in the streets.
Liquor in the cities has been a great curse to negroes.
Millions of dollars have been made by no account white people
selling no account liquor to negroes and thus making a whole
lot of negroes no account. Happily this business is being
extinguished.

The negroes who are in the South should be encouraged to
remain there, and those white people who are in the boll
weevil territory should make every sacrifice to keep their
negro labor until there can be adjustments to the new and
quickly prosperous conditions that will later exist.

Among those holding the same view that the South needed the negro was
the _Georgia Enquirer Sun_ of Columbus, Georgia.[159] An editorial in
this paper said that not only does the South need the negro but that
he should be encouraged to stay.

The _Enquirer Sun_ further emphasized the fact that the South needs
the negro:

With the certainty that a number will differ with us, we state
that the negro is an economic necessity to the South. Our
plantations are large, our climate is peculiar, and we
ourselves are not accustomed to doing the work that we ask
the negro to do. Serious labor conditions have confronted us
before, and it is exceedingly rare to find the native land
owning white farmer, who has been accustomed to employ negro
labor, taking the negro's place when the negro leaves his
neighborhood. The same conditions exist in the industries
where we of the South have been depending upon the negroes as
artisans in our industries or mines.

The South has refused to accept immigration as a means of
supplying our demands for labor. The farmers stand up and howl
about preserving the pure blood of the South and invent all
sorts of reasons for prohibiting the immigration of the same
classes of people who have been making the North and East rich
for years; the same classes that build the eighth wonder of
the world--the Middle West. Now, if we are going to prohibit
immigration, we must consider the economic status sufficiently
seriously to preserve the only reliable supply of labor which
we have ever known. That is the negro. We should ponder over
the situation seriously and not put off until tomorrow its
consideration, because this movement is growing every day.
We should exercise our influence with our landlords and our
merchants to see