Ogden Daily Standard | 1901-08-17 | Page 8 | The South Awakened

THE SOUTH AWAKENED that it la adne to the horn of the south demarks a paper is pouring out wealth at a rate never known before the southern people have acquired acquaintance with the truth so long preached in this land to lull cars that an agricultural community cannot become a rich community that truth was the foundation stone in the protective theory advanced by alexander hamilton and the whole of the century long struggle between the protective and freo trade doctrines was really made upon the question whether this country should supply europe with raw material and depend upon europe for manufactures or whether it should manufacture its own raw materials and keep both profits this Is tho greatest manufacturing nation in the world today because the instincts and the good sense of the american people taught them that the british theory was good for england but bad for them the south was slow in learning tho lesson because the south thought its monopoly of the cotton crop gave to that region special ad vantages the southern people have awakened to the troth that industrial diversity Is one of tho secrets of prosperity and that where the factory and the furnace arc near to the cotton field and the ore bed the producer of raw material is bettor off the is better off and the whole community is advantaged vant aged one way to get rich Is to pocket all the profit in sight and that Is the plan the south Is now trying to pursue what the fate of the american system Is to bo cannot bs conjectured but the past Is secure to persistent adherence to that system the nation owes much the larger part of its industrial supremacy philadelphia textile record