Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — The South Looking Up. [ARTICLE]

The South Looking Up.

One of the (pleasant reflections of this Christmas is the fact that we are on the verge of better times. Everything indicates that the coming year will bring prosperity to all parts of the country. The Manufacturers’ Record, of Baltimore, has been making inquiries in all sections, and it reports the outlook as very encouraging, especially in ttoe South. All business interests in the South, the Record finds, have suffered in common with those ot other sections from the financial disturbances of 1891. Cotton growers, and along with f them a large proportion of the mercantile and banking interests, suffered from the low price of cotton. To the financial difficulties created •by the Baring failure was added the ieconomic drag of the McKinley tariff, increasing the price of articles .used by Southern agriculturists. The November election has had 'very material results from a business point of, view. There is a vivifying ifaqpe of lower prices and cheapened production when the protective tariff is reduced. The fear of inimical Congressional legislation has vanished. “Confidence,” says the Record, “.has been established, and the Souitlh will become within the next year !fJae*cene. of unprecedented . industrial ;ftnd commercial activity, not a boopa, but natural, unrestrained growth aaad progress ” The gratifying statement, is made by a well-in-formed fouasness man in Alabama that,the .fartmers of his region are out of debt and—a rare thing—“have enough to rum .them through another crop.” Jt is the general testimony that, the election* ;have made the people “feel good.” They are “cheerful and confident;"(Which means renewed effort, increased enterprise, business activity and progress—Atlanta JoornbL