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tion without an economic substratum. The industrial 

 training which the negroes received in slavery is a matter 

 of great significance in the development of that race. 

 They need yet more industrial training and such training 

 as progressive plantation farming is well suited to supply. 

 The need is hardly less urgent in the case of the white 

 croppers. 



Thus far the changes have been considered in their re- 

 lation to the economic well-being of those immediately 

 concerned in the terms of distribution. It is true, con- 

 siderable emphasis was laid upon the efficiency of the 

 plan of plantation production; but this was done without 

 referring in particular to the ultimate social effects of 

 this efficiency. In ultimate analysis it means a race in 

 social service. The profits that will arise will induce 

 more and more farmers, in so far as they are capacitated, 

 to adopt the efficient organization of their forces. This 

 means in the long run cheaper cotton, and cheaper cotton 

 is a great social desideratum. 



This suggests the query as to what effect such a work- 

 ing out of static law will have on the small proprietors, 

 who, let it be hoped, will continue to increase in number. 

 Owing to the elements of economic friction which hinder 

 the rapid realization of static demands, the process that 

 has been outlined will work itself out very slowly. Those 

 who are unable to compete in the production of cotton 

 will, therefore, have plenty of time in which to adjust 

 themselves to the production of those crops out of 

 which they can realize most. What they will produce — 

 whether it is to be cotton or something else or cotton 

 and many things else — it is not now and here necessary 

 to say. 



