The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-04-09
A hHANGE Of LIVE TOPICS
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THE FUTURE.

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Africa for the purpose of instruct
ing the natives in the raising of
cotton and incidently doing the
same kind of work for the youth
of that country as that in which
he is engaged in Tuskegee. The
British government also is max
ing strong efforts to induce south
ern negroes to emigrate to it's
African possessions TO engage in
cotton culture, and it is even pro-
posed that the government furnish
them transportation to that quar-
ter. The idea of both Germany
and England as they themselves
declare, is to be independent of
the southern states of America
for their cotton supply, and also
of all the United States for their
food supplies.
The impression that cotton can
not be raised successfully any
where except in the southern
states of America is, IL is practi-
cally certain, erroneous. 1t can
be successfully grown wherever
the seasons of warm weather are
sufficiently long. In countries to
the south of the United States it
is perennial the stalks attaining
to the size of small trees which
every year are loaded with bolls
but which on account of the in
dolence of the people and because
fruit raising is more profitable,
receive little or no attention. The
attempts made by European powers
to raise during our war of 1861
1865, cotton on large scale III
Africa and other warm countries
were not successful because the
culture of the staple was not
understood aud because of the
extreme unreliabilitv of the labor.
But pursuing the matter accord
ing to the new lights end scien-
tific methods there is no reason
why Egypt Especially since the
completion of the Nile dam for
irrigation purposes) and other
countries of Africa and ASIA
should not only produce all the
cotton needed by Europe but also
all it's food supplies such as wheat
and meat as we'll. 1t is more
than probable that not distant
future will see all of this all ac-
complished fact.
Then what will happen? Simply
this: the European powers which
are now dependent upon the Unit
ed States for food and materials for
their cotton mills will snap their
fingers in our faces, bid defiance
to the Monroe doctrine, and pro-
coed to parcel out South and
Central America and Mexico
among themselves perhaps includ-
ing even our insular possessions
With European powers united to
which condition there is now a
decided tendency, Canada would
be safe from the United States
should we become involved in a
war with Europe.
The writer believes that the
negro problem will sclve itself by
the bulk if not all of the colored
people leaving the south of their
own accord many of them going
TO Africa upon the invitation of
Germany and England who would
take good care of them and many
others going to the northern and
western states Especially Califor-
MAJ where they have far more
rights than they have in the south
Dr. ever will have here. Califor-
MA which has a most delightful
climate welcomes all the colored
people that will go there giving
them steady work at good wages
on the immense farms of that |
state. California, alone could
employ one-half the negroes In
the United States If Cobb coun-
ty is an index the colored people
are certainly leaving Georgia, for
where ten years ago they were
in the rural districts,
now they are very rare. White
farmers are doing their own work.
1t is said that the negro is given a
chance to earn living in the
south. This may be if he can
live on a ridiculously small wages
that he receives and when you
come to notice you don't see very
many of them working as carpen-
ters and masons and the like.
Southern farmers should begin
to improve their lands by an in
tensive system of farming and to
diversity their crops for they will
not enjoy always a monopoly of the
cotton market.