The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-05
THh HATTIESHURG NEWS

modities ready for use. 1t is only b
the utilization of it's raw materials tina
community can attain the highes
degree of PROSPERITY. The relatitel
greater advance of the North in pop
u'ation and wealth in former years
was due to the fact that it used, no
only its own raw materials, but ;
Large proportion of those produced IL
the South as well. In fact, the raw
materials of the South furnished the
basis of great and prosperous indus
tries in the North and in other coun
tries. The South is now using it's raw
materials in ever increasing quaint
ties and is adding to the profits OF
their production the profits of manu-.
featuring
Side by side the industrial devel-
opment of the South there is taking
place an advance in agriculture of
FULLY as great economic Importance.
While raising large quantities of the
dlst1nctively Southern agricultural pro-
ducts, the farmers of our section are
each year devoting more attention to
diversified farming. An important fac
tor in this agricultural advance has
been the growth of large number of
industrial communities in all parts of
the South, affording to the farmer a
home market for an increasing pro
portion of his products.
We are living, Mr.. POSTMASTER. in
an era of specialization of production
In which the tendency is for each COM
munity to devote its energies nrinci.
pally to those industries best suited
Tor its locality. One of the most i'm
portant factors in bringing about spe-
clalization of production is climate
climatic differences WILL therefore
tend to increase the exchange of COM
modities along North and South lines
In the United States the relatively
greater development of traffic along
east and west lines has resulted in
large part, from two causes, which will
be less controlling in the
future than in the past. One of these
causes is that, the principal markets
Tor our exports having been in Europe
Ihey nave moved to the North Atlantic |
ports, and our imports, having been |
lrawn principally from Europe, have
through these same ports. and
nave been distributed throughout the
country. The other cause results
rom the fact our country has been
'ettled from the East. The Eastern
states, with their denser ponulation
IND older institutions, were the onas
IL winch manufacturing developed
most largely, and inwhich the largest
communities were built I'D
Il the newer States of the West agri-
numbering and mining were
ne predominant industries. Tho Eas+
nu west movement of exports and
IMPORTS was, therefore, supplemented
y an eastward movement of the nro-
iucts of Western farms, forests and
nines to the consuming and manufact-
ring centers of the East, and a west.
'ard movement of domestic manufact-
res. With the development of South.
I'll consuming and manufacturing {
enters, the diversification of South
I'll agriculture, the larger use of
forests, the opening of
outhern mines, the increase in South I
IN population and purchasing power.
nd the growth in Importance of the
outh Atlantic and Gulf ports. espec.
'ily with reference to trade by the
ahama Canal and with the Latin. s
merican countries, there will nm. i
oubtedly be relatively a larger in.