Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1905-09-23

York Commercial and Financial
Chronicle" published statistics show
ing that The number of bales of cot
ton produced from 1929 to 1862 was
(S2.S70,77S) eighty-two million.
eight-hundred and seventy thousand.
seven hundred ami seventy-eight
bales.
The value of this cotton for one
year upon the basis Of sac per bale
was ($10O,449.400) one hundred mil
lion. four hundred and forty-nine
thousand. four hundred dollars. No
conservative white man viii deny
that previous TO the Civil War prac-
tically all Of the cotton was produced
by Negro labor. But we viii give
the Negro credit for only so per cent
Of it and the value for one year is
($SO.359,520) eighty million. three
hundred and fifty-nine thousand. FIVE
hundred and twenty dollars. Ex-
tending over the period from the
year of 1929 TO 1862. a period of
thirty-three years, il would be (S2.
651.S64,160) TWO billion, six hun
.dred and ffty-one million, eight hun
dred and sixty-four thousand. one
hundred and sixty dollars. Rev.
Dixon. we are not figuring upon the
wheat rye. oats. tobacco. sugar. mo-
lasses, corn and the products of the
truck-farms produced by us. We
are not figuring. sir upon the un-
requited labor given by us from the
year of 1919 down TO the year of
1899. We take only thirty-three
years of that time and before YOU
send US all 10 Africa and thereby
discharge as. we should like much
90 have a settlement OF the old score
and We would like for you to give us
the proceeds Tor our own use on At
rica's shores.
If YOU have expended eight hun
dred million dollars ia educating us
we find that YOU owe us only one
thousand, eiel- hundred and fifty
one million. eight hundred and sixty
four Thousand. one hundred and six
ty dollars i'm striking a balance on
cotton alone
II is only fair. Rev Dixon, in fig
uring out what YOU have done for US
TO balance &c with what we have done
for YOU TIE value OF the cotton
crop producsJ by the Negroes since
1865 TO 1902. a period of forty-one
years, is CSfGS67416) sixty-seven
million. eight hundred and sixty
seven thousand, four hundred and
sixteen dollars per year. This COM
putation is giving the Negroes credit
for only thirty per cent of the total
cotton crop Upon the same basis.
the value for forty-one years was
CS2.7S2,564.056) two thousand. sew
en- hundred and eighty-two million.
FIVE hundred and sixty-four thousand
and dfty-six dollars. We are not
referring 70 the other products OF
the Southland
Every country in the world is AZ
ter laborers and fighting shy OF lag
CARDS. Yet Rev. Dixon would take
away from the South this wealth
producing element in order 70 salts
~ a brutal and unreasoning race
prejudice. In disturbing the present
Industrial conditions. he would bank
rupt the south and place It ten times
further back than IL was forty years
ago after a ruinous and desolating
war Surely. no enemy OF this sec
ton could make a more injurious Of
fer, or submit a more damaging pro-
position.
There are sections In the South
land, where Rev. Dixon could not
"roost" twelve hours II it were
known that he came 70 bring about
a practical realization of the condi-
tions he portrays. In other sec
tions, he would be treated as a lun-
attic with water on the brain and a
commission of lunacy would be speed
lily called to pass upon his mental
condition. Far be it from US to
claim or even hint that Rev. Dixon
is crazy. There is too much method
in his madness.
He ventures the assertion that col
onization has never been tried and we
think that we have produced enough
statistical information TO demon
strate that it never will be.
Rev. Dixon concludes as follows:
We owe this TO the Negro. At
present we are deceiving him and al
lowing him TO deceive himself. He
hopes and dreams Of amalgamation,
forgetting that self-preservation is
the first law of Nature. Our present
attitude Of hypocrisy is inhuman to-
ward a weaker race brought to our
shores by the sins of our fathers.
We owe him a square deal, and we
will never give 1t to him on this Con-
tinent.
Rev. Dixon seems to figure ginger
ly on what his people owe us. After