The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-29

census don't toll how our negro Ia
borers on the farms get thoir wages
all tho year round and got COM
Portable cabin rent free and have no
iirowood to buy and every family has
garden and thoy raise chickens and
eggs and pig or two and have
scraps enough from their table to
support two hound dogs and flee.
Besides all this, thoy bait holes in
tho crock and catch suckers by night
and hunt rabbits on Sunday. Talk
about our cheap labor. There isn't
a respectable negro man in Barlow
county who isn't better off and hap
pier than the average farm laborer
of tho north. That is ono good
thing tho negro has dono for the
south He has intimidated tho
northorn scurf and the foreign scurf
and kept them away. I saw in tho
columns Of Tho Constitution not
long ago statomont in figures that
was taken from q Boston paper
showing that since 1890 the foreign
population, inclusive Of thcir chill.
dron since their arrival, has increased
Is per cont in Now England, while
tho natives havo Increased but 6 per
cent in all that time. Tho oXuct fig
ures wero given. Isn't that awful?
New England had just as well give
up their time honorcd and historic
country religion and all to these
foreigners.
When | was in Nashville tho other
day looked with pride at tho oxh-
bits of our southern industry that
grcotod mo everywhere. In a form
or lcttof L mado special mention of
the magnificent display of tho Nash
vile and Chattanooga railroud; that
includes tho Western and Atlantic
railroad of our state. But our other
southern roads arc cmulating Major
Thomas's example. especially the
Georgia railroad, whose exhibit
makes every Georgian feel proud,
Besides tho beautiful show Of grain,
fresh from the harvest folds, there
are minerals of almost overy kind
from the granite of Stone Mountain
to tho gold and precious stones Of
Hall county. just imagine a solid
granite obolisk split out in the rough
and unhewn that is forty feet high
and five feet square that weighs TO-
600 pounds. Their there is tho
Louisville and Nashville, and the
Plant system, and the Scaboard Air
Line that the wondering visitor will
not fail to see.
Well, now, Of course, everybody
knows that every man and corpora
tion and state will show up the very
best they have got for that is just
human. Any good old country wo,
man will put tho cleanest eggs and
tho finest apples on the top Of the
basket when she COOS to town. But
if the average products of our in
dustry and resources aro nearly as
good as those exhibits there we have
a wonderful country. Lot a stranger
look from tho car windows as no
rides along and ho will not be supris-
ed when he gets to Nashville, for
just now il is harvest time and tho
scenery is as pretty as picture. /
remember that doubted the prop
riety of tho Atlanta exposition, but
it proved itsolf a wise educational
measure and now tho Tennessee Cen
tonnial is already grand SUCCESS
and will grow into creator import
utlCo us VIC "cckS IOll OIL. oODIl INC
farmers will have more leisure and
| at tho low rates Of travel will avail
themselves Of this great privilege
this Kindergarten for their wives
and children. And my faith is that
OF all classes, tho farmer is best able
, to go, and will reap tho greatest pro-
fit from his visit. Just think what
! is thrown in FREQ to delight the
sonscs-what beautiful grounds and
shady walks; what beauty of archi-
itccturc, what wonderful paintings
and works Of tho sculptor's art, and
what grand fireworks by night, and
what delicious music by day! Where
else can he hcar Sousa and Innes
with their orchcstras without going