Show SOUTHERN PROGRESS Of all the great Industries In our 11 country the most wonderful exhibition to be seen Just now Is In the oldtime Cotton States In changing what has always been n purely agricultural region re-gion Into a theater of great manufacturing 1 manufac-turing enterprises Could the change I have been wrought half a century ago It might have been possible to have avoided the great war Strangely top South Carolina leads all the rest even as she did when the thought was to build up a great patrician aristocracy to hold the offices to light the battles to direct the schools and to have the menial me-nial work done by slaves The Baltimore I more Sun has a review of what is goIng go-Ing on there and what Is In preparation I prepara-tion for the future Of new cotton mills it says Ono will be a milliondollar plant an other a halfmillion plant and a third a 100000 plant with a 2000000 plant In pros pect SoilDi Carolina Is to have a PV COO blcachery diversification In the Southern cotton Industry New and en larged mills for mll reported or March moan IS3WS now spindles 11000 1lareh and an Investment of SOi lfO Sonic twenty moro 1 companies In process of formation will addS7000 more spindles at a cost of wil 000 In the llrsl thrco ljI l1 Irt months of tho cut year sixtyseven mills have been prcn con tracted for with GOltWS spindles of which COI number IfllWS will be additions In mills now running Mills for knit goods are mul good ltO Tho tiplying eight beliiK organized In March States In 1 which activity has been 11 greatest slime January 1st arc Alabama ieorgia Mississippi North and Ilhlll SOllh Carolina Tennessee and I Texas South Carolina leads with 20POOO i now spindles SOllh folluwod In Oenrpla with 117000 North Carolina vHi 1 1IHOOO I Mississippi 1 with II 000 Alabama with 27oft and ToxaS and Tcnnobbco lennocc with 23000 each The Slates named above arc natural ly Democratic Slates 1 was while Republican Administration was In power that the attempt to divide the United State Mnto separate government govern-ment wan defeated and mont while the ro suIt la accepted often with grailtudo Ib the Sputhern people they still glullUdc cling I to the party that gave them aid enr comfort when they were making their magnificent struggle to establish cHab IL slave empire But what will the delegates from those States do when confronted by the antiexpansion antiImperial theory which It Is expected that tho Democratic Demo-cratic platform will this year bo built upon Will their old devotion to tho mime of Democracy cause them to jt quiet Or will 01 wil some bravo soul arise and say Gentlemen you are bin rC I mining fossils and do not see that you J havo gone through a great goldbearing vein in sinking for trilobites Let us come out into the open let us accept tho blessings that aro ours let us I honor the soldiers and sailors who Asian waters let footing In UD a gave 0 ooLng us take our rightful place at tho head of the procession of enlightened and progressive nations and do our allotted work among the peoples of the earth |