Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-04-02

the last decade VIII pc seen TO
have been wise and philosophi-
cal.
At the court of present public
opinion in the South the follow
ing things as to the Afro-Ameri-
can have been. settled:
The white race shall control
the political development of the
Southern states, as it will ana
ought to control the political de-
velopment of the rest of the re-
public.
Agreement has been reached
that in insisting upon absolute
social separateness the South is
pursuing a far-sighted policy of
justice to both the negro as a
race and to the higher groups
that inhabit this nation and to
J civilization at large.
1t has been settled that train
ing in the industrial and manual
arts promises the best returns
in the development of the masses
of that race as useful factors in
/ economic life.
No amount of prophecy is 60
ling to settle this question, but it
is not prophecy but fact to as
sert that tho race is stead
Ii lily declining in the South and
must continue to decline in rela-
tive. numbers. Nearly a million
negroes now live ouside South
ern limits. In thirty years that
number will be increased so per
cent.
Agriculture remains, as of
old, the absorbing economic in
terest of Southern life. Agricul-
tural farm values aggregate to-
day S4,000,000,000; farm prod
ucts, $1,200,000,000, and 4,000,-
000males are engaged in this
work. ~
The great plantation has been
supplanted by the small farm,
constantly increasing in number.
The unit of the small farm ne
cessitates intensive and diversi-
fled production. Intensive and
diversified production presup-
poses a knowledge of scientific
agriculture.
: When, under the inevitable in
fluences of that great new indus
try subdivision, ill-tilled and I'M
= titled Southern lands are made
to quadruple their productive
/ ness, when lands now yielding
Z twenty bushels of corn to the
acre are made to yield fifty to
, sixty bushels, as is being done in
/ numbers of localities, the basis
{ of material prosperity will be
Y gained for the attainment of the
: higher things which the heart OF
5 man desires. In the South At
Z lantic States the area of i'm
r proved lands has increased 62
E per cent since the passing of
3 slavery. The production of gar
!. den vegetables, an unknown en-
t terprise in 1861, left $85, 100000
3 in Southern pockets in 1900
2 Two hundred thousand white
e settlers came into the South in
1 1906 and bought 100000 acres
4 of land.
J, While the states of the South
e still constitute the principal agri-
: cultural division of the nation, il
a was clearly inevitable that it's
f changed economic point of view
e should cause this section to cease
to be merely a producer of raw
: materials and become a con
h verter of these raw materials in
Y to useful products. The South.
\ erner did not have to learn this
4 industrial habit. He simply hac
: to relearn it, for he fought hare
: to make head against the logic Of
K slave economics and the menta
: paralysis caused by the protect
4 i've tariff. From 1916 to 1860 hi
n built more miles of railroad thar
: the New England and Middle
e States and expended over $780,.
: 100000 on mills and factories
$ Slavery gone and it's point Of
t view effaced, the whole process
: seemed clearer and worked itsel1
4 out easier.
Six thousand enterprises, pro.
n posing to convert raw materials
q into salable products began oper.
alton in the South in 1906. To