The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-08
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industrial-oan be overcome by proper
use Of the land lever. With this we can
gradually increase our white strength,
until the State government is once more
controlled by white men. With this we can
overturn the politicians who would force
the negro into our private schools, give him
seat at our tables and make him our social
superior. With this we can obtain laborers
for our fields, artisans for our factories,
all that we need to make our State pros
porous and strong. The power is ours; if
we fail to exeroisesit, ours will be the fault.
No offer .can be made to the laboriDg
classes Of Europe that will have 80 much
effect as an offer Of land. Take, for in
stance, the agricultural laborers Of Eng
land, Ireland and Scotland, and consider
what would be the feelings excited in them
by the absolute gift Of Q small farm. The
roa"antry Of the three countries which we
have nameo A=-e &c future but .he grave.
Their life is ono Of hard, wearing toll, borne
without hope or expectation Of improving
their condition as, long as they remain at
home. In England and Scotland, few
years ago, the average wages Of the COM
mon agricultural laborer were ten shillines
week, without quarters or rations. Two
dollars and q half in gold, for working six
days from dawn to dark. Out Of this pit
| tance the family must be fod and clothed.
The wife may earn something in harvest
time, and so may the e,childrsn; but at the
best, all that the family can earn is only
enough to save them from actual starvation.
They have no domestic comfort, no relaxa-
| tion but q pot-horse, NO sufficient food or
clothing. These white rmen--orushed down
BY capital and aswarming population--live
in. Q hovel and die in workhouse. Very
much the same state Of affairs exists in
Ireland. However frugal and patient and
industrious the laborer may be, he dare not
in England hope to be able to rent small
patch Of q few acres for himself Nor without
q miracle OF revolution can he become
the owner Of farm. No wonder, then,
that he is attracted by the Immigration
agent, and persuaded to move to the West
ern States Of America, bribed by an offer
Of high wages or cheap land, tempted by
the promise Of emancipation from the
slavery Of capital and competition. 80
But the landowners Of South Caroline
can offer more than any Western immigrant
agent can give. Our landowners oann OF
promise wages as high as those which rule
In the North; but THEY oAa GIVE THE I'M
MIGRANT A 1AaM. They osn give theimmi-
grant the thing he most desires-land Of his
own. They can give Kim whas. che west
cannot gives tract Of cleared land In o
settled counsry, within reaoh Of . nsrkst.
They can, by giving away one fourth or one
third Of thelr rich acres, make the rest
more valuable than the whole is worth TO-
day. They can make their land q magnet
to attract and hold tho white man wish ever
increasing force. sf5tHYff
Few will deny that we have more land
than VIC can make use Of, and few will deny
that tho value of the land, when certain
point is reached, increases in the SQUARE
OF the increase Of the population. In 1860,
the number Of inhabitants to the square
mile was: In England and Wales, 8O7; in
Ireland. 2O5; In Belgium, 897; in the New
England States, so; in the Middle States,
90; in tho coast planting States, Including
South Caroline, Is. The, difference between
| the value Of the land, in the North and in
| this State is mot the difference OF natural
fertility, but the measure Of the difference
Of the population. The South can be de-
veloped as rapidly ss the North west has
been developed. Take she City Of Chicago,
whose population Ia 1880 was SAirsy, and
in 1867 was 24l,s What wonder 10 IL
that land around ths city which could be
bought Tor song thirty years ago is held
now at almost fsbulous pricssf The South
can do moro for her oities than the North
west can do for Chicago. The West paakes
grain; the South makes cotton, sugar and
Fioe. This 10 the whole matter In NUT