The age-herald., 1897-09-28
CHEAP AND FERTILE LAND.
Send Colonies South-lts Cheap Fertile Lands
 aCure For Labor Troubles in the North.
From the Philadelphia Press.

ffOn Ef1S EnIidQelDnla fueSS.
 Sir:-Ths flavor with leading journals of the south and the readiness with which they took up the comments of the matter of colonization of the sur- plus labor of this section on the fertile lands of the south is an incident of such value and importance at this time as impels me, at the risk of becoming monotorous to some, to endeavor to show that value to the people of this en- tire section in so far as can possibly do so.
 The question divides Itself into two phases of consideration The first in- wolves an honest investigation into the causes of that unrest which has SO gen. orally prevailed recently among our la boring and wage-classes. I am impress ed with the belief that the most vital interests of our country dsmand an eff fort to remove that unrest prior to an- other general election. There are forces of distinction so poterlt and all-per- Tading at work that I conceive it to be dangerous in the extreme if not crimi- nally unmindful to the duty We owe to coming generations to longer disregard them. There Is due to our country someithlng more than mere talk nolw to show these dissatisfied classes that they ara wanted in the social. compact that holds this government together. They must have honest sympathy and just as honest an effort to relieve their wants and help them ito become once again useful members of the body po- litic.
 With cur improved labor sa wing de- vices and machinery we can supply the entire world with our products without giving employment to all the unemploy- ed, so that it is evident that some other means must be provided for them in or der that they may make a living. Ev- cry influence that can be welded is need- ed now to convince these classes that they have not been wrongsd by the rich for should another national cam paign be inaugurated before this is suc- cessfully accomplished no patriot or statesman might then be able to save our country from the peril which would then be upon it. This is the first branch of this question, and no thinking pler- son who Is familiar with the conditions that surround us can truthfully say that I have in any sense overdrawn the importance of it.
 The second branch of this question brings us to a remedy of these condi- fions. In considering this 1t seems to be seif-evidert that the farm alone must come in to furnish relief. And eihis is where The cheap, fertile lands of the south may be utilized for dflat purpose While I have stated repeatedly that I am noi. and will not be engaged in any merely speculative scheme to carry out this idea-1got having a single cent at stake-G (iave, nevertheless, bsen offered lands from all parts of the south "a sur prising1y lew figures, and much of which win be put into any wcll-conceived plan simply as stock tin a colonization ccm- parry, leaving the money pant to come from she north, since the south must look to the east flor the cnoney needed for its development. I am not like some of my friends who hlave been so long with out any ideals at all to disturb them Flhat now, since they have been fnoculated with one regarding the doctrine of sim g1e-tax, so-called, they would have their fellows remain in suffering and want rather than the honest land owner should receive fair price for his property, since the principal dbjectton to this plan of colonization by tihese has been that "ahe land owner would be benefited' by it. I am perfectly willing that the aand own- CT should receive the market value of his lands when by so doing producers for themselves and for soci..y are created instead of having consumers to be sup- ported by the public. as now existing among us.
 Philadelphia has already attracted the entare south to her from The attention that her papers have given it. Why not follow this out now and see what can be accomplished by it? The best men of the soudh would cheerfully come to Phil adelphia and consult with your leading codazens regarding the practlcability of the plan. Details would be easily arr ranged if the preliminary plans were approved. There could be no possible