The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-05
LABOR PROBLEM
IN THE SOUTH
Is Main One Facsng the Cotton
Producer
LAND QUITE PLENTIFUL
Birmingham Girl Declares That She
Had Much Rather Get Married
Than To Take Up Cause of
Woman Suffrage
BY ROBERT LEE CARTER

New York. June 4.-(special)-Every
Hike this:
THE south ought to raise much more
cotton than she does and to handle il
more scientifically and economically. And
her monopoly of it cannot fail eventually
to make her the richest section in the
world of like area
1t Is an easy thing to sit in a New
York office and raise, pick and market
cotton crop, but it is little different
to go on southern plantation and do
IT, / have talked with a number of
southern men in New York who know
cotton from the seed to the CLOTH So
Tar as land is concerned the south could
raise 100000 and still have land avail
able for more. cotton. But there is not
labor to cultivate. gather and market
much, If any, more cotton than is now
raised. 1t is purely a question of labor
and profit. There is no need for Ger
many, France and England to hunt for
more cotton land; there is plenty of it
here. If they will solve the labor prob
lem for the south she will furnish all the
cotton the world can use and pay a rea-
sonabe profit on.
: I notice recently that some of the Eng
lish spinners have recognized this fact
and have purchased $4,000 acres of Mis-
sissippi bottom land and will raise their
owns cotton. If they can people their
purchases with the right kind of labor
they will find they have solved their
problem
What do you think of Senator Bailey
Af in NH baf 10 ha bal inf
for the soft Stetson and Jim swinger'
for years, but at last he has succumbed
and at a recent dinner he sported a
"stove pipe" Of the latest fashion.
What his CO. stituents in Texas will
say to this when they hear of it will be
Interesting.
The brown cook from Dixie who makes
life a joy and every meal a delight in
q certain uptown home sent in for dessert
the other night chocolate pudding that
was a triumph of pudding perfection. 1t
80 happened that the mistress of the
mansion, going into the kitchen shortly
after the meal, found the remainder OF
the pudding untouched by the cook.
Emma" said the mistress, why don't
you eat some of that chocolate pud-
ding? 1t is so good
Thank you. Miss Mary" replied brown
Emma. II don't never eats nothing my
color"
II any one wonders If southern women
are Interested in the suffrage question,
all they have to do is to note the amuse-
ment, Indifference and even bored looks
with which mention of the subject is
received in any, gathering of those anna
BILE ladies. A certain southern man,
having married a lady from the north
who is enthusiastic in the suffrage cause
took her to Birmingham, Ala, on their
wedding journey. She was charmed
with the sweet, joyous, apparently care
free life, loved his gentle. refined and
merry sisters. On her return to the north
she wrote from the fullness of her heart,
told them of her plans and hopes for the
'cause." and concluding, said: 1.-The time
has come for women to rise Yes, to rise
and rise together and work for this
cause. Will you not join me and stir
up the women in your town and interest
them, too?'' she appealed. isn't this
funny?' said one sister, when she read
It, II believe I'd lots rather get mar
ried. wouldn't you, Nel?" she said to
the other sister.
'If man must drink-and all of us
would be better without it-let him get
the straight goods and drink it straight. :
said Col. N. M. Chambers of Louisville.
"Nearly all of the whisky that is sold
poisoned The government licenses this
nefarious business so productive of sud
den and premature death. The blenders
will take a barrel of real Kentucky Bour-
bon or real Pennsylvania rye, mix 1t
with two barrels of that Peoria vileness,
put little sugar and parched dried
peaches into it to give it smoothness and
flavor, and add to the connection enough
bead oil to give it countenance, and
that is what causes so much heart fail
ure and Brights disease that are so con-
spicuous in the obituary columns of the
daily papers.
George Washington drank the best
liquor" continued the Kentuckian, "and
he drank 1t straight and the same Is
true of Andrew Jackson. Jackson, how
ever, preferred his. rather young, and
would drink 1t new from the worm. When
stephen A. Douglas appeared at Nash
VILE in 1860 he drank two full goblets of
fine whisky just before his magnificent
speech"
J. c. Maben, president of the Sloss-
Sheffield Steel and Iron company, who
came on from Birmingham, Ala. to at
tend the regular monthly meeting of
the directors of the Sloss company, says
as yet no material change has taken
place in the iron situation in the south.
except a curtailment in production. So
far this reduction has been at the rate
of about 100000 tons year for the whela
United States, but he believes it should
he carried to the extent of 100000 to
100000 tons more. Mr.. Maben points
out. however. that he realizes that there
may be a material change in the iron
situation within a short time.
might riding In the country around
Union City, Tenn, has not been thor
oughly stamped out said =. F. BarKe"
of ClarksviIle. Tenn. Mr.. Barker owns
large tract of timber land near Reelfoot
lake, in Obon county, where the night
riders were active year ago.
Governor Patterson temporarily put a
uuietus on the activities OF the riders,
who made their headquarters around
Reelfoot lake, and while there have been
no outrages of the kind which resulted In
sending state troops there a year ago,
and the arrest and conviction OF many
of the riders, 1t is believed in Union
City that the organizations are not
broken up by any means. They are just
simply lying low. and the trouble will
start again when the company that owns
Reelfoot lake attempts to drain 1t. 10
reclaim thousands of~acres of immensely
valuable farming land. This was what
caused the trouble before. because the
fishermen who make their living from
the lake believed that the land under the
lake belonged to the public.s