The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-14

ginia, who has lived for many years In Africa, says: This Is no sectional no political matter. and they who think Il such think but shallowly. IL Is a racial, radical, vital question The white race must make all, according to the pattern shown on the Mount; the Instant the black man attempts to intrude hs pat tern In that mould, or sweep his brush on that canvas where the white man Is painting his souls vision there Is going 10 be trouble, anywhere everywhere and always to the end Not because the white man hates the black man, but be- cause he loved his ideal. Look. learn. initiate the white man as long and as much as he pleases, may the black man, so long as he keeps his will power from the ark's shelm that is guiding the white race to It's own God-ordained ha- ven. continent, enriched with all the vast, undeveloped and unseen treasures of the tropics, waits the black mans mastery The glory of a race calls to him for it's unveling and up- lifting, and the wisdom and power of God say, Amen, Hear oh black man. and go up through fire to thy cross and to thy throne
 "I have weighed the opinions of many others, but these suffice for my purpose The trend of events now give greater significance to the words than when ut tered.
 Immigration.
 "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 I have been pleased to call the first of several giants that are clos ing in upon the negro.
 "In the southern part of Alabama, where we never had any blight from the civil war, there are the finest lands on the earth, and old mansions that cost from s6OO00 to s70,00O. The lands are go- ing to waste, the mansions are rotting down, and people are actually not able to make a living in one of the richest sections of the world, and it is due to the lack of white labor and the incom- potency of the black man, who has been made trifiing through injustice, and Who has become a dreamer through the ha- of the negroes and supposed northern friends, and who seek in the towns and cities to live as he sees the white man live Against this the ap- poIntment of a commissioner of immi- grafton 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 tile first that this southland should have the same attention as the Pied mont hills of the Alps That these val leys should be like the valley Of the Rhine, the Ural and the Danube; these hills should be. like the hills of Swtzer- land and Scotland; that the swamps Of Arkansas should be so dked 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 swamps around Ham, burg. in Germany, an the towns be in- habited wherein industries 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 are knocking persistenty at the door of the southland.
 "But vesterday 100000 acres was set aside in South Carolina for immigrants. But yesterday the Commercial club or appointed committee 10 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 moned powers of New York have peti- toned the United States Congress to take down the barriers to the Chinese who wish to emgrate 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 recognize that they are hired and paid money to work the insolence and worry of the negro as 1t is now, will have an end put to 1t.
 European Labor.
 "When the European who has been used to hard work begins to make q bale and half of cotton to where the negro makes but half a bale. when he redeems the galIed places on the farms, fills up the gullies. digs ditches and makes the land to blossom as the rose, after the 1 fashion that the Whaldenses have done in Burk county, North Carolina, then the farm labor will pass from the hands of the negro forever. Even now the largest estimate given of his labor on !
 
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