The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-07
Roo sevelt and the Republi
cans.
Continued from Page Four.)


Now YOU know that much of This
cleared land is planted in other things
than cotton. So the Southern farne"
| has plenty of land to make forty mil
| lion bales of cotton. | am glad that
| they are organizing. Everyone o.
! them ought to be in an organization
and on the first day of January in each
year he ought to make known 20 the
proper official of his organization how
much land he intends to plant in cot
| ton. When the proposed acreage is
| added up, if it appears that the
| amount of acreage will produce NOR,
cotton than the world will take at d
profitable price, then there should b.
| a uniform cut all down the line. If
| we are to have trusts let us have On2
| trust that will bring comfort to the
| thousands of homes of those who toll
| No court, so far as | know, has yet de-
| clared such an arrangement to be in
| violation of law. Even if 1t were t.
| be SO declared the farmer should be
| allowed to remain in a trust as long
| as everybody that he buys from is in
a trust also. No man should blame
| the farmer for fighting the devil with
| fire. Providence cut off the last crop;
and it looks like this is to be a short
crop also. Above all things it should
not be rushed on the market, unless
prices are satisfactory. If our farmers
will not benefit by the lesson of these
| short crops then the future is not very
| bright but if they will perfect then
organization and stand by each Other
| they can make cotton raising immense
| ly profitable"
Doesn't Want Cheap Labor.
| you are making me string out this
| interview too long" said Mr.. Pou,
| when ! asked him what he thought of
! the efforts now being made to encour-
age immigration to the South. why"
| said he, cit is the worst thing that
| could possibly happen to the farmers
of the South, unless the movement is
| carefully safeguarded. | notice there
| will be an effort made to let in the
Chinese when Congress meets. There
are several influences behind this prop
| ostion. Labor is high now, and the
| profits of some of the big trusts are
not as great as they would be if labor
| were cheap. There is hardly a Week
J that members of Congress do not re-
| ceiVe letter from their representatives
of some trust urging us to repeal or
modify the Chinese exclusion law.
| Well, so far as / am concerned, / will
| never vote to open the doors of this
| favored land to wholesale immigration
| Why more than million landed dur
| ing the year ending June /, 1905; to
| be accurate, the figures arc 1,O26, 499.
Most of it is the trash of Europe, who
| scorn to go on a farm and work. They
prefer the large cities. No. L don t
| think the South wants a great abundI
| anCe of cheap labor. That would meaG
| a record breaking crop of cotton; and
| that would mean five cents a pound
or less; and that would mean suffering
| and priVation all over our blessed
| land. We can yet awhile raise all the
| cotton the world will take at a profit
1b wifi htn in Chinese
Japanese, Italians, and what not ]
can't help a feeling of alarm when l
! think of the enormous number of
worthless immigrants being landed on
our shores. The South has been kept
up to this time largely for Southern
| ers II is the ballast which holds the
ship-of-state steady. Hadn't we bet
| ter keep it so? Some of the cities of
the North and West are perfect hot
| beds of Socialism now. / may be ig-
norant and not have q proper con-
| ception of the principles and purposes
| of Socialism, but | don't want ii to get
a foot-hold in the land | love-th p
| Sunny South-nor do | want any So
ciaIism to find it's way into any Dem
ocratic platform.
Tot us quit abusing eacn other. 1t
| is almost certain that a majority OF the
voters of this country are opposed 90
| Republican principles. The great
question which confronts the oil
| Democratic party is how to unite tins
majority in opposition To what we all
know is wrong. We certainly cannot
do it if our leaders continue to criti-
else md distrust each other"
| Colonel A. B.. Andrews and his
secretary Mr.. Patterson, were here
TODAY
Representative Small, who has gone
| to Baltimore Will return to North
| Carolina tonight.
The Grape Growing Industry.
Chief Pathologist G. B. Bracket. of
the L. S. Agricultural Department, is
much interested in thu statement made
| in q recent letter to the Boston Tran
script from Columbia, S. c.. to the
effect that Commissioner Watson is
| working to find market for Scupper-
! nong grapes, and has secured an or
der for carload from a winemak-
! ing company in Herman, Mo. This
| will be made up from two Well-knoWn
South Carolina vineyards, and it is
| hoped by Commissioner Watson will
mark the revival and extension of an
industry which has run down since
the dispenSaTy law went into effect
forbidding the manufacture and sale OIL
wine The Missouri people will use the
scuppernong as a basic grape in MAX
Ling champagne.
| Prof. Bracket says tnaC large
quantities of scuppernong grapes from
1.-THE vineyards of tideWater Virginia
and North Carolina are now being
! turned into wine at Norfolk, Va. and
that it is the intention of the Agricul
turaI Department to make study of
the scuppernong grape in all its varie-
| ties in the expectation of being able
to learn much that will be of adVan-
tage to the grape growers of the At
! lantiC coast.
THE CHOLERA'S VICTIMS.