The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-16
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 questionably many industries are being retarded by the scarcity of labor, and there is quite demand that the state should lend its aid towards securing more workers by importing them from some suggestion of bringing in cheap labor. coolies-and South Italians. l un- derstand that Alabama has only eight tenths of one per cent of foreign pop would be to the advantage of every species of interest to increase our citi- zenship, 1t would he very dangerous and hurtful proposition to increase that citizenship at the expense Of the qual- ity of citizenship. The introducing 8 low class of labor under the general labor conditions of the State today. would tend to level our present iapor and their pay to that class.
 More than 40. per cent of our popu- lation are negroes furnishing low order of labor. It is certainly a sul- ficient burden on the white men or i,, the up the negro, and can imagine no greater curse to the State than the introduction of a low class Of white labor.
 our people have emigrated. evidently because the conditions outside Of the State were better than those, within the State. The present development and competitive demand for labor in creasing wages, increasing the cost and value of product. would of itself tend to attract not only new labor, put aiso prevent the emigration Of our own people.
 Nearly all of our people are laborers, a very large percent of them dc man uai work. and very nearly all oi the balance. whether as clerk or mercnahs, employer or emp1oye. in the higher Iaid industrial and mercantile lines. depend on the price Of labor TOT what they make. and you couid strihe no more vital blow at their welfare than 10 introducef system of immi grafton that would tend to reduce the earning capacity of labor. on the farm, or III the office or factory, or eiseWnseIe, -s would caution you to not be led across the best interests of our people ana tne future of our State by the clamor oI those who, to promote some preSene false false position of introducing into our state a class of people that would hurt our best interest instead or anna ramating with our present clttzel shin and improving the future oI the p state. 1t is true that we want immigrants. immigrants built Cuiinlai. county, immigrants have spread eve. all of our north, south and. southeast counties and great many nave cou,rs 10 Jefferson county, and they are SUI coming. This natural Inflow and nat, 9I, ural increase of our population VII in time take. care of great many ,. oi 1T n0HA2HltiGE. tent ourselves with this influx and nat ural increase rather than take the rlsh of foreigners below reasonanle stanu ard of excellence and 1T the State Elves aid whether by the use of US name or means, to any immigration policy. if should be under many sa1eBuaros and restrictions.
 wa have in Alabama seo.oQo citizens of the colored or negro race. Tnese people are a part of our body polite and our duty to them and to ourselves is to help to remove from their way every obstruction to successful pro-
 was born and reared in Barbour county; have been affillateq1, s1,o Ti.n srst as slaves. afterwards as free men have worked, and am working. large areas of farm lands today with them the only laborers, and am familiar with all the environments attendins these two conditions. I have always felt friendship and lively interest in their welfare, and these suggestions to YOU and to them will be with the intent of kindness and the wish for good.
 am grieved to say that there is more friction now between the races than there has been for years, and ] believe that this friction is growing How to stop and reverse the current IS a question we'll worth our study ano their attention.
 It was an unfortunate experiment the United Statse made to take ne groes fresh from slavery, never mo ments education or information as to the principles and rules of govern ment, without knowledge or experience of freedom, with no conception of tht power or responsibilities of free citi' zen and free ballot. and with no ex' perience in even governing themselves their leadership being that of the car petbagger, a man new in our midst with unsympathetic and entirely Shy lock disposition, coupled with the seal awag, the publican of the South, ant backed by federal troops lately march ing as enemies. This conglomerate ol ignorance. cupidity. vice and power wal installed in governmental province an( made the ruling factor of this State.
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