The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-06-17
OPPORTUNITIES
IN THESOUTH
John Temple Graves Writes Inter-
estingly in New York American
GO SOUTH, YOUNG MAN
Would be AdmOnition of Horace Greedy
We're tie Alive to View the Wonderful
Possibilities Of the Southland

do not recall in the entire history
of the south time so propituous for a
public proclamation of its superb ad.
vantages, says John Temple Graves in
the New York American.
In an age and country rich beyond
the dream of the fathers, and literally
thrilling with the spirit of development
the south is, comparatively speaking,
the one unexpected section of the re-
public.
The east is finished and 0pulent, the
the middle states TEEN with industries,
the west has been hustled in hundred
revolving revolutions of growth, and
the Pacific slope has been the arena Of
colossal speculation in resources and in
lands.
The south at last is coming into its
own. 1t will laugh best because it will
laugh last in the chorus of commercial
rejoicing
The completion of the Panama canal
will make these gulf and southern
states the exact geographical center Of
the worlds commerce.
The souths growth has been marvel
Gus, but it has been steady and almost
unheralded.
Its miracle of recuperation from the
civil war is the unanswerable proof Of
the spirit of its people and the in
comparable riches of its soil and cl-
mate.
Its industries have multiplied a thous-
and fold, its factories compete with New
England, its mines are making it the
steel and iron center of the continent,
its farmers are rich and its great value
staple makes its snowy fleece with scare
a competitor in the markets of the
world.
The fear of political ostracism, which
held back so many for so long time
from an exclusive and solid south, il
lifted now into full confidence in the
broad and patriotic spirit with which
that great people are confronting the
questions OF the time.
The great world outside knows less
of the south as a land of industrial
promise than Of any other section of
the republic. TO the American citizen
it has been held in tradition as a land
of hospitality and land of chivalry-a
land OF fair women and brave men, of
balmy breezes and of loyal patriotism.
The magnificent story of the south's
riches of soil, of climate, of mines, of
agriculture, of unified waterpower and
of unequalled scenery is yet to be fully
known and understood among the men
and women whose restless dollars are
waiting in ample pockets to be multi
piled in development and trade.
And when that splendid story is told
to the millions who read the columns Of
the New York American and its assO-
ciated papers, it will FURNISH the nspi-
ration and the key to helpfulness among
its own people in every section.
There are more than a quarter of
million of sOutherncrs in New York.
There are hundred and thirty thous-
and in Chicago. and thousands of them
in Boston, San Francisco and Los An
geles, and in the great line of cities that
lie between.
There is not one of these that will not
be glad to take text from this story
we tell today and preach sermon to
their fellows of the promise and prop
hecy Of the dear old Dixie from which
they came.
1t is from these earnest. helpful
words spoken, from the facts herein
set forth that the south will reap its
richest harvest of advantage.
Every proclamation of welcome and
opportunity which the south sends out
to the world should sound the call to
helpful words from the hostages to
fortune" which has been given every
state.
Those of US born in the land oe
cotton will confirm and explain and
amplify to those about US the claims
which the new south makes in the
public prints.
The story told of southern conditions
in these pages today comes from the
lips of experts in every field of Obser-
vations and development. They are
those who speak by authority, and not
as the mere ocribes and Pharisees of
advertisement.
And out of the facts and fundamen-
tai conditions these men have bulded,
it seems to me, story that will appeal
to the judgment of prudent men and to
the activity that they may be multi
piled and magnified
Mark Hanna in his wise and farsee-
ing last years, used to say that the
time would come when the south
would inevitably be the richest and the
, fairest section of the country. The
great old financier believed that its re.
, sources were exhaustless, its climate
incompatible, and its people Saving
/ their politics, the finest in the world.
He said that when capitalists came at
last to realize these resources and OPP
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