Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1888 — A Prophet at Discount. [ARTICLE]

A Prophet at Discount.

Boston Traveller: Grady, of the Atlanta Constitution, in the latter part of the National campaign, went into the propecy business for all he was worth. He foretold that the defeat of Cleveland would cause the South “to be led through sorrows compared with which the woes of reconstruction will be as the fading dews of morning to the roaring flood. ” His direful forecast has proved a roaring farce. The journals of the South especially devoted to business, record the most astonishing revival of business confidence in that section. Capital is being invested to an unheard-of extent in Texas, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. Bailroad projects, coaltracts, cotton, wool, and iron, in dustries, bagging factories, are in process of development; in one word Southern enterprise is humming. Not the first woe has put in an appearance since Cleveland’s defeat, unless the wail of the officeholder comes under that head. As a prophet Brother Grady must take a back seat.