The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-19
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 In a recent issue of The Richmond Timss-Dispatch we find this editorial, and we copy because of it's application nearer home:
 It is a good omen for Virginia that rep. in kichmcnd iss to consider % shs best sVa means @ of advertising Virginia lands and indpc- ing outsiders to come here and purchase M ss Ths f sis s a se the as VTs Ms have been accustomed to, Is becoming more and more scarce each year. We can nO longer depend upSn negro labor s.rs ss than we can work, and the sensible thing from other sections of the country. who SSnds upGR have every vsrsty nef of soil and our agricultural resources are :,sos sxosct ,ts the oItsde world to nS out for and advertise. Virginia is doing no,i,inh in that direction. and 1t Is time for her our approval in the work they are doing and they may count upon our hearty CO., operation.
 Every word of that applies in Alabama. While it is true that negro labor Is. in thu main, the best labor for the South. 1t is equally true that 1t is every year be- coming more unreliable, and there are two reasons for it. One is that the younger generation of negroes are not contented on the farms as their fathers and grandfathers were. At every oppor- tunity they flock to the cities and towns and add to the already too numerous vicious and idle characters with which those places are now crowded. The drudgery of farm work is distasteful to the. younger generation and whenever they can escape from 1t they do so and ally diminishing.
 Another reason is one which is entirely creditable to the negroes themselves and that Is the growing tendency among the better ones to acquire homes for them selves. They are doing this in various sections of Alabama, and 1t is the best thing they can do, for 1t gives them an interest in the industrial prosperity of the country. At the same time it adds to the scarcity of farm labor and this class of negroes are as general thing the most reliable workers. It Is good thing for both the negro and the State when he secures home of his own and becomes an independent farmer. but it takes one more good tenant from the white planter.
 The obvious remedy is to secure gradual influx of good white immigrants. sxla ff fulN la that home-seekers from other countries, pr from the oyer-crowded older. States, should go to the extreme Northwest AL ready a great part of that country is covered with snow and ice, and but little more farm work will be possible until next Spring, yet nearly all who are seek ing homes continue to go there. This ought not to be so. Aside from our far more favorable climate Is the fact that good farms in the Northwest cost three land costs in Alabama. Here are two points that ought to have great weight.
 There are two causes for the failure of immigrants to come South. One is an ex- aggerated idea of the race question. Many of them believe that all the negroes in our section are worse than savages, and that no white person is safe among them. Added to this Is the natural ob- jectiun to settling in a region where a white family will have no neighbOrs but colored people, and will be practically cut of from association with their own uA fg one but tho difficulty is easily removed by a number of families buying up a large tract of land and dividing 1t out among them. That has already been done in various places in Alabama. and is prac- ticable anywhere. Then they would have their own associates and would be re- lieved of all feelings of apprehension and isolation. Then there are hundreds of To- calities In Alabama where there are very few negroes.
 But the main reason why few immi- grants. come here is because they a.e not invited. As intimated by The Times Dispatch we must advertise. In this day of competition and publicity the mer- chant who fails to advertise his goods is sure to be left behind If we desire and expect settlers, We must let them know what we have to offer them and how they are to get 1t. That is one reason why The Advertiser has 50 consistently favored a creditable exhibit at St. Louis. No better opportunity has ever been of- fered for advertising our State to the outside world. There will be people there from every quarter of the globe and among them immigration agents will be conspicuous. It will be a time and place for letting the world know our advan- tages, such as may not again be offered. and 1t should be taken advantage of Let the Commercial and Industrial forces of the entire State see to. it that we not only have something there to show what We have and can do, but that there is plenty of literature to tell our story for us. So shah Alabama not be left an or phan.
 The Springfield CMass) Republican calls attention to phase of General Brayton's plan of cutting down representation from the South in Republican National Con- vsntions that some of the Party have probably not thought of It says:
 By reducing the Southern delegations in