The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-05
FORWARD MARCH
THE SOUTH'S CRY
MIR. X. H. Edmunds Draws
Striking Picture of the
South of Tomorrow.
THE PAST is REVIEWED.
striking Reasons Why the South is
Destined to Figure Strong i'm
National Life.


Not since the panic of October
1907, has the situation looked so
promising for the South as at pres
ent, writes Mr.. Richard III. Ed
munds in The Manufacturers Rec
ord.
During the last eight years we
have had no period OF broad gen
eral prosperity in this country. We
have had brief spurts in some par
ticular lines of industry, and we
had five or six years of exception
ally good conditions in the produc-
tion and price Of cotton, but in all
enthusiasm and snap. Railroads
were feeling the full effect of the
hampering restriction against capi-
tai and corporations, and, therefore,
could do but little improvement or
extension work. New railroads were
scarcely to be thought of, except
where here and there some daring
attempt was made to build small
line.
N all that long period the" iron
and steel Industry of the. South. was.
more or less depressed, and for
great part Of the time was very
little or no profit. The dullness in
railroad construction work brought
about great dullnes and depression
in lumber, one of the South's larg-
est Industries. While cotton was
high during a considerable part of
that time, cotton goods were for
most of the perioi low in price, and
cotton mills were run without much
profit, except in rare cases.
One Of the most depressing and
at the same time most noticeable
features in connection with broad
study of the whole South was the
lack of that optimism and enthus-
iasm and determination to achieve
things which had been so pronounc-
ed for many years prior to the
panic of 1907.
SCENE SHIFTS.
Now the whole scene has been
shifted. The stage apparently has
been set for a new order of things.
The mighty panorama of broad
Southern development which has
been moving so slowly for the last
eight years begins once more to
unfold with increasing rapidity.
The spirit of optimism is spread
ing. Quickened by the very situa
ton which the South faced last
Fall, determined that this section
should not be downed by one year of
adverse conditions in trade, nor be
Impoverished, unable to meet a tenn
porary difficulty. the people of the
South are arousing themselves and
preparing to march forward to a
victory over every unfavorable cir
cumstance,
No one can pick up a Southern
paper anywhere from Maryland out
to Texas and Oklahoma without
catching the note of optimism which
is being struck by everybody in ev-
cry direction,
The iron and steel industry is
crowded as it has not been since
the early part of 1907. Some fur
naces out of blast for ten or II
years are being made ready as rap
idly as possible to blow in again.
Advancing prices in iron are giving
a broader margin of profit to the
ironmakers than they have known
for years.
Cotton mills are fully employed,
and there are more signs of 9ctivity
in the enlargement of existing mills
and the construction of new mills
than for eight or 10 years.
The lumber industry shows a re-
viving tendency. with advancing
prices and heavy increase in de
mand.
The phosphate rock industry, al
most dormant since last fall, begins
again to show signs of life. and, with
increasing activity. mines long idle
are now being started up.
Vast expenditures are being made
for the development of shipping ia
cilities and port Improvements along
the entire Atlantic and Gulf coasts
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