The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-01

farms and plantations to the negro tenant and to the negro worker. H.
 has not carelessly fanded over the | ceuntry's wealth producing possibilitiei ' to the most ignorant and most shiftles! I of It's population.
 It Is still fashionable to live on the farm in the wiregrAss. The white
 man doesn't feel called upon to rush tc
 the towns, and leave the negfo to do as | he will with the farms.
 | In this condition. in thIs condition | alone. Is found the reasons of the great industeial development or the white counties and particularly those of the | Wiregrass. se Ss Some of the most beautiful islands ir | the world rise from the waters of the Pacific. verdure clad, fertile and rich | in every one of natures promises to man. These islands, dreams of delight to the approaching sailor are made. by an insect almost infinitesimai in size made through long years of effort. As the little insect dies its body cpngeales lsinto a hard mass, but little more than 1 a speck. But another Insect dies, and another speck Is added to the first, and still another until, as the years pass. the congeaied mass rises steadily until the waves break over its top, mass that rises from the old oceans floor to the sunlight above.
  Wiregrass built up by one small farm linked to another. The white farmer with his small farm has done it There are no plantations the size of prince ly domain in the Niregrass. Tn its system of agricultural economics there is no place for them. The farm that has 100 acres Is a big farm down here. They are as small as forty acres in size, and even smaller, seme of them. The average farm is perhaps less than sixty acres in size. But whether they are sixty acres or 100 acres, every acre is productive, every acre contributes sometnling to the farmer and to the common good. Negro Cuts no Figure.
 In Covington County the negro is not important enouglrto cut any figure in it's system of industry Tn agricul- ture he is negligible quantity. He plays DO part oG ary consequence in farming. There are some negroes in Covington County hut they gravitatc naturally to the cornty's big lumber mills and to its many turpentine camps. The negro never looks to the future It Is not in him to bear toll and priva- ton in the present, that he may have an assured and comfortable future An occupation which affords a pay day ev- cry Saturday night Is Infinitely prefer able to him to one. the rev ards Of which are to be delayed twelve months, no matter how promising those re- wards may be 4A-h
 While the growth of Andalusia has especially been emphasized, the devel- opment of 'Covington County has been no less marked, What the white far mer has done for Anialusia, that too he has done for Covington County.
 Fortunate in Population.
 We have been fortunate in our ad- ditions to our country population said Probate Judge Robinson. Tn propor- tion our country population has in- creased as rapidly as has the population of our towns. such as Andalusia, Flor ala, Opp and Red Level. Nor has all this increase been along the lines of the two railroads. covington County has attracted some of, the best farmers in the State from the older counties It Is worthy of note that these well come additions to our farming popula- tion have come from Alaabma and from Georgia, people who are in harmony and accor" with our own people
 You no doubt remember the distinc- tion given Covington county by the last census, which demonstrated that 1t grew faster than any county in Ala bama and 1t Is said faster than any county in the United States. The cen sus figures showed that Covington county increased it's population between the census of 1890 and the census of 1900. by 10S per cent. No other county made so fine showing.
 tion of 15,54s. I believe firmly that