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 LABOR IN-THE SOUTH. I cultivating, ourselves, small areas. He is willing to cut down a chestnuttree 'I' for them, they cannot be persuaded to "
 The | This leads to intensive farming. for this season's fruit and to let
 Negro a Failure as a Skilled enjoy these advantages.American
 2d. This of
 scientific his land
 Laborer--Unfitness course means waste and wash for this sea- ..
 for a Peas- farming. We must educate the rising son's harvest. Cultivator.
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 .
 antrY--The Remedy. generation of whites so that they may Prof. White thinks that the hope of ----- ----

 The understand scientific agriculture. Our the South is improved and intensive The Florida Printing House.
 Augusta Ga.
 ( ,) Weekly Chronicle State scientific and agricultural schools farming ; that the negro is incapableof The Editor of the DISPATCH finds

 of the 17th inst., gives an accountof must be built up and fostered. The the training that will convert him the following in the Daily Hotel News,

 an interview with Prof.H. C. White, same is true of the mechanic arts, and into a skilled artizan or scientific planter and knowing it to be
 altogether true
 who occupies the chair of Chemistryand this is where our technological schools and that the best way to become j
 and
 just, he takes the of I
 Agricultural Science in the Uni- must come in, to raise up young me- independent of him is to bring the liberty print-
 :I chanics and train Southern labor." white planter and laborer up to a high- ing it in this journal entirely "unbe I
 of
 versity Georgia, and who has been
 knownst" ,
 standard and work for immigrationin to the proprietor:
 IMMIGRATION.
 one of Augusta's appreciated guests "This cultivating the North and in Europe. "There is no more complete, conveniently -
 system thoroughly -
 the
 past winter. Prof. White had just i small farms will leave a large | arranged and elegant in all its

 returned from the meeting of State amount of unoccupied and uncultivated i We are confronted here, in Florida, appointments, establishments of its

 farmers in Columbus, Ga., where his land-larger than now remains. I by the same perplexing labor problem, kind in the South than the Book and

 striking address upon the subject of Now, to make a country prosperousand in an aggravated form ; and we com- Job Printing Book Stereotyping, Electrotyping -
 Binding and
 improving labor in the South, has to increase our present population mend the subject to the calm and earn- House of Mr. Chas. W. DaCosta Publishing, Nos.
 and in order that this prosperity
 developed much comment in a new and est consideration of our thoughtful 21 and 23 Pine street, this city. The
 come before the succeeds in
 may
 negro
 improved direction. readers.-ED. business of Mr. DaCosta was estab-
 ruling or ruining this country, we '
 The Chronicle sought out Prof.: White must work for immigration. That is lished some years since by the Ash-
 while in Augusta, not only on accountof our only hope." AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. mead Bros., he succeeding to it in
 his and 1884. Mr. DaCosta is also now the
 genial "What is ?
 engaging
 manners, your specific plan
 Lack of Students-Not Wise to Make
 but for his bold publisher and sole proprietor of that
 and practical ideas. "I think the State, the railroads and
 Prof. White is any More Appropriations.The excellent agricultural journal the
 a man who adorns any I associations of individuals should unite ,
 sphere in life, and who leaves the im- I in advancing the interests of the Statein Presidents of Cornell (University FLORIDA DISPATCH, which is devotedto
 Florida
 press of a scholar and practical worker the North and West and in Eu- agricultural interests. The
 upon everything he touches. rope, where thousands of immigrantsand of the Pennsylvania State Agri- paper alone has a circulation of 4,500

 The Chronicle asked the Professor thousands of settlers are seeking cultural College, and other prominent copies and enjoys a large and lucrative

 about his address in Columbus, in homes and would come South if the agricultural educators, recently went advertising patronage. Mr. DaCosta's

 which he showed up the negro as a matter was properly presented to to Washington, and appeared before establishment kind is truly a model of its
 failure as a skilled laborer, and de- them." being almost entirely equippedanew
 the Commmittee
 clared the unfitness of the class for a "The idea is not to pay people to Congressional on Agriculture in its every department and its
 to urge the enactment of the working material, thereby enabling
 peasantry.As come South, but we can advertise and
 The Chronicle has already no- encourage them to come South. An bill giving $15,000 per annum to each him to turn out none but neat, first-

 ticed, Prof. White, on the labor ques- appropriation of $5,000 a year wouldbe of the Agricultural colleges established class work. Mr. DaCosta is yet a

 tion said that the great necessity of sufficient to publish pamphlets and 11 under the Morrill act of 1862. These young 8 man 1856, born in this city December
 Georgia was distribute them and is thoroughly conversant -
 a peasantry. What he even employing an
 means by a peasantry is intelligentand agent to look after Georgia's interest gentlemen are quite confident that the with every branch of his business -

 scientific laborers, such as France, abroad." bill will become a law, and that the having served complete apprenticeship -

 England, and even down-trodden Ire- "What a great thing, for instance, institutions with which they [are re- to the oldest offices of the r "

 land have. He had nothing to say would it be for the Central Railroad to spectively connected will be so bene- State. He was for a long time fore-

 against! the negro, but it was a well- employ agents to induce immigrants fitted by this liberal endowment that man of the job room of the florida
 TimC8-
 Union
 known fact that he is incapable of receiving to settle along the lines of its road. It having resigned that
 each one will commence a new career position to engage in his es
 scientific instruction. In dis- would pay them an hundred fold by present 
 diecussing this subject he knew he was building up their country and devel of usefulness. The great trouble with tablishment. Mr. DaCosta conductsone

 laying himself open to criticism, but oping their property in every way." : agricultural colleges appears to be a of the largest publishing businessin

 the labor question is the most important The Chronicle then to lack of students. Take, for instance, the Southeast" and is withal a live
 proceeds comment business man.
 to the Georgia farmer.NO "the School of Agriculture and Horti
 the ..
 editorially, upon foregoing, ---- '
 PEASANTRY HERE. culture,"established in connection with
 follows
 as : THE FLORIDA FRUIT EXCHANGE.It
 "Well," said Professor White, "I Harvard University. It has on its list .
 took this Prof. White's views must command
 f\ "Here we ground have: a State of fine cli national attention. Is the labor question of professors some of the ablest scienI I Must, be kept Alive and Moving I

 mate with a soil naturally good and at the bottom of all our troubles, tists in the country, who are above all

 susceptible of greater improvement! and is the negro, whose tribe is increas sham, and who are thoroughly versed Editor Florida Dispatch:

, but the country is absolutely a ing every year on our hands, a failureon in the branches which they teach. Yet As showing the firm faith in the
 peas-
 antry. The people who cccupy the be answered.the farm?* These* questions* must* this school, well endowed, thoroughly Florida Fruit Exchange existing on

 less rank class of peasants are an ignorant,shift- Prof. White is a practical man. He organized, and with opportunities for the Halifax, and the determination
 seemingly desirous of
 self advancement." not; thinks deeply and talks carefully. His e | practical as well as scientific education among the planters there that it shall

 "There is among them a low state of wise and conservative in his speech has but four pupils. This is less not fail, I beg to hand you a letter

 morality and little disposition to ac and temperament, and such sentiments than the number of instructors. Last received from J. D. Mitchell, of Day-

 quire property, nor are they suscepti uttered by him must conviction be accepted as year there were six pupils, and the tonajust before thelast meeting the
 the of mature -
 product
 ble of that
 training which enables! of sensational alarm. year before that, nine. Now, if an ag- Exchange. Fortunately the fears expressed 
 them
 to work land
 our to the best ad
 vantage." He made a profound impressionupon ricultural school, admirably organized 1 were groundless, not whisper

, "Our country cannot be improved the meeting, and several speakers and equipped with a list of instructors to abandon the Exchange being heard!

 without good labor educated labor who followed' him expressed themselves i- of acknowledged merit, cannot attract at the meeting: still it will be pleasantto
 in the line. No doubt the
 and skilled labor. In thinking overthis : of the same State depends a as many pupils as it has instructors, is many of its friends to hear from the
 good
 upon
 inquire whole whether matter, I have made boldto healthy and industrious peasantry. 11 there any use in the appropriation by 1 field, and Mr. Mitchell but voices the
 or not the lack of
, a saving, middle class is not the weak> The middle class is the saving elementof Congress of large sums from the Na- feeling of many another in the region

 point in our Southern system, and the empire and the republic, and no tional Treasury for the further endowment j of the Halifax. Respectfully,

 whether or not the labor difficulty i is people can expect to be prosperous or of other agricultural educational JOHN ANDERSON.

 not at the bottom of all our trouble?" progressive and whose peasantry. is thriftless establishments? There is an old proverb Halifax Headquarters. -
 thoughtless.The
 your"What formula is your?" solution, Professor negro in the South is well fittedin "You can lead a horse to the wa Jacksonville, Fla., Feb.,18, 1886.

 certain ways for cultivating the soil ter, but you cannot make him drink;i" Dear Anderson : I have a letter

 "This THE REMEDY. He can stand the heat of the climate,: and it would seem that while the eons ;from Manager Ives since enclosing
 :
 of course leads us to hunt for> and is almost indigenous himself to thesoil. my
 the remedy. I contended: But he is improvident and un- of our farmers and gardeners and proxy to you for the election of February -

, "1Ft.Ve must live independ progressive. He lives to-day and I nurserymen have admirable educational : 2nd, in which it appears that

.,,. ently of this classs of labor by eaves to-morrow to take care of itself: 1I advantages liberally providedit 1 there has been talk of discontinuing



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