The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-09
NEGOTIATING THE SOUTH WITH THE
HOOK WORM OF MENDICANCY

would avoid the easy path to Hell.
Non-resistance is a sure promise tnat
the Southern white people will ultl-
mately be deprived even of the ma
teriaI results Of the development OF
their natural resources.
Compulsory school attendance, in
it's origin a means of furtherlng the
'child-labor" agitation by false pre-
tense, worked out to it's extreme IN
tent. will deprive Of thou
sands Of whites of the opportunity OF
becoming trained to follow their par
ents' footsteps in paths of industry
and independence; it will reduce the
equipment Of operatives in Southern
cotton mills to a point where negro
operatives will have to be substituted
and, consequently, where all the
whites will be driven from the en-
ployment which during the past uar-
ter Of a century has been one OF
most potent agencies in lettering the
condition Of a vast army OF Southern
whites.
Reinforcement by Southern whites,
at the sacrifice of their own legitimate
interests, of educational and economic
energies directed from other parts of
the country for the urpos of max
ing the South the most attractive
place in the world for negroes is the
DoSC uct1Cc l1dI CO01O w ~
prevent the proper solution of the ne
gro problem by scattering the ne
groes through the country, the best
device to keep the negroes from be-
coming next door neighbOrs of ne
grophile ''philanthropists," the best
device to hobble Southern progress.
Seducing the South into support
ing schemes TO keep the negroes
massed there is an effective means.
when supplemented by sensational
publications in the North and West,
of checking the natural instinct Of
thrifty men in other parts Of the
country. whether natiVe-bOrn or COM
ing from portions Of Europe where
Caucasian elements dominate, to move
to the portion Of the country where
nature offers the greatest returns for
human enterprise and industry. But
as a means of checking desirable i'm
migration and, consequently, easing
down the South to becoming a party
to the scheme to dump upon the
South the undesirable Of great cities
in the North and their ev~er-increas-
ing hordes Of newcomers, it cannot
touch the effect of the false impress
| sions about the South and it's people,
created by the $1,000, 900 aims for
the "eradication of hook worms"
If the schemes here briefly men,
toned are permitted to work out to
their logical conclusion in a division
Of Southern whites about secondary
matters, however moral" injected
into their politics under the financial
nageme of the schemers, the
remnant Of the upright South will
be in a far worse plight than were
the whites there in Reconstruction
Days, and they will be absolutely help
less to block plans to validate,
through the legislation of a horde Of
mOngrels cooperating with
whites, the evidences held in other
parts Of the country of Justly repu-
dated attempts at robbery in h car
nival Of crime in the '70's. Upright
whites will be obliged then to sacri-
flee the results of two generations Of
a struggle against adverse circum-
| stances that a aroused the admira-
ton of informed intelligence every
where and to find refuge in alien
lands. The remaining whites Of the
South will be hook worms prompt TO
fasten upon any ~provender, however
debased.
The South is confronted by the
greatest danger to its welfare and
happiness that has ever assailed any
respectable people. The million-dol-
lar Hook Worm Benefaction should
be repudiated as promptly as were
the benefactions of the visiting phil
anthropists'' Of 1~S65-1876. The two
regulations would touch the same in
idu in some cases.
The hook-worms that the South
should eradicate from itself are those
that would hook it to degradation.
ABOUT GROWING WHEAT
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