The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
WHITE LABOR SOUTH
BY IT GREAT AND REMARKABLE
DEVELOPMENTS BEING Ac-
CoMPLISHED.

. BElNG Az
CoMPLISHED.
White Men Moving in and Taking
the Earth Net Only in Manufactur.
Ing But Also In Agricultural Pur.
suits-The New Revolution Is Now
On in the Gulf Coast.
Mobile, Ala, Special: One Of the
great southern railway lines which
has paid especial attention to building
up the cotton mill industry has located
mills all along it's road iI the south.
Its policy heretofore, and from which
1t Is to some extent now receding. was
to encourage the locating Of cotton
mills at interior points and not on or
near an export point. One very quick
ly arrives at the not inaccurate con.
clusion thai it's purpose was to get
two hauls, one of the raw material to
the mills Ind the second to the export
point. Now large mills are either in
operation or in the course of construc.
ton at one or the other of it's ports.
That the cotton was not worked up IN
the south where It is raised. hereto
fore, was due to the fact that there
was not sufficient white labor In the
south to operate the mills. The con-
diti0n was overcome by operators
from Massachusetts, and New York
moving their plants south and bring
ing their employees along at the same
time. So that all through the south
you will find little settlements clus.
tering around typical New England
mills in which are employed entire
families. The whites of the south seek
employment and find it in these mills.
but no negro a get employment ex.
cept Is a drayman, freight handler or
fireman, while his wife and daughters
can only get work such a. %scrubbing
and securing about the mill. Black
children employees will not be tolerated
by the white %spinners. Therefore. tiny
white children, twelve and even SO
young as nine years Of age. work
among the flying spindles, taking up
the trade, and learning of which is
denied the black child.
1t is toll that is %dwarfiing mind and
body of these future citizens, while
the colored children are attending the
public schools. The owners of these
mills are northern men and they can
operate these plants much cheape,
than the mills they own in the New
freight rates and the absence of child.
labor laws, such as prevail in the
North.
1t is only a matter of time until all
the big cotton mills will be located
in the South. However, there is O
healthful public sentiment that has re.
suited in such legislative enactments
In most CT the Southern states that
raises the age at which a child is al.
lowed to work in a factory and there.
fore some of these profits will be lost
l only speak of this branch of man.
ufacturing in the South to show how
white labor already predominates. The
prejudice against working with the
the part of the mechanics from the
North than with white labor born and
raised in the South, that / am more
convinced that segregation of the col
ored race will be the ultimate and
final solution of the problem.
Nor is the factory hand and Office
man from the North alone who OBJ.
jects to holding a position alongside
the negro. but the Northern settler
who is coming south by the untold
objection to the black race, not want.
ing him for an employee on the farm
nor as co-laborer, no matter if time
and a careful investigation show that
the black ace in the South is often
quite equal in intelligence and certain.
ly fully as honest as the negro EN-.
ployee these people may have had in
their Northern homes. There is a no
table illustration of this condition OF
things at several points. Over on the
Southern railway line there is a South
Carolina town called Pelzer, with near.
ly 10, 900 white inhabitants, all from
the North and all employees of cotton
mills owned and operated by North.
ern capital. They have no saloons
therefore no Jail; no newspapers and
no actresses. but they have q pretty
Y M. C. A.. building. a free library and
the most moral town in the South
They bar editors and actresses, along
with the blacks.
The Southland company, now set
thing thousands Of people In the high
lands half way between Mobile and
Pensacola, have a new white mans
town in "a white mans empire" of a
quarter million acres in which is not
to be one single black family. 1t is q
newly developed country and the set
tiers are all from the North, mans
coming N search Of a more healthful
climate. At their pretty little town
called Gateswood, found farmers
from nearly every Indiana, Illinois and
Ohio county, and fruit raisers from
| every congressional district of Michi
gan and Wisconsin and nearly every
Northern state. There / met a Mr.
Muir. a Chicago attorney. He took q
prominent part in the Haymarket an
archist trial for the state. He came to
the Gulf coast to see IL he. could re
cover from an attack of pneuRonia
that had made him a physical wreck