The farmer and mechanic., 1914-03-03

Of the cotton gin fastened slavery
around the necks of the people of the
South, were beginning to reasSert
themselves between 1850 and 1862.
This industrial and engineering trend
of the people of the South has again
during the last twenty-five years been
reasserting itself, and it is to the re-
birth of this inherited trait of char
acter that the tremendous momentum
OF this section is due
Development Not From Outside.
The statement sometimes heard
that the great development of the
last twenty-five years is mainly due
to an infusion of outside blood and
capital seriously misrepresents 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,
FOO0 Of it's white people and more than
| /. 500, 900 into Texas and Oklahoma.
The comparatively few persons from
/ other sections 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 enegry and
| power of the 100000 people that
| went out Of the Central South by rea-
son of the poverty Of opportunity fol-
| lowing the war and the days of recon
| struction.
| Now the trend is back to the South.
| Men who have made success in
other sections are hearing the come
home call Of their native land and
many of them are returning. Many
from other sections are beginning
their southwark march in order tC
snare in the amazing development
which they see is to come about il
this section. They want to be a par
and parcel of it and to reap some O.
the harvest. Thus the whole condi
ton has completely changed And in
stead Of having to make heroic eff
, fort to keep its own people at hom
and to draw men and money from
other sections, as was the case 70
twenty-five or thirty years, the Soutl
now finds abundant employment a
home for its own people. It finds ten
or thousands from the North and Yves
annually moving southwark, and i
{ finds that the capitalist is searching
| out In every direction Opportunitie
for investment in the South. The pro
, moter seeking capital for a new enter
. Fprise no longer has to argue with tn
capitalist that the South is goo
"A
q that he has to do is to prove that hi
i own particular enterprise is goo
3 one. The outside capitalist is full
impressed with the fact that this
5 the most richly endowed section {
the world and that it is ''the comm
n Eldorado Of American adventure"
8 Those who would study the futur
: Of the South with view to asce1
It tanning something Of the rapidity
y it's development should fully under
e stand what the old South was doin
e. in material activities before 1856
ii what it lost by the war and the pOy
le erty following it and what the Sout
t. has achieved since then; and to thes
Is facts should be added knowledge
n the uniqueness of the South's r,
II sources for the support OF a den.
n population. Not until they have dor
Is this will they be able to form eve
he a slight conception Of the rar;dity
Or material development and wealth a.
N cumulatiOn throughout the South du
ing the next ten or fifteen years.