The benefit was not only for the moment.

It was permanent.

Particularly was this the case in the South.

Three or four years afterwards I visited Birmingham.

Every man I met, without exception, who was competent to testify, informed me voluntarily that the results of the action taken had been of the utmost benefit to Birmingham, and therefore to Alabama, the industry having profited to an extraordinary degree, not only from the standpoint of the business, but from the standpoint of the community at large and of the wage-workers, by the change in ownership.