Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-12-06

/ uANA dit GUMS " oNhooA 1hN oNNNANi-
ing healthy bodies IN the open air
and healthy surroundings OF country
life instead Of being shut up In the
cotton mill, oyerwoEked, under-edu.
Gated and poorly developed physical
ly--as the tendency must be in all
cotton mills so long as the legisla'
lures of the South are too subseryient
to the less humane min owners 20 enact
needed laws OF restricting child labor
in the mills-the less humane mill
owners, we say, because there are
many thoughtful aud far.seeing mill
owners who heartily favor strictor
regulations.
Remember. We have no III will to
ward the cotton manufacturers; We
have no IN will toward the negro.
We do realize very strongly. however,
that the safety OF the South depends
upon the presence OF large white
rural population. The drift 20 the
towns and the cotton mills not only
Affects this directly. but also Indirect
ly. because when onoe the population
OF community becomes predominant.
ly negro, the small number OF white
people left may be forced TO move
out In order to End sufficient numbers
for a society OF their own.
1T was wise saying OF James
divers. Happy Is the land that Is
titled by the man who owns g. and
the great need OF the South today Is
to encourage the holding OF small
farms by white farmers We repeat
that We say this IN 40 IN will 90 the
negro-ln fact, Il should not be neees.
gary for Us TO say this, because no
one else In the South has preached
more persistently than We the doctrine
that II Ia the intelligent, prosperous
negro who helps, and the ignorant
poyerty.breedlng negro who makes un
all poorer-hut We say this for the
good OF white aud black alike be-
cause the best lntereets Of both races
demand that the rural South maintain
he large white population. Unless
this IL done the negro himself will
not progress as rapidly ~ he viii with
white guidance. and unless this n
done, the cities Of the South must also
inevitably go backward.
we urge every tenantfarmer. and
especially every white man who for
any reason Is thinking OF becoming
somebody's hired man IN town instead
Of owning his home IN the country,
70 buy land. Tho great plantations Of
the South. for the good Of Our section
as a whole. must be- broken ~. We
must encourage the spirit 81 home.
owning with every man sitting under
his own vine and Ok tree. and We
must especially encourage the d.
velopnent Of q great class Of small
white farmers.
The saving Of the rural South 70
the white race II one u the most in.
portant problems now before the peo
pie Of the Cotton Belt
In this connection. there IL another
thing that ought TO b. mentiOaed. end
that h. the problem 81 immigration.
The Farmers Union and other farm
ers' organizations are right 10 pro
testing against the cOmfng % large
numbers o. italians. Russians. Hun.
gaFians. Poles. ete. This would ouly
make a bad matter worse. and coon.
plicais matters siill further What
would help however. h the coming q
a large HumbeF 81 sideaWako North.
eru and Western farmers. bBYing
small farms among De and makaBF
their farms obieci lessons 81 stock
raising and other Uses Of diversified
agriculture. These Northern and
farmers wiIi aiso set . GOOD
example for eur sOathaFn people Ia
that they are ready 20 % any snd
aii kinds % u0rk with their 0sn
hands. eutifeiy indegsudeht % hired
labor Asa Boushernef. reared o. the
farm and q descendant q geneFatsshn
~ s0ufheu farmers. 80 muai eosfess
TIE Hoed ~ Our people ~ chs paint.
ard ne hsiD tk1f 80 WoaA ga heFe
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