The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-09-05
thought and feeling.

most eloquent diStllIe4Il IA 'i~ i
hills and yawning gullies which greet
the eye here and there. While We
would not fill the country to the ex-
tent of the German precedent OF
family to two acres" we would adopt
the happy mean. The area OF this
state is 3o,3oS square miles and scat
tered over it are 100000 people;
100000 less population than the city
OF Chicago. Is it possible FOR such
an isolated population, largely color
ed. 10 even save our lands from waste,
to say nothing Of advancing in the
wealth and comforts which are al
ways found in we'll populated white
settlements?
A Few Counties.
There are perhaps a Jew counties,
for example, Anderson county, OF
this district where there are suttl-
cient small farmers to preserve the
land in a high state of cultivation,
J but your county and mine are not
Of that number. The white popula-
ton of this county, always inadequate
for the proper care Of the soil, has
been reduced by removals to the COT
ton mills to such an extent as to make
desolate some sections Of the coun-
trv. 1t is true that the negroes in
large measure remain on the farm,
but without the directing hand OF the
white man they count for nothing.
And even with the negro, we are, to
use a homely expression, "between
the devil and the deep sea-" His
presence here is constant menace
politically and yet we must needs
hold to him as Our sole reliance for
labor.
That nature has been more prodl-
cal in her gifts to the south than to
anv other spot on the globe
reiterate and firmly believe. Surely
there is no section OF the earth's SUR
face covering like territory, where
single farm product for one year is
worth over half a billion dollars OF
newly created wealth. That the de-
mand for our cotton has grown from
100000 bales to 100000 bales, or
more, within five years is a selt-eVl-
dent proposition and is freely; admit
ted by expert cotton men on Wall
street If further proof were needed
however, the fact that we have mar
keted 100000 bale crop above the
eieht-cent level should be ccnvln-
cling. Now, I in no sense deprec1-
ate the effect on the price OF cot
ton OF the organization of the farm
ers: on the contrary, believe that Or
eanization has enabled them to mar
ket the crop as it was demanded and
that it has been largely instrumental
in holding up the price. But re-
iterate the statement that IN perhaps
less than ten years the south cannot
supply the normal demand for cotton
with the present labor conditions.
Suppose, as you intimate, that
European countries have as yet tali-
ed 10 compete with us; in Africa they
have virgin soil and favorable eli
matte conditions. and England is al
this very time using Iuskegee gradu-
ates experimenting il cotton grow
ING. II we can by the introduction
OF healthy white population tore
sail other nations and hold our mo-
opoly OF this greatest OF money
crops. we may expect an era OF pros
Der;tv that we never dreamed of.
What Is Wealth?
You ask how we are to be benetited
bv having the price of our lands ad-
yanced to say $3.50 an acre. we
would expect no such an advance,
but with the influx OF well-to-
do European farmers, such as are
being settled in Aiken county by the
:Southern Colonial immigration as
soc;ation of Charleston" we would
in time expect to see material ad-
vance not only in the price of land,