The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-02
ATTENTION CALLED
 ID NEW BOOKLET Immigration Question Discuss
 ed by Southern Men INSTRUCTIVE INFORMATION White Farm Labor Succeeds in the Cotton States-There Is Plenty
 of Room for Thousands of
 Industrious Europeans.
INSTRUCTIVE INFORMATION
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 The promoters of immigration to Ala bama would find in little booklet, pub lished in Boston by Ginn & Co.,. prepared by Professor Walter B. Fleming of the history department of the University or West Virginia, much exceedingly instruc- tive information relating to the results that have followed in the southern states from the partial substitution or lmmi- grant white farmers for the negro ten- ant Professor Fleming is an Alabama Polytechnic man, a native of the state. He is active and successful In preparing history of Alabama along various spe- cial lines. The title of this work now referred to is Immigration to the Sou thern States" Price 10 cents.
 Mir. A. H. Stone, large planter in the vicinity of Greenville, Miss, as quot ed by MT. Fleming, says: Ihe matter (of Italian immigration) has long since passed the experiment stage The white man has become the negro's problem. IL is always difficult to get negro to plan. !. and cultivate properly the outer edges or his field-the extreme ends or his roWS' ditch banks, etc. The Italian is so 1eal- ous of the use of every foot for when he nays rent. that he will cultivate with . hoe places too small to be Workeu with a blow and derive revenue rom spots that the negro would not siNe a moments thought to- nave seen them make more cotton than the negro on the adjoining cut, gather IL rom l"o " " four weeks ca rlier and then earn hioiAe' hv nicking in the negro's field
 professor Fleming refers to various in- e,,a,ces against which the southern lm- miprs tion movement must prepare. roi in,tance an agent from South Carolina in England and Scotland, in searcn oi col- cl ion mill operatives, found the ntefaeui of Miss McFayden already 'neIe' uiene ,,,s labor to avoid the southern cotton ihiiis, Tbe comnetition of North Carolina ana so,,+b Carolina cotton mills with faii 1,,,,ar Mass mill enters the problem al- rectlv and in6l-ectlyy Labor orsani1a- tfcrs." the professor says. nave not peen friendly to southern immigration peeause labor organizations have not as . se. ,, thrived among the whtes ol . is citad
 Crowley, in southwest Louislaha' IA ei.eu .,l . hv the author. Twenty years age .ho nlace was an outcast, mere ha,iie. |. around which farm lands were heio " a. 25 cents per acre The raliroau a there did not pay expenses. ihal "as a., the condition In 1885. the boom 'iine n' pirmingham At that time some Wes.eii Farmers NOW there are 25,0J0 western 1arniei D abo,,t Crowley The town has 7OOo popuia- zion has a dozen rice mills and snips, ia GOO carloads of rice year oesloes many other products of the farm, Ill ,,' '. singie month Crowley has shipped hiih to the value Of s9Sd. ara
 h I,ouisiana five years ago there were 17ooo Italians the next year the nun hars increased to 30,000. Between Ne" orleans and Baton Rouge the negro IS Sranidly going away and Italians are iii- mediafely taking his place.
 : professor Fleming shows that in Iekas' o,,,siana Arkansas and Mississippi ltai- ta,,s are surely succeeding the negro with ,tha hest results Education effects the negro largely toward driving him on the the farm The educated negro does not iike the farm, even to the ownership or the land Few educated negroes are "iiiins to save proceeds of sales or their crops If Individuals of the race who receive eau cation ever begin at all to farm they soon leave the property for the southern city or go north. Let us refer to an ex- ample. About 1S7S-9 John c. ana fatrickk K Calhoun organized, on a New Engiano charter. with the money Of the Corpin Banking company of New York as the basis, cotton planting corporation Tn Chicot county. Arkansas, which purcnas-