The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-08

aSriculture,- already successful and prosperous. with but little timber in the surroundfug country was therefore better able to cope with the great evil than any other section visited by the experts.
 Out of ali of which there has here tofore been set down there rises this question, ''Biood will tall Union town has met and solved the most ser ious industrial question which faces Ala abama. and that Is the question of scarce and inenicient labor and restor- ing the productivity of the Black Belt iands. The men of Uniontown have set to it and prepared for the future and in 90 doing established an example which may we'll inspire other portions of the Black Belt sorsiy beset by the bafne economic questions.
 The Csnebrake People.
 The Canebrake people are of Virginia and South Carolina descent. although a strain of the French blood that came to Marengo with the Bonapartists is still traceable. But in the Canebrake county every other man you meet bears a name, that the visitor can easily trace back to proud homesteads in the Old Dominion, or in the hardly less artsto- cratic South Carolina. And yet they are many generations removed from the
 
 has been settled for nearly hundred years and the big rush of rich immi- grants who brought their slaves. their letters of credit and their gold came in nearly seventy-fve years ago.
 John C.. Calhoun the great South Carolinian owned plantation a few miles from Faunsdale. His son An- drew Rickins Calhoun lived on 1t and on this plantation still cultivated still <..y npu patrirlr- ~ Calhoun the financier who is the storm center of the civic differences in San Francisco.
 In all the South there was no fairer spot than the Canebrake County in that opulent era which gave significance to the term ante-bellum South. Plan tation was linked to plantation. each with its manor house. each with it's quota of slaves. Heavy and costly car riages, the horses ciattering in silver mounted harness rumbled along the road as the ladies of the country gen. try indulged in the favorite past time of exchanging visits. And the young sprig, astride five hundred dollar saddle horse, followed by his black body servant galloped up tree shaded avenues to pillared houses, to so a. counting.
 
 of English country life and so, in this land which had been so lately wilder ness the ways and customs of England's But between that day. and this there has been a chapter of travail. of suffer- ing and of blood. The war was fought: the established order was overthrown, a wealthy and cultured civilization was torn up by the roots. But deeper loss than all this was undergone the flower of the Black Belt manhood. the choice of her men-the youngest the bravest and the most enterprise ing-they on whom the country looked to lean in after years were shot. to pieces on a thousand battle fields. | This was the keenest the greatest sorrow that came in the wake of war The rest could have been repaired. But the lost strength of the Black Belt that died on the Southern battle- fields was never restored.
 The Black Belt could be nothing but slow in solving the problems that dogged and harrassed 1t, when hearth stones were empty of sons and hus- bands True to its tradition the Black Belt turned first to its politiced pro- l blems. A servant race had become master race. Such a condition could not endupe. The white men of the | Black BeN could have been extermin- ated; but no earthly power could have made them endure the domina- tion of the negro. First this problem, political in its natpre. was mst and solved.
 l The Industrial Problems.
 The industrial problems, which came out of the conclusion of the war I were as thick as that cloud of troubles which flew from Pandora'sN NboE They l wal And IJniontown because as a community 1t has gone farther than other section of the Alabama Black Belt Is given study and consideration of a type--as an object lesson.
 This is neither the time nor the