The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-02-25

growth In every line of manufacturing
in the South than in the rest Of the
country. The amazing agricultural
and industrial progress of the decade
ended with 1860 is indicated in the
fact that during that period the in
crease in the wealth Of the South cx-
ccedcd by more than one billion dol
lars the aggregate increase Of wealth
of the New England and Middle States
The engineering and industrial
traits which from Colonial days
down to the time when the invention
of the cotton gin fastened SLAVERY
around the nccks Of the people OF the
South, were beginning to rcassert
themselves between 1850 and 1860.
This industrial and engineering trend
of the people Of the South has again
during the last twenty-five years been
reasscrting itself, and it is to the re-
birth of this inherited trait of char
actcr that the tremendous momentum
of this section is due.
The statement sometimes heard
that the great development Of the
last twenty-five years is mainly due
to an infusion Of outside blood and
cavital seriously misreprcsents the
facts. No man who has that impress
sion can rightly forecast the progress
OF the coming years, because he is
viewing the situation from an erro~
neous standpoint.
Since 1865 the Central South has
sent beyond it's borders by emigration
into other sections more than $780,
900 Of its white people and more than
/ 100000 into Texas and Oklahoma.
The comparatively few persons from
other section who have come into the
South, when given the fullest measure
Of credit for what they have achieved,
cannot in the smallest degree offset
the tremendous loss OF energy and
power Of the 5,0O0,O0O people that
went out Of the Central South by rea-
son Of the poverty Of opportunity fol-
living the war and the days Of recon
struction
Now the trend is back to the South.
Men who have made success in 9TH
er sections are hearing the "comc-
home" call Of their native land and
many OF them arc returning. Many
from other sections arc beginning
their southwark march in order to
share in the amazing development
which they sec is to come about in
this section. They want to be part
and parcel of it and to reap some OF
tic harvest. Thus the whole condi-
ton has completely changed. And in
stead Of having to make heroic ef-
fort to keep its own people at home
and to draw men and money from 9TH
CT sections, as was the case for TWEEN
ty-five or thirty years, the South now
finds abundant employment at home
for its own people 1t finds tens of
thousands from the North and West
annually moving southwark, hnd it
finds that the capitalist Is searching
out in every direction opportunities
for investment in the South. The pro-
H.oter seeking capital for a new enter
prise no longer has to argue with the
capitalist that the South Is a good
place In which to invest money. All
that he has to do is to prove that his
own particular enterprise is good
one. The outside capitalist is fully
impressed with the fact that this is
the most richly endowed section of
the world and that it is "the coming
Eldorado Of American adventure"
Those who would study the future
Of the South awith view to asccr-
tanning something tof the rapidity of
its development should fully under
stand what the old South was doing
in material activities before 1860, what
1t lost by the war and the poverty fol-
lowing it and what the South has
achieved since then; and to these
facts should be added a knowledge Of
the uniqueness Of the South's re-
sources for the support Of a dense
population. Not until they have done
this will they be able to form even q
slight conception Of tho rapidity Of
material development and wealth ac-
emulation throughout the South dur
ing the next ten or fifteen years.
Feel Mfserable2