Show THE NEW SOUTH the now new south is ie fairly bounding along orn on the highway that leads to prosperity and great greatness nese and with politics as a disturbing factor removed for a time at lout least that favored section may be expected to take on yet higher honors and be the recipient of still greater rewards the industrial status after being the subject of years ot of fruitless dia oord is pretty well settled now the whites and blacks moving blung together in concert and unity formerly the work I 1 la a the cotton fields was performed by the negroes under a duress which they could not escape nor through their humble origin narrow lite life and dense ignorance oom comprehend naturally enough their idea on be being ng frood freed was that freedom meant exemption from toll instead of greater toll than most moat of them had ever really experienced be fore and their conception of the right of suffrage was too orten looked upon y them as the right to rule 1616 the roost to the exclusion of their former masters experience aided by such education as they have been able to acquire has effectually dissipated the former delusion and that instinct in man which makes him sooner or later yield to the inevitable has hag about won the negro over from any a ay desire or hope he ever entertained as to the possibility of running things or any consider able part of them in dixie dixieland land As asa a result both races have drawn closer together and each has some and a growing regard for the others welfare this is ia as it ought to be and is itself an eloquent exposition of the cause of the wonderful and advancing prosperity of which we are advised we learn from the baltimore manufacturers rs record that the advance of two and a half cents per pound in the price of cotton during the past nine weeks means a gain to the southern planters of in the actual cash value of a single staple crop the increase in the sugar crop of this season will give to the south in bounty alone more than was received last year the rice crop of this season is the largest ever grown in the south the acres withdrawn from cotton this eason have been planted with food crops chiefly corn thereby making the south more self belt reliant and increasing the cash by keeping it at home instead of sending it west for food bankers merchants manufacturers farmers and kae the newspapers speak with one accord of the prosperity that not only awaits the south but already to is present confidence never was greater business conditions never were more favorable toe population of the south is by no means crowded five times as many could obtain homes and fields of employment without overdoing the thing in the least in texas ten tea times as many as are there now could do finely so far as room is concerned it only therefore remains for things to go ahead as at present and the future of the south will be a glowing theme for those who live to see it |