The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-04-01

color. Much of the earth is red and
yellow, this being the very best farm
land that is to be found. The slate color
ed earth is useless for agricultural pur-
poses unless amply ferti&zed. This earth
is used a great lcal in the manufacture
of thing and for similar purposes.
A northern white, on coming t. Ten
nta:ee in search Of manual labor, can
readily find employment. lie usually
draws $3.50 per day. rne employer pre-
fers him to the negro whom they hire
as rule for a dollar per LAY. The waite
northerner accomplis1es much nore than
the negro even as 4 larorer, as mis- labor
ING methods are much more intelligent.
Yet the employer would rather have a
negro than southern White man to Ia
Dor for him. The negro he can boss
around and say WAT he pleases to hnm.
The southern white man, whose labor is
no better than thlt of the negro. re-
sents any harsh criticism, ard the en-
ployer would rather steer shy of such an
employe as far as possible.
Mr.. Barker met many cid, former
slaves. These negroes he found mild,
tractable and orderly. The younger ne
groes were the ones who were causing
the trouble. The younger negroes were
born and bred to life of freedom and do
not feel the contrast between the slave
and the free state of existence. They are
reaching out for an enlargement OF their
rights and what disturbance does occur
originates with them. Still on the whole
the relations between whites and negroes
are peaceful. The young negroes quarrel
among themselves at a great rate, but
white man is as rule not bothered
unless he undertakes to "miX in" Then
it is time for him to beware.
Mr.. Barker brought back a collection
of souvenirs that he gathered from time
to time while he was away. He has many
fine specimens of different kinds of weed
that grows in Tennessee. He also
brought back some fine big chestnuts,
fully an inch in diameter, some big to-
bacco leaves, of the most delightful fra
GRANGE; a branch from lemon tree, the
lemon-like odor of which is still quite
strong, though the leaves are withered;
and some stalactites which he broke off
from the interior of one of Tennessee's
famous subterranean caves, seven miles
long, and reaching three miles below the
surface of the earth. In his collection
such as would mature in the compare
lively bleak fields of Minnesota. Mime
sofa corn can be sown in Tennessee and
will thrive there too. So can Minnesota
potatoes. But it is hard to make the
seed of southern production thrive on the
farms of the north.
Any energetic northern man who
wishes to go to the south to take up
his abode and work to carve out his for
tune must remember two things: First,
make up his mind not to work on Sun
day. The southerners are dead against
having any man work on Sunday. If the
Tennesseeans catch resident of their
state working on Sunday, they will give
him notice to quit, and if he still per-
sists, he is likely to be driven out of
the state.
Mr.. Barker was exceedingly surprised
to see so few saloons. Town after
town is entered by the traveller with
never a saloon in sight. In Nashville it
self there are very few. There is not
patronage enough to support more than
there are The south is away ahead OF
the north on the temperance question.