Wages in the South, therefore, have risen even in the extreme southwestern States, where there is an opportunity to import Mexican labor.

Reduced to this extremity, the southern aristocrats have begun to lose some of their race prejudice, which has not hitherto yielded to reason or philanthropy.
Southern men are telling their neighbors that their section must abandon the policy of treating the Negroes as a problem and construct a program for recognition rather than for repression.

Meetings are, therefore, being held to find out what the Negro wants and what may be done to keep them contented.

They are told that the Negro must be elevated not exploited, that to make the South what it must needs be, the cooperation of all is needed to train and equip the men of all races for efficiency.

The aim of all then must be to reform or get rid of the unfair proprietors who do not give their tenants a fair division of the returns from their labor.