thing to accom-
! riish is to make the investment in
transportation facilities In that To-
caiity attractive to the honest invest
or.
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