Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-29

condition had been most remarkable
The recovery Of France amazed the
world, but the Southern States suffered
far more than France and she recuper-
ated still more wonderfully. The South
was rid of the burden of supporting and
caring for the negroes, incapable Of work
during childhood, during sickness and
old age. The result of this was the best
evidence Of success. The attention of the
whole Republic was first drawn to this
Southern development by the industrial
exhibition held at Louisville and Atlanta
in 1881, but more especially by the great
exposition at New Orleans i'm 1884, when
the display of Southern talent, of mineral
manufactures and agricultural products
astonished the crowd of visitors.
The timber resources of the section
challenge admiration for their vastness
and variety; more than half of the mer-
charitable timber in the United States is
in the South. The railways of the South
have doubled many times and property
has increased in the same proportions.
Much of this increase is due to the fact
that, not combining their industries to the
greater crop, the wise plantations have
turned their attention to smaller things,
have gone to raising fruit and vegetables,
fowls and all live stock for city markets |;
the people thus lived more closely at
home
In barely generation the strides made
by the South in commerce, industry and
agricultural demonstration that in its
further development is embodied the real
source OF a nations wealth. To financers,
students, statesmen, the story of South
ern progress reads like a romance. Her
products rule the markets of the world
her wealth is untold; her prosperity I'M
Iequalled; her resources unlimited
The old South rested everything on
slavery and agriculture, and conscious
that these could neither give nor main
tain health and growth. The South is
enamored of her new work, her soul is
filled with the breath of new life. She j.
thrilling with the consciousness of grow
ing power and prosperity. AS she stands
upright and full-statured and equal among
the people of the earth, breathing keer
air and looking out upon the expanding
horison, she understands that her eman
cipation came because in the inscrutablt
wisdom of God, her honest purpose ant
brave armies were beaten.
Everything admirable and good is bull
upon the South of yesterday as a house
! is built upon the rock of its foundation
Peace has its victories and war its lessons
out Of whipi, come. human progress. Who
can gainsay the fact that the great civi
war between the North and the Soutl
,ss not advanced this country in all the
walks of life, in civilization, in commerce
t say nothing Of the lesson of love ant
iorbearance instilled into the minds Of
he PEOPLE of this country, healing the
wounds OF dissention made by the year.
II wrangling and thus bringing the peo
Pile OF all sections nearer to each othel
than since the war of 1912.
Should there ever be any information o
approaching conflict, go forth, youn,
man, to defend the honor of your flag
J defend it as nobly as did your Southern
fathers defend their Southern flag. Gt
forth young women to bind the bleeding
} hearts, to lift up the fallen one, deal a
gently with them as did your Southern
mothers deal with their Southern sons
letting there be no North, no South, ne
} East, no West, but all marching unde
one banner, working one mission, serv
ing one God.