St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27

own pork instead of buying it OF the
big packing companies of the North.
l have just. gotten a case of hams
| from Georgia which I expect to use
on my Washington table. They are,
1 think, equal to the Smithfield
hams, and they were made ON the
highlands of North Georgia, and
cured with smoke from hickory and
| oak
How about South Georgia ?"
1T is equally fertile, but as you
| get down nearer Florida you have
different kind of crops. In the north
| ern portion of the state, wheat, oats,
barley and corn can be cultivated
with good results. The cotton belt
begins little down, and as you get
near the Florida line you find that
oranges can be grown at profit.
Other kinds of fruit can be cultivated
almost anywhere, and there is scarce
ly crop of any kind which cannot
raised in some portion of the state"
You speak only of Georgia. How
is the rest of the South?"
Il believe the South is growing
generally. l do not know the other
states so we'll as Georgia. l think
Georgia is the best state of the South.
l know every inch of it, and l can
speak better about it than 1 can
about the other states"
NORTHERN IMMIGRATION.
''If what you say is true, why don't
the South encourage immigration?
Why is it that the West gets all
the emigrants?"
THE tide of emigration has been
toward the West on account of the
public lands and the railroads. The
big Western roads have had large
tracts of land to sell, and they have
disseminated in favor of that sec
ton. This is now somewhat changed.
The public lands of the West have
been largely taken up, and our
Southern railroads are helping us.
AS to our not wanting immigrants,
that, is not true. We are now doing
all we can to get them. EX-Gov.
Northern is now at the head of an
immigration bureau for Georgia, and
he is pushing the interests of the
state in all parts of the world. Col
onies are being formed all over
Georgia, and we are bringing people
there from Germany and Switzer-
land. One scheme is to organize a
colony of Union soldiers in the
southern part of the state. Hun
dreds of thousands of acres have
been set apart for it, and I am told
about 10000 old soldiers from Indiana
and Illinois are going to settle upon
these landS''
BETTER KEEP AWAY.
"How about the condition of these
immigrants when the get there? How
do you treat them? Will they be
your equals socially and politically?
Can they vote as they please?"
YES" replied Secretary Smith.
I'VE will be glad to welcome them
and to fraternize with them. They
can vote as they like, and no one will
disturb them. AS to social equality,
any respectable man will be treated
we'll in Georgia, and the hospitality
of the South will be thrown open to
him. Of course we draw the line On
the negro. If man asks negroes to
his house and to his dinner table,
and makes his friendships entirely
among them; if he visits the houses
Of negroes and fraternizes with them
as his social equals you can't eX-
pect this to be overlooked"
THE NEGRO PROBLEM.
'How about the negro problem, Mr..
Secretary?"
81 don't think there is any negro
problem, replied the secretaryfof the
interior. ''Such problems as there
seemed to be has settled itself, and it
would never have existed had it not
been for the sectional utterances of
the North, and for small party of a
certain class of WITHSTAND that not
the most respectable class-in the
South. The negroes and the whites
are perfectly harmonious in the
South. The white people are willing
and anxious to do all they can to
better the moral and intellectual
condition of the negro, and they are
doing it. The negro is rapidly ad-
vancing. He is acquiring property,
and he makes a good citizen
"Does he show any inclination to-
ward emigration? Does he want to
go back to Africa?"
mo; he is doing well, and he is
| perfectly satisfied"
"How about his political rights p"
HE votes with the best class Of the
whites. They are his friends, and he
knows it, Cleveland's first election
showed him that his rights were as
| safe under a Democratic as under
a Republican administration. The
result is the negro vote is divided
between the parties, and he now
votes as he pleases."
THE SOLID SOUTH.
'How about the solid South, Mr..
Secretary? VIII it always be solid?
Is it always to be an empire belong
ing to the Democratic! party?"
."As long as the differences be-
tween the Democratic and Republi-
can parties continue, and these two
parties remain the leading ones in
the United States, I do not see how
it can be otherwise. The interests
of the South are against the policy
| and principles of the Republican
party. They lie in the direction of a
low tariff. AS long as the Repub-
lican party represents protection the
South will be solid
Speaking again about the negro,
Mr.. Secretary; what is to be his So
cial future?"
''It will be along the lines of his
own race" replied Mr.. Smith.
Neither he nor the white man wants
to mix their blood. They do not de-