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travel through this section, we shall
nrst endeavor TO set our house in order,
SO that comparisons may he more
favorable to us than they are at the
present time.
MY meaning will be made clearer be-
TORE / conclude. 1t has been my prov
ince TO bring parties from the North
INTO the South with a view OF inter
eStlng them in this section, and l have
,9und many who have said to me:
II the South possesses in reality all
these advantages which you claim
what means this general aspect OF dl-
lapldation in your rural districts? such
poorly cultivated farms. such want
OF care in the outskirts of your town.
ana cities. such absence OF great high.
ways or travel into the interior and
other evidences that betoken thrift and
proSressiYenes5 among your people?"
Inese are the things that we should
hrst remedy II we would have the bet
ter classes from the OUTSIDE come
among us as citizens.
We have made and are making so
many appeals for outside help to aid
IN the development OF the South that
there has been created perfectly nat
ufal sentiment among thoughtful peo-
moodied In the reply that Jupiter
gave to the stalled WAGNER when he
prayed that he send help to extricate
MN from the ditch He was told 10
put whip to his horses and shoulder to
The wheels. which he did. and we arc
Doing Things Ourselves.
II We want this priceless heritage
that we OF the South possess improved
and developed, and which In reality In
the grandest ever given into human
keeping, we will stop praying to Ju-
piter to send us help. but put whip
TO our horses and our own shoulders
TO the wheels OF progress, and wher
we do this wo will soon become tho
richest, and the most influential in the
affairs of the nation OF any other Dor.
tion of our country.
For one, do not wish to see this
proud heritage about which we OF the
strangers and aliens as some among
US seem anxious should be done. bus
want to see 1t utilized for ourselves
ana transmitted, improved and devel-
oped thousand fold for our posterity
TO accomplish this should be tho
highest ambition OF our people, and ia
aid In bringing this about eIery ugen-
~ ana factor OF progress among US
plnaton and action. There is power
ana influence enough in this meeting
mere to-day, and In the one that WITH
be held here Tomorrow to give ufe
%ha Vieor TO such movement as will
develop the resources of the South, and
nc mere announcement that such
, move. viii be inaugurated will
pFlnS II higher and better class of adj
can buy. '" '"o'eS
Now. let me. demonstrate in a plain
seatenent OF facts just what such a
movement could bring to the South,
rake tho one resource of land alone.
ana you VIII see what l mean, There
are In the Southern States in round
numbers numbers 36O.OoO,OoO acres available for
FARMING purposes on which there is
a dinercnce in value under the average
price OF similar lands in the North and
Mest OF $50 per acre. and yet these
S Snith Ter. southern @9 lands will produce.
win less OF outlay in labor and means.
! more in money crops than can he
outside.
Working Out Our Own Salvation.
~ our own people Will but go to
work and improve their present meth.
Gus OF cultivation. If our AGRICULTURAL
Gepartments, railroads. commercial or.
SahizalonS, newspapers. boards of
county commissioners and people gen
orally are stimulated TO try to accom-
piish H. this difference in price of Dun
S SS,tbi lands VIII disappear, and
OF the South Will be enhanced TO tho
extent OF Sl2.500, 900. 900. Can Won
conceive what that would mean to the
ce",,aa IL Is more than the South re-
eelNec lor Its cotton and corn crops
combined during the past ten years.
nere was an advance In the average
price or Southern farm lands durin,,
an n, past pas census period of 400 per cent,
ana the DeSt Investments on the Amer,
lean continent to-day are in Southern
urn lands And yet these results are
IN the hands OF our own people to
accomplish. When we can show the
world well cultivated lands. yielaing
IN money crops what our Southern In nds
VIII produce, with clean looking
ARMS. good roads. good schools and
churches In our rural communities. we
WIN solve the much vexed problem
OF inlmigration' to the South, for then
.ne very best classes from our own
country Will come to live among un
and we would not have to advertise