The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1900-11-29

made IN the OId one.
There is certainly much room for
improvement. Tallahassee has been
a long suffering community in this
respect and her emancipation is
looked forward to with great inter-
est and anxiety. 1t cannot come too
soon.
Letters Patent Issued.
Letters patent have been issued by
the Secretary of State for the incOr-
| pOratiOn of the Jacksonville Gala
Week Association, with a capital
stock Of $1,000 The imcorporatOrs
are Il. w Haney, George l.. BAIL,
| j. w. White and Charles \. Clark.
Mir. Frank Cnrd. of Richmond. Va.
! who has been visiting his sister. Mrs L.
| Il. WumhwrlI. during The past week.
( eft for home last Tuesday.
! Communication.
Editor TalIahasSeean-It has long
been the opinion Of the writer
founded on the knowledge, expe-
rience and observation of more than
half century that we have a
country, including middle
and the eastern portion of West
Florida, which, under Skillful, intel
ligent exploitation WOULD become, in
proportion to its area, the richest
agricultural, and to a great extent
manufacturing section of the Union;
but which, in its present siipshOd and
rmnOuS system, must, in cOmpara-
lively brief period become so i'm
pOverished as to fail to make the
present meagre starveling return to
its prOprietOrs. Scourged annually
by the destructive system of culture,
of the most ignorant and reckless
class of labOrers, whose only thought
is to secure the scanty return of to-
day, and let tomorrow take care of
itself. No other section of this great
country could have escaped utter
sterility, as the consequence of some
thirty-fve years of this ruinOus scalp
ing system of sO-called agriculture.
[ presume that not one acre in a
hundred has been fertilized even in
the most superficial manner, proba-
bly, not one in a thousand.
The same lands are thus
worked year after year, without
rest, or change Of crop, some of them
for the last seventy-five years have
been under constant culture, and but
4 for the wonderful recuperative power
OF the soil under the influences of
our climate would now be incapable
OF producing a respectable nubbin.
What are we to. do? It seems to the
writer that the remedy is obvious,
If we would arrest utter destruction
we must introduce another system,
but this can only be done by intro
ducing superior class of agricultur-
lsts-farmers, :ewners of the soil
they cultivate. OF course in all ]
have said reference is had only to the
negro renting system. But we may
be asked "can this be dOne?"
4 In the present condition of social
: life in the South, immigration in the
?. ordinary way will not reach this Sec
ton of Florida in many decades.
Many have tried it individually, but
after brief period of isolation in the
''dark belt," cut off from all social
G life and surrounded by a race alto.
o gether incongehial, they abandoned
e the country with great loss to them
u selves and returned to their old homes
q doubtless carrying discOuraging re
# ports which effeetually restrained
: others from trying the experiment
and, the longer this system of immi
Il grafton is maintained the more diff
g cult it will be to induce an increasC
y of population from northern agricul
!, = tural communities.
The only system which seems t'
offer desirable result, in the opin
ion of the writer, is that of organiza
i. ton by the >landholders of the coun
n try sought to be benefited. Let u
= suppose Leon county to enter int
e such an organization.
Let us divide it, say, into four sec
J. tions NE, NV, Sc, SW. The LAM
{. owners of each section forming
i joint stock association, the lands al
properly appraised and received int,
t, the common stock, the whole divide,
0; into small farms; every alternat
D, farm retained; others valued accord