The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-09
(The Manufacturers' Record.)

IT the white people or the Soutn
wish their progeny to escape the dan
ger Of becoming parasites deserving
the contempt Of self-respecting intel
1igence, they should lose no time in
delaney with which they themselves
are being inoculated.
Fit complement to the $52,000,0O0
endowment of his Educational Trust
Is John D. Rockefeller's 100000
Hook Worm Benefaction. When GER
tain impulsive Southerners have
cooled off from their enthusiasm over
q million dollars that specifically JUS
titles the essentially vulgar assump-
ton i nthe ook worm letter that the
Southern people are willing to accept
aims In return for hospitality, they
may be able to perceive the intimate
relation etWee a persistent hook
worm sensation maintained for many
months in popular literature primed
from New York and the latest bit Of
philanthropy" from that quarter on
behalf Of the South. This propa-
ganda, hung upon facts long
recognized but no rea basis for I'M
due excitement, has misled the
try and created a false impression
as to the health conditions in the
0OuIl. IL 1S III d par Will u
the fa~r-reaching work one in mis-
representing the South from every
point of view, making it appear a
land of beggars first and now a land
of disease. If the South will study
the matter, It's perception may expand
into q realization OF the fact that the
success Of divers "philanthropies,"
with headquarters in New York and
more or less closely allied in person
~n1 49, - I 49,
degradation of the South and the
consequent destruction of the integrity
OF the American people.
; These "philanthropies," with just
enough Of the shadow of truth in
their pretexts to beguile earnest, kind
hearted, honest, and 50, unwary men
and women, have emerged in the fol-
lowing order:
= For the elimination of "child la
Dor" from Southern cotton mills. by
absolutely misrepresenting the condi-
lions and for the delaying Southern
Industrial progress.
; For universal education in the
eouth. including like training for
blacks and whites" for the purpose
Of advancing the negroes at the ex-
pense of the whites.
4, For immigration of foreigners alien
In origin INC in instincts to all that
1LdS ltu Ill I'D nd u L., Will
the intention Of dumping New YOrk's
congested foreign population upon the
South.
b For the eradication of the hook
worm from Southern soil and the
Southern people, when the real prob
lem is that Of permitting the South
10 work out upon a basis Of self-re-
spect and self-reliance it's policy for
furnishing to hundreds Of thousands
NJ tho nn0ror class Of whffoc ctoo6v
Me1l-paid employment, SO h a the eff
4ects Of a century Of mental and phys
teal s~em1-starvation a of lack
OF work may be overcome.
:. More than a hundred million dol
aars represents the capitalization Of
these enterprises, distinctly hostile to
every influence that has made for
good in American institutions. but a
frffle compared with the results that
their success would bring to their pro-
motion.
: This vast endowment for the de-
bauchery OF the people Of the South
Is an unmerited gratuitous insult to
the untainted intelligence Of hat sec
ton. and 1t Is not mitigated in the
least degree by the fac that through
salaries, pensions and honors of va
rous kinds some naives OF the South
have been induced to blind themselves
to impending catastrophe, and even
many others directly concerned in the
movements do not realize what the
outcome may be.
The population of the United States,
numbering $1,000 0o. in 1860 had
wealth aggregating $4,000, 900. 900.
The population OF the South today,
$1,000, 900, or 1000, 900 less than the
total population Of the country in
1860. has wealth ~aggregating $22,-
900, 600. 900, OF $1,000 OO,0 900 more
than the total wealth Of the country
in 1860. With such wealth and with
it's equipment in things material the
South ought to make it impossible
for any whiting beggar, whether presi-
dent or professor of a university or
college, declasse clergymen, public of
fetal, or any other being, white OF
black, to find comfort save in thu