The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-24
A Dcthroncd Hero.

meet the demands on depleted trcas-
ury. The State has had to reduce the
efficiency of the public schools and to
parole many prisoners in the peniten-
tiary, minor penal institutions and re-
formatories because of a lack of funds
to support them.
In concluding this branch of his sub
jet. the gentleman of Pennsylvania
says:
After travelling practically all over
the Eastern plains and Rocky Noun
tain foothills have determined
that. instead OF. as heretofore, looking
upon the pioneer who wrenched this
vast empire from the Indian and the
buffalo as a hero. 1 have decided he
should have been lynched the day he
first made the effort. Certainly God
never intended this for the abode of
man, as He would have put water there
for their sustenance."
Looking to the South.
The Pennsylvania expresses some
surprise. not to say Indignation, that
Southern and Eastern Congressman
will enter into the political coalitions
that enable the Western men to get
the vast appropriations for irrigation
and other schemes which he declares
are Of but little value 10 the ambitious
tiller of the soil, even when completed
according to specifications
He thinks 1t would be far better If
through the banks down South so that
men of small means could be helped
to develop the vast acres of idle lands.
lands that require no irrigation: lands
that are already rich and only need
the muscle and energy of the immi-
grant and tho native. with little
financial help. to make blossom MS one
vast garden bringing abundance of all
the pccessaries of life.
The Pennsylvania then goes on to
tell OF two OF his tours of inspection
through Virginia and other States. and
ne grows enthusiastic as he writes over
the possibilities of the South, and then
deplores the Tact. as he sees It, that
the vast opportunities are being neg
lected. lie furnishes some good hints
I quote him:
|. II cannot but wonder IL your banks
railroads and even your great news
papers arc not dead to your possibili-
ties. One never sees any advertise
ments from the South unless they arc
written for, and then they are very
meagre, and ! have failed to find n
statement OF facts from there. I have
seen thousands and thousands OF acres
in the South that a man with brains
can buy. and there is lumber enough
on il TO pay all that is asked for the
lands in fee simple and give big profits
besides. and l know 1 could. while cut
ting the timber from the lands, col
onize them with Northern men and q
good class of foreign men, who would
pay n good price for the lands. and
who would prove n source OF wealth
10 the State. the railroads and your
towns forever. But you Southerners
lack push in this respect. You people
seem TO be dead to your opportunities
and dead TO the necessity of adver-
Using your opportunities to the world
at large. Years ago the West awoke
10 the fact that an empty barrel made
the most noise, and they met the oc-
casion, while your people remain
quietly by and miss the opportunity
given YOU And why? ! think be-
cause you have just what you have.
An obserrnnt Traveller.
nave been in thirty States and
Canada. I believe 1 travel intelligent
~. Many people travel over vast
country and see nothing when doine
SO They lie back in Pullman char
with their eyes shut and say thew saw.
TINS or that or have been here or there
w hen travel | work, and work
hard While on the train every dav-
hght hour am either at n window or
a rear end OF the car with a man ~
the country-usually n Rand McNallv
pocket state map-and timetable OF
me railroad, checking the stations and
towns ana making notes on the man OF
important Things see and desire
10 say the easiest place to make q liv-
me ever saw is in your Southern
states and l think that is the cause
| OF your lethargy-of your failure ~
more fully improve great opportunities
II would seem to me wise policy
for such a paper as The Times Dis
patch, which love to read. and some
OIL your cities with chambers Of com
iherce 10 combine and send some man
on trip West. and have all YOUR
southern papers publish his reports on
conditions as he finds them, TO helm
your own people at home, and also
SEND good literature through the North
teinng what you have to offer, and
.nuuce people to go down to see. Do
not depend on your real estate men.
Tor everybody is skeptical OF their as
sertions, although l have found your
real estate men undor. rather than
over, state your possibilities: yet peo-
pie do not know that.
All Gam Help.
Get trust companies established in
your towns TO loan money on lands to
poor men desiring to make n start, and
| IL your State laws do not allow chattel
mortgages, better make it SO that the
poorest can start. if his labor and am :
bition are his only assets. for no State
can secure the wealthy of another
state. rich farmer or business man
Will not be fast to go to Virginia or
anywhere else. 1t must be the man
who is ambitious and wants to start,
and. after ALL no Is worth more to you
than a hundred rich men. y few such
men around Richmond and Petersburg
would be worth more to you than
Frank Gould and all of his costly hold
ings in Richmond and on the Apo
mattox
IF dickering and dealing be required
to secure from the United States gov
eminent that which you are richly en-
titled to. then | would say get to deal
| ing, and the man who lives to see the
day that your Southland is all that
money energy, ambition and effort will
make it. and its vast acres are produc-
ing what they can be made to produce.
will see the Garden OF Eden re-estab-
lislled in n new location and a bless
ing to mankind forever
| II any one interested wants to com
municate with my enthusiastic Penn
sylvania friend. the industrial editor
viii be glad to furnish his address,
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