We encourage it, from the fact that we want the others behind to be stimulated to do the same thing.

I will say in that connection that the future of the negro of the South is the alluvial lands.
Q.These plantations?
-- A.

Not only these plantations particularly.

What I mean by alluvial lands are the alluvial lands on the coast and the alluvial lands of the Mississippi Valley, the rich lands where the negro relies on his own energy and exertion rather than on his brains.

There is an immigration coming into the older States now.
Q.The older Southern States?
-- A.