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Show WOULD HAVE NEGROES I DIG THE PANAMA CANAL I 1lan Proposed to Solve the Race Troubles In the South and Which Would Advance Interests of the Big Ditch. ,j Nnshvllle, Tc 1 1. Tho sotithorn Quarantine and Immigration conven-lion, conven-lion, which at noon on Tuesday as-nmed as-nmed Its new title of Southern Im- Migration and Industrial association, joncludcd Its business Tuesday night. Tho sentiment or tho delegates Ib arRcly In favor of welcoming any do-irablo do-irablo class or white Immigrants without regard lo nationality, yet hero appears at times some desire to tecp the blnck man, with all hla ntilts, where ho Is. At tho afternoon session N. F. Thompson or Chattanooga advocated -ho strictest enrnrcoment of tho H vagrancy laws, with n suspension of H entenco In case the negro would go o tho Panama canal, and In rollow- 1 ng Into tho rnco problem said: "I would havo tho world know that H Ibis rnco problem has Its most rertlle H Eourco or perpetuity In the efforts of H jolltlclnns, who find a most cfllcleut H hobby on which to rldo Into placo and power. When there nro no elections H In tho south we hear very litllo about this raco mutter. H "Tho enforcement or tho vagrancy laws uniformly all ovor the south will 1. H fond largely to the elimination of tho idlo negro." 1 |