Of thethrte essential items of all industries
cotton, iron and wood that region has easy
control. In cotton, a fixed monopoly; in iron,
proven supremacy; in timber, the reserve sup
ply of the republic. From this assured and
permanent advantage, against which artifical
conditions cannot much longer prevail, has
grown an amazing system of industries. Not
maintained by human contrivance of tariff or
capital, afar off from the fullest and cheapest
source of supply, but resting In Divine assur
ance, within touch of field and mine and for
estnot set amid costly farms from which
competition has driven the farmer in despair,
but amid cheap and sunny lands, rich with
agriculture, to which neither season nor soil
has set a limit this system of industries is
mounting to a splendor that shall dazzle and
illumine the world. That, sir, is the picture
and th promise of my home a land better
and fairer than-1 have told you, and yet but
lit Hen ins. in US' material excellence, for the
loyal and gentln uality of ita citizenship.
Against that, Kir, we have New England, re
cruiting the republic from its sturdy loins,
shaking from its overcrowded hives new
swarms of workers, and touching this land all
over with its energy und its courage. And yet
while in the El Dorado of which I have told
you but 15 per cent, of lands are cultivated, its
mines scarcely touched, and it3 population eo
scant that were it set equidistant tho Bound of
COLONEL C. S. NORTHEN.
