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Show A SOUTHERN EXPERIMENT. , The South will very soon have a new problem to consider. The other day a steamship pulled into Charleston harbor with 476 immigrants from Europe. A great crowd witnessed the coming and there was universal satisfaction expressed. Since the war the South has been wrestling with the problem of labor. Before the war the laborers were owned and practically controlled by the people! Since then the laborers have been free and very many of. them have been worthless, and it must be said that they have not had much encouragement, because it is very hard for an' ordinary man, brought up to. believe that the eolored man is. by right, a slave, to suddenly change his idea and conclude that the colored man is a man and is en titled, to fair wages. ' ',- . ." But now this new crowd, will come in and the chances are we will see in the South what we have seen in the North. There was a. time whenlhe Irish were the farm hands in New York. Later they advanced ad-vanced a step and began-buying the landr until the old race in New York was pretty well pushed out. Then came the Germans and pushed out the Irish, and nowthe Italians andJ.be Greeks are pushing out the Germans. That transformation is liable to happen hap-pen in the South. ; ; ' . V: . - ! ' -I But when it does what; will become ofvthe natives na-tives those generous men, without any thrift? They will look on and see these immigrants living on what they have always .thrown away; they will see these laborers exacting the last cent for their wages, and our prediction is that within fifteen years the sentiment senti-ment of thousands of them will be, "Give us back the colored man and take away these Caucasian Chinese, that we cannot compete against at all." - -... .. |