The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-08-04

the 6enent OF Northern p%hilanthron
lists | should like to say that thu roop,
has improved. In one way II race
More Of them a read and has
but this very Improvement "h h'
worked them an injury. The col mas
man who can read a newspana u'ed
write a letter, will not do q stroIio Or
work if he starves as the nonaL OF
He is above it, and looking f for y,
office. Ninety-eight out of a Hnn an
red live like dogs and worse. P;nIu,
on the plantation where they we S%I
they will steal the owner blind
AS for schools, the money is Coma,
ly divided, and they are given e 1a",.
chance, but the father whose hnsy
can earn him two bits a dav wi,
not send him to school an honr FL
ucatea colored girl and she puts on
airs, refuses to do work, and rms OR
to some city to live a fast life. Pa
place the negro labor of the SoutL
with white men, and her crops wonI%
double, but the negro keeps tho
white labor away. He won't worI.
and he won't get out.
The people of the South bovo
borne from the black mar what No
other people would endure. Thew
pass over his impudence, find excuse
for his laziness, and sympathize with
him when he comes before the law
They pay all his taxes, burtben
themselves with his schooling, stand
for his doctor bills, and feel far mora
kindness for him than any of us in
the North. And yet there must be
a change. The agriculture of the
South must drift backwards, the ne.
gro must get out, Or there must be
some better way of controlling him
Our Northern farmers rout out their
hired help at day break, and push
'em for all they are worth. The ne.
gro can not be routed out. He can
not be pushed. If $4,000 worth Of
oats were in danger he would not
quicken his pace nor give up his trip
to town. Bind yourself to give him
$1,000 per month, and he will jump
the contract the same as if the flo.
ures were $12. And he is not only
a natural tyrant but naturally cruel.
He will knock his mule down with
a club, where a white maj would
not speak out sharply. He will
pound his wife as if she were a dog,
and | have repeatedly seen white
men interfere to prevent them from
crippling their children.
W. all want the negro to improve.
He has become a part and a portion
Of our country, our politics and our
ballads. But let us not deceive our
selves. He is a far worse problem
than the savage Indian of the plains,
The latter we can force with bull
let and bayonet. The former can
only be punished as a law-breaker
and he laughs at the penalty.
Singing out the two States Of
Georgia and Alabama, and taking
their progress for the last five years
as a basis, let me turn prophet fora
moment. Ten years hence Alabama
will be supplying a great share Of
the country with coal and iron. Sci.
ma, Huntsville and Montgomery will
have nearly doubled theirpopulation.
Birmingham will have a population
of 10000 to $4,000. The State will
have two or three more railroads,
two or more large stove works, a car
wheel factory, a great agricultural
works, at least two canning factor,
les, and a score of new towns will
have been founded.
Ten years from this the two states
together will control most of the
Southern fruit and vegetable ship
ments. Atlanta will have at least
$4,000 more population, and every
town and city in that State will have
steadily gained. Georgia will point
to scores of "new industries" Her
capital will be increased by millions
Her colored help will have been al
most entirely replaced by white Ia
Dor. Her shipments of fruits, Der
ries and melons will reach every
Northern market. Between Atlanta
and Macon there will be established
an immense fruit canning factory
She will have a hundred more saw,
mills, a score more grist mills, ana
half a dozen great agricultural anu
machine works, while every county
in the State will be accessible Dy
railroad. The last ten years worked
even mere wondrous changes.
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