The Gold Leaf

Population Flowing Southward.
(New York Daily Financial News)

The Southern interests are now getting to work on the right track. From railroads down to country merchants, they are going in to increase the population of the South by immigration and by bringing in people from the North. The South has superabundance of natural wealth, and it only needs the labor of man to bring it out. It is easier and more certain to secure wealth by bringing in people to develop it than by hunting around for capital that does little good to a country if it has to be begged to come in, for then it wants the earth. Let the people of the South show their wealth to those who, with the labor of their hands, can develop it, and the result will soon be such improvement that capital will come in seeking for something to develop, and will then become a real help. The "capitalist" who buys for a thousand dollars a property having in it possibilities of a hundred thousand, then sits down and waits for some one to pay $5,000 for his chances is of no help to the country. The man who can show better results from tilling the soil, who can get money out of his timber, or his minerals, or utilize a water power and start a settlement, is worth a dozen of the so-called "capitalists" who are sitting down on the chances of making a fortune out of somebody else instead of out of the ground. The South is rich in opportunities for settlers. It was the settlers who made the West. And the chances for them in the South are greater and opportunities more varied than they were in the West in the early days.