. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . wed results in scientific de-velopment along this line that as-tonished the most experienced cot-ton men. It is safe to say that theSouth can produce at least ten timesas much cotton as it does now, witha minimum value of five billionsof dollars. The world, with theawakening of Japan, China and thewhole long sleeping East, will soonneed it all. The water powers andcoal fields of the South will turn thecotton into cloth, and via PanamaCanal it will cheaply reach the Ori-ent as well as the rest of the worldfrom the Atlantic and Gulf portsand along
. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . wed results in scientific de-velopment along this line that as-tonished the most experienced cot-ton men. It is safe to say that theSouth can produce at least ten timesas much cotton as it does now, witha minimum value of five billionsof dollars. The world, with theawakening of Japan, China and thewhole long sleeping East, will soonneed it all. The water powers andcoal fields of the South will turn thecotton into cloth, and via PanamaCanal it will cheaply reach the Ori-ent as well as the rest of the worldfrom the Atlantic and Gulf portsand along the Mississippi arteries, amightier inland sea than was everthe Mediterranean. Railroads tak-ing their rates from water transpor-tation will hurry the products fromthe land of King Cotton to the needsat the ends of the earth. The South will never again permitless than ten-cent cotton for anylength of time. It has the monop-oly and will hereafter control can fail to understand the bur-den of the cotton fields as to theSouth of to-morrow?. A SOUTHERN COTTON FIELD II. Atlanta There is no reason why Atlantashould be where it is rather than atany one of a hundred other placeswithin a radius of a hundred is seventy-five miles from a navi-gable river. There are no mineswithin a hundred miles and no othernatural advantages than its threeridges for good drainage and its 1050feet of altitude for good air. The people of the staid village ofDecatur did not want to have theirlives made miserable by the puff andtoot of the innovating locomotive,so they fought the coming of therailroad, and brought it to bay sevenmiles away; hence Terminal;later named Atlanta. There had to be a distributingcenter in this great South East, andAtlanta became that center. Itjest growd. But Topsy had an inward spirit that made her grow;so has Atlanta. No one knows who-originated it or whence it came. Butthe Atlanta spirit is famous andan ever present force. No one butthe chronic misanthrope escap
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