ortunity to invest in these plantations?
--A. I might say it is limited.

Q. From what fact does that arise?
--A. From the fact that the safety of investments there is
just becoming apparent to capitalists. Capitalists up to
this time have been afraid to go to the South, owing to the
disturbed condition of affairs politically and this very
race-issue question. A man does not want to carry his money
down there and put it into a country that might be involved
in riots and disturbances. Those questions are now just
beginning to settle themselves, and capital is beginning to
find its way.

Q. Do you anticipate in the near or remote future any
further difficulty from the race question?
--A. Not at all, and if we are left to ourselves things will
very soon equalize themselves.

Q. You are left to yourselves now, are you not?
--A. We are now.

Q. All you ask is to continue to be let alone?
--A. Just to be let alone. The South, with her natural
resources and advantages of climate and soil, feels that she
is perfectly able to take care of herself and her affairs,
and all she wants is that the legislation of the country,
both Federal and State, should be that which will mete out
justice to all her citizens, colored as well as white.

Q. Does the South feel as though all she had got to do was
to take care of herself, or does she feel a little
responsibility for the other section of the country?
--A. She feels, more immediately now, responsibility for
that section, for this reason, that the negro population of
the South, compared with the white population of the South,
might be a dangerous element, but the negro population,
compared with the whole white population of the United
States as an integral body, sinks into insignificance.
Therefore, the forces which are at work in the South today
make us strongly Union. They are directly contrary to what
were existing before the war, and there are no people in
this Government today who have the same interest in the
Federal Union that the people of the Southern States have,
and they appreciate it.

Q. You feel that it is to your advantage that the negro
population should be dealt with by the forty or fifty
millions of whites, that the races should be balanced in
that