Birmingham state herald., 1896-03-01
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AN EX-FEDERAL.
He Is Doing Good Work in Bringing Immi- grants to the South. and Alabama
 Especially.

MT. J. F. Zediker is an ex-federal sol
 dier, and has lived in the northwest since
 the war, until recently he removed to
 Gadsden, Ala, and established a paper
 called the Camp Fire. He is doing good
 work in removing the prejudice existing
 in the north toward the south, and has
 been the means of inducing many north
 ern people, especially ex-federal soldiers,
 to make their homes in the south. In
 the last issue of the Camp Fire we find
 the following items of interest:
 Tt is fact that a family of six can
 pay house rent and live well in Alabama
 on $1 a day."
 Just now when so much is being said by
 the northern press against the south. Of
 which Alabama is a part, we think It is a
 good time to reproduce an article we cop
 led in the Camp Fire on May 16, 1895,
 from that oldest of all soldier papers, to-
 wit
 "The National Tribune would say that
 Alabama is a very good state to go to.
 It is larger than Pennsylvania, with only l. .5O0. 900 population, while Pennsylvania
 has 5,50OOO0 so that there is plenty of
 room It has more good farming land than Pennsylvania, and an endless sup
 ply of timber, coal, iron, etc. With the proper immigration, Alabama ought to
 become in the near future as rich as | the right people to develop her resources as those of Pennsylvania have been de- veloped. National Tribune.
 A great blessing it would be to states and communities as well as to individu- als if this rule was observed and applied. Alabama has notes, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Dakota and all the states have
 notes or beams at home to look after. And the policy of jumping onto other states, without due consideration and good ground, is all wrong. In the opin- ion of our Comrade we were honest when
 we sang the praises of Nebraska, "in
 season and out of season" But we are dishonest and actuated by policy" when we, because of change in position and
 more thorough investigation and greater information, dared to raise our voice in
 defense of country that has been more lied about by the northern press and
 unprincpled, scheming politicians than any other portion of Gods green earth. The south is people by human beings, and just the same kind of human beings as the north. There are thousands of southern men living in the north and thousands of northern born men all over the south and they are coming on every | train to inhabit this Palestine of America | and 1t will not be long until this min | gling and commingling will wipe out ev- cry vestige of this unholy sectional preju- dice and north, south, east and west will | be swallowed up in the greater and grander name, "American Citizen" God speed the day when my northern brethren, so intellectual on everything else, will not be so woefully ignorant about the south.
 MT. Grilley hands us a copy of the Camp Fire, a soldiers paper, which ap- pears to grow and flourish even way | down in Alabama" at Gadsden, where occupants found it hot and tragedies were too numerous to mention back in the | sos. That such a radical republican sheet as the Camp Fire can now prosper
 at Gadsden is something millennium like. an indication that sectional hate" has fallen back, been swamped, as 1t were, in the jungles and alligator pools of Florida.-Fremont (Michigan) Indicator. Our southern readers should make a note of the above and labor to spread the circulation of the Camp Fire, both north and south. It is an "eye opener" to the north. It can do more good to re- move prejudice and reunite our people than any other medium in Alabama Ed.
 Mesdames Manning and ZedilSer called on their neighbor, Mrs. Turrentine, about | the 1st of February and were taken out | to the garden and witnessed the pulling | ofea six quart pan full of turnips, pars- nlDS OUlOnS, cdTIolS dilu WihCi | had stood in the ground all winter The | kind hostess insisted on their accepting a generous supply, and as a result we | shared in feast of vegetable soup, gathered from the ground in mid-winter.
  MT F. T. Baker and J. R. Ross of Buff | falo, Ind came with families, two car | loads of stock, implements, goods and grain, and are looking for farms to rent | for year, before they buy. | Mr. Harvey Walters of Norwalk, O., a mechanic. has been with us several | days. He prefers to try farming this | year, and has about completed arrange ments to go on to a farm
 These parties have been reading the | Camp Fire.
 There were other arrivals but we fail- l ed to get their names.