The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-18
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"A few years ago the South was cry ing against immigration. Today the South calls more loudly than any part of the earth for the immigrant. This makes what have been pleased to call the first of several giants that are clps- ing in upon the negro.
 Tn the southern part of Alabama, where we never had any blight from the civil war. there are the finest lands on earth, and old mansions that cost from s60.000 to s70,o00. The lands are going to waste, the mansions are rot ting down, and the people are actually not able to make a living In one of the richest sections of the world, and 1t is due to the lack of white labor and the incompetency of the black man, who has been made trifling through injus- tice, and who has become dreamer through the harangues of the negroes and supposed northern friends, and who seek in the towns and cities to live as the white men live. Against this the appointment of a- commissioner of im- migration for the State of Alabama and the opening of bureau for immigrants in New York and Chicago to specially look after immigrants for the South make an appalling picture
 Gods Purpose.
 When one recalls the garden-like ef- feet of all European countries and re- members that no twig is thrown away, not even a bunch of briers goes to waste, he can feel that God ordained from the first that this southland should have the same attention as the Piedmont hills of the Alps. That these valleys should be like the valleys of the Rhine, the Ural and the Danube; these hills should be like the hills of Switzerland and Scotland; that the swamps of Arkansas should be so diked that their foul waters will be pitched Into the sea, and the great tracts of land be given for the cultivation of man, as are the flat lands of Holland; that the swamps of Florida should be redeemed from the waste, as have the and the towns be inhabited wherein in- dustries and happy people abound; that the grapes should turn purple in the autumn sun along the hillsides, and that cattle should browse along the valleys. The people who have made this picture in other lands arc knock ing persistently at the door of the
 But yesterday 1, ,ooo, 900 acres was set aside in South Carolina for immigrants. But yesterday the Commercial Club of Birmingham appointed Q committee to hunt for immigrants for Alabama. One thousand a day are taking their homes in Texas, where there was never any great love for the negro. Already the monied powers of New York have peti- tioned the United States Congress to take down the barriers to the Chinese who wish to emigrate to these shores. When the Chinaman becomes the most honest and the best servant in the Southland as he has shown himself to be wherever he has served in the world. then the labor of the servant Is taken away from the negro When the people find that their door knobs even in the country, can be polished and their door steps and walkways even to the gates are kept clean by servants. who recog- nize that they are hired and paid money to work, the insolence and worry of the negro servant as IL Is now. will have an end put to 1t.
 European Labor
 When the European who has been used to hard work begins to make bale and a half of cotton to where the negro makes but half bale, when he redeems the galled places on the farms. fills up the gullies. digs ditches and makes the land to blossom as the rose. after the fashion that the Whaldenses have done in Burk county. North Caro- lima. then the farm labor will pass from the hands of the negro forever. Even now the largest estimate given of his labor on the farm in the South is 40 per cent and in Alabama am told that the labor he is content to perform is not more than 25 per cent. The best coun- ty for cotton is not ir the rich lands of Southern Alabama, but In the poor hills of North Alabama. where the white man is at work and where no ne- gro lives.
 "These immigrants, to my mind. make a giant against which the negro can never stand. If he will lay aside his foolishness and cease to be a trifling loafer in the cities and towns, and iml- tate the more steady, intelligent and in- dustrious of his race. then the Southern white man will unite with him and try and help him over his difficulties and keep as long as possible the giant from choking the life out of him.
 There is another giant of equal, if not greater proportions He may be described in the phrase, poor white trash.' He is the man who was in slavery during the time the negro was supposed to be the slave; he had abso" lutely no chance for himself or his off spring; no feudal system, no class dis tinotion in any European land ever made a life more hopeless than was his. When the war was over he was repre- sented in such fine grained men as the one who died the other day in North Carolina, who by the labor of head and hands, starting with six hundred dol- lars after the war, had accumulated many millions at the day of his death.
 AntagOniam of White Labor.
 'This class has decraad that all RlIill-