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flourish—is that a larger proportion of white people 
will engage in cotton production. If labor can be 
had few town occupations are more profitable. And 
as for the man who has his own labor, who must have 
his own children at work, how much better for 
health, safety and comfort, as well as profit, 
to have them on the cotton farm instead of in the 
cotton factory! 
Already many cotton mills are beginning to suf- 
fer for labor because the tide is turning back to 
the farms. 
