Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-02

millicns as result Of the recrea-
tional and industrial developments
now going on in Florida and else
where offer a market a New England
Yankee cannot afford to overlook.
The phenomenal increase in the pun
chasing power of section preoccu-
pied for half century with wrestling
d rather meagre living from the
wreck of an industrial SYSTEM in
which it had been bred presents a re-
markable opportunity for expansion
of the trade New England seeks.
1t Is not wise to spend our time in
shud0ering at indust4 ial develop
ment in the South forgetting that 1t
will take generations to develop an
Industrial atmosphere capable of
competing with us in myriad tech
nical lines If indeed the handicap
of the marvellous industrial transfor-
nation of the last half century can
ever be overcome. The Civil War
and It's aftermath intrenched New
England industrially and it is with
very poor grace that we begrudge
our Southern neighbors such lines as
they now can develop with their
comparatively unframed labor sup
ply and ill-developed industrial life
H WOulo NC NOIluy VI lIlG
traditions of the merchantmen who
sold ice in Calcutta and Bombay if
we should study carefully these mar
kets and supply them with their
needs. This was the purpose of the
Maine Pilgrimage of Education and
Good VIII.
Our middle western neighbors are
rapidly awakening to this appeal ana
are throwing out their outposts to
reach this great new trading terri
tory as was eviCslt in Atlanta and
New Orleans. The Southern States
offer fertile market for our seed
potatoes, winter apples, canned sweet
corn, boots, shoes, machiniSts' sup
plies and myriad other industrial
lines including possibly some wool
ems and last but not least our recrea-
tional delights.
The little town of Sanford in the
State of Maine supplied our southern
friends with twelve million yards of
Palm Beach cloth last year and for
good measure in addition furnished
all the Pullman plush and thirty per
cent of the automobile plus used in
the United States. These are tex
tile lines developed in that town
within three decades out of nothing
but that trading intelligence bred in
our New England soil. We only need
to overcome the inhibitions with
which the South will barter if we are
ready to use their goods.
the State of Maine Pilgrims in a
three weeks tour plowed a deep four
thousand mile furrow in the con-
seriousness of the New South. The
trade possibilities were evident to
every merchant in the group and
proper cultivation alone is needed 10
bring to full fruition the harmon.-
Gus relations that were cultivated
by this trip.
In every State visited there was the
utmost cordially of welcome and
Astounding evidences that the New
South will welcome the most init
mate relationship in trade and social
intercourse with what we were
pleased to pledge was likewise a new
England built like their section from
the ashes of it's past and seeking
eyer to serve the progress of the peo-
pie of the United States.
The highest ambition of every
manufacturer is to secure a visit by
his distributors to the home plant.
New England needs but to use the
leader of it's recreational appeal in
order 10 allure here the prospects in
It's endeavor to sell the product of its
agricultural and industrial life. The
New South is hunting ground such
as has not been presented to us In
TWO generations. Instead of signing
over Chicago and st. Louis we should
remember that water transportation
Is five times as cheap as rail and
that every great civilization has de-
Veloped about its water ports.
More intimately than we yet real
ize the future of our country will pe
built about the sea. This Is another
OF the reasons why New England
with its industries and it's countless
ports and its recreational attractions
is the Land of the Rising Sun.