Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-11-15
immigration to the south.


Baltimore Manufacturers Record.
From present indications the inn
migration to the South this winter
will be much greater than ever be-
fore. and we are glad to know that
the Southern people are becoming
more aud more impressed with the
importance of attracting imInigra-
ton. There is Il wide and protita-
BILE field open for Northern and
Western farmers who desire to re-
move to the South, and the people
of that section do well to give all
possible encouragement tO this class,
and yet there is a limit, beyond
which il il not wise to 90 in this
direction. Time and again have
we urged upon Southern people the
absolute necessity of taking the
most vigorous steps to- increase the
nOn-agrIcultural population Of the
South by building up the Industrial
interests of that section, that tine
danger of still further increasing
the proportion of food producers to
food consumers may be avoided.
In late issue the Current, of Chi
cagO, discussing the efforts now be-
ing made TO increase the tide of i'm
migration to the West, says: ut
Is the duty OF those who hold the
fate of the great west i'm their hands
to apsly all haste to the establish
ment OF manufactures, as that is the
only possible palliative To the great
IN which besets humanity,-the
"plurisy of the people" II such
hsa
where manufacturers are already
so largely developed, how much
more important is it that the South
should be working even more ear
nestiy than during the last few
years towards building up her man
ufacturing and mining interests.
With thousands and tens of thOus
ands of Western and Northern peo-
pie, as well AS many foreigners now
looking towards the South as their
future home, and with every indi-
cation that the New Orleans Expo
sitiOn will mark the beginning of a
new era in Southern affairs, and eS-
pecially in immigration, il behooves
the business men and statesmen OF
the South TO see that earnest efforts
are made to 80 adjust and develop
the varied agricultural and indus
trial interests of their country, thai
all who come may find an opening
for their energy and enterprise. It
will not do for the people Of Flor
ida, for instance, to base all the
claims of their State for immigra-
ton upon orange growing, though
this Is without doubt most profit
able business, for Florida should
attract a larger number OF immi-
grants than can possibly be pr0tita-
bly, engaged in orange culture. Ii
must be shown that there are doZ-
ems of other industries, agricultu-
raj and manufacturing, that offer
equally "a great advantages rs an
orange grove, and, by keeping this
fact before the country, the danger
of every settler i'm Florida rushing
into orange growing will be avoid
ed, and the development OF the
State will be more uniform ana
permanent than il otherwise would
be. AS with Florida, so with all
the other Southern States. Ii will
be a mistake TO centre all interest
in Alabama IN coal mining and pig
IRON making, and so will it be if too
much attention is given in Georgia
and the CarOlinas to cotton manu-
featuring, to the neglect OF other
Industries. The South needs diver
sity i'm its agricultural interests, and
care must be taken that there is di-
ver-ity in the development OF its
industrial interests. Immigration
is essential To the progress of the
South, and should be heartily en-
couraged, hut at the same time
there ought To be well-directed steps
taken to properly utilize that immi-
grafton towards Il healthy and per-
nanent building up not OF any one
or two interests only, but of the
whole South, and all its vast and
varied industries.