The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-13

"It has great advantage over the north in this respect, because it Is en- | abled to employ labor cheaper and to get better work out of It's laborers. This is
 because the working people of the south
 are not obliged to spend SD much money for clothing and for the other necessaries of life. Every section of the south Is still | rich In natural resources, and because We can get cheaper labor 1t is natural that
 with our resources we should in a few
 years take the lead in industrial develop
 ment. Men who ought to know say that
 the Birmingham district Is the richest iron section in the world, and I do not
 doubt that in time Birmingham will dic- tate the price of steel instead of Hitts- burg.
 Labor, of course, is problem, but we are solving it satisfactorily. Foreign la bor, in my opinion, never will be able to compete with the negro. While the ne- gro will not work steadily, he works
 harder and better. The Italian laborer is a steady worker. He will work every
 day in the year and live on little, but he will not work as effectively as tAe negro, because while the latter Is not so faith full, he accomplishes more than the 1tH.- ian or representatives of ther nationali- ties, for the reason that he Is better phys ical condition. A, negro will work per- haps 175 days in the year. When he has labored for few days he knocks off and | spends the money he has earned at the commissary But he gains strength work to do full days work. The negro of the south while at work, is worth two or three foreigners"
 Cotton planters in the south are tired of having the spinners and the cotton ex- changes dictate the price of the staple
 year in and year out. nearly always be- ing able to say what the planter shall
 get for his crop." said J. N. Cavanaugh of Atlanta, Ga.
 "All through the south, and especially in Georgia, the planters are preparing to launch a gigantic bonded warehouse scheme. which they are convinced will make them able to dictate the price of cotton and are convinced will make the buyers meet their terms instead of the buyers fixing the prices as they are prac- tically able to do now.
 "The plan is for warehouses to be built in all sections where cotton Is grown dis tributed throughout the cotton belt so that every large town shall have one. An immense capital will be raised among the farmers and bankers who are against gambling in cotton futures, and this will be used in the Construction of the ware
 houses. A farmer will be able to take his bales to the bonded warehouse, de- pisit them there. receive warehouse re- ceipts for them at approximately their full value, and on these he can go to the
 bank where he does business and, with
 the receipts for collateral. borrow from the bank nearly the face value of the re- ceipts. He can keep the cotton in the warehouse as long as he wants to by pay ing a small fee. and thus will not be ob- liged to sell to buyers until he so de-
 sires. The planters believe that this
 scheme will give them absolute command
 of the staple'
 Isn't he cutep' and "Ain't he grand" remarked the sweet girl who was watch ing the wheels of legislation grind slow 1 ly in the House of Representatives. She
 referred to little Representative Tirrell of
 Massachusetts and Representative Clay ton of Alabama. MT. Tirrell. the cute one mentioned, had charge of the bankruptcy b.ll. He Is the next smallest man in the House to Rep resentative Samuel Smith. He can't be heard more than 10 feet away but his speeches read we'll in the Record Rep- lresentative Clayton, representing the mi nority, ls just the opposite; biz, husky. 4p0N &ebotce that can be heard in 9tatu- at3 sN 41lo8 11nol61 2 1tenoUst vheet -do