farmers. The cooperative principle is the right one for this purpose. 

 Farmers do not work well together in joint stock companies, but they 

 do cooperate well, in associations in which the votes are man-votes, not 

 share-votes. The farmers of the county ought to undertake with 

 thoroughness the study of cooperation, and, not content with anything 

 less than economic combination, they ought to organize in the vital 

 processes by which they get their living. Only thus can they keep 

 their income high enough to be satisfactory. And if it is not satisfactory, 

 the country will lose and the city will gain, to the advantage of no one. 



Second, the negroes of the county are the least satisfactory section 

 of the population. It may be assumed that they will be a permanent 

 part of the county's people, for decades to come. The trouble seems to 

 be that the negroes are not able to "go it alone." They are in need of 

 the collective attention of the white people of the county. Their schools 

 should be reconstructed, on the principle of teaching them to work. 

 Better buildings and adequate equipment should be provided for this 

 purpose. A clear determination of the authorities of the county to use 

 the schools for industrial training of the negro children would advance 

 the whole problem a long way. 



The state of the negroes has a very direct effect upon the economic 

 and on the moral welfare of the whites. In planning therefore, for the 

 prosperity and for the general good of the county, the people of the 

 county ought to devote energetic attention to the industrial betterment 

 of the Negro. He may be compared to a man morally and economically 

 sick. The hospital for his disease is a school where he will learn in early 

 years to work. It pays to put money into such a hospital. 



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